THE CALL OF THE LAND 



doings, and your whole life is one of ardent 

 philanthropy. I have heard it said soberly, 

 by educated people not given to folly in 

 most things, that an honest millionaire never 

 existed and never can exist, on the alleged 

 ground that honesty and so great wealth 

 were contradictory opposites. What won- 

 der that less well-informed men believe this 

 insanity and preach it like crusaders. 



The promoter is supposed to get rich; he 

 is, therefore, accursed like others classed as 

 rich. He is "in with" Wall Street, he has 

 helped launch trusts. Away with such a 

 fellow from the earth; it is not fit that he 

 should live. 



Promoters' unpopularity at the present 

 time is largely due to the fact that promot- 

 ing is identified in the public mind with the 

 operation of mammoth corporations and 

 trusts, all whose uncanny doings are con- 

 strued as so many reproaches to promoters. 

 When corporate property is over-capital- 

 ized, when stocks are watered, when divi- 

 dends are wrongfully paid or wrongfully 

 passed, when small stockholders are frozen 



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