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Show OUR TRADE OPPORTUNITY. (Kalamazoo Gazette.) When the civil war broke out eveTv little town in Massachusetts had a half dozen 8hoe makers or cobblers pounding away at shoos, each in his' own separate shop The war called j these men to the front and necessity, the mother of inention, forced the production of a shoo manufacturing machine. That made the great shoe industrv of Massachusetts The business of the Chicago stock yards doubled during the civil war and the steel business of Pittsburg came into Ms own during that period. The world, outside of the United States, may fight for months on Its present supply of food, clothing and shoes, but this supply cannot last j These nations must look to the Unl-'ed Unl-'ed States for food, clothing and shoes not to ment'on a thousand other necessities ne-cessities of life Imagine yourself In business in a small town You are operating a small general store You are one of a half dozen other merchants in the same line of business Your business has boon meager during tho last few months The general condition con-dition of the country has bePn one of depression Suddenly all other merchants mer-chants in your line of trade close up their shops and go off into a forty acre lot to fight tooth and nail. You are left absolutely fn control of tho market This is th? situation of the United States today. The greatest event in the historv of the world is now transpiring in Europe, The greatest business opportunity op-portunity in the history of the world is before every business man lu America today Twenty-five years from now our children are Mkeh to be saying, "I wish Dad had had foresight in 1914 " That is. If we do not hasten to make the best of this preat opportunity |