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Show w w GET BUSY America can build ships at lower cost than any other country in the world. Witness the submarine boat coporation offer to construct eight 12,000-ton cargo vessels for the government at $140 a ton. America can produce' coal at lower cost than any other country in the world. .Witness Pochontas selling at $2.75 a ton, mouth of mine, in America, and, British Brit-ish coal selling at $7 a ton, mouth of mine, Newcastle or Swansea. America can produce steel at lower ' co.st than anvr other country iri the world. Witness the London Board, of Trade declaration that th'6jjnitpd States .is able to sell steel in any market4 in the "world at $2.00'.1ii'.ton 'cheaper than the British steel makers. More than 66 per cent of the oil of the world comes from American wells. America probably will have a wheat crop of 1,300,000,000 bushels; a corn crop of 3,000,000,000 bushels; a cotton crop of 11,000,000,000 bales, and a wool clip of 300.000,000 pounds, ibis year. In raw materia"sr in manufacture, in fuels, in crops, in transportation, America is favored remarkably at present. Such embarrassments as exist are trifling compared with those under which other nations suffer. Consider the facts and get busy. There never was greater opportunity for the American business man than today. Philadelphia Public Ledger. |
