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Show Lewis Toppan, of New York there was a great hue and a cry against the secret rating of the credit of business men, as a black-mailing operation, and, if we mistake not, was attacked in the courts as such. It was open to harsh criticism for the evil it might and would do, which, It was contendod, moro than counter-balanced any good it would accomplish. ac-complish. "Caveat Emptor," it was urgued, might be properly applied to the seller as well as the purchaser;let no intermediate inter-mediate person or corporation secretly interfere with the affairs or transactions of either. What at first was indignantly denounced as wrong in principle and action ac-tion has como to be logitiinate and necessary to the extended business and credit of the country. The two grout establishments of Iiradstreets and of Dun & Co. cover and permeate tho country. Their patrons are everywhere, and their roports of the credit of firms, individuals and corporations are sought for and relied upon by business men genorally. OMMl:ilfl.U. It VTIXO. Tho Hrudstreet company, with a enpi-ital enpi-ital and surplus exceeding $l.riW,000, is known and read by mercantile men throughout tho United States and Canada. Can-ada. It has liocn incoporated some lifted lif-ted years, has evidently paid good dividends divi-dends to its 'stockholders, and, in tho opinion of tho general public, has done t'io business community good service. It is within tho memory of most of our middlo agod readers that nt" the outtet of this branch of biisiiicHs - inauguated, we think, by |