Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-12-20

crossed the cOntiEt Oh Europe Twice,
and | saw no SUI haryests as are
spoken OF in this clement. Hear IL,
all you men and Iomen who want
everybody to havefough to eat and
wear. | have toal you that the
corn crop of our csitry this year is
one OF the four laret crops on record
-2.105. 200, 900 busfsl The cotton
crop, though smar than at some
times, will on that ncount bring big
ger prices. and 50 rtton planters OF
the south are prosplous. The wheat
fields have providedfead enough and
TO spare. The pota crop, one OF the
five largest crops necord-2ll 900, 900
bushels! Twenty%o million two
hundred thousand sine slain, and yet
SO many hogs left.
The story ofrrosperity.
But now | give yo the comparative
exports and import which tell the
story OF national pDsperity as moth
ing else can. Exces of exports over
imports, 1914. 400, 900 Now let all pes
simists hide themsv-s in the dens
and caves of the cart, while all CRATE
full souls fill the ehrches with dox-
ology. Notice also hat while other
countries are at thei wits ends as to
their finances this ption has money
to lend Germany, W are glad to see
you in Wall street I YOU must bor-
row money, we have all ready. How
much will you have? Russia, we also
welcome you into ouImoney markets.
Give us good collateal, Meanwhile,
Denmark, will you 'Iease accept our
offer of 100000 forthe island OF st.
Thomas? My hearers there is no ma
tion on earth with sch healthy con-
dition of finances. w wickedly waste
an awful amount OF money in this
country, but some or has said 1t is
easier to manage a surplus than a
deficit.
Besides all this, nc a disturbance
from st. Lawrence river to Key West
or from Highlands OF New Jersey 70
Golden Horn of the Plcific. Sectional
controversies ended. The north and
south brought into complete accord by
the Spanish war, whith put the Lees
and the Grants on the same side, Ver-
monters and Georgiars 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 halt Mississippiar
and half New Highlander, and to make
another division between the nortf
and the south possible you would have
to do with your child as Solomon
proposed with the child brought be
fore him for judgment-diyide it Will
the sword, giving half to the north anC
half to the south No, there is moth
ing so hard to split as cradle. Ii
other lands there is compulsory mar
riage Of royal families, some brigh
princess compelled to marry some dis
agreeable foreign dignitary in order Il
keep the balance of political power IL
Europe, the Unmatched pair fightin,
out on small scale that which woull
-A-s.k
SOMETIMES the husband having ti ss Ell
ance Of power and sometimes the wife
The Question or Wages.
Again, in this international compar
ison there is not a land whose wage
and salaries are so large for the grea
mass OF the people. In India four cent
a day and find yourself is good wages
in Ireland, in some parts, eight cent
day for wages; in England, 81 a da.
good wages, vast populations not get
ting as much as that; in other lands
so cents a day and % cents a day
clear on down to starvation am
tions coming out of the factories o
other lands and accompany them {,
their homes and see what privation
the hard working classes on the othe
side of the sea suffer. The laborin,
classes in America are 10 per cent bet
ter off than those in any other coun
try under the sun, 20 per cent, 40 pc
cent, so per cent The toilers of hant
and foot have better homes and bette
furnished. How much wages do yo,
get?" is a question | have asked il
Calcutta, in st. Petersburg in Berlin
in Stockholm, in London, in Paris, ii
Auckland, New Zealand; in Sydney
Australia, in Samoa. in the Sandwich
Islands, so | am not talking an alb
straction. The stone masons and car
penters and plumbers and mechanic
and artisans Of all kinds in Americ.
have finer residences than the major
ity of the professional men in Europe
You enter the laborer's house on on
side of the sea and you find upholstcr.
and pictures and instruments OF music
His children are educated at the bes
schools His life is insured, SO that ii
case OF sudden demise his family shall
not be homeless. Let all America
workingmen knew that while thei
wages may not be as high as the
would like to have them. America !
the paradise OF industry.
Expenses OF Government.
1t is said that in our country W
have more dishonesty in the use @
public funds than in other lands. TIL
difference is that in our country al
most every official has chance {