Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1909 — The Great Builders [ARTICLE]

The Great Builders

When considering the expenditure for public building we should realise that when the government erects a building for public use the following trades are benefited!, -- Stone quarrymen, stone dressers, stonemasons, cement makers, lime burners, brickmakers, bricklayers, miners la coal and iron, structural iron makers, furnaeeman, structural iron workers, plasterers, lumber mill men, carpenters, glass workers, glaziers, nail makers, tinners, roofers, makers es roofing material, plumbers and gasfitters, painters and decorators, furniture makers, carpet makers, unskilled labor \ - The Republicans have been the groat builders of America.