Show A FIRE BACK NEEDED TIrE PILE IE campaign of calumny against American bustA bust Inisi- A ness J men would never have achieved its undoubted success hind had the victims not underestimated the credulity credulity cred erad- of the people and amI the tho influence o of the muck muck- The great captains of ind industry s r felt folt secure iu in tho practical common sense of tho the public they neither sensed the danger er of the persistent flow of misrepresentation nor the lengths to which it would go The result of their continued silence and their disdainful failure to explain the charges that scream from the yellow magazines is a condition such as that described to the Commercial club by Mr Carroll of tho San Francisco Chamber of Commerce It will need and require as Mr lIre Carroll emphasizes a campaign to convince the American people that all their groat industrial and comm commercial lenders leaders aro are not highwaymen and pickpockets in transparent disguise The att attacks of every smirking demagogue upon our industrial system would not be heard with patience and anel encouragement enco if the had hadnot hadnot hadnot not paved the tho way by their insistent assaults upon the thc national confidence Th They have created a suspicion whose whoso removal necessitates s some Borne such mo movement as that planned by tho the American Chamber of Commerce whose representatives were but recently Salt Lakes Lake's guests It seems It-seems seems paradoxical that evidence would be needed to persuade their compatriots of the probity of themen the tho thomen men who ha have havo e arisen to honored places placed in our om national notional no nn- na- na commercial structure but it i is none the less e B true Such a propaganda cannot be t too o soon begun or too energetically prosecuted j |