The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-01
AMERICA, NOT VICTORIA.
WAS UNCLE SAM WHO IMPRESSED
FOREIGNERS AT THE JUBILEE.
Yankee MilIiOnaires spent Money,
dows-SOme Comparisons of sixty
Years Progress-Unhnppy Ireland.
A Frenchman's observations.

n GEehchinau's Observations.
From lie Figaro.
1t has been spectacle Of extreme inter
est to watch the taking possession Of the
great days Of the queens jubilee by pha-
| lanx of American archmillionaires, the
| descendants of poor colonists in the Brit
ish possessions. kings from beyond the
sea, magi from the west, who assembled
to offer their presents 10 their gracious
cousin, the queen of the seas, to lavish
feasts and entertainments on her royal
family and on her subjects, About thirty
OF them appeared, with fortunes amount
| ing, when added together, to $500, 900 900, or
four billion francs; Cornelius Vanderbilt.
king Of railroads, and his brother George
representing between them 800, 600 900; Car
nogie, king of oil, $4,000 900; Flagler, one
Of the kings of oil, S50OO00; Chauncey
Depew, president of the Vanderbilt rail-
roads, orator, statesman, the most con-
| spicuous person in the United StatesI
George Gould, brother of the Comtesse de
| Castellane, $25,0OO000; Levi Morton and
| Whitelaw Reid, both former ambassadors
to France, the former $40 900, the lat
ter 100000; Mrs. Bradley Martin, who
| save t4e idAlOuS costume Ddil at Nut ftOlel
| waldorf last spring, 100000, and others
whose names are less known in France;
| finally, William Waldorf Aston, whose
| $z0e.WO,OOO, as every one knows, have had
| their principal abode in England for four
| years past.
To receive these majestes the English
! aristocracy has made arrangements on a
grand scale; it has offered them it's own
palaces; it has shown so broad hospital
! ity that Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Goelet, to
| cite only one case, considered that they
were not paying too dearly for it at the
rate of $1,000 for a two months stay at
| Wimborne house. The English gentry
| however, had taken their measures early
They had for a long time past made use
OF the advertising columns of American
newspapers to announce that they had on
the route of the jubilee procession houses
suites and windows to let at prices never
before known. Without haggling over its
little profits with the British arstocracy
the American princes paid in advance
whatever it asked, and, not to be deficient
IN politeness, gave 10 it in it's own homes
an unbroken succession of banquets and
festivals.
The Prince of Wales, comprehending
that in the eyes of the Anglo-American
aristocracy any entertainment without
his presence would lack distinction. ac-
cepted In the most gracious manner every
| invitation coming from these noble demo-
Gratis. Her gracious majestys more re-
cent subjects were the first to add to the
splendor Of her jubilee. Consuelo Wander
bilt. Duchess of Marlborough decorated
with the new Victorian order; William
Waldorf Astor, always on the lookout for
unpublished wonders, which by keeping
the attention of the court on the alert
steadily bring him closer TO the steps
or the throne on which he aims to sit
have thrown open their castles and Nalaces
fO a II bp % 81
day could hold the attention, while those
newly landed from, America strove with
them in rivalry to turn dollars into pounds
sterling to the sound of fddles
IL was an original and by no means un-
pleasant manoeuvre to shout into John
BulIs ears; This is what we are; this
IS what has become of your colonies in
Brother Jonathan's hands; what would
have become of them in your own? VIII
you let us compare Uncle Sans Jubilee
with her majesty's? Would you like to
run over our accounts with us? 1t is all
the better for us that they are sixty years
behindhand; the length of the period will
bring out more clearly how much greater
is our share of the profits in the inven-
tory"
The first census of Victoria's reign was
taken in 1871; the United Kingdom had
then a population of N,0O0000. The census
of 1891 gave $4,000, 900 and in addition about
JfV0VstlV bfillSH SUBJECTS VINO ndu emlgfd-
ted, half of whom went to the United
States. The Increase of population is sixty
years has therefore been about 10000, 900
souls.
In 1910 the United States had 100000
citizens, in 1897 they number 100000,
an increase in sixty-one years of $1,000, 900.
/ on this first point, consequently, the re-
public has an immense advantage over the
| United Kingdom.
When the queen came to the throne the
| total wealth Of England was estimated at
! $1,000, 10000; 1t was four times that in
1895 call it $4,000 100000 In 1870 the fig
/ ures given for the wealth of America was
$i0O0,Oo0O00; in 1897 they rose TO $4,000 O00,-
600; that is, they had increased eighteen
/ fold. The increase of wealth has there
| fore been four times more rapid in Ameri-
| ca than in England, If we take the period
| of sixty days as a basis: but as the in
crease in America was $49.00OOO0,000 be-
| tween 1860 and 1890 It is clear that In the
last thirty years the Americans seven
/ league boots have well distanced the Brit
| isher's giant strides.
The exports and imports of England
amount to-day to 50. 500, 10000; they were
$500 10000 i'm 1897. The foreign trade OF the
! United States is no more than 81 ,5O9O0O,OO0,
| but as In 1887 Il was only S20O,O0000O the
American may console himself for his in
feriority by considering that the ratio
/ of increase of his commerce in compari-
son with that OF England is as to 5.
In railroads Uncle Sam easily triumphs.
| He has 1900 miles of track to England's
| 2l000. A fine system indeed, and one OF
which he may well be proud; but II would
! be wrong OF him 10 taunt the United
Kingdom with not having such an extern
/ sive one. If Il did there would be so many
means Of communication In England
| Scotland and Ireland that there would be
| room for nothing else. Perfdious Albion
would languish for her mlsdeeds In cage
| OF iron.
Between 1881 and 1897 the value Of Eng
| ish manufactures has only doubled, while
| between 1850 and 1890 but forty years,
| American manufactures have increased
| from 81 900 000 600 20 5000, 0000 600. Accord
/ ing to Mr.. Mulhail the statlstician. the
productive energy OF the United States is
/ equal TO that OF England Germany and
/ France combined: an American farm pro-
| duccs as much corn as three English
| farms. As regards education. 81 per cent.
~ American children can read and write,
ana Mr.. Mulhall points out that hitherto
| In the history OF humanity no nation has
had 81 per cent. OF It's citizens having re-
| coiVed instruction. While England spends