HERjCULES POWDER CO. 



Backing 

 The Fighter 



Back of our fighting man in France 

 stands the mechanic who labors in 

 our factories and munition plants. 

 Back of the mechanic stands the 

 miner whose broad back bends to 

 his task in the dark heart of some 

 mountain. And back of the miner 

 stands the power of explosives, 

 loosening the grip of Mother Earth 

 on her wealth of metals and 

 minerals. 



Without the gigantic force of ex- 

 plosives it would be utterly impos- 

 sible for us to produce in sufficient 

 quantities the munitions to supply 

 our armies over there; the steel to 

 build our battleships; the coal 

 whose latent energy turns the 

 wheels of our great manufacturing 

 plants; the copper which goes to 

 make our dynamos, cables, and 

 shell casings ; the gold which helps 

 us carry the great financial burden 

 of the war. 



The Hercules Powder Co. is supply- 

 ing a very large proportion of the 

 explosives used by American miners, 

 to whose patriotic labor is due, in 

 no small degree, our present vast 

 production of the materials of war. 



HERCULES POWDER CO. 



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