THE CRAZE OF FORMING TRUSTS.
By Editor
IN our news notes columns on page 14 we have been making brief mention for a few weeks past of the new trusts that are being formed. By referring to what is presented this week it will be seen that new trusts are in process of formation that may soon combine a capital of over $750,000,000—more than three-quarters of a billion dollars. The facts that these immense figures represent are among the most alarming features of this time; for the men who are covetously grasping such immense hoards of wealth are not merely piling money and property in heaps about them, but they have the faithful warning of the Word of God that their unnatural and supremely selfish accumulations will "eat" their flesh "as it were fire." This inhuman seizure of all the treasures and property that men can "corner" seems more like the raving work of maniacs than the deliberate actions of men endowed with power to reason. These men who are so crazed in their wild race to accumulate money are, of all others, the most to be pitied. Can they not be awakened to what they are doing? Can they not be aroused to the calamities that they are bringing upon both themselves and the multitude of others that will be involved in their miseries and ruin?