| Show I ANI n BI UE SKY nu Business lne J in the tIle United States State I is at All th the stock In Indications show It If the tho thing could bo exactly measured it would no ro doubt be DC proved that material prosperity Is even eyen now at atthe atthe atthe the highest pitch ever vel known Yet you hear ver very little of that prosperity tout lout time tilt promoter who was cutting s sm great greata a figure some eight years ago No Xo new industrial notations are pi None of or importance has hai been offered this year at Six and seven e o years ago nearly nearl all the IndU Industries of th the country were taken tak tak- en II in hand b by the promoter who combined corn com them and capitalized them Into preferred anti and common stock tock to tho the amount of five billions or OJ so Survey- Survey big his hiIs handiwork toda day to-day one might I t suppose that It had been struck truck b by bya a a tornado Instead of or having enjoyed a n along along long summer of splendid commercial weather veather ather Out of or a a. hundred companies that IbM were floated In the h halcyon lc on days of ef trust building perhaps six Ix will nobe no jiow be found paying a dividend on the common stock while some fome have been unable to earn urn the stipulated rate rale or 01 orthe he the red shares and ond others have m gone l to wreck reck This Is not the fault of the times lime or 01 o of un any general condition It is li the fault f C f a per persistently l crude Imagination Men len ought to know by this time that the he sky k Is actually unattainable by byman bynan nan man that the tower of Babel would have tave failed to reach the empyrean dome Jome even en without tho the harsh expedient nt was vas thought ht advisable In that case The greatest of the tho promoters declared that deductions drawn 1 from forn om past experience no longer counted It Ii other olier words we ve were vere going to to build right Into heaven The rhe financial public was n In a n frame of or mind to 1 believe lIe e It then tItan That Is it wh why thi promoter no longer attracts attract attention to himself but on the contra contrary I Is mostly engaged ed ul In trying to live It down Good nood times have the time expansive ive effect ef of- of or Eun sunshine There Ther mo may b bI bo be moments when the blue looks only three quarters of oC amile away and olid oUd as me rock locle but If you are tempted to tr order r hUll building material mC and re reread reS re- re S rl read ad some of oT the prospectuses s of I 1898 |
