Show I Our Great Country and nd W ond IT WAS Frederic J J. J wh who said Our Government is a builder It undertakes to construct almost almos anything from a gun that will but hurt hurl two-thirds two of a ton of st steel l a distance ot of fifteen miles mites to toa pall pair of scales ei BO so delicate te that the balance will wUl turn turf sharply under the weight of a millionth mil millionth part of a grain Our Government Govern GOTem- ment meat ia Ja an operator It takes observations of at temperature with a thermometer thermometer thermometer therm therm- ometer so BO sensitive enal ye It will measure measure the heat beat of of a candle five flye miles away awa and it operates a gigantic testing machine machine machine ma ma- chine that will register a 1 train strain o of pounds It perform performs functions ranging from the conduct of International diplomatic dip affairs to the driving of mules males t from m making mapa maps to feeding hogs bors from coining mOlle money to making ice cream from digging canals canal to tc flying kites The service of half a million men and women and the expenditure of I more than a billion dollars a year are I required to tD keep this huge machine I going It Is IB a great country as well as a a great Government II Having only one one- sixteenth of the worlds world's population the United States has f rth of Its wealth owns a a. third of f its Hs railways railway distributes a third of its mail mati wields a third of Its banking power and prints more than half halt of its newspapers newspapers newspapers pers and Having only one tOne twentieth of of the landed area of the civilized world tb the United States produces one fifth of or its wheat third one-third of Its coal one fourth of ot its gold third one-third of its manufactured wares nearly one-half one of its steel more than one-half one of ot its petroleum nearly two-thirds two of its cotton and four-fifths four of its corn ItIs It ItIs ItIs Is the land of plenty for it is the on only y country on earth excepting some of the British colonies where an ordinary ordin any ary laboring man may eat meat every everyday everyday day if it he be wants it ft And yet notwithstanding all of its and power and greatness there are many skunks in th the guise of human flag who schemes and plots and undermines undermines un un- na- na in an effort to overthrow the greatest of governments and und the best of ot all aU nations |