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The correct answer is: People wanted the bridge built because it would be good for business.

Explanation:

In the excerpt, the author clearly states that the people wanted to build a bridge because they considered it would be good for business. We can also conclude that from the following sentence: The irresistible demands of commerce enforced these hard conditions.

As we can notice, this irresistible need of commerce enforced the hard conditions for the construction of the bridge, and people doubted the construction would begin at the earnest.

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the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.