Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-12-22

ing with a fear of acknowledgements, her
capital in possession of foreign nations.
After a review of the condition in other
Lands can YOU find more appropriate ut
terance in regard to our country than the
exclamation Of the text "IIe hath not
dealt So with any nation|'
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 haTvcstS rs are spoken of in this
statement. Hear il, all you men and wonl-
EN- who want everybody to have enough
10 eat and wear. | have to tell you that
the corn crop of our country this year is
one OF the four largest crops on record
=. O1,oo0,000 bushels The cotton crop.
though smaller than at some times, will
ON that account bring bigger prices, and
81 cotton planters of the South are pros.
porous. The whcathelds have provided
bread enough and to spare The potato
crop, one of the five largest crops on rec
ord-2l l 100000 bushels! Twenty-Five
million two hundred thousand swine
SlaAA' and yet so many hogs left
The Story of Prosperity.
But now give you the comparative cx-
ports and imports, which tell the story of
national prosperity as nothing else can.
Excess of exports over imports, $544,
100000, New let all pessimists 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
ftsI As,A
see you in Wall street If YOU must hor-
row money, We have it all ready. How
much will yeu havep Russia, we also
welcome you into our money markets.
Give MS good collateral Meanwhile. Den
mark. will ven please accept our offer of
S3,WO0O0 for the island of st. Thomas?
My hearers, there is no nation on earth
with such healthy condition Of finances.
We wickedly waste an awful amount Of
money in this country, but some one has
said ii is easier TO manage surplus than
4 deficit.
Besides all this. not disturbance from
81. 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. Nermontcrs and Georgians
in the same brigade. And since our Civil
War we are all mixed mp. Southern men
have married Northern wives, and North.
ern men have married Southern wives,
and your children are half Mississippinn
and half New Highlander, and to make
another division between the North and
the South possible you would have to do
with your child as Solomon proposed
with the child brought before him for
iudgment-dividc it with the sword, Civ
ing 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 families,
some bright princess compelled 10 marry
some disagrceablc foreign digntary in
order TO keep the balance Of political pow
or in Europe, the Unmatched pair fight
ing ont on a small scale that which would
have been an international contest. some
times the husband 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 Pyrenecs and the
Alps, packed in between the English
channel and the Adriatc Yes, on our
continent plenty of room. Eight million
square miles in North America and all
but one-scVenth capable of rich cultiya-
ton. implying what fertility and com
mcrcc. Four basins pouring their waters
into the Atlantic, Pacific. Arctic and gulf
! Of Mexico. When / hear Il man express
ing the fear that this country is going to
be crowded, | know right away he has
| not been in Texas. France has about
30, 100000 of people. but Texas is larger
than France: Germany about G7.OOO,OOO
Of people, but Texas is larger than Ger
many.
The Question of Wages.
Again, in this international comparison
there il not a land whose wages and sal.
aries are 50 large for the great mass Of
the people. In India I cents day and
find yourself is good wages; in Ireland. in
some parts. : cents "A day for wages: in
England, 81 q day, good wages. vast pop
ulations not getting a much as that. in
other lands, 30 cents q day and - cents
squalor. Look at the great populations
coming out Of the factoric. Of other
lands and accompany them 10 their homes
and see what privationS the hard-work-
ing classes on the other side Of the sea
suffer. Tho laboring classes in America
are 10 per cent better off than those IN
any other country under the sun, 20 per
cent, 40 per cent, 10 per cent. The toll
erS Of hand and foot have better homes
and better furnished. How much wages
do you gctF' is question have asked
in Calcutta, in ST. Petersburg. in Berlin,
III Stockholm, in London, in Paris. in
Auckland, New Zealand; in Sydney. Aus
traia, in Samoa in the Sandwich Isl
ands, so | am not talking an abstraction.
The stone masons and carpenters and
plumbers and mechanics and artisans Of
all kinds in America have finer resi-
denccs than the majority Of the profcs-
sional men in Europe. You enter the
labOrcr's house on our side Of the sea
and you find upholstery and pictures and
instruments Of music His children are