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Show "I AMGOLD, THECOJVQUE'RE'Rr HHlnZZ!ZKl7Tj: Fez it t rusitn.-s"m rusitn.-s"m jEN prat glibly of seven thousand IY1 billion in dollars as a loan for war. Reck they wbat it meaneth! Beck they the whence it comeih? Reck they of what these dollars are fashioned? I am they. I am Kins' " before all your kings, the conquerer. I am Gold, th god! . I ml sit For my sake kingdoms hav sprung into being. At my bidding bid-ding other kingdoms bave perished from the lace of tha earth. Millions have died to serve me; billion hav hungered at my behest Th babe crowing In hi cradle, the For I am Oold, their god. Hearken ye, whilst I shall set down some symbols of my power. For a'l men understand my tongue. Speak I In dubloons or dollars; francs or marks; pounds sterling or the yea of the Japanese; peso or pence or pieces ot eight verily it Is the same. Mln is a universal language. Reck ye the wealth of the world o-day? o-day? Attend as I lay it down tn dollars dol-lars for all to comprehend. Most potent ot all lands In riches Is these United States, even aa prince among paupers. My Lords of the Census Cen-sus have aet it down as of tha yeir uuss wiin vtv.oov.uuv.ovg. Speak I now In mora specialty of the mighty wealth I have laid up in this favored land of tha New World. Its 117 billions Is made up of teeny other billions: 110 billions of houses and lands; six billions ot the kind that feed on countless fertire hills. Machinery for the fashioning of thing ! eluding that whlcb tills tha lands. Is set down nigh to fourteen billions. Railway and the cars that roll thereon there-on ar catalogued aa sixteen billions, and the trams that traverse the streets add five billions more. Telephones are reckoned at a billion, and telegraphs at a fifth part of that Water works sen uoid! Gold! From that time, when men first begun be-gun counting and setting down la books their Oold, the which is I, there haa been wrested from the bowels of the globe some sixteen billions, fire hundred million In Gold, tb which ! L And ot this behemoth of billions Just half, or eight and a quarter bill-Ions bill-Ions of dollars, has come from Mother Earth within the space ot leas than this last quarter-century. I call to my Mint at the City of Washington for mere figures atteut The total world production of goid from the discovery ot America to th workings lu the Ural Mountain of Russia, Then California was added to the galaxy of Oold. the which is L sad Australia, my Wonderland. Cams then the wltwaterarand la Africa; also the Gold Coast In 1819 the production produc-tion ot Oold. the which is I. had risen to $97,300,000 a year. And now for 1916, from" the mine of all land bar com $465,985,000 of tb shining yellow yel-low spoil o'er which men gloat and go mad! Africa leada all the rest . Becond onto the Dark Contlnnent la the teeming United State. From the glorious glor-ious day when a man seised upoa a fleck of the golden quarts la aaknown States added 192.(1300 to the world's store in a slug I span of twelvemonths, and Russia following with 129,000,000, and Mexico with f 12,000.000 mora. All other lands waxed forth with I3.J00,-000--a mighty agglomeration ot Oold. the which Is I, for all to worship and And whence goetb this Oold. the acclaim. , which I I? Lett y forget ( ) For 191 the world' stated distribution distri-bution ot Oold money waa: ' To United Stales, $2,636,010,000, at last reports; France, $1,381,000,000; Russia, Rus-sia, $1,OGS,000,000; Germany, $714,000,-00; $714,000,-00; the United Kingdom. $662,000,-000; $662,000,-000; Italy, $336,000,000; Anstrla-Haa- Uies United Slate la Congrea ear voted out for war tne I7,000,000.c; J loan. . t. Roek ye that mean seven thousand million? Should thr be expended for this war by these United States the vast amount ot $100,000,000 a vest, the aald billions will suffice for a twelvemonth and eighteen weeks more. '". The sum Is not one twenty-fifth ot fie ' wealth of tha aatkm. yet It Is twice th amount ot Cold, tha which ia I,,", mined her between Atlantic and Pax'.,, cilia for all past time. It is nea.