Excerpt from United States Steel a Corporation With a Soul
It is not the intention of the author of this History of the United States Steel Corporation to compile a work of reference for the steel man. Such a task must properly be left to the trade expert His object merely is to narrate, in as interesting a form as he is able, the principal events leading up to the incorporation of the mighty company, to ten its objects and its policies and the results therefrom on labor, the corporation itself and industry generally.
The writer believes that these events contain a consider able amount of human interest, and it is in this form that he has endeavored to relate them. If he succeeds in bringing home to the steel stockholder, to "the man in the street," what the Steel Corporation has stood for, what it still stands for, his labor will not have been in vain.
A very large part of the facts narrated were obtained from the sworn testimony in the Government suit for the dissolution of the Corporation. The whole story of the big company is contained in this mass of testimony, but the farm in which it is there told is too lengthy and complicated, too full of repetition and technicalities, to interest any but the legal mind.
Of necessity, in order to confine within the limits of a single volume the history of the greatest industrial enterprise in the world, many facts and events, interesting of themselves and worthy of record, have been omitted. Only the most salient features have been touched on.
In conclusion, the author freely admits a prejudice in favor of the corporation. He sincerely believes that its organization marked the dawn of a new and better era in industrial history, how and why the reader will discover in the story itself.
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