PROMOTERS AND PROMOTING 



fessional promoters. Others are too busy or 

 too apathetic to attend to them. Usually it 

 takes the keen, the practiced eye, to ferret 

 out the chance; and even if the chance is 

 patent to all, facilities for realizing upon 

 it reputation for honesty, energy, sagacity, 

 and attention to details, skill in using ex- 

 perts and in approaching and handling men, 

 access to banking and railway authorities, 

 and so on belong only to such as have sedu- 

 lously and laboriously acquired them. It is 

 not by mere hap that business pioneering 

 has fallen into promoters' hands. The craft 

 is a necessary and benevolent product of 

 business evolution. 



Moreover the good promoter is in it to 

 stay. His function is not a temporary one, 

 but permanent. The need of him will not 

 diminish, but grow ever greater as industry 

 widens out its domain on the one hand and 

 multiplies its details and its complexity on 

 the other. 



Well, then, granting that promoting, 'on 

 the whole, is a public benefit, and that hon- 

 est promoters will and ought to remain, ful- 



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