The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-10-04

maryland should be ignorant of this fact
OF history. connection with the school
men and school teachers of the State. from
1867 to 1881, when was appointed Judge
py GOV. Hamilton, enables me to speak
with knowledge of what remember and
now write. Col. John T. Morris. of Bal
tlmore city, the late Mr. Soper Gather of
Professor of the Baltimore City College.
Professor Newell, the late DR.. NJ. J. Stone
(if alive), DR.. Bryan, of Dorchester. Mr..
Everist, of Cecil, P A. Wilmer, of Wash
ington county, DR.. Bartlett, of Garrett,
Mr.. Thompson, of Queen Anne and MANY
other leading, earnesS and devoted school
men and confirm what I write,) it
conscientious acceptance of the correct
principles of morals and economics, rs they
are brought forward and generally discuss
ed-all these, and other and concomitant
qualities, give good reason for MulhalPs
closing and enthusiastic prediction, as well
as for all the eloquence and pride and con-
fidence of Carnegie
"Our total physical power for use in
driving machinery, for wealth production,
has risen from about 300, 900 foot
tons, daily, in 182O-the equivalent of lift
ing ton 800, ,OOC miles-to nearly ten times
that figure in 1860, and to thirty times
that power in 1895. 1t is seen that it must
become something like forty times as much,
about 15O, ,OOO, ,0OO, 900, in 1900. Human pow
er is seen to be growing slowly, that is in
proportion to population, simply; while
coming in with Watts per-
fection of the engine, at the beginning of
the century, will amount to one-half the
total this year, and aggregate $4,000, 900 in
1900, and 10000, ,OOO, 900 in 1910. Horse
power, steadily growing at moderate rate,
though much faster than population, in
the earlier halfcentury, and greater by far
than steam-power, finally is eclipsed about
1880 by the latter, and, though still rapid
ly and steadily growing, falls far behind at
the end of the century. Steam m-power
measures more accurately, probably, the
ability to accumulate all those comforts
ilization, and it is seen that the trend of
the line is there most rapidly upward. A
glance at the succeeding diagrams will
show the details of this progress and con-
firm our first and fundamental deduction"
The horsepower of all steam engines
to date has come to be about 1900, 900,
will be nearly %, ,OOO, 900 in 1900, and double
that amount in another quarter century
The striking fact, here, is the proportion
in which transportation demands power,
as shown by the sum of the figures for rail-
roads and steamboats,. The curve for sta
tionary engines exhibits the proportion
devoted to manufacturing the articles
transported. In every case the trend of
progress is onward and upward, and with
an accelerating velocity"
Figures and throw some light upon
national habits, policies and capacities.
They show the agricultural productions of
the nations United States, Austria, France,
Germany, Great Britain, Italy.) The
United States 10: Saly produces more grain
and other products than either of the 9TH
er great nations, but, what is vastly more
important, interesting and instructive,
twice as much per worker as even Great
Britain" This is at once proof of the in
genuity of our people in making the natu-
al powers and all machinery do their work,
of the value and marvellous helpfulness of
our patent system, and of the ability of
our people to make their work tell more
effectively in the application of wealth
producing powers to the production of
permanent forms of wealth, where other
nations are compelled to devote their ener-
gies more largely to the production of the
perishable article-food for example. That
nation which can turn its power, mainly
INTO the production of the former kinds of
wealth obviously will, other things equal,
wealth and promote the COM
tort and content of its citizens most rap
dly."
Figures and are even more interest
ng to the economist and to the statesman.
The appropriation of public funds to edu-
;ational purposes is seen to be about three
lines as much in the United States as even
n Great Britain, and five times as much
Is in France and Germany, ten times as
much as in Austria. The expenditure per
;apita is nearly double that of Great Bri-
ain, three and five times that, respective
y of France and Germany, and ten times
hat of Italy. These figures may perhaps
De taken as the natural resultant of the
or, rather, these figures, repre-
sentative of the intelligence of the coun-
ry, in close degree with the freedom of the
nation, and its inventiveness, stimulated
oy both freedom and good system of pat
INT law are the basis of the wonderful
gains already illustrated"
"Figure 10 exhibits the wealth per cdpita,
he national and inevitable consequences
If that ratio of intelligence with this mark
I'd qualitication-the wealth of the United
States is the accumulation of single cen.
ury; that of Great Britain comes of intel
igently directed energies, in commerce
md manufactures, for centuries. Andthe
other European countries have the same
advantage in respect to time only. Accu-
mutations of centuries place these nations
ahead ofthe United States in this aggre-
gate; but the gains are most rapid with our
own country, and we shall soon take the
cad
Our public school system and the COM
ing universally of the policy, on the part
Of the United States, of taking charge of
and literally supporting higher education
Has the Baltimore Sun ever favored this
policy? Have not the Democratic states
nen of Maryland, encouraged by the de-
voted band of school officers, and teachers
throughout the State, since the establish
nent of the Public School System, by the
Democratic statesmen, under the consti-
,ution of 1867, and laws enacted in in pur-
suance thereof-favored, voted and sup
ported by Senator German, and other dis
,inguished democrats in Baltimore city
and every county of the State fostered and