Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-01-20
marshal of Alaska to $4,000; one ap-
propriating $4,000 for the Charleston
exposition.
America. Material Greatness.
Globe Democrat.)

European statistical ANIMALS, as
well as newspapers. are giving much
space these days to the United States.
tensions. One Of the latest Of these
exhibits, the London Daily Nails
Year Book for 1902. has q series of ta-
bles which show the particulars in
which the United States leads the
world. In the mater of wealth, &C.
cording to that authority. this coun-
try has a long lead over England.
which stands second on the list, and
which stood first until compare
lively recent date. The lead. indeed.
is greater than these figures show.
for the wealth Of the United States is
larger than is here given. Reduced
to terms Of American money, the
wealth of this country in 1900 in the
London statistical publication is put
at $4,000, 100000, while the United
Kingdoms is $4,000, ,0O0. 900. Frances
is $4S,000,0 ,000.0 900, Germany is placed
at $4,000, 100000. and Russia's sum
total of wealth is stated to be $32, ,0O0.-
100000. The estimate for the Unit
low. From the preliminary ngures
which have been furnished from the
national capital it appears certain
that the aggregate value of this coun-
try's property in 1900 will be placed
by the census authorities in their fin
al figures above the $4,000, 900 900
mark instead of the $4,000. 900, 900
given in the London publication.
In the proportion of national debts
to national wealth the United States
of course, makes an even better show
ing than it does in the item of wealth
alone. While the ratio of debt to
wealth. as given by the London Mails
Year Book, is IA per cent in the
United States, it is 6 per cent in the
United Kingdom. 81 per cent in Ger
many, Ill per cent in Russia, and
1913 per cent in France. The real
ratio, so far as regards the United
States, would be even better than
this, for this country's wealth, as be-
figure given by the London annual.
That publications. figures of pig
iron production, which are for 1900,
are more nearly correct. and they
show, as in other particulars, a long
lead for this country. The figures
are, 13, 3s9, ,242 tons for. the United
States, 8,9OS,570 for the United King
dom. S,494,852 for Germany, $685.
494 for France. and 1921 900 for Rus
sia. In steel production the United
States preponderance is greater than
it is in pig iron, its steel output in
1900, 100000 tons in round figures.
being more than double the produc-
tion OF the United Kingdom and of
Germany and more than five times
that of France or Russia. The fig
ures for these countries for 1902
when they are gathered few months
hence, will undoubtedly reveal still
greater lead for the United States.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, speak.
ing in the house of commons in 1894,
told his countrymen to turgn their
eyes toward the United States, lob.
serve her trade and her manufactures
adding daily to her general credit,
to her future enjoyments and her pub
lie resources. her name and govern
ment rising above the nations of Eu-
rope with sipmel dignity that
wins at once the respect and the con-
dence and the affections of the
world. Sheridan's prophecy of a
little over a century ago has become
history. At that time the popula.
tion of the United States was only a
little over 100000 as compared with
nearly S0,000,00O for the contiguous
part of the country today. Its pop.
ulation has increased not far from 20
| times since then, its wealth more
than hundred times. and it's bust.
| ness activities have grown in a still
greater ratio. The growth In the
country's moral influence has surpass.
ed even the expectations of that far
seeing British statesman. Her Wish.
es are deferred to by England, Ger
many and the rest Of Europe in re-
gard to the affairs of the western hem
| isphere. Her word and example In
the Chinese episode of 1900 had a de.
cisive effect on the fortunes of that
most ancient of the earth's nations
Thomas Pownal, who had been one OF
England's colonial governors on this
side Of the Atlantic few years ear.
lier, and who was then a member OF
the house Of commons, said In 1880
in his Memorial to the Sovereigns
of Europe" that the United States
had become a new primary planet in
the earth's political system, which
while 1t takes its own course. must ex
ert an effect upon the orbit of every
other planet, and shift the common
center of gravity of the whole system
of the European world" Pownal's
prophecy, scoffed at then. is more
than verified today.