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Show ' WELL, WHAT OF ITT , A Waahington dispatch yesterday gave the of-' of-' ficial value of the land prodncta of the United States for last year at $8,921,000,000, Texas lead-- lead-- -r w;th"10,000,00O"acrer"of -rotton.-raraed -r.t (364.110,000. That is a brave showing, but where ' ig the money t. Texas oujjht to have good deal . for the payment of cotton ia direct,, but if a gen-.... gen-.... tleman baa a large property in, say, Galveston, ' . ' and desires to sill and move away, can he Unload ' at a fair price and get the moneyt Is it not true thet even in Texas money ia no fair measure of values f With this mighty annual production .if wealth from the soil, why is it that interest rates s'aro quite two and a half times higher in this , country than In England f Of course 05,000,000 people and all the domestic animals in this country consume a vast amount of food, and the bulk of rf - thft erop i used up in barter j but, oevertheleM, a i ' vat amount is sold abroad. What becomes, uf thatt The flpum from that same Washington diftpafch ahow that in the year's ahakeap the trade balance in onr favor is some $400,000,000. But do wr get it T There is an interest account in Europe M-hich ia said to be $350,000,000 which haa to be Xr ' nettled annually. There is a freight and fare ic-' ic-' . ttount of $250,000,000 which haa to be paid, mostly ' ' to foreign steamships. Our wealthy people who gu abroad aightseeing . annually leave between " a hundred and fifty and two hundred million dollars dol-lars annually in foreign lands. Is it not perfectly natural to read that despite the mighty harvest ; from farm, orchard, factory and mine, there is de- pi-eanion iu every state, and that no property which men possess can enable them to borrow the ' , , needed money to go on with their workt The jileasant fiction ia put, out periodically 'that the mency in geueral circulation among tha people aim unts to some $35 per capita, but when we in-; in-; vestigate where it really ia, wt find, in tha first ; , piece, that there ia no real money except gold; that all the rest which ia called money amounts : to n"thing but promises to pay which do not go in foreign countries and that leas than twenty men ' iu New York City hold the gold in a combine, and that they bold all the banks and Iiusineaa men in ' the land like hounds in leash, and say when timoa thall be prosperous and when the business of the country shall be kept gasping like an animal in a receiver from which nearly all air. !:aa been drawn. It lowks to ua as though, despite the Washington figures, the American people are vorking chiefly for board and clothes, and the food ia growing worse every year and the clothing more and more threadbare, aud that if the national finances are not placed on a different basis soon, our foreign crwditom will come over, foreclose their mortgages ' and sell us out to the highest bidder. |