The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-02-11

American history has been 4 lesson
as well as an inspiration to me. New
England made the New South posi-
bic. just as Egypt, Assyria. Babylon
and Persia made Greece and Rome pos
sible. The north and the east have the
lakes, the grit and the money; the two
extremes OF the Union each has an
ocean; and the middle and the southern
states have the great rivers which flow
southwark TO the gulf OF Mexico. The
Mississippi basin Is the heart OF the
continent and the Eranary OF the ma
ton, and 1t will some day be the most
popuious portion OF the republic, and
Its shipping will all be across thisgreat
quiz
The wealth OF our country. Mr..
Chairman. Is already becoming coloss-
al: BIZ. rs tt has only been the reward
Of industry and enterprise, II cannot
demora!ize its possessors. The field of
gain is so vast ard varied that the
mass OF our common citizens have
shared it3 abundance. Our prosperity Is
not accidental. 1t is not merely
phase OF the remarkable development
OF a remarkable age. On the contrary,
Il Is simply the outgrowth Of the enter
prise, genius and plack OF our people,
The Yankee is 4 snapper, and he nevc:
fails Ito get In his work" We OF the
south, move more slowly, but We move
With steady step. The people, % the
north have conferred unnumbcred ben
Gifts upon the nation. as well as receiv-
ell them They have strongly influence
ed American development, as well as
were themselves Influenced by 1t. This
was not by begstting .aatagonism, but
by laying broader base for the ma
ton they were attempting TO build up.
They liberallGel the whole country by
thci.. broad. progressive idcas, tenden-
scies and sympa;hies. The one, there
fore, vito abuses the people OF the
north. is narrow, bigoted and prejudic-
cd. trust that am broad enough TO
be just 10 the people OF all sections. My
fellow citizens declare 10 sou To-
daF that I am neither for Paul nor APP
pollos, nor for Cephus, but am for my
country. now and forever one and in
ce?arable,
The latest accessible reports show
the annual production In the republic
OF two and oae-quarter billion bushels
OF corn, four hundred and thirty mil
lion bushels OF wheat, over seven nun
dred million bushels OF oats, seventy
million bushels OF barley. twenty-five
million bushels OF rye, fifteen million
bushels of buckwheat. one hundred and
thirty million pounds OF rice, eight hun
drel million pounds of sugar. two hiln-
drcd and seventy-ilvc million pounds Of
wool, upwards OF four hundred million
pounds OF tobacco, about seven and
one-uuarter million bales OF cotton. NJ
teen million horses, three million mules.
,f0rty-ei9ht and one-quarter million cat
tie. forty-threc million hogs, forty mil
lion sheep, sixty million tons OF hay,
and over seven million dollars worth OF
oranges: and who will undertake. TO say
that the bulk OF these vast products
does not come from the western, the
southern ana the middle states? I.op
OF Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indiana and IL
l!.iois. and you will find tho coal bed OF
the continent buried beneath southern
soil. In the two Nlrglnias. Kentucky,
Tennessee, Maryland and Alabama. the
coal acreage Is greatly IN exccss or the
5foa" middle coal states. which I have
mentioned. They are nearer 10 o large
Part Of the west and all OK the south
west l:ian the coal fields of the middle
or central states. and are nearer to tide
water on the east and south, also,