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Show American Internal Commerce. In view of the establishment of the Department of Commerce and Labor it may be interesting to note that tb internal commerce of the United States last year has been estimated by the government . statistician at $20,000,000,000. Fifty years ago it was only $2,000,000,000. The manufactures manu-factures of the United States are nearly near-ly double those of Great Britain and Ireland, and about equal to those ol France, Germany and Russia com-I com-I bined. . |