The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-08-21
of wool, 50, 900, 900 pounds of poultry

lumber, $500, 900 railroad ties, 4, OeG coo
feet of piling, 1000, 900 pounds OF
pickles, 25, 900, 900 pounds of canned
goods, and 1000, 900 pounds Of hides.
This year her corn crop will reach
| $50, 0S2, 600 bushels, her wheat 20, 000,r
| 600 bushels, her oat crop 40, 600, 600
| bushels, her hay 4, 200, 600 tons. her cot
ton 90, ZOO, 600 pounds, her tobacco TO-
OOO, 900 pounds, her faxsed $50, 900 BUSH
| els, her potatoes 10, 600, 600 bushels, and
her fruit crop is worth $50, 900. 600; her
dairy product, not counting what is
consumed by her own people, is worth
| ovcr 81. 900. 00G. AID to these her truck
patches, her Vineyards, together with
the output of her factories, her mills,
her mines, her quarries, her forests
and her streams, and it will strain the
powers of 4 lightning calculator to
cipher out the value of her annual
wealth.
If as carefully and scientifically
cultivated as Holland. she could feed
all the inhabitants of this republic and
have a surplus over. Not only does
she excel in quantity but in quality.
She produces cotton equal to the best
raised in the gulf states, wheat equal
to North Dakota, wool equal to Ohio or
Pennsylvania, silk enual to New Jer-
sey or France, apples equal to New
York or Arkansas, corr equal to Ne
braska or Kansas, peaches equal to
Iowa or Illinois, blue grass equal to
Kentucky or West Virginia, hemp and
flax equal to Indiana or Minnesota,
mint equal to New York or old Vir-
ginia. lumber equal to Michigan or
Georgia, pumpkins equal to Massachus-
etts, tobacco equal to Connecticut, and
in mules she overtops 'tall the nations
of the earth and all the rest of crea-
tion," to borrow a rather sweeping
statement from President Taylor's mes
sage. Col. Luke Emerson, one of my
constituents, is now shipping mules tc
Sou tn Africa.
The time will come when beets
raised in Missouri soil will produce
more than enough sugar to supply all
Missourians.
Uncle Bob Spaulding, up in Rails
county, is successfully p~ropagating
oysters, and has successfully demon
strated that Missouri can produce her
quantum %suticit of hal delightful BIZ
valve.
She has more coal, lead, zinc and
onyx than any other state in the Union.
Her timber supply is well-nigh mex
haustible, including poplar, pine,
cedar, walnut, wild cherry, hack berry,
gum, sycamore, bois dare and every
species of oak from the pigny black
jack to the stately burr oak.
There is enough water power going
to waste in this state TO run every spin
die, wheel, loom mill and electric plant
between the two oceans.
Her granite. marble, building stones
and glass sands would enrich a score OF
such states as New Hampshire and Yer.
mon.
Not to be outdone in anything, they
have discovered gold in two counties in
my district, Montgomery and st.
Charles. If some enterprising seeker
after wealth does not find a diamond
field somewhere in the state l shall die
sorely disappointed.
If we haven't goldfish, we have cat
fish, which are better; if we haven't
shad, we have crappie; if we haven't
bluetish, we have trout; if we haven't
tarpon, we have carp; if we haven't
mackerel, we have perch; if we haven't
terrapin, We have frogs; if we haven't
canvasback ducks, we have mallard
ducks and wild geese; if we haven't
clans, we have 'possum-and 'possum
and sweet potatoes make q dish ft to
set before a king-if we haven't
oranges, we have venison; if we haven't
soft-shelled crab, we have the finest
mutton that ever delighted the hui
man palate; if we haven't rice birds,
have pheasants, quail, prairie chicken,
jack snipe, bronze turkey and yellow
legged chickens; if we haven't bear
meat, we have beef, which beats it hol-
low; if we haven't moose and elk, we
have the gentle and ~multifariouS hog,
which is vastly superior as a steady
diet; if we haven't sardines, we have
rabbits galore; if we haven't edible
birds nest, we have squirrels, gray,
black, fox and red; if we haven't the
banana. we have its first cousin, the
luscious pawpaw; if we haven't the al
mond, we have the tOothsome pecan;
if we haven't the pineapple, we nave
the persimmon; in short, if we haven't
some of the things to eat that some.
body somewhere has, we have more to
eat than anybody anywhere has.
Political parties may come and GO,
all sorts of empires may try all sorts
of experiments on the body polite:
pseudo statesmen may produce panics
terrible in their results; sordid greed
may by legislation levy heavy black.
mail on the Mississippi valley until the
iniquity cries to Heaven for redress,
but one thing cock sure. SO long as
summer and winter, seedtime and har-
vest do not fail, the denizens of Mis-
souri, can not starve to death.
4
1t is no small honor that st. Louis
withstood the fierce shock Of the awful
panic of 1898 without a culver. Other
great cities were FRUSTRATED in the dust
and their business well-nigh suspend.
ed. But in the City of the Iron Crown
not a bank failed, not, a wholesale
house made an assignment in those evil
days, and she emerged from the storm
with the reputation of being the
most solid city on the continent. She
is fippantly called Old Fogy by certain