The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-26
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We 10 FEAR 4
/ Elem ents OF Strength of the Most
Prosperous Country the World
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tons in 1897 to $4,000, 200. tons in 1903
what have we to fear?
With. a country whose resources
are vast enough to take care OF D.
292,9S9 immig grants in the fourteen
years, 1890 to 1903, what have veto
fear?
With a country able to undertake,
as a matter of course, the construc-
ton of a canal to cost s2o0,ooo,o00 or
more, what have ,ve to fear?
With only one of our many inland
waterways, the 500 Canal, showing
b double as much American internal
water tonnage as all the nterna-
national tonnage passing through the
Suez Canal, what have we to fear?
With but one railroad (Pennsylva-
MAI measuring 1000 miles of our
$4,000 total railroad mileage, carrying
more freight each year than all tnat
enters the ports Of Liverpool ana
London, what have we to fear?
With exports increased from S1,O52-
100000 in 1897 to $1,392,ooo,o 900 IN
1903, an increase of nearly one mil
: lion dollars each day of the year. sun
days and holidays included, what
have we to fear?
With imports increasing from SG64,-
600, 900 in 1897 to s1,025,O 100000 IN
1908, an increase Of S3G1 900, what
have We to fear?
With an internal commerce of S21.-
100000 900, SURPRISING the external
commerce of all the nations OF the
world, what have we to fear?
With mineral resources producing
over 81 ,2GO .OOo,0 900 in 1902, as just as
certained by our Geological Survey,
an increase of STA 100000 or 1902 per
cent, over 1901, what have we to
fear??
With 1S,0OOOOO pupils in our
schools, representing. every class and
condition of society, and with up-to-
date school methods, what have we to
fear?
With a payment yearly in salaries
to our school teachers of s140,000.O00
or more for school teaching than it
costs to run our gigantic Government,
what have we to fear?
With our 2 per cent. Government
bonds selling at a higher price than
EngIand's 2 LIZ per cents, what have
we to fear?
With people enough to consume SS,-
OOO,O00,OOO worth of food products
yearly, and with the food, and
large surplus available for export,
what have we to fear?
With decreasing public debt and
permanently and largely reduced
interest BILL what have we to fear?
p,,f1 and
a permanently and largely reduced
interest bill. what have we to fear?
With all our matured debts paid
and hundreds Of millions of gold dol
lars in the bank what have We to
fear?
With tropical possessions able to
eventually produce s40O,o0O,0O0 worth
of tropical products which we now an
nual1y buy, what have we to fear?
With cotton fields in the South
which control the raw cotton markets
of the world, what have we TO fear?
With a coal production greater than
that OF any country in the world. what
have we to fear?
With more actual gold in our Treas
ury than was ever before possessed
by any one nation at one tlme since
time began. what have we to fear?
With a people daily becoming more
alive to the necessity of rehabiltating
our ocean marine, what have we TO
fear?
With a navy and army second to
none in anything except size, and with
a people ready to enlist by hundreds
of thousands when duty calls, what
have we to fear?
With 100000 factories, 100000 fac
tory workers and lone market of So
100000 people free from the competi-
ton of cheap foreign labor what have
we to fear?
With farms worth $4,000, 000,OOO'
and yearly product worth nearly 81
O00,000000, what have we to fear?
3 With our diplomacy successful at
every turn, with our dollar good in ev-
cry market of the world. with no en-
tangling foreign alliances, with our
national conscience void of ofenSe
toward God and man." with a people
strong in purpose and ambition, with
the energy born of a short but heroic
past, and with our flag honored wher-
ever it waves. what have we to fear?