Show THE MOTIVE POWER Tho metals and minerals produced last year In the United Slates aggregated aggre-gated S91124OS2 a against 5700810750 for 1803 These arc tho net llgures after af-ter deducting for duplications as in I ease of coal made into coke etc and footing up over 121 millions for 1S90 Uie total including these duplications being upwards of 1000 millions Then the value of anthracite coal at the mine is 175 per tot and of bituminous coals 02 cents per ton of 2000 pounds That no other country can raise Us coal to the surface at these prices Is tho Financial News says the great fundamental reason of our prosperity and one of the strong assurances of its continuance Again the value given pig Iron for the long ton 2240 pounds is only 1070 though the preset pres-et values are from 17 for ordinary pig 1 iron to 25 for Bessemer pig Taking Tak-ing these values at bedrock for the crudest forms and at place of production lars produc-tion they approximate a billion of dol Commenting upon the above the Financial News says Vhon wo llguro the value of that coal as COli expended In running machinery muldnu ill sorts of goods Jn propelling tPiinior Jr lnJ tpamcrt In driving Jjconiolivej the Iron worked up Into Ill forms of Iron md steel inn hlnery nuulo from It doing UK work of million of mon rulhoads run by It cnr rylUK hundreds of millions of tons pC fC freight long distances hlps mado from It carrying our surplus products to the ends of tho Ilirth and when wo lake nil tho other minerals and motuls and follow onr folow thorn through tho forms which Increase their value and their power to crediu wealth wo find that this less than ono billion has Grown to many billions anti that I hat by founding all the industries arts and commerce mado possible tho crcatlonbccauBo I had mudo possible the dlstrlbutionoC other blllloni from the crops of tho earth from animate from Umber etc 1 rrol tm1er etc In Iron steel copper above all In coal wo load tho procession of nations and our lead Is u sufo one and permanent No other country can unl overtake It The above Is all right except that the News does not distinguish closely enough It Is I the preclous metals Increase In-crease that has made possible this tremendous tre-mendous advancement They are the I vital fluid of commerce they are to j commerce and trade what blood Is to the human body and the fact that trade has increased just in the ratio I that the gold and silver of the country nave Increased Is t a fact which our I Eastern friends never willapparently I understand They will say that thei i farmer who raises a thousand bushclH or wheat and soils It for f thousand lnlU 1ltl Just 1 much wealth 1 1 as the miner who digs a thousand dollars dol-lars In gold from the hills and that the farmers work Is the better of tho two because what he produces Is food I I leI man and beast They cannot un I I derstond that the farmer got his thousand l thou-sand dollars simply because some 1 miner this year or last or away back j In Solomons time dug that thousand dollars from the earth and that It huj been saved ever since Except for that U1 tine farmer could have done I 1 would have been to exchange his wheat for some other article that ho wanted I and all his trade would have been barter bar-ter and would have been limited to the Immediate neighborhood where he L lives I Is the gold and silver of tho f earth through which trade and civilization civi-lization arc both rated and both trade and civilization advance and recede just as those metals Increase or decrease de-crease In volume among men and na tlona I |