While bankers, gay, convened in Houston, Tex., their borrowers (members of the National Association of Manufacturers) last week concluded their convention at Chattanooga, Tenn., in an atmosphere of gloom.
Said President John Emmet Edgerton of Lebanon, Tenn.: "Bankers are not worrying since they own the country body and souL Importers, merchants, all are having a picnic enjoying the country's 'prosperity' except those by whose enterprise the wealth of the nation is produced." He meant the manufacturers.
"Outside the few gigantic corporations which don't have to bother about competition," cried he, "and by whose...
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