Connecticut western news., 1900-12-20

crop one of the five largest crops on record, 11,00o,000 bushels. Twenty two million two hundred thousand swine slain, and yet so many hogs left!
 But now I 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, $544, 100000. Now, let all pessi- 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 1t 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 $3,000,o00 for the island of St. Thomas?" My hearers, there Is no na- ton on earth with such healthy condi- ton of finances. We wickedly waste an awful amount of money In this Dul SOIut Out buiu IL " easier to manage surplus than a def icit.
 No Sectional Differences.
 Besides all this, not a 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- for judgment-divide 1t with the sword, giving half to the north and half to the south. No; there Is nothing so hard to split as a 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 lisb channel and the Adriatic. Yes; on our continent plenty of room. Eight million square miles in North America, and all but one-seyenth capable of rich cultivation, implying what fertility and commerce. Four basins pouring their waters into the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic and gulf of Mexico. When I hear a man expressing the fear that this coun- try is going to be crowded, I know right away he has not been to Texas. France has about 59,000,0OO of people, but Texas Is larger than France. Ger many about 67,OOO,O00 of people, but Texas is larger than Germany.
 Remuneration of Labor.
 Again, in this international compari- son there is not a land whose wages and salaries are so large for the great mass of the people. In India 4 cents day and find yourself Is good wages, In Ireland in some parts 8 cents day for wages, In England $1 a day, good wages, vast populations not getting as much as that; in other lands 50 cents day and 25 cents day clear on down to starvation and squalor. Look at the great populations coming out of the factories of other lands and accompany them to their homes and see what pri- vations the hardworking classes on the other side of the sea suffer. The labor ing classes in America are 10 per cent better off than those in any other coun- try under the sun-20 per cent, 40 per cent, 50 per cent. The toilers of hand and foot have better homes and better furnished. How much wages do you get?" Is a question have asked in Cal cutta, In St Petersburg, in Berlin, in Stockholm, in London, in Paris, in Auckland, New Zealand; in Sydney, in Samoa, In the Sandwich Islands, so am not talking an abstraction. The stonemasons and carpenters and plumbers and mechanics and artisans of all Kinds in America have finer resi- dences than the majority of profession al men in Europe. You enter the labor CTS house on our side of the sea, and you find upholstery and pictures and instruments of music. His children arc educated at the best schools. His life Is insured, so that in case of sudden de mise his family shall not be homeless. Let all American workmen know that
 while their wages may not be as high
 as they would like to have them Amer
 fca Is the paradise of industry.
 National Honesty.
 Again, there Is no land on earth where the political condition Is so satis-
 factory as in ours. Every two years ir
 the state and every four years In the
 nation we clean house. After vehe.
 ment expression of the people at the ballot box In the autumnal election
 they all seem satisfied, and If they are
 not satisfied at any rate they smile. An Englishman asked me in an English
 rail train this question: How do you people stand 1t In America with revo
 lution every four years? Would 1t no, be better, like us, to have a queen for 8
 lifetime and everything settled" But
 England changes government just as certainly as we do. At some adverse vote in parliament out goes one party
 and In comes another. Administrations change there, but not as advantageous | ly as with us, for there they may change almost any day, while with us | party In power continues in power a, | least four years.
 | It Is said that in our country we have
 more dishonesty in the use of public
 funds than in other lands. The differ
 ence Is that In our country almost ey | cry official has a chance to steal, whil, | in other lands few people absorb st