Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-18

the United States are in the most
prosperous financial condition of any
country in the world. While in ten
years they have paid off $3.50, 600 900
Of their debt, and 10 another decade
will have entirely wiped it out, the
different states OF Europe still owe
$23, 4O0, 100000. The interest OH this
crushing debt is annually figured at
from $500, 0OO, 900 to 81, ZOO, 900 900. to
be raised from the labor of European
nations.
In order to render the comparison
still more striking, let US take France
and England only, whose united pop
ulation scarcely exceeds quarter OF
that OF the American Union. France
aud England annually pay 1915, OOO,-
600 for the interest of their debt and
$34O, OOO, 900 for their army and navy.
rhey Keep 10000 available men IN
service, and, estimating the possible
work OF each OF those at but 800 d
Year, that REPRESENTS u further cola
loss ol $73 900, 900; 50 that 1t Is I'M
possible 10 estimate tne annual
charges resulting from the deDL ana
the army and navy at less IMAM $780,
OUO,OUO.
Army and NdUy.-A comparison
vi the American military DuuSeL
with that vi the great Western pO" CTS
FRANCE, r.. gland ana Germauy-
gives Tie following results: In France
we huu ANNUALLY Inscribed III TIE
army and navy budgets $lS2, 800, UUU,
Ur $4.9o per head OI lunaUILuuts; III
England, $l5S. 100000, or $40 per
head; ami III GerLIaLy (l8ooJ, $lI3, =
OOO,OOO, or $2.44 per mead. Inc
United States Keep up all army Oh
uut 27,OUO men auu eXpend OH tins
account only $5O,OOO,OUU per year, or
scarcely 81 cents per head.
Opposite these II 900 men let us
put the 1924 ,6O4 soIuIers kept in
service Ill time OF peace NY the three
above named powers, ana we small
find that III THIS item Luey yearly con-
sumo Oue-eIgnth O1 their productive
power. Again, this csLIniaLe Is Ue-
low the truth, II we Consider that the
men thus taken from the pursuits OF
peace are all III the maximum u1
their strength and at tine age wien
| character Is formed. The loss OI
revenue that results from such Il state
Of things becomes appalling when we
| consider 1t US Il factor Of the 4uuuslrIaI
contest with the United States.
The United States, then, have al
insignificant standing army and al
insignificant navy; but, quarter OF ;
century ago, vt the time OF the war 0
the rebellion, they put into the field
at the first call, two million We'll
armed men and G26 war vessels.
Commemorative Imports and eX
ports VI America nearly equal tnOs;
OF France and Germany. say uOou
III, 500, OOO, 900 but they are far from
coming up to those OF England
~, 900, 600, 100. AS for the inlerio
commerce OF America, that of ii.
other nation offers any comparison
with it. The annual railway freigh
receipts in the United States exceed
1850, 200, 0O0-a sum greater than tina
paid by England, France and Ital,
combined, for the same object ThI
Pennsylvania system alone carries
larger tonnage than that of ali tin
merchant vessels of England.
Ways Of Communication. - Th
United States possess l45, 2UO miles o
railway (end of 1880, while Europ
has but l24 200. AS the entire wo"it
contains about 1877 900 miles, 1t fol
lows that the United States have 4
per cent. Of the railways of the globe
They will soon have more than tn
rest of the world!
Moreover, nowhere can a person
travel so comfortably and luxurious
Iy, owing especially to the American
invention of sleeping cars, which per
NIT OF making trips of seven day
and seven nights. without fatigue
from one ocean to the other.
Besides its railways, America ha
rivers that are the largest in til
world. The Mississippi; is equal t,
all the rivers of Europe combined
with the exception of the Volga. 1t
length is about 5000 miles, and tina
of its navigable affiuents is more thar
5000. The Hudson is navigable TO
large steamboats, us far as to Albany
that is to say, to 100 miles from it
mouth.
There are a dozen other rivers 0
like Importance, There are Il Nam
| Vel IdESe Seap"TtS ~ cOnSlueFaUle QlS
tances from the coast properly s.
called. There Is nothing more curl
Gus than to see ships of 5000 tons a
distance Of 500 miles from the sea
By the above showing it appear
that the great United States are dull,
appreciated by the intelligent anC
we'll informed men of the old world
Surely every American citizen shoult
lie proud of his country.