Show THE NATIONS POWER from mr air Shat Shaf gloat speech we voe I 1 condense a few items ilonia allotting the power of the united states slates lie he quotes from mulhall this sentence it if we take lake a survey of mankind in ancient or modern times as regards the rhy phy steel mechanical or intellectual forces of nations we find nothing to compare with the united states slates prof francois puts the wealth of the united states at one fourth that of the world SOX for the united states against for fill all the bild outside our rall railroads roads are arc miles against tor for all the world outside in 1892 our railroads carried tons of freight miles against on all the outside roads in the world the expenditures of the railroads are 7 against tor for all the woi id beside railroad annual receipts tor for the united states tor for the world outside ll steam power of the united states slates horse power the world outside horse power Vess elsIn lake and river traffie of the united states tons which is N 0 per tent cent of 0 all the carrying power of the wohld in the high seas the united states slates tran transports spot is more tons of freight than all the world outside of the worlds cotton crop of 1333 kOGO bales the united states produces 10 bales in ISM our nation consumed bales of cotton one fourth of the worlds product our corn product 2291 bushels Is tour four times the amount raised by all the world outside our country countr Y produces more than two fifths of the worlds wheat supply our total cereal crop Is more than one third of the supply our country lies has one fifth of the worlds horses one fourth of its mules and two fifths of its swine we supply of the worlds fish nearly one third of beef two sevenths of pork one cone half of butter nearly one third of asters three fourths of tobacco n nearly early y one third in this country produced of pig iron tons or more than one fourth of the worlds supply and nearly one third of the steel supply our copper produced in was tons or more than tons in excess 0 of f all 11 the rest of the world of coal our product was nearly one halt half of all the world we produce more than halt the petroleum of the world we produce halt half tho the lumber of the world our gold product Is more than one fourth of the world our silver product more than one third our mineral product in 1897 was worth our country has halt half the miles of telegraph in the world of the neus newspapers papers in the world the united states has 2066 wo we have i one third the post offices of the world and send through the malls one third of the tha worlds mall mail matter of tho the telephones in the world the united states has our inhabitants possess more than one fourth of 0 tho the forking power of life wo no produce one third of the worlds manufactured products on that showing we voe think mr shot shat roth was justified in his bis declaration when ahen he said great as ad the government la Is there Is something still greater and that is the people of the united states wo we area are the greatest people on earth we are the greatest producers and consumers on the face of 0 tho the earth our of people are equal to of the average of the balance of the world the pitiable feature is that when it comes to framing a financial system our great statesmen and newspapers in terror look across the sea and tell us that it if we dare to add to our 01 volume ol of standard money a metal which ich was more stable than gold for ages until denied its ils sovereignty by legislation it will be dishonor ruin perfidy and repudiation ours Is LL a great nation sure enough but it Is under the control of a little band of financiers who number less than 1 per ier cent of the people and wo we hac not the strength to bleak bieak the tellers fetters they have forged forced upon the people A providence Is watching over our soldiers notwithstanding the incompetence that landed thousand of them at tampa without clothing bedding or decent rations rat tona after the encampment had been bec n there for or weeks according to the medical news nevis there had bad been but two deaths from disease this Is below the average deaths jn in garrisons |