San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-02-22

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mense variety Of manufactured Articles.
Our locomotives already go to Russia,
Brazil and Australia, and for the rea-
sons, as given by the lattercountry, that
they are cheaper, better and more dun-
BILE than those Of British manufacture.
Our street. railroad cars are sent to
Europe, 'because---as the buyers say
they are twice as enduring as those of
homemade. And our steam fire en-
gines go to Europe because, while much
lighter than their own, they can be got
ready for action in one-third the time,
and then do twice the work.
Our cutlery is coming into use all the
world over, on account of its cheapness
and good quality, while American NOW
ing machines are finding their way into
every civilized neighborhood. Even
the American Windmill, cheap and
tasteful, may be seen in every country.
The demand for our agricultural i'm
plements is slowly increasing, and
amounts to, about 81 100000 annually.
American electro plated ware superior
to any other in the world. Our hard
ware of all kinds is in great demand,
and is Of acknowledged superiority,
while our stoves, h0llow-ware and
pressed glass are coming into use in
Europe. We have an increasing trade
in carriages, furniture, Car wheels and
fixtures, paints, dyes and chemicals. Our
ore. crushers are considered the best in
the world, and our small weapons and
cartridges are sent to supply foreign
armies of the first magnitude. The re-
spect all men have for labor in Ameri-
CO has induced good men to work, while
nearly every one personally manages
his own affairs. This has raised up a
large class of learned inventors, who
have adopted methods and machines of
very superior kind for doing almost
everything. In fact, machines do the
work of hands, and do it better. This
has given us an advantage which for a
long time must, in many things, put us
practically beyond competition.
The railroads Of the country are al
ready built, and, while they are greatly
in excess of their business, and cost vastly
more than they are commercially worth,
and to the great loss of innocent per-
sons, they are worth all they cost, and
more, to the country. There is involved
somewhere m obligation to the men
whose money built these roads that it
may some day be proper to recognize.
As long as they do a business so cheap,
made possible only by the facts just
stated, the construction of our water
system, with its vast expenditures, can
be postponed.
In fairly distributed wealth, which
alone can give sufficient exemption
from the exactions of life, necessary for
the best culture, and the most desired
condition of humanity, the United
States is advancing more rapidly and
steadily than any other country. Our
homes are incomparably superior in
comfort and conveniences to those of
any other people. To our women are
given broader life, better education;
they are more respected and honored
than any others in the world, and in re-
turn are truer wivesand better mothers,
while our men are chivalrous and gener-
Gus; have trust in their wives, and love
and content in their families. And our
people have gained all these advantages
honorably, and are entitled to the con-
sid,ration the world gives.
In making labor honorable, educa-
ton universal, place and social consider
alton free to all who show themselves
worthy of them, the people have had
the most powerful incentives held out
for them to do their very best, and the
results could not fail to be what they
are. 1t is probable our part in the
progress of human development is to
work out for the new continent what
Rome did for the old, with the advant-
age of her best experience, the later
discoveries of science, better religion,
a more humane morality and broader
code of justice.
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