PROMOTERS AND PROMOTING 



promoters probably endeavor to exercise 

 in good faith, with no greater selfishness or 

 rapacity than characterizes business men 

 generally. The criminal promoter ought 

 to be imprisoned and the purely specula- 

 tive promoter ought to be either won or 

 driven from speculative to sober methods; 

 while the honest and sane promoter, being 

 an invaluable agent of civilization, should 

 be encouraged to proceed with his excellent 

 work, lacking which the business world 

 could make no progress even if it managed 

 to keep going. 



On every hand exist the most promising 

 chances for the creation of new wealth. 

 Waterfalls wait to be harnessed. The elec- 

 tric railway is yet in the earliest infancy of 

 its development. All over our country it 

 will swell the size of cities and make pas- 

 sage between them a hundred-fold com- 

 moner. It will extend to suburbs and far 

 country parts the essential advantages of 

 city life. Infinite new lines of standard 

 railway will be required. Saving in all 

 sorts of business enterprises will be effected. 



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