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Show WEALTH OF THE NATIONS United States Does Not Make Tremendously Tre-mendously Good Showing In World's Financial Column. For all its vaunted wealth the United Unit-ed States, In so far as per cnclta ratio goes, docs not ninko such a tremendously tremen-dously good showing In tho world's financial column. The wealth In the United States In 1910 was estimated at $125,000,000,000, by far the greatest amount credited In bulk to any ono country. Yet tho per capita wealth M only $1,359. Great Britain In 1909 wad worth $88,725,000,000, each person, according to the census, thus getting 1,972, Franco, with $83,000,000,000 In 1910, had a per capita wealth of $2,070; Germany hnd $63,500,000,000, with a per capita of $1,000. Russia's total wealth was $60,000,000,000, but ltB enormous population dragged the per capita down to $400. while Switzerland, Swit-zerland, with a total wealth of only $3,030,000,000, has a per capita rating of $S6C Tho per capita division in Sweden amounts to $402 out of n total of $2,197,000,000. Switzerland, In tho last few years, made a 20 per cent, gain In national wealth, Tho average per capltn wealth In the 25 cantons ranges from $1,885 In Geneva to $279 In Tcssln Switzerland thus stands very high The population In 1821 was 1,585,229, so thnt In 90 years' tlmo It has not doubled. Franco, It will bo noted, Btnnds at the head of tho nations with a per capita wealth of $2,070. That tho United States, with Its enormous total, does not rank higher Is because of tb'e rapidly Increasing In-creasing population. France, on the contrary, has reported a diminishing or nt tho most a very slowly Increasing Increas-ing population, bo that the money advance ad-vance has becomo greater than the birth rate. |