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Show UNCLE SAM'S MATERIAL WEALTH 1 Two hudrd anil iiluty.iln yars ago till month on lh cold, bleak hor( ol Cape Cod Hay.Maea., th Intrepid llttln bund of paiiKr who reverently dleuihard ther from th MayHnwr, thr month before wer battling against th , pang ofliungar and tormented by III meiiac of ullluiat starvation. Out of that in harbor for th ' lut thru month, half a bundrd huga hli, weighed down with ' grain, hav gnu forth to fad and nourish th world. 5 Thar am now tM.outi.m) of u 1 where ther warn hut HM III HIS). Out of th virgin coll of th wllder- f uu that once stretched westward i from Cape Cod to the Paoltlo a- ! board hava apruug thla year agrl- j -cultural product worth n,um.imi,- ' 0U), a record never before attained by any single iiallou In the world lu aujr one year. Our national weatlh baa grown fruui 7.bUU,uW.I)i lu 171)1 to the pred- , - ' igouaauinof liari.ono.uuu.imjon Janu- ., ; ' ' ary lat. Iiutt twlie that of the -i i ' i i ' United Kingdom of Ureat llrltain, 'r i Huotland and Irelnnd and throw V. ' llinea tliat of alllmr France or ti.ir- many, our tliree I'loacat competitor. lleaplie .our eiioniioua growth III iopulatliui, we now have a per oapita capital of tl.KMi, whore we t' .'; had hut IKi In I7ul. We are the ; : world greateat mauufacturera a 1 ', i well aa It moat xtuaiv aed rioti- W , . at agricultural!!. W mill mora ,i ' aoal and eitraut more gold, ailver, . , ooppar and Irou out of tli ground . J' thau any two uountrlea In th unl-l I , vraa. W are proaperoua beyond . , i . th th moat ettravagaut picture : V vr painU'd In fancy by fertile human liuaituiaUon. I'nab'a to ' , . ".fl prufllably employ all our own capi tal at liuiua; w uae our aurplua mil-, mil-, " lion to fliiauc tuhaoco plantation In Porto Ulcoaudth IMillllplnra; ugar plantation In Cuba; corTi.e plantation lu llrmll and rubber plautatlon In llrltlah Oulana, and I I - 1 1 1 ii adil to our raphlly a.'cumulat-Ing a.'cumulat-Ing ruvenuca Favored by natiiie, lilcaa.Ml by provident'.', ailtulred by tlm world, everybody' friend and nobody avowed enemy, endowed with mar-vrloo mar-vrloo phyalual vigor, atilluated by ui'h enterprlaoa aa no other nation haaeverahowu;llttered and toaaled tlieearlh over; we ahould beiuproiif aly happy. Hut we ain't. W fret and dome berauae a dya-peptlr, dya-peptlr, railroad .realdi'Ut talka peaalmlallcally of III" future, aa If I wna Inaplr.'d or had any bailor opportunity op-portunity of foreaeelng Ihluga In advance of Ihrlr advi nt than the rant of .lie comiuuullv who make! no pietence tohelng praerlenl. H a 1 1 1 1 a 1 1 1 never derlared a dlvl-dent dlvl-dent nr built two hniiae where ther waa on before. Like th lira on the dog Ilia paaalmlat la III vltahle. Wlillu hla peraiatent propsualty of reminding ua of hla preaenc may Intermittently annoy and barraa, whan all la aald and don, he eut llttlalo. How literally true thla la, I vu never mora forcibly or Inlereat-Ingly Inlereat-Ingly mphaUd than In th figure 'of our national material pre einln- anca now available. H Indeed uiuat b a queer Anierloan who In th oonUmplatloa of th tupnpuua develnpmant of hi snuntry and Ita epochal auhlevainant do not feel a aena of patriotic eialatlnn a be tudle the elgnlfloaur of the record of lu growth and trauacandiag ao- lUipllBhiiienta alne that Intrepid little hand of pllgrliua braved the terror of aa to plant their aland-ard aland-ard on freadum'a aliorea. |