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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
straight on to greater world wide con- and fleecing that usually accompanies that
stage of industrial development.
quests.
Mr. Gunton says further that it has
reached
the point where its prosperity de-
are all, to a certain extent, influenced
by our environments, and business men mands that some of the waste and havoc
have found it useless to attempt to resist resulting from economic warfare shall be
.EDWARD LYMAN
the changing influences which are being eliminated. This can be accomplished by
Editor and Proprietor
felt in every one of the varied walks of an extensive type of organization.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY
Mr. Gunton then goes on to state that
life. A straw in the current of Niagara
3 East 14th St., New York
this
trust idea has created the usual amount
forms about as little resisting power
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against the onrushing tide as an indivi- of adverse criticism which belongs to any
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dual who seeks to turn back the Niagara of organization scheme.
insertion. On quarterly or yearly contracts a special dis-
count is allowed. Advertising Pages $50.00, opposite read-
He then proceeds to analyze the differ-
progress which is resistless in our indus-
ing matter $75.00.
REMITTANCES, in other than currency form, should
trial affairs. One pursuing such a course ent parts of the machinery of competition.
be made payable to Edward Lyman Bill.
will find himself high and dry upon the He makes a special attack upon trade
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
papers, and among other things says re-
shores of business decadence.
NEW YORK, JANUARY 15, 1898.
garding them that "they put themselves
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JT is no use nowadaysto fight and quibble in the position towards the manufacturers
THE KEYNOTE.
The first week of each month, The Review will
over small things. Take the world as we of demanding advertisements and pay for
contain a supplement embodying the literary
and musical features which have heretofore
find it, and study the methods of the men booming articles under the tacit and some-
appeared in The Keynote. This amalgamation
who have been successful in the very lines times an open threat to attack their instru-
will be effected without in any way trespassing
on our regular news service. The Review will
in which we hope to achieve success, is ments or methods if patronage in some
continue to remain, as before, essentially a
trade paper.
always a safe course to follow. The men form is not furnished."
who have been influential in bringing
[N this Mr. Gunton commits the same
about changes in this trade have been the
DUST THAT RISES UP."
ungenerous mistake which many others
has been unexpected activity in ones who have sought to apply the same
have made. Simply for the misdeeds of
the retail field for the two expired weeks laws and methods which exist in other
one man he does not hesitate to condemn
of January. A good trade during the first trades in the manufacture and sale of pianos
a class. He should be more specific in his
half of the first month of the year is some- and organs. They have eschewed senti-
denouncements, or else not make them at
what surprising, and there is no mistaking ment, and have pushed on modern, pro-
all. Because a man, whether he poses as
that indications portend a good year's gressive and up-to-date lines. They have a critic or as a philosopher, has no right to
not stopped to quibble, to barter and bicker
trade.
insult a body of men because one has trans-
The piano industry in common with all over a few hundred dollars or a few thou- gressed. Mr. Gunton's own intelligence
other industries is undergoing many sand dollars spent in trade advertising. should tell him that conducting a trade
changes in both the producing and selling They have not been the ones who have paper on a legitimate basis is quite as
departments of the business. New theories, raised the howl of too many trade papers. honorable a pursuit as running a Gunton
new ideas, methods and plans are con- They have patronized liberally the papers Institute or publishing a Gunton Maga-
stantly being evolved, and as we take a re- which they deemed the best for their own zine. Because one of the Apostles sold
trospective glance backward upon trade purpose, and the result is, to-day that they Christ for thirty pieces of silver it does
history we see that the trade has under- have outstripped many of their less pro- not naturally follow that the remaining
gone astonishing changes during the past gressive competitors.
eleven were "traitors and purchasable for
The manufacturer who runs his fingers
decade. The music trade business is be-
similar amounts.
coming rnore and more practical—less of through his hair and deals out a few hun-
According to Mr. Gunton, sooner or
the theoretical element than obtained dred dollars to the trade papers and all the later the re-organization must come, and
years ago. It is the infusion of this prac- while denouncing them, is not the man if the smaller manufacturers refuse to be
tical blood in the trade which has removed who succeeds. It is the one who spends a part of it, they will necessarily expose
much of the sentimentality that existed money liberally, judiciously, and shows themselves to still severer competition
in former years. The age is inonoclastic commendable discriminating judgment in than they now encounter. He closes with
in everything, and in no industry more the selection of his trade mediums.
the statement that the trust movement
marked than in this self-same line to
may be delayed, but it is the inevitable
which The Review particularly appeals. [JNDER the caption, "The Proposed step; it must come unless the piano in-
Modern methods as applied to mechanics
Piano Trust," appears an article in the dustry is to suffer arrest and decay.
have brought about a complete revolution January issue of Gunton's Magazine. The
in the manufacture of musical instruments. article in itself is too extended to repro- J H E retirement of James E. Healy from
the firm of Wm. Knabe & Co. has been
The fecundity of inventive genius as ap- duce, therefore we can only make excerpts
plied to manufacturing in this country is from it. According to Mr. Gunton, the received with much regret. It has been
something surprising. The very air of industry in the United States is passing known for some months past that Mr.
America begets self-reliance and stimu- through the natural stages of evolution ex- Healy's health has been far from of the
lates inventive activity, and while we are perienced in all the highly developed, per- best, and it is under the advice of his
indebted to Europe for many scientific manently established industries. It has physician that he severs all connection
discoveries which smack of the laboratory experienced first the stimulating, then the with business cares and responsibilities.
Mr. Healy is enthusiastic in all work
and the closet, America is triumphant destructive phases of unlimited competi-
in the industrial field, and she is marching tion, and finally the severe prostration which he undertakes, and as he is endowed