Excerpt from Industry and Trade: Historical and Descriptive Account of Their Development in the United States
The aim of this book is to present a simple but adequate, account of the development and present status of this country's i industrial and commercial life. Representative industries are treated in the several chapters, and considerable attention is given to agencies and methods of distribution. But the dominant purpose of the authors has been to afford a perspective of our workaday life as a living and developing whole. It is hoped that the student may carry away from these pages the conception, not of a series of unrelated methods of earning a living but rather of a working together of us all into what we may well call the nation's life.
War times are not normal times, at any rate for industry and commerce. The whole economic organization must at such periods be adjusted to the dominant issue. What we have to say, therefore, refers for the most part, and unless otherwise specified, to normal conditions under peace. Doubtless the world conflict will have a powerful influence in shaping the future life and destiny of this nation; but amidst the uncertainties and distractions of the time we cannot well estimate the scope of that influence nor is it safe to predict what results will come to pass in the ensuing years of peace. In any case, it is well for the young American to know where his country was when the great era of dislocation and readjustment was ushered in, for then he has at least one reliable landmark from which to judge as to the future national course which he must assist in charting out.
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