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XVI. CONCENTRATION: THE GREAT TRUSTS
1893: renewal of panic - Expropriation of the lesser capitalists - Expansion of the great monopolies in depression - The craze for Trusts after Standard Oil - Framing of Trusts by lawyers and bankers - Strength and inherent weaknesses of the Trusts - Consolidation of Carnegie's steel kingdom - The materials of conflict in steel.

XV. AGAIN THE ROBBER BARONS
Toward the capture of political institutions - Machiavellian technique of barons - Indifference to parties - Populist revolts of the 1890's - The superior strategy of Mark Hanna - The attitude toward labor remains medieval - Implacable resistance to unions - Jay Gould defeats the Knights of Labor - Henry Frick and the steel-workers - Bloody Homestead - Doctrine of "divine right" of capital

XIV. THE ROBBER BARONS
"Popular consent" won by the new-rich
Religious piety of the barons
Wooing of the barons by the churchmen
Conquest of the school
The new gold rush to the social heights
Acceptance of the pecuniary standard
Merger of the parvenus Vanderbilts and the "old" Astors
Varieties of conspicuous consumption
Pursuit of titles and culture
Mr. Maecenas in the New World

MORGAN AND THE RAILWAYS
The banker old and new - Disastrous railroad financing - An appeal to the House of Morgan - The Pennsylvania's squabbles with Vanderbilt - Morgan as arbiter - New disorders fomented by Harriman and others - Passage of Interstate Commerce Act, 1887-Conspiracy of the Railway Barons to nullify the Act - "Gentle-men's Agreement" effected by Morgan - Morgan's drive for supreme control.

XI. Giants of the Northwest
The Northwest open to all comers
James Hill and Henry Villard scan the field
Hill’s operations in Minnesota
His technical skill and ruthlessness
Rise of the Great Northern system
Henry Villard preëmpts the Oregon coast ships and railways
Stops the westward approach of Northern Pacific
Capture of Northern Pacific by the “blind pool”
Failure of popular rebellions against Rail Barons

Chapter X. Caesar Borgia in California
The sack of California
Entrenchment of the Pacific Associates
Seizure of the Sierra passes
Huntington’s lobbying in Washington
Triumph of the Southern Pacific monopoly
Ruler of the “Octopus” over the Pacific states