-iy half th Gold, th which la I, garnerej la all tb world; It la twice ail th -Money within these confines ot our " old man doddering u nis grave youm and age, good and evil, fair and touU lion-heart and poltroon, all, all owa my empery. x At my beck Jason sought th Fleeea ot Gold. Midas and Croesus of yore war my merest minions. I .called Columbus across th unknown seas, and I sent Drake around tha uncharted unchart-ed glob ail. all sought to find me out I mad Cortes to Mexico I called Pixarro to Peru. I peopled the Pacific sbors ia a day whea California Califor-nia cried forth her' golden message ia the months of .'49. Sun and sand. Ice and Jungle, hunger, disease and death men dare them all and rlak them all whea I beckon my puppets iviz, woen tne weaiin oi nmens mounted up $187,739,071,090! Such billions are well nigh samplers of the infinite, know ye! One hundred and eighty-seven of billions of dollars, told in Gold, the which is I! ' Next come the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. And at latest figures that lordly domain counted for all the garnered treasure Just $108,279,625,000. which holds Gol-eonda Gol-eonda and th wealth ot tabled India as well, forsooth. And the German Hun has but a paltry $69,000,000,000 with which to wage bla war against all manner of men. Franc oppose him with I55J91.000.000. And th ana irrigation canals figure at anotnei half billion, and shipping at near a billion and a half beside, Electr'x light and power plants ar double a billion. Agriculture yields ia Increase five billions from th earth each twelvemonth; twelve-month; and from the mines spring eight hundred millions more. Close to fifteen billions are the things mals from the raw material which the earth brings forth. The hundred million mil-lion folk who people this land' owa four billion In clothing and eight billion In furniture and vehicle verily, (urns beyond any understanding understand-ing but mln to seize upon. a And yet t hav not poken of my-. present time wa i.&oojoo,ooo in coining value," saya It Director, my man who speaks In billions. The gjld money of all the world for which statistics stat-istics were available In 1896 aggregated aggrega-ted $4,144,000,000 and in 1916, $8,258.-000,000. $8,258.-000,000. - Sliver money of the same countries was In 1896, $4,237,000,000. and in 1916. $2,441,000,000. Tne uncovered un-covered paper money of the countries in question waa stated in 1894 at $2,-558,000.000 $2,-558,000.000 and la 1916 at $8,583,000.-000." $8,583,000.-000." . List to the degree of my growth in greatness. A century ago but $7,300,-000 $7,300,-000 of Gold, the which la L waa taken each twelvemonth from the biding nlacas of Mother Earth, the buifc from California to this very twelvemonth, the mines within . this Republic's domain do-main have yielded forth their Increase to a total produce of $3,791,000,000 la Oold! Whence comes ft, and whither doss it go tils shining mountain of tninoT Again attend:' For 1916 there was mined la the Transvaal $192453,000; West Australia Aus-tralia led the isles of the Pacifio with $21,913,000 and New Zealand . follows J with $8,613,000; between them. Queensland Queens-land and Victoria garnered 9l0.0O0.PO0 more, and New South Wale quite close to $2,000,000. From India came $11,000,000 more, and from Caaada alAM U UOJXXU90. The UniUJ gary, $296,000,000; Turkey, $291,000.-000; $291,000.-000; Australia. $250,000,000; Argentina. Argen-tina. $229,000,000; Netherlands, $17V 000.000; Canada, $170,000,000; Japan. $143,000,000. And hearken ye In twenty years America haa gained In percentage oi Oold, the which la L 231.7, while Germany, Ger-many, once the richer, ha gained but 5 8! To-day. know ye. there is more thaa $3,000,000,000 of tha precious yellow yel-low bullion In top money belt of that wise and benignant persoaag yclpt Unci SamueL And all Money, my prince of th blood royal, some $3,-$59,069,981, $3,-$59,069,981, or, $43.50 for esrb SOUL I ling, I celebrate myself! , And lastly I sinA" of ti billion that America. Had it beea pnly of the Gold ' from th Ural, man would have been h' one thousand year in boarding It To- "' day at th present rate of Increase tt, " will needs-be fifteen year of patient , delving ot all th world' mine. ,' Canst ae It or weigh It In thy mini's . eye? It la a thirty-foot cube ot ye . i low metal. In $20 gold piece It would stretch 11,048 miles from the Korttr Pole to th tip of South America. By the same token In which the commonest com-monest dross has Its weight given it, such Gold, the which Is L would be?t '' down the scales to 13.440 ions it ' freighted cargo of a gi eat ship. ' I am the F1naaral Rock cf Arrx " lain Gold ti money god I . V, " |