CYRUS HALL McCORMICK 



to fill 65,000 freight-cars. It has 25,000 work- 

 men and 35,000 agents. The lumber with 

 which its yards are filled comes from its own 

 80,000-acre forest; the steel comes from its 

 own furnaces and the iron ore from its own 

 mines. It is so overwhelmingly vast, this new 

 famine-fighting consolidation, that the value of 

 its output for one hour is greater than the 

 $25,000 of capital with which McCormick built 

 his first factory in Chicago. 



So, it is evident that the McCormick Reaper 

 has been an indispensable factor in the making 

 of America. Without it, we could never have 

 had the America of to-day. It has brought good, 

 and nothing but good, to every country that has 

 accepted it. It has never been, and never can 

 be, put to an evil use. It cannot, under any 

 system of government, benefit the few and not 

 the many. It is as democratic in its nature as 

 the American Constitution; and in every foreign 

 country where it cuts the grain, it is an educator 

 as well as a machine, giving to the masses of 

 less fortunate lands an object-lesson in democ- 

 racy and the spirit of American progress. 



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