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Show However, wo believe that' in the next few years electricity will greatly relieve the immense strain upon, the coal measures, that is that the increased consumption of coal will not keep up with the increase of population that electricity will take the burden of power away from steam, that it w.ii heat as well as light our cities and that much of the shipping will use oil for fuel. At the same time the industrial possibilites of China are immeasureable. We wish our government and men of great wealth would begin the peaceable conquest of South America by driving railroads through that country. The boys of fifty years hence will want land and only expensive lands will remain in our country. The yellow peril is becoming be-coming a more and more pronounced quantity every day, not only in her labor and material resources, re-sources, but in the spirit' she is manifesting toward to-ward the outside world. |