Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-12-20
WHAT AMERICA WILL HOLD.

commerce and our flag into every sea,
yet for us to NEEDLE with the embroil-
ments of European politics would be at
war with our own settled policy and
best interests. At present we have
enough'to do to take care Of our W
territory and develop it. 1t has been
recently calculated that the whole terri
tory of the United States, if settled with
as dense a population as now actually
resides in Belgium, would contain one
hundred and ten millions more inhabit-
ants than are at this time living upon
the entire globe. Belgium is indeed
naturally more fertile than many parts
of the United States, because it is COW
cred with a loan of particular richness,
caused by the kneading up of the soil
by former glaciers. But it is not as
fertile as our own valleys. With the
blessings Of peace and unity there is no
reason to doubt that the North Ameri-
can Continent may n day hold a pop
ulation as numerous as now covers the
entire globe.
Europe is cut up into little kingdoms
burdened with debts, with pomp, and
above all, cursed with perpetual jeal-
ousies and wars and narrow schemes Of
encroachment and fraud, which will
probably keep 5000, 900 of men in the
field as soldiers, to protect, and in turn
Cypress the rest and destroy each other.
The fear Of being drafted into these ar
mics, and compelled to fight at the bid
| ding of some absolute monarch, is al
ready causing an increasing emigration
| from the Old World, especially from
| Germany-such a migration as the
world has never seen.
The great secret of our rapid growth
in this respect is, that labor Of every
sort is better paid here than anywhere
else in the world. In Africa it is prob
ably worst paid Of anywhere. There
human toll and life is thought nothing
of, and chiefs are considered great in
proportion to the number of slaves daily
stolen or slain, and whose red blood
forms pools around their court. In
Asia matters are but q little better.
The worth Of human life and the pay Of
labor as such are scarcely held in ac-
count. A famine comes in British India,
and it is hardly thought worth while
even TO attempt to assert or believe it,
or to pay for labor enough to give the
wretched inhabitants. sufficient to buy
the bare necessaries Of life. Burmah
and China are, as a whole, worse in this
respect than British India. In Europe,
labor is better paid and life more valued
than in Asia; yet even in England the
best farm laborers, working from day
dawn till dark, get about 5? so per
week and cider, and common hands far
less than that. Their education is hard
" thought of, and their moral and reli-
gious characters are becoming more de-
graded in each generation.
In the United States the best farm
hands will in harvest receive more for
the labors Of a day than in England for
that Of a reek, and nearly as much more
all the year round; and yet, such are
our advantages from soil, better legisla-
ton, lighter taxes and the improvements
of machinery, America has supplied
one-third Of all the food which the Eng
lish import for the support of their
manufacturing population. We pay
three to four times as much for every
hours labor, and grow rich. This must
and does draw in a supply Of desirable
operatives, industrious and skilful, from
the whole world, raising the value of
our land, and so creating a demand for
everything which elevates and civilizes
mankind.
To carry on this work, to develop the
whole American continent by our aid
and protection, is the great mission of
the United States. To do this we want
no foreign wars nor interference with
European politics, nor that they should
interfere with ours. We want u debt
paid off as rapidly as it can be, and no
nation was ever yet seen reducing such
a debt so rapidly. We want labor we'll
paid by being allowed to find its own
level, and by the free and protected in
t~erchange, as to place, of all capitalists
and laborers, directed to those points
where these will be best remunerated.
We want no antipathies and nc favorit-
ism or partial legislation, but all such
local self-government as is not ~inconsis-
tent with the above. No large standing
armies will be needed where these ideas
are prevalent, but instead we must have
the widest possible diffusion Of educa-
ton among the whole people. Early
marriages, correct morals, freedom in
religion will soon fill up the American
| Continent.
IxpoRrs OF IRON AND SrEEL.-It ap-
pears from English statements, of an
official character, that the value Of iron
and staal ahinped IN the United States