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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
true spirit of Americanism is that no man filling its columns with his trust arguments.
As we stated last week, the possibility
shall be prevented from honest work by any
individual or organization, and the practice of forming a piano trust is now exceedingly
resorted to by labor organizations of club- remote, and one of the men who was iden-
bing men who desire to secure honest em- tified with the early movement, and from
ployment has, more than any one factor, whose successful association with a former
EDWARD LYMAN BILL,
caused the loss of sympathy which natu- trust it was believed could underwrite the
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
J . B. S P I L L A N E , MANAGING EDITOR.
rally goes to the laboring man. The immu- whole affair, is now in Europe. He has
THOS. CAMPBELL-COPELAND
WALDO E. LADD
nity enjoyed by those who commit, or are thrown up the matter of the scheme in dis-
Executive Staff:
GEO. W. QUERIPEL
responsible for the commission of serious gust. When this collapse came, and the
A. J. NICKLIN
Published Every Saturday at 3 East Utt Street. New Yort crimes against persons and property to as- piano trust promoter—that is, the special
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage), United States, Mexico
sist in the attainment of some end deemed agent among the piano men—learned of it,
and Canada, t i . m per year; all other countries, $4.00.
ApVERTISEHENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per
desirable by organized labor, is tending to he trembled. Those fat commissions had
insertion. On quarterly or yearly contracts a special discount
is allowed. Advertising Pages $0.00, opposite reading matter,
$75.00.
bring about conditions very closely resem- vanished like a wreath of mist before the
REniTTANCES, in other than currency form, should be
made payable to Edward Lyman Bill.
bling those of anarchy. That partisans of noonday sun. He still endeavored to hold
Entered at the Nevu York Post Office as Second Class Matter
the labor unions are manifesting an increas- his forces together in some sort of form re-
NEW YORK, JULY 20, 1901.
ing contempt for everything in the form of sembling compactness. Even in this he
TELEPHONE NUMBER, 1745-EIQHTEENTH STREET.
law which does not leave them free to in- failed, and the last effort has been to unite
THE
On the first Saturday of each
ARTISTS'
month The Review contains in its flict such injuries as they see fit upon those a number of what we term manufacturers
DEPARTMENT " Artists' Department" all the cur-
rent musical news. This is effected who interfere with their plans, is startlingly of commercial pianos. His chances of bring-
without in any way trespassing on the size or ser-
ing this scheme to a successful culmination
vice of the trade section of the paper. It has a evident. Even when acts are committed
special circulation, and therefore augments mater- which the wiser and more conservative la-
are indeed fragmentary, and there is no
ially the value of The Review to advertisers.
bor
leaders
deprecate
as
ill-advised
and
in-
probability of his arriving at any greater
DIRECTORY o r
The directory of piano manu-
u?.?.?.r.s.T..-.•».. facturing firms and corporations judicious, those who commit them may be success with the remnant of the original
found on page 20 will be of great
value as a reference for dealers and others.
sure of a moral and material support which plan than he had at the beginning of the
A directory of all advertisers is usually strong enough to stand between inceptive move. In fact, at one time it looked
DIRECTORY OF
i Q The Review will be found on
ADVERTISERS
them and the consequences of their crimes as though the trust scheme might go through
page 5.
against the public peace. The acts of the in some sort of a half-hearted way, but,
men who nearly clubbed to death some of we say—and The Review has a reputation
EDITORIAL,
the employees of Geo. P. Bent are still fresh for truthfulness—that the original piano
in our minds, and we have no record of trust scheme has been so completely shat-
RECORDS T O BE BROKEN IF
. any punishment ever being meted out to
'"THERE is every pros- those assaulters. Where this tendency is tered by the rough usage it has encountered
Prospects for fall
trade—Will the vari-
pect that all pre- leading, what may be expected when habit- it is scarcely recognizable, and manufactur-
ous industries be tied
vious records in the ual immunity establishes the usage that a ers and dealers may know that the absorp-
up by labor troubles?
tive plan for 1900 has received such a seri-
—Outlook not wholly piano industry will be
mob, acting in the name or in the interest
satisfactory.
broken during the next of organized labor, may do what it pleases ous setback that it will be impossible to
six months if—and there obtrudes that un- without responsibility under the law—is an resuscitate it within the near future.
There is one thing pretty certain just
pleasant "if" which, like Banquo's ghost, interesting, even if amazing, subject of spec-
now in connection with this trust matter:
will not down. The "if" in this case is labor ulation.
If ever capitalists take up the subject for
trouble. For "if" the piano industry is not
serious consideration again, they will en-
seriously hampered by conditions imposed
THE
PASSING
OF
THE
PROMOTER.
gage as a specialist to exploit their plans of
upon it by the workmen, then we shall trans-
H
A
V
I
N
G
threshed
combination,
a man whose reputation is urr-
act the biggest fall business ever recorded
Only a shadow of
the original piano trust
over trust argu- tainted and who can inspire sufficient con-
in the annals of the pianoforte industry.
s c h e m e left — The
plight
of
the
promo-
ments, personally, with fidence among the manufacturers to cause
During the past week interest has been
ter—Beaten at every
point
—
Resuscitation
concentrated upon what we term the great
various members of the it to become, at least, a partial success. The
unlikely.
steel trust and its dealings with its employees.
trade without results, special trade envoy has failed completely—'-
Whether we are on the threshold of a seri- the trust promoter then retreated and at- utterly. His alleged retirement was only a
ous labor trouble, which shall practically tempted to excite the industry with cunning- blind, and he is now attempting to organize
tie up the various industries of America, ly constructed associated press dispatches; a trust among the music trade papers.
It is a far cry from the piano trust of
is a secret which the future now holds, and but, somehow, even these arguments failed
at the present time she has not divulged any to descend upon responsive soil, and, as a fifty millions to a trade paper trust of a
of those secrets. Whether labor and cap- result, he has now reached. the last ditch, few hundred thousand. We cannot say even
ital are to tight a giant and decisive battle where he halts a moment before he becomes in this trust connection, how hath the mighty
the first year of the new century, remains engulfed by oblivion and shouts in mega- fallen! Because the promoter was never
to be seen ; and, whether or not this titanic phone tones, "the trust exists to-day in fact, mighty, save in an egotistical sense.
batt'e takes place, it is possible that there but not officially." We might add, "it never
A little later it may be opportune to give
may lie troubles within our own industry, will through the agency of the discredited the inside history of the attempt at forming
for it cannot be denied that the activity of promoter." He can continue to devote page a piano trust in 1900.
the organizer has met with some success.
after page to trust arguments in the col- It should be understood that it is im-
While the people in the main sympathize umns of his decrepit weekly, which, by the possible to carry on secret communications
with the workmen in these struggles, yet way, has sunk to such a position of deca- with a large number of men in different
the violence on the part of the labor leaders dence that he himself publicly disavows all sections of the country without important
has caused a loss of much sympathy. The connection with it, while privately he is leakages occurring at certain points.
TWENTY-SECOND YEAR.
REVIEW