Show Copper led the procession of the minerals min-erals In dividends lasf year The American Amer-ican copper mines paid 33000000 In dividends while American gold and silver sil-ver mines paid less l than U000000 But when It comes to that petroleum beats them all The oil dividends amounted to nearly 540000000 With more agricultural products to sell than all the outside world combined with more gold than any other country with more silver than any other country but one with an immense aggregate of lead l with cojper equaling nearly all of the outside world l the rest of the world Is put at a disadvantage when compared with this country And now as our manufacturers arc encroaching on the best work of all the most skilled foreign nations It Is i not wonderful that we read there Is financial distress In all the money centers I of the Old World that there Is a feeling of half despair among the manufacturers of the Old World that this country has begun to look to I them like a cormorant the mission of which Is to swallow all thcir wealth and make the biggest of I them mere secondrate powers |