Show OUR COUNTRY OF i From an article in The N. we condense the on the growth and prospects of our own country t For one hundred years European statesmen predicted the downfall of the United because it was not aristocratic and Now they begin to say it may not last because it is ceasing to be Weal and luxury and false ideals menace monopoly narrows war-madness creates a caste of gold discontent from below matches arrogance from Our friendly critics of today have this Signor finds in the a for intellectual Herr Bernstein as a Socialist if we can make our constitution fit a progressive of a hundred million Loria finds the most pressing danger of the future in the uneven distribution of wealth and many Americans would agree with True Democracy shall confound the America is too big and varied to be measured by a or sampled by a title-seeking or subverted by the torch of the or grasped by a The press and the school and the vivifying circulation of mixed races in a neighborhood three thousand miles long are influences as sanative as the wind and the United States of as M. Marcel more and more probable because the United States of America make them more and more necessary in defense or we but in political The mission of the republic lies in the realm of It means Progress through Development through Else no progress and no development will The picture given of the growth and future of the 1 United States is really superb and is calculated to fill the heart of every American with proud tin Maximilien Editor Berlin United States of Europe become more and more probable because the United States of America make them more and more Marcel French politician is mainly concerned with the question whether the constitution of the United States any longer is sufficient to make real a democracy in the sense of a genuinely progressive self-government in the case of a people numbering a hundred millions and French Revisionist Socialist it were not that the figures attest these prodigious so many marvels would seem Premier Maura of is dangerous to sleep on one's one risks being left Andre de French extraordinary rate of progress is bound to slacken within a more or less distant period of is the common destiny of all and even the United States cannot escape its Famous Italian the most pressing danger of the future to my the enormous aggregation of wealth in individual hands and its uneven distribution throughout the Achille University of threatened development of America will indirectly benefit the Old World by favoring the limitation of armaments and cementing nations now hostile in a common defense of the American Guido Italian The unexampled growth of the United States in all the attributes of national revealed by the census of arrested the attention of thoughtful men in Europe as in our own What the foremost statesmen and publicists abroad think of this world's wonder of swift yet substantial development is shown in the statements from men of mark elsewhere published in this It is a showing for Americans to study with It must inspire visions of future development if the American Spirit survives to and not otherwise bewildering in the vastness of its import to Neither past nor present time except in the Russian a known parallel to the growth in population of the United States in a single decade by more than China takes no even of her great British India is a group of separate some some closely ruled from Its census of 1911 is not it Avas expected reveal a in spite of millions swept away in famine and of in these nations or less than 7 per Our growth was just under 21 per Its added made up a total in of exclusive of the When The World's summary fr the total was It ls Avell or with the Philippines The population of the United States was generally by about on the eve of the The population of Great Britain before the census of 1911 was always What was that of London most county was some by the registrar-general England and Wales have grown or 10 91 per while the decline of population in Ireland and Scotland causes serious self Prussia has increased in ten years and has now The German Empire has grown in five or per and is now less than the given by John Holt Schooling and less than some previous nearly stationary in is now outranked by The provisional figures of Austria's gain are totalling for the Dual Empire Schooling's figures are In vain they build who build not on firm In vain they teach who teach not the In vain they rule who rule not themselves with It will little avail the country which has grown so great upon the promise that it would uphold the Rights of Man if in its quest of or or or any other it forgets For what is this growth we justly wonder What are our high-piled our four-track our spreading states and teeming They are but upon an They are not the children of our natural They are the embodied dreams of the American It took more than two hundred years for our with all the untouched natural wealth that was nearly as well appreciated then as to as It has taken the young republic half as to step from dwarf to giant for one paramount reason because there has been no moment since its founders wrote the Declaration of Independence from word into deed when the humblest peasant in the furthest corner of Christendom has not known of it as a land that had cast off kings and forsworn all titles to nobility save those conferred by virtue and Every act of foreign Poland or Ireland abandoned to or Germany hounded by on Finland cheated by faithless czars of its ancient has meant the building up of Fr every native American whose forbears came to aake money more ten are here because Freedom To align vast numbers and expanding wealth with Democracy the task of the Its problems ar Political and |