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Show Why 1'eoulo Full. I The tolal numbor of business failures fail-ures in. the United States last year was 10,048. The causes of these are divided Into two classes, those due to the man himself and those due to others, oth-ers, the former, of course, being the largeHt. and most significant. Of failures fail-ures under the first heading 8.223, the largest number, are attributed to lack of capital; incompetence 'comes next with 2,023 failures to its credit, and cither causes follow in this order: "Specific: conditions," 1,775; fraud. 1,154; Inexperience. N28; competition. 4G6, ami unwise credits 376. Contrary Con-trary to what many might have been led to expect, speculation is set down as a cause of business disaster in only 141 enses. and extravagance accounts for only 101. Leslie's Weekly. |