Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-06-28
RECORD BREAKING PROSPERITY.

snow unprecedented uBuTeS. On Jne
other hand, failures, both in number
and amount of liabilities, while they
may not be the lowest, will, all things
considered, make a most favorable
showing.
But better than anything we have
mentioned is the fact that the number
of people employed and the amount of
wages received, in spite of the many
strikes by which thousands have vol
UNFAIRLY became idle and millions have
been lost in wages, will be far in eX-
cess of any previous time in our his
tory. Never have so many been en-
ployed. never were such high wages
Known as in this year of our Lord;
1901. The income and earnings of the
people of the United States were never
so great as today, ..s~
This is because we are working for
ourselves and not hiring foreign labor
ers to do our work for lis. In some
way or other we spend all we earn.
Our whole income is spent in some way
or other purchasing the necessities and
luxuries of life. Even the money
saved and put in the bank is loaned to
others who use it for construction,
building and other purposes.
1t may be 100000, 100000 or $4,000
O00,0 900 or $50, ,O00, 600, 900 or even more.
1t is almost incalcuable, but it makes
home market of such vastness as to
render our foreign market insignif-
cant in comparison. We might or
might not increase our foreign sales by
few hundred millions, by practically
giving them the means with which to
buy of us, but in so doing we would in
crease the value of our home market
by billions.
We must not lose sight of that fact
an instant in our desire to capture more
foreign buyers. We are, as it is, in
creasing our foreign sales every year
and at more rapid rate than any 9TH
er country. We are beating Free
Trade England, and without sacrific-
ing any part of our home market. This
is Protection; this is Prosperity; this
is McKinieyism; this is Amercanism.
Our desre to sell even more abroad is
most laudable, but it must not be at
the expense of a single American in
dustry or a single American working
man. And while we are looking all
over the world for new buyers, we
should not lose sight of the fact that
there is new market right at our
doors to the value of at least $1,000,-
100000 year to be found and retained
We are importing nearly S50000O, 900
worth of commodities that can be pro-
duced at home, and the production of
these commodities would give us an
increased purchasing power to the eX-
tent of nearly as much more. Our own
market, under the present conditions,
is increasing at the rate of at least ST.
900 100000 annually. The whole world
is looking at it, and using every means
possible to get it. All we have to do
is to keep it. And if we want to trade
let us make good and profitable trade,
not a bad one. Let us not trade two
bladed jackknife for single-bladed
one of doubtful keenness. Let us trade
a surplus of what we possess for some
thing we cannot make or produce our
selves. Let us keep the Yankee game
as well as the Yankee name. We need
have no fear that those foreign boys
will unite in holding us up. They
don't dare, And they have no idea of
trying it. Uncle Sam raises too many
things tina they have got to have, and
today Uncle Sam is not afraid of all
the rest of the world combined. They
must have our cotton and our corn
and our wheat, and they want our
sand and one things that they have
learned are better made and more eff
cienL and more durable and conse-
quently in the end cheaper than they
can buy anywhere else 1t is all a
peaceful warfare, and our great indus
trial army was never so well equipped,
never so eager for the fray, never so
prepared to fight the world. There are
a few Hessians and traitors, but they
are not the workers and fighters. They
loiter in the camps and would spread
dissension in the ranks, but the leaders
and army are too loyal. They have
been deceived once too often, and the
days of 81 and '94 are in the minds OF
all
No, let us stick to our guns, and
make each year record breaking year
and let the records be those of peace
of enlightenment, of comfort and con
tentment, as well as of plenty and pros
perity.