Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. pt.I. Control of public-service corporations: The possibilities and limitations of municipal control. [By] L. S. Rowe.--Financial control: Capitalization, methods of accounting and taxation. [By] B. S. Coler.--Difficulties of control as illustrated in the history of gas companies. [By] J. H. Gray.--Regulation of cost and quality of service as illustrated by street railway companies. [By] F. W. Speirs.--pt.II. Influence of corporations on political life. [By] W. Lindsay.--pt.III. Combination of capital as a factor in industrial progress: industrials as investments for small capital. [By] J. B. Dill.--The evolution of mercantile business. [By] J. Wanamaker.--The interest of labor in the economies of railroad consolidation. [By] W. H. Baldwin, jr.--pt.IV. The future of protection: The industrial ascendancy of the United States. [By] N. W. Aldrich.--The tariff policy of our new possessions. [By] R. P. Porter.--The next steps in tariff reform. [By] C. R. Miller.--Report of the academy committee on meetings