Excerpt from The Industrial History of the United States The record of industrial progress may be rendered no less intelligible and interesting to the average student than the development of political forms. Business methods are more familiar than military tactics, and a mechanical invention is more readily comprehended than a constitu tional revision. Elaborate treatises have been written on various phases of our economic history. It is the aim of this book to bring the essential elements of that history within the grasp of the average reader. The complicated story has been told in the briefest possible fashion, but marginal references will enable the student to go into detail as fully as may be desired. Contemporary prob lems are treated in mere outline. The data essential to the study of each have been set forth with no expres sion of opinion, the best authorities, pro and con, being noted in the margin. A final chapter on the conservation of our national resources has been added to this edition in the hope of making evident the transcendent importance of the interests involved. Here, again, so brief a treat ment can do hardly more than suggest salient facts, leav ing the student to follow the line of his special concern. For the assistance of teachers, suggestions for supple mentary reading and for class discussion are given in an appendix. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.