Excerpt from The Trusts: What Can We Do With Them? What Can They Do for Us? The problem of the trusts is a momentous one, and yet it is unqualifiedly a new problem. The oldest of them (the Standard Oil Company) is eighteen years of age, but the great majority of these gigantic combinations have been established since 1897. Furthermore, those of most recent creation seem animated by somewhat different pur poses than their prototype; and they present new problems or new phases of old problems. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.