The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-22

all you men and women who want
everybody to have enough to eat and
wear / have 70 tell you that the
corn CROP Of our country this year is
oHe Of the four largest crops on record
-, ,1o50oo,000 bushelsi The cotton
crop. though smaller than at some
times. viii on that account bring big
ger prices and SO cotton planters OF
the south are prosperous. The wheat
fields have provided bread enough and
to spare. The potato crop, one Of the
fve largest cropson record-2i1, 900. 900
bushelsl Twenty-Five million two
hundred thousand swine slain, and yet
50 many hogs left
The Story OF Prosperity.
But now 1 give you the comparative
exports and imports. which tell the
story Of national prosperity as moth
ing else can. Excess Of exports over
imports. s544. 400. 900. Now let all pes-
simists hide themselves in the dens
and caves Of the earth, while all CRATE
ful souls I'll the churches with dox-
ology 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 bor-
row money. we have 1t all ready. How
much viii you have? Russia, we also
welcome you into our money markets.
Give us good collateral Meanwhile.
Denmark, win you please accept our
offer Of 100000 for the island Of St.
Thomas? Ny hearers. there Is no na-
tion on earth with such healthy con-
dition Of finances. We wickedly waste
an awful amount Of money in this
country. but some one has said 1t Is
easier to manage a surplus than a
deficit.
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
south brought into complete accord by
the Spanish war. which put the Lees
and the Grants on the same side, Ver-
monters 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
proposed with the child brought be-
fore him for judgment-diyide It with
the sword, giving half to the north and
half to the south No. there Is moth
Ing so hard to split as a cradle. In
other lands there is compulsory mar
riage Of royal families, some bright
princess compelled 10 marry some dis
agreeable foreign dignitary in order to
keep the balance Of political power in
Europe. the ill-matched pair fghtlng
out on a small scale that which would
have been an International contest,
sometimes the husband having the ball
ance OF power and sometimes the wife.
The Question Of Wages.
Again. in this international compar-
ison there is not a land whose wages
and salaries are so large for the great
mass Of the people. In India four cents
a day and find yourself is good wages;
in ireland. in some parts, eight cents
a day for wages; in England, 81 a day
good wages, vast populations not get
ting as much as that; In other lands,
80 cents a day and Is cents day.
clear OF down to starvation and
squalOg Look at the great popula-
tions coming out OF the factories Of
other lands and accompany them to
their homes and see what privations
the Woodworking classes on the other
side OF the sea suffer. The laboring
in America are 10 per cent bet
ter of than those In any other coun-
try under the sun. 20 per cent, 40 per
cent. so 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
Calcutta. in st. Petersburg. in Berlin.
in Stockholm. in London. in Paris. in
Auckland. New Zealand. in Sydney.
Australia. in Samoa, in the Sandwich
Islands. so I am not talking an alb
stractiOn. The stone masons and car
penters and plumbers and mechanics
and artisans Of all kinds In America
have finer residences than the major
ity Of the professional men in Europe.
You enter the laborer's house on our
side Of the sea and you find upholstery
and pictures and instruments Of music.
His children are educated at the best
schools His life is insured. SO that in
case Of sudden demise his family shall
not be homeless. Let all American
knew that while their
wages may not be as high as they
would like to have them. America Is
the paradise Of industry.
Expenses Of Government.
II Is said that in our country we
haSs more dishonesty In the use of
public funds than il other lands. The
difference is that 10 our country al
most every Official has a chance to
steal. while in other lands a few peo-
pie ABSORB SO much that the others
have no chance at appropriation The
reason they do not steal is because