THE COMMISSION HOUSE 
putlook.?* In the instance of the Stock Exchange, therefore, 
the development of its national and even international free 
market for securities, while fundamentally due to increased 
national wealth and natural economic forces, has in a practical 
and immediate way been due to the extension of the commis- 
sion brokerage house through its wire system to branch offices 
and correspondents all over the nation, and even beyond its 
borders. 
% See Chapter 1I, p. i+