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Show joyed a fraction of the comforts and luxuries that are the. American people's,1 and the whole -world outside out-side never, from anything around them, ever horsed such dreams of plenty and of peace, or great names as our people have a right to cherish. . COUNTRY'S UPWARD WAY ; - Something of a country this. Exports f 147,208,-f!D73 147,208,-f!D73 per month, $1,766,507,676 per annum; imports, 1219,447,004, a balance on the right side of $547,-; $547,-; 059,672. ,The balance for the year makes good7the poss in San Francisco; that is, it restores the wealth Uof the Nation, but does not reimburse the unforto-jiate unforto-jiate city. - But it should be a satisfaction even to liter, for it is a notice that the Nation has $500,000,-;D00 $500,000,-;D00 more to draw upon than it had a year ago. - When the merchant marine is made good to our country, that amount in freights and fares will be Rwelled br the addition of $200,000,000 more. As it Hg it means that the world outside, after ministering fto'the necessitiesand extravagances of our people, l is obliged in addition to send us $547,050,672 an innally. That is a heavy drain even upon the whole i wide-world- Then while the rest of the world is losing, people, our - Nation from abroad receives 1,000,000 immigrants, four-fifths of whom are wej-; wej-; come acquisitions. If the years were turned back I two centuries, the strong nations would combine to j break the commercial power of our country and would claim that it was in self-defense, f But if that thought ever enters their minds now they are estopped on the threshold, for a war with ! us would mean a food famine in Europe, a textile famine in all cotton-spinning countries a dearth of a thousand necessaries and comforts of .life.. But great as is the foreign commerce of our ! country it is but a tithe of the internal commerce, ' for there are 90,000,000 of people on our soil to be well clothed and fed; there are the equivalent of a dozen cities to be built; this year probably -8000 miles of new" railroads. to be constructed and more than 200,000 to keep in repair; there are new manufactories costing millions to be built; there are Wad fields of the wilderness to be reclaimed St S ,mrm annually; there are new mines to open and work. : The roar of the Nation's industries rises np a ceaseless diapason through all the hours of the day all the way between the seas, and the continent is lighted-by night by the headlights of locomotives, the searchlight of steamers and kept ringing by the. clang of machinery that is doing the work of as many men as toil by day. - . ' ; And there is peace everywhere, every where the. laborer receives his hire, and -nowhere is one, oppressive op-pressive law interposed to prevent any man from doing do-ing any legitimate thing. Jlie anthems of the great, land are the songs which the school children in free schools are chant ing to' give enchantment -to the sun through one-eighth one-eighth of his daily round. Surely ours should be a contented and happy people, for looking the world over since the day on which the first page of history was written, no other such a land was ever held by one power, no other people that ever existed had such opportunities, hid so few restrictions upon tLirfcandJ &xA minds, na -other -people, ever ea- |