Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1908 — PROSPERITY MEN BUSY [ARTICLE]

PROSPERITY MEN BUSY

Flunphlet Issued to Show What Has Been Accomplished by the St. Louis Boosters. St Louis, July 21.—Under the caption of “Back to the Full Dinner Pall and Regular Dividends,” a pamphlet describing the present conditions of captital and labor as contrasted with those of last winter and spring has been mailed broadcast throughout the country by the National Prosperity association. This association was organized in St. Louis two months ago to further the return of normal business conditions and was responsible for having June Ist named as “Employment Day,” when appropriately 15,000 men were given work. The pamphlet says: “Thirty days after we had begun our work the spirit of encouragement had developed such strength locally that between 17,000 and 20,000 men were present to work in the industries and commercial establishments of St Louis and its suburbs, and orders for $5,000,000 worth of goods to increase stocks were given. The idea proved widely infectious. Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago and many smaller places took up the proposition. Results are evident