. Boone County Recorder . : «* • TvrofHf fi/frA,Uwo-fcet trfat and \ Capacity What Is Commerce. Men rarely stop to analyze com-merce, or to understand the mo-tives which keen this vast ma-chinery of modern life in reas-onably efficient ordrr. They failto realize that commerce risesabove all disaster, checks all de-struction, and goes on its ownappointed way, regardless ofwar, pestilence and famine. Commerce is an exchange of theproducts produced by one manor one organization of men, forthe products of other men, inother fields, under other suns. This exchange must be mutu-ally profitabl
. Boone County Recorder . : «* • TvrofHf fi/frA,Uwo-fcet trfat and \ Capacity What Is Commerce. Men rarely stop to analyze com-merce, or to understand the mo-tives which keen this vast ma-chinery of modern life in reas-onably efficient ordrr. They failto realize that commerce risesabove all disaster, checks all de-struction, and goes on its ownappointed way, regardless ofwar, pestilence and famine. Commerce is an exchange of theproducts produced by one manor one organization of men, forthe products of other men, inother fields, under other suns. This exchange must be mutu-ally profitable, a strange con-ception to those who look uponcommerce, and who frequently sopractice it—as predatory war-fare. Men are not forever content toproduce wheat, if for their sur-plus wheat they may not get inexchange other food and cloth-ing in quantities- sufficient tocompensate them 1 or thslr laboras faimers. When tha exchangevalue of a bushel of wheat isless than the cost in labor, inself-denial and in interest of pro-ducing that bushel of wheat, thatcommerce will end, for tha
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