The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1894-06-23
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with the United States.

COmpa ra BILE i'm True Greatness
with the United States.
The following is an extract taken
from Senator Jones great speech de-
ivered in the United States Senate
last October, in support of silver and
against the repeal of the purchasing
clause of the Sherman law.
Those who point to the greatness of
European countries, and advise us to
follow their example, forget the great
ness of the country of which they are
citizens. Distance lends enchantment
to the view. When they say they
want the "money of the world, they
mean the little world of Great Britain.
They ignore the far greater world of
tho United States. They fail to note
some facts to which I will invite their
attention, few of which find noted
in an interesting work entitled Our
Country, by DIR. Josiah Strong.
Our Republic would make sixty
States each as large as England and
Wales combined; or thirty one States
as large as Italy, or eighteen as large
as Spain. Take FIVE of the first-class
powers of Europe, namely, Great Bri-
tain, Germany, Austria, France, and
Italy; to those add Spain, Portugal,
Switzerland, Denmark and Greece,
weld them all into one mighty empire,
and you could lay it down in the Unit
ed States first time, second time,
and third time, and then have room
to spare.
Lay Texas alone on the face of Eu-
rope, and this giant, his head resting
on the mountains of Norway, one
hand covering London, and the other
Warsaw, would stretch himself down
over the Kingdom of Denmark, through
the empires of Germany and Austria,
across Northern Italy, and dip his feet
in the Mediterranean. Dakota might
be carved into half dozen kingdoms
as large as Greece. Place the TO-
900, 900 inhabitants of the United
States all in Texas, and the popula-
tion would not then be SO dense az
that of of Germany. Put them in
Dakota, and it would not be SO dense
as that of England and Wales.
In all that constitutes the funda-
mental basis of the highest develop
ment of a people, our soil and climate
have been favored by nature. We can
produce everything necessary to the
sustenance and comfort of mankind.
Even such articles as nature inhibits
in our country, no gold-standard coun-
try can supply to us. Senators should
bear that fact in mind. Our own re-
sources are equal to everything ex-
cept the products of distinctively trop-
ical countries, and those are silver
standard countries.
Above all, we have iron and coal in
inexhaustible supply. Iron is mined
in twenty three of our States.
In the work of storing away those
elements-the twin bases of enduring
power-nature remembered the des-
tiny to which she had appointed this
Republic, and gave it many times more
than all the other countries of the
world combined.
It was the discovery of coal and iron
in adjacent fields that first gave Great
Britain the vantage gronnd in manu-
factures. We have infinitely more
coal and iron, and Great Britain has
yielded to us that vantage ground.
The dominion of manufactures, which
the gold standard was expected to
maintain for Great Britain to the end
of time, has been wrested from her.
Our Republic is yet young. Our peo-
pie are alert, energetic, and aspiring,
and do not propose, after century of
independence, to pay tribute to any