Excerpt from Duty on Coal: Being a Few Facts Connected With the Coal Question, Which Will Furnish Matter for Thought to the Friends of American IndustryThree tons of coal, which one man can mine in ten hours, represent the labor power of a man for his lifetime. Why, then, should we not at once, and as largely as possible, utilize this great power of which we have such inexhaustible stores? Why not avail ourselves of the cooperation of the tens of millions of these willing slaves who stand ready, at all times at our bidding, to be our hewers of wood and drawers of water 1?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.