Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-09-02
UNCLE SANS JUBILEE,

uNUIE NAMS JUbllEE
Sixty Years of Growth in the United
States.
GREAT AS ENGLAND IS, THE UNITED
STATES ARE GREATER-IN PopU,
LATIoN, WEALTH, MANUFACTURES
RAILROADS, EDUCATION AND Pro.
pUCTIvE Power THIS COUNTRY
LEADS.
The burden of the Victorian jubilee
song, says the New York World, is the
great growth of Great Britain at home
and abroad during the sixty years Of
Victoria reign.
But, in the language of the Man in
the Street, "there are Others"
Uncle Sans jubilee, for instance,
would be very much more impressive
even than Queen Victoria's.
The British Empire in 1897 includes
a total area of II. 335,s06 Square miles
and a population of 3sO.oOO,o0o using
round figures. While great part of
this vast territory was acquired either
BY conquest treaty or settlement, in
the reigns of Victoria's predecessors,
yet the population and development
thereof have been accomplished mostly
within the past sixty years,
1t is not the number of square miles
that make nation great, but the mum.
Der and the quality of the men to the
miles.
In 1S4l (tbe year of the first Victor.
ian census) the United Kingdom had
100000 inhabitants. In 1891 it had
nearly 100000, 1t appears that the
Queen is ruling today over about H.
O0O,0rO more subjects than she did in
1887.
During the same period the United
Kingdom has sent out about 100000
surplus population one half of whom
have come to the United States.
The actual increase in the number of
the Queens white subjects at home and
abroad appears to have been about 49,
100000. Sir Walter Besant estimates
that, scattered over the whole of the
British Empire. there are now about
100000 people speaking the English
language.
But the growth of the United States
in population has been far greater. In
1910, three years after Victoria became
Queen. the population of the United
States was about 100000. In 1897
the population of the United States,
according to estimates made for the
World by the Governors Of the States
and Territories, was over 100000.
While the people who speak English
under the British flag have been about
doubling themselves, the people who
speak that language under American
flag have multiplied four and one-third
times. Putting it most generously for
our British jubilee friends, We have
been adding to our population twice as
fast as they have tor the past sixty
years.
Passing now to the comparison of
wealth, there are no official figures
available to show what the aggregate
national wealth of the United Kingdom
was in 1887. But there are abundant
later statistics to warrant the state
ment that, great as the growth of Brit.
ish commerce, manufacturers, railroads
and the resulting total production of
wealth has been under Victoria's rule,
the contemporaneou creation of wealth
in the United States has been much
greater.
Editor Stead, in the current Review
of Reviews, says that the wealth of the
United Kingdom has been multiplied
four times since 1887. If he is correct,
its valuation when the Queen was crown
ed must have been about $l2,5OO,OOO,.
600.
The census taken in lS40 showed
that the aggregate wealth Of the United
States was about $4 100000, or an
average Of $4l0 per capita. AS last
computed, by the census Of 1890, the
total wealth of this country is $685..
037O0OO0O. That is just about thirty
three per cent. greater than the COM
puted total Of the wealth of Great Brit
ain.
England's total wealth today is est.
mated by her own famous statistician,
DR.. Robert Giffen, at $50,l75,000 000
So she is behind the United States in
the size of her pile by about fla 000,-
100000. Uncle Sans farm is worth