Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1914 — BOOM PREDICTED IN AMERICA SOON [ARTICLE]

BOOM PREDICTED IN AMERICA SOON

Chicago Ranker Says United States Is On Verge of Greatest .<* Prosperity. Philadelphia, Nov. ll.—“ The U. S. is on the verge of the greatest prosperity the country has ever known. We have reached the bottom after a period of decline, and things are now getting better every day.” With this spirit of breezy optimism, Geo. B. CaldwAl, of Chicago, president of the Investment Bankers’ Association of America, greeted Philadelphia today. “I do not want to mix in politics, but I think all will agree that we have had about ten years, now, of agitation, and agitation is not good for business,” Mr. Caldwell continued. , “Many of the new laws on our statute books are untried tools, but the opposition which was born Pf fear has now given way to a feeling that it is only fair to try them out and a belief that they may prove more beneficial than at first anticipated. “Investment bankers are not opposed to the proper supervision of corporations or business.”