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Show Not Like Any Other Land WHEN the mineral product of the United States for last year shall be published beyond the sea, many a thoughtful person will say: "What , a colossus that republic is! "We make war to obtain a little more iron or coal; we are grateful for a lead or copper or antimony anti-mony deposit there they have states as great in i area as any of ours and they are filled with those treasures. Behind them, too, are granaries ample to feed a world; fruits, forests, ranges to fatten meat for the world; there are schools for all their children; for six weeks past a shipload of food has come daily from there for our poor, and all is peace with them. Is it not for us to cease cutting each other's throats and to begin to bind up our physical, mental, moral and financial wounds before be-fore we all go daft?" |