Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-12-22

the text lie hath not dealt 50 with
any nationT
Compare the autumnal report Of har-
vests in America this year and the har-
vests abroad. Last summer | crossed
the continent Of Europe twice, and |
saw no such harvests as are spoken OF
in this statement. Hear 1t, all you men
and women who want everybody TO
have enough to eat and wear | have
to tell you that the corn crop of our
country this year is one Of the four lar
gest crops on record, 100000 900 bush
els. The cotton crop, though smaller
than at some times. will on that ac-
count bring bigger prices. and 50 cot
ton planters of the south are prosper
Gus. The wheatfields have provided
bread enough and to spare. The potato
crop one Of the five largest crops on
record, oil 100000 bushels. Twenty
two million two hundred thousand
swine slain, and yet so many hogs left.
But now | give you the comparative
exports and imports. which tell the sto-
ry of national prosperity as nothing
else can. Excess of exports over i'm
ports, S544, 100000. Now, let all pcss-
mists hide themselves in the dens and
caves Of the earth, while all grateful
souls fill the churches with doxOlogy.
Notice also that while other countries
are at their wits ends as to their
finances this nation has money TO lend.
Germany, we are glad to see you in
Wall street. If you must borrow mon
ey, we have it all ready. How much
will you have? Russia, we also wei
come you into our money markets.
Give us good collateral. Meanwhile.
Denmark. will you please accept our
offer of S3,000,000 for the island Of st.
ThomasY My hearers, there is no ma
ton on earth with such healthy condi-
ton of finances. We wickedly waste
an awful amount of money in this
country, but some one has said it is
easier to manage a surplus than def
icit.
No Sectional Differences.
Besides all this, not disturbance
from St Lawrence river to Key West
or from Highlands of New Jersey to
Golden Horn of the Pacific. Sectional
controversies ended. The north and
the south brought into complete accord
by the Spanish war. which put the
Lees and the Grants on the same side,
Vermonters and GeOrgians in the same
brigade And since our civil war we
are all mixed up. Southern men have
married northern wives. and northern
men have married southern wives, and
your children are half Mississippian
and half New Englander, and to make
another division between the north and
the south possible you would have to
do with your child as Solomon propos-
ed with the child brought before him
for iudgment-divide it with the sword,
giving half to the north and half to the
south. No; there is nothing so hard to
split as cradle. In other lands there
is compulsory marriage of royal fami-
lies, some bright princess compelled to
marry some disagreeable foreign digni-
tary in order to keep the balance of po-
lltical power in Europe, the Ill match
ed pair fighting out on a small scale
that which would have been an inter-
national contest, sometimes the hus-
band having the balance Of power and
sometimes the wife.
Besides this we have In our country
plenty Of room. while the transatlantic
nations are crowded-crowded cities,
crowded governments. crowded learned
institutions; the population crowded,
packed in between the Pyrenees and
the Alps. packed in between the Eng
lish channel and the Adriatic. Yes; on
our continent plenty of room. Eight
million square miles in North America,
and all but one-seventh capable Of rich
cultivation, implying what fertility and
commerce. Four basins pouring their
waters into the Atlantic. Pacific, Arctic
and gulf of Mexico. When | hear a
man expressing the fear that this coun-
try is going to be crowded, | know
right away he has not been to Texas.
France has about 59,000,000 Of people,
but Texas is larger than France. Ger
many about 67OOO,O00 of people, but
Texas is larger than Germany.
Remuneration of Labor.
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