St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-01-19
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dering with a fear Of dismemberment,
her capital in possession of foreign ma
tions. After a review Of the condition
in other lands can you find more ap.
propriate .utterance in regard TO our
country than the exclamation Of the
text: "He hath not dealt 70 with any
nation?" .H@ Ffas't =. ~.FS
Compare the autumnal report Of har-
vests in America this year and the har-
vests abroad. Last summer I crossed
the continent Of Europe twice, and ]
saw no such harvests as are spoken OF
in this statement. Hear it, all you men
and women who want every body to
have enough. to cal. and wear. Ihavet6
tell you that the corn crop Of our coun-
try this year is one Of the four largest
crops on record-2, ,1o5 OoQ. zoo bushels!
The cotton crop, though smaller than
at some times. will on that account
bring bigger prices, and so cotton plant
ers of the south are prosperous. The
wheatfields have provided bread enough
and to spare. The. potato crop, one Of
the five largest crops on record-211.-
000, 900 bushels! Twenty-Five million
two hundred thousand swine slain,
and yet sd many hogs left! -. :
But now give you the comparative
exports and imports, which tell the
story of national prosperity as moth
ing else can. Excess of exports over
imports, $544, 40O. .Oc0. Now let all pes
simists hide themselves in the dens
and caves of the earth, while all CRATE
full souls fill the churches with doxol-
ogy. 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. II you must borrow
money, we have it all ready. How
much will you have? Russia, we also
welcome you into our money markets.
Give US good collateral. Meanwhile,
Denmark, will you please accept our.
offer of 100000 for the island of ST.
Thomas? My hearers, there is no ma
tion on earth with such healthy condi-
tion of finances. We wickedly waste
an awful amount of money in this coun-
try, but some one has said it is,easier
to manage a surplus than deficit.
Besides this, we have in our country
plenty of room, while the trans Allan.
tic nations are crowded-crowded
cities, crowded governments, crowded
learned institutions; the population
crowded, packed in between the Pyre-
.nees and the Alps, packed IN between
the English channel and the Adriatie.
Yes, on our continent plenty of room:
Eight million square miles in North
America and all but one-seventh capa-
BILE of rich cultivation. implying what
fertility and commerce! Four basins
pouring their waters into the Atlantic.
Pacific, Arctic and Gulf of Mexico!
When hear man expressing the fear
that this country is going to be crowd
ed, I know right away he has not been
in Texas. France has about 59.cO0. COO
of people, but Texas is larger than
France; Germany about 67,0OO, 900 of
people, but Texas is larger than Ger
many u4 aG as+t fs~t'.sts 4
Again, in this international compare
SON there is not land whose wages
and salaries are so large for the great
mass of the people. In India four cents
day and find yourself is good wages;
in Ireland, in some parts, eight cents
a day for wages; in England. one dollar
a day. goodwages, vast populations not
getting as much as that; in other lands,
so cents day and IS 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 privations the. .hard-working
classes on the other side of the sea
suffer. The laboring classes in Amer
lea are ten, per cent. better on than
those in any other country under the
sum- 90 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 q
question I have asked in Calcutta, in
St. Petersburg. in Berlin, in Stock
holm, in London, in Paris, in Auckland,
New. Zealand; in Sydney. Australia;
in Samoa, in the Sandwich islands. so
I 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 the pro-
fessional men in Europe. You enter
the laborer's house on our side of the
sea and you find upholstery and pic
lures 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
workmen know that while their wages
may not be as high as they would like
to have them America is the paradise
of industry. .
Again. there is no land on earth
where the political condition is so sat-
isfactory as in ours. Every two years
in the state and every four years in the
nation we clean house. After a ve-
hement 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 it in America with q revo-.
luton every four years? Would II not
be better, like us, to have queen for a
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. Administra-
tions change there, but not rs advan-
tageo,sly as with Us, for there they
may change almost any day. while with
ms a party in power continues in power
at least four years. -t.,
It is said; that in our country we.
hive more dishonesty. in the use of
public funds than in other lands. The
difference is that in. our country al
most every officer has chance to
steal, while in other lands few peo-
pie absorb so much that the others
have No. chance at appropriation. The