The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-25

reports of cOnsuS, the price of food in Great
Britain is twenty-five per cent. higher than
in New York, and fifty per cent higher than
in Chicago. All is bright in the luture tor
the workers of the Republic, while those in
Europe have no better days" to contem-
plate; they must either toll and mourn to
the bitter end or emigrate. AS the old bal
lad runs:
And the smith complains to the anvils song,
Complains of the years he has toiled and piued
For the priest and the ruler are swift to wrong,
And the mills of God are slow to grind.
But clear. keen voice comes over the sea;
1t is piercing the gloom OF the waning night;
Time was, time is, and time shall be,
When John O the smithy shall come to his
right!
Manufactures were in their infancy even
in EUROPE at the period of Waterloo Q815
To-day the United States stands first Of all
countries of the world; the annual product
of it's factories reaches at least five billions
Of dollars, and fully four million of opera
tives are employed in it's various indus
tries. The product per operative, owing to
the greater skill and intelligence of Ameri-
can artisans, is in the United States ST. $50;
in Britain, 81, 100: France, 81, 100; Germany,
S515; Russia, $3.50.
The Americans are the best-fed people of
the present age, and therefore they are able
to accomplish the greatest amount of best
work. According to Vauban, Bossuet and
Lagrange Nhree names illustrious in war,
religion, and science, respectively, that
country may be considered the most
prosperous in which the inhabitants are
able to have the largest ratio of meat for
their food" The United States consumes
120 pounds of meat per inhaEitant; the
United Kingdom. ITO pounds; France, 66
pounds; Switzerland, 81 pounds; Germany,
As pounds; Scandinavia, As pounds; Russia,
A pounds, and SO on downward to Portu-
gal with 20 pounds per head per year,
Even up to 1859 the United States used at
intervals to import wheat from Europe;
whereas now it produces one-third of the
worlds crop. Facilities for transportation
have SO improved that wheat grown on the
Mississippi is now sold as cheap in Europe
as that raised on the Don Or the Danube,
while fifty years ago the moujiks of the Don
had such abundant crops that wheat was too
cheap TO pay The cost of freight even to the
nearest port
In 1880 and 1881, the mess bill of a Con-
tinental officer shows that he paid for sugar
$14, SIG and SIS pound twist silk $40 per
yard: three brushes and black ball, S95;
d black silk handkerchief SIS: eggs, So per
dozen. When our poStoffce was established
in May, 1894, q single letter cost six cents for
thirty miles over $50 miles twenty five cents
Of our present annual production. about
$4OOO0,000 of silver and S22.0OO0J0 of gold
are available for coinage, the remainder
being used in the arts. From the date of
enactment of our first coinage law, in 1892
to the beginning OF the present year, the
production Of the United States was eigh-
teen hundred and five millions of gold and
eight hundred and fifty millions of silver,
and nine tenths of this total was produced
in the forty years ending December 81 1888.
Our country has SIS in specie per capita
for each one of it's inhabitants.
While money civilizes and is a most
essential factor in the maintenance and adj
vance of civilization, honesty and learning
have never by us, as a nation, been subord-
mated to the love of or acquisition of wealth.
The pioneers whose camp-fires. from
Massachusetts Harbor westward. have
marked the advance line in the conquests
of industry, have been for the most part
men imbued with the spirit of true religion
men who, opposed to the supremacy Of the
church, still recognized it as a necessary
factor in the upbuilding OF successful
commonwealth. and provided generously
for it's growth and conservation. Thus it
was that upon the borders of unconquered
wilds, amid the rudest surroundings, often
prior to civil organization, place for pub
lie worship was established, the minister
most frequently being also teacher to those
who could pursue their studies beyond the
rudimentary knowledge impaired by the
grand women of that day. who found time
IN the midst OF many pressing cares. to
teach their children how to read and write
how to think, and how to live.
Our national idea includes the school as
a matter of course; theIirst rude building
in any new community generally served as
both church and academy. The spirit
which inspired such provision for the