| Show t. t rt tr A G CHEAT EAT AXI H tN WONDERFUL ADVANCEMENT DYl c Open 30 ye the tho prate gates at that thai the righteous nation whIch 81 IH the tho truth enter in lil Ie r Xo No o stor story so won wonderful It seems scorns to toI I us u. has hils cv ever r rI i been toM tOll a j the record of the growth of this tills nation In Inthe the thc past J hundred indred years ears I JI Jn 1800 there was an m area of or less than a million square mlle miles and that meant the c. c extension of or old state boundaries for or an 10 unlimited distance into a western p wilderness which the country's statesmen neither valued f- f nor tl understood tle tood TOlla Today it Is more moro than three millions I of square miles mile and use has gone cone forward almost hand handIn f In n hand with opportunity Then there thero were five live millions of people Now ow there t arc are seventy live millions million and more 7 i t I The total wealth wn wa was not counted until 1850 and J f those who read It stood StOOl amazed amazed at tho the possession I on 0 of C r seven hillion billion dollars of or estimated property in tho the nation f. f Now there is a l hundred Undred and seven se billions of or dollars in 1 ri demonstrated value aluc In tho the United States lt At t tho the start the tho population was a n. little over six sixto to the tho square s mile now it Is almost twenty ef Halt Half a century ago aso tho the wealth per capita was three hundred dollars now It Is Js thirteen hundred A At t tho the bee beginning there was a per capita circulation of live five dollars now It Is two thirty dollars ll B By the way it ft was one of or the confident prophecies of man many people of 1896 that the adoption of tho gold standard 1 would result In greatly reducing the per capita circulation of the people The gold standard was wa adopted and the circulation has Increased Wo We hardly think II anyone will sa say that there has been less prosperity since than before that significant action was ivas taken by the now nov dominant party part in the nation i fin Il 1820 there were weN eight thousand depositors large and small In the savings saving banks of tho count country now there St- St v l' l t cli mu l r rp p- p pOpl h rin of t saving raving th their lr mone money t r 1 that the i- i century nation has fought three foreign wars and the most dl disastrous civil ekIl war of or all history winning Inning all of them and is toda today paying pensions pensions pen pen- at the rate of or over o a l hundred and fort forty million o dollars a a. year more year more than either tho the war or the navy Y department Is costing tho the countr country In half a century the farm animals havo have Increased in value from five hundred million to three billion dollars dol dol- lars and lars and that hat in spite of the fact that there was half haIr halfa haIra a century ago little machinery or motive moti power In InI I view of the application of steam and electricity in much f- f of the work worl formerly performed b by horses homes and mules the Increase in the domestic animal class seems almost as na marvelous as any other j A hundred years ears ago o the pro production of gold in the United States was only two thousand dollars Now ow It Itis f i is almost a l. l hundred undred millions I i The rho production of or silver was not counted until 1850 J and then It reached a total of or only fifty thousand dollars d' d pow now It Is near torl forty millions The output of pig Ironi iron i f in 1820 was t twenty enty thousand nd tons now It Is fourteen H a a DUIK practically beyond computation The They l kept ept an account of the cotton produced In InT T 1 1800 and anil it reached a hundred and fifty thousand thou bales hales f now now It is ten million balos bales a year ear f r. Wheat was not counted until 1840 and then there wc ero o thirty five million bushels hels now the countr country produces pro- pro duces annually three hundred million bushels of wheat And orn corn has increased from three million bushels to almost three billion bushels 1 annually t There were twenty three miles mites of or railroad in opera opera- T Lion In ln the United States In 1830 there thero are aro more than X two hundred h thou thousand and miles Hes of or it today And more than n h half a n billion or C passengers aro arti carried c every year ear r Receipts of t the entire postoffice department of ot the f- f country countr were les leliS than three hundred thousand dollars In Jn 1800 1800 toda tOday th the they y are arc more than a hundred million r- r and and the rate rato of letter postage has hos been reduced from j. j tv twenty five nt cents c to two iwo cents for tOl each letter I There were ere two hundred newspapers in ISIO 1810 now there are art more than thirty thou thousand alJ Eight Ight Immigrants rants came to the United I sia Stages in 1820 1826 more mor than a 3 million came last year ear i Dollars Dollars and cents may be a crudo crucIo way vay a of or tho advancement of ot a people and yet ct these thero aro are but Q tho digIts with ith h which the total Is expressed What a marvelous growth it has lins been How the continent has S b been en peopled and reduced to th the uses of man How those those'S S 'S pc people havo advanced acl In avera average e culture and learning How Bow the world has t tho been helped by tho the blessings that 5 have havo been out poured out upon thi this people Surely He t hath bath not dealt dalt so o with ith an any na nation lon |
