Show CHANGES SI SINCE NCE JULY 41 1776 I II I I should to conic come back baek to tIle the earth a hundred OS from now to see seo science are aro unc anti bring if iq tito tho said Benjamin n le he lefore 1 fore his death in 1790 I It was tas a remark I It was In Inc with the aspiration of DC thoughtful il iii ni all ages agos of tue tho worle But what would time tho AmerIcan who on Jul July I 1776 think If lie ho should be permit permitted ted led to take a glance at al Ills his Lora today Tim Tho thirteen Unit Isit Ish colonies of his hin the Doc Dee o of independence was morel mole molea a desire which was vas not Into tact tuot after several oars of hard grown Into ana a na lon Lion o of states The he nu of that dl have expanded Into That Thal thin or of I settlers along the Atlantic seaboard from Crom New Hampshire to Georgia years ago has spread across a con continent and ha IlliS advanced to the tho Gulf Gul of Mexico The country now fronts on three oceans instead o of ono one as In iose those days and It has dependencies in two of oC the them I Over Porto Rico in the American Mediterranean the Stars and Stripes I Or fly as they co tb over the J Guam Tutuila and thousand Islands In the Pacific The he lc lie or of Cuba Cuba anti and the republic of oC Pan Panama Panama ama are under our guardianship I IAcross Panama which I Iwas Across the Isthmus of was surveyed for a canal in Charles Charlesr Vs r days das the the United States is build Ing at an outlay o of several hundred milons millions of dollars a waterway for the use 1150 of eer every country in the World on he file same terms as for ourselves Within tile the memory of persons who are arc sti still actively at work worl tae United States hal had a low rank among the I nations In the volume and the variety of its activities and is its wealth To ToIa i day Ia the UnIted States wih with an gate gato valuation o of for tor I Is its real estate anti and personal property I equals In wealth the United Kingdom an and the French Republic lc combined which are our nearest rIvals in that field While we te have only onh 5 pOl per cent of the worlds population we produce per cent cent of the worlds wheat per por cent of the worlds gold per cent of its coal per cent or of is its Lures tures per cent of its s ser sli sliver ver er forty per cent or of its pig Iron per cent o of Its petroleum per cent of is its copper sev seventy enty Ier er cent of oC its cotton and eighty cent of Its cor corn |