East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-30

The National Prosperity association
OF st. Louis, has been organized for
the purpose of inaugurating a nation
al movement for restoration OF con-
fidence and a general review of in
dustrial and commercial activity The
platform OF the association was adopt
ed unanimously yesterday afternoon
at a meeting of the executive COM
mittee Of the St Louis Business Mems
league, and it will be submitted next
week to the boards OF directors OF the
ST. Louis Merchants Exchange, the
Missouri Manufacturers association
and the Million Population club.
The purposes OF the National Pros.
perity association Of st. Louis are:
To keep the dinner pail full.
To keep the pay car going,
To keep the factor busy.
To keep the workman employed.
To keep the present wages up.
Assurances have been received that
these organizations, as well as other
mercantile associations, will join en-
Enthusiastically in the vigorous cam
paign for the perpetuation OF pross
perity. Officers OF the new organi-
zaton got messages last night from
New York. Chicago Philadelphia,
Plttsburg. Louisville, Cincinnati, New
Orleans, Dallas, Kansas City, Mil
waukee and San Francisco stating |
that official action indorsing the |
movement will be taken by financial, !
Industrial commercial and civic bod |
les, and it Is already = certainty that
the war against pessimism and de-
structve agitation will spread, within
a few days, from one end of the Uni
ted States to the other.t
The idea circulated like an cleo
trical current When the group OF
manufacturers and business men. who
had met in the Mercantile Trust COM
pany on Thursday afternoon and out
lined their plan for a national organ
lied movement for prosperity, submit
ted their platform. and suggestions to
the executive committee of the busi-
ness Mems league yesterday afternoon
the campaign was not only ratified by
acclamation. but the committe order
ed $50. 600 copies Of the platform and
letter printed Immediately. and in
structed Secretary William Llewellyn
Saunders to have members of the
league send them out TO representa-
tives and patrons in all parts Of the
country. 1t is probable that at least
100000 copies of the platform will
be circulated in this way.
The officers of the National Pros
perity association of ST. Louis are E.
C. Simmons, chairman of the board
of directors Of the Simmons Hard
ware company. chairman w X. Blk ,
by, former chairman OF the board Of
directors Of the American Car and I
Foundry company, vice chairman; :
Murray Carleton, president of the :
Carleton Dry Goods company. treas /
urer, and Walter B. Stevns, secretary j
of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition {
company. secretary.
Endorsed by Merchants.
The communication and platform y
Of the National Prosperity association Z
were accorded a hearty Endorsement 7
by the executive committee of the
Business Mems league at the meeting
in the Mercantile club. 1t was made
4 special order of business, taking K
precedence Of all other matters, and +
was approved unanimously The n
members of the executive committee !
present were: ST
James E. Smith, president Of the d.
eague and vice president Of the Sim P
mons Hardware company; Henry W.
Peters, president Of the Peters Shoe
company; Edward Dewey president of
he Dewey & Feuerborn Coal and Coke nj
company; Forrest Ferguson, president A
II the Ferguson Mckinney Dry Goods A
company; Oscar L. Whitelaw of
Bros; Elias Michael. presi-
lent Of the Rice & Silk Dry Goods m