The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04
AMERICA, NOT VICTORIA
1T WAS UNCLE SAM WHO IMPRESSED
FOREIGNERS AT THE JUBILEE.
Yankees Spent Money, While British
isons OF Sixty Years Progress.

great DAYS of the Queens jubilee by a
phalanx of American archmillionaires, the
descendants of poor colonists in the British
possessions, kings from beyond the sea,
magi from the West, who assembled TO
offer their presents TO 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 ap-
peared, with fortunes amounting. when
added together, TO $500, 600, 900, or four bill
lion francs; Cornelius Vanderbilt. king of
railroads. and his brother George repre-
senting between them 5000. 600, 900; Carnegie,
king of iron, $4,000, 900, Flagler, enc of the
kings of oil. 49, 600, 600; Chauncey Depew,
president of the Vanderbilt railroads, ora
tor, statesman, the most conspicuous per-
son in the United States; George Gould,
brother of the Comtesse de Castellane, $685.
000,00 Levi Morton and Whitelaw Reid,
both former ambassadors to France, the
former 5000 900. the latter $4,000. 900; Mrs.
Bradley-Martin, who gave the famous cos
tune ball at the Hotel Waldorf last spring,
$40, 900, OGO, and others whose names are less
known in France; finally, William Waldorf
Aston. whose $500, 900, 900. as every one
knows, have had their principal abode in
England for four years past.
To receive these majesties the English
aristocracy has made arrangements on a
grand scale; it has offered them its own
palaces; it has shown so broad a hospitality
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
$500 for a two months stay at VIM
borne House. The English gentry, how
ever, had taken their measures early. They
had for a long time past made use of the
advertising columns of American news
papers 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 aristocracy
the American princes paid in advance
whatever it asked. and not to be deficient
in poEteneSs gave to 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 arts
tocracy any entertainment without his
presence would lack distinctions accepted
In the most gracious manner every inVi-
tation coming from these noble democrats.
Her gracious Majesty's more recent sub
jects were the first to add to the splendor
of her jubilee. Consuelo Vanderbilt, Ouch
ess of Marlborough, decorated with the
new Victorian order; William Waldorf AS
tor, always on the lookout for unpub-
lished wonders, which by keeping the at
tention of the court on the alert steadily
bring him closer to the steps of the throne
on Wn1cn he aims 10 SIT, nave thrown open
their castles and palaces to all the fairy
spectacles, that night and 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 fiddleS.
1t was an original and by no means un-
pleasant maneuver to shout into John Bulls
ears: This is what. We are; this IS what
has become of your colonies in Brother
JCnathan's hands; would have become
of them in your own? VIII you let us COM
pare Uncle Sans jubilee with her Majes-
tvs? Would you like to run over our ac-
counts with us? 1t is all the better for us
length of the period will bring out more
clearly how much greater is our share of
the profits in the inventory"
The first census of ViCtoria's reign was
taken in 1871; the United Kingdom had then
a population of 1000, 900. The census of
1891 gave 5000 coo. and in addition about
grated, half of whom went to the United
States. The increase of population in sixty
years has therefore been about 10000, 900
souls.
In 1910 the United States had II, 1000, 900 citi-
Zens, in 1897 they number "A, 600, 900, an in
crease in sixty-one years of 1000, 600. On
this first point, consequently, the Republic
has an immense advantage over the United
Kingdom.
When the Queen came to the throne the
total wealth of England was estimated at
$12. 500, 900, 600; it was four times that in 1897;
call it $50, 900, 600, 900. In 1910 the figures given
for the wealth of America were 81, 000,0 900, 900;
in 1897 they rose to SIS 600. O0O, 900; that is,
they had Increased eighteen fold. The in
crease of wealth therefore has been four
times more rapid in America than in Eng
land, if we take the period of sixty years
as a basis; but as the increase in America
was $40, 0G0, 000, 900 between 1860 and 1890. it
is clear that in the last thirty years the
Americans seven-league boots nave we'll
distanced the Britisher's giant strides.
The exports and imports of England
500, 600, 900 in 1887. The foreign trade of the
United States is no more than 81, 800, 100000,
American may console himself for his in
feriOrity by considering that the ratio of
increase of his in comparison
with that of England is as Z to 5.
In railroads Uncle Sam easily triumphs.
He has IA, 000 miles of track to England's
21,000. A fine system, indeed, and one of
be wrong of him to taunt the United King
dom with not having such an extensive one.
If it did there would be so many means of
communication in England, Scotland and
Ireland that there would be room for moth
ing else. Perfdious Albion would anguish
for her misdeeds in a cage of iron.
Between 1897 and 1897 the value of English
manufacturers has only doubled, while be-
tween 1850 and 1899. but forty years, Amer
lean manufactures have increased from
$1,000, 900, 600 to $1,000. 0OO,O 900. According to
Mir Mulhall, the statistician, the productive
energy of the United States is equal to that
of England, Germany and France COM
bined; an American farm produces as much
corn as three English farms. AS regards
education, 81 per cent. of American children
can read ana write, ana Mr.. MulnaH points
out that hitherto in the history of humani-
ty no nation has had fl per cent. of its citi-
zens having received instruction. While
England spends only $3.50 a head for public
instruction, the United States spends $40
a head for that object. Uncle Sam can
smile s~erenely and without jealousy at the
demonstrations for the royal jubilee, for,
says he, IF John Bull has grown pretty
well in sixty years, / nave shot up a hum
bred cubits in the same time" That is
why he has sent thirty of his millionaires
to celebrate amid the jubilee festivities the
jubilee Of the British colonies. grown fabu-
lousy rich through independence.
While this manifestation of the pros
perity of free America was being made,
Irishmen, freed from the British yoke by
funeral services in their churches. where
the pulpits ~resounded with violent impreca-
tions on this reign of sixty years. of whose
benefits the Irish nation alone among the
British possessions has not been allowed
to taste. While Canada. Australia and so
flag waves enjoy the prosperity enherent
to self government, Ireland still groans un-
der a rule that has produced famine, con-
f|iscation and depOpulatiOn. Ireland might
have rejoiced. might ave had a CLEAN of
hope for better times, if a general amnesty
so many patriots are suffering torture, but
such an amnesty formed no part of the
jubilee programme. American Ireland,
therefore. hoisted as q mark of sorrow the
paraded through the streets Uncle Sans
banner, whose stars have set free the harp
and the blackthorn.
KerL<au Defeats Mclaughlin.
NEW YORK. Aug. 3.-The second of the
series of six billiard games between Hugo
Kerkau. champion of Germany. and Ed