business of railway consolidation is of the nature of ■ game, In which the end sought by the players is their own pecuniary gain and to which the industrial serviceability of the outcome is incidental only. This is recognized by popular opinion and Is made much of by popular agitators, who take the view that when once the game between the competing business interests has been played Ut a finish, in lbe definitive coalition oE the competitors under one management, then the game will go on as a somewhat one-aided conflict between the resulting monopoly and the community at large.
So again, as a further illustration, it is aud from the o been evident that the iron-ore beds of northern Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minne«ota ought, industrially speaking, to have been worked as one collective enterprise. There are also none
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economical utilization of resources and mechanical '' contrivances are allowed to go into effect only after they are long overdue.
In current economic