Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-13

UfNulllt N1UulH AAutlli dllNf anu llllos WITH
the great overflow Of our people to that
country, means that they viii become a
part Of the world dominated by our
ideas and the spirit Of our civilization"
THE CANADA OF THE FUTURE.
"How abou. Canada, Mr.. Speaker"
Canada Is already almost a part OF
the United states. II may remain still
tied 10 England in a nominal way, but
as time goes on all will become Amerl-
can in sympathy and more and more
American I'm population and industry.
Canada is one of the growing countries
Of this time | look for an enormous
emigration there from the United
States. IL is a land OF vast undeyel-
opod resources, whleh are to be opened
up by om people
THE UNITED STATES ABROAD.
Il suppose that the future Of the
United States viii be confined TO this
continent said J.
Eyes, to q great extent" said Mr..
Cannon, but we are now world ma,
ton and we are reaching out I'm every
direction and across every sea. The
earth IS old but II Is hardly touched as
far as modern development Is con-
cerned, There are vast areas Of new
country I'm South America; Africa is
still an unknown continent, and so IL
almost the whole Of northern Asia. The
world Is said TO have /, 500 600 600 people.
There Is room upon II for double that
number, and many parts Of 1t Will sup
port 10 which now support one
Then you do not believe In the NAL
thusian theory?"
mo. It will be a long time before
wars or pestilences will be needed to re,
strict the worlds population"
THE GREATEST FACTORY ON
EARTH
Il suppose you look upon the United
States as pretty well filled now?'
Not at all We have only SO,0OO,OOO
and by intensive cultivation we cOcld
support 10 times that number 1t -
said that Texas alone could feed the
United states. And then our mineral
resources. The country has not been
scratched end we do not know what
we have under the soil. We are already
the greatest manufacturing nation OF
the world. producing more than Ger
many, France and England, our three
greatest competitors, We send only
3 per cent Of what we make abroad.
but that per cent forms 20 per cent
Of our exports, and we are now the
greatest exporting nation on earth. In
deed. we make one-fourth Of all the
factory goods made by the world
"The basis Of our manufactures Is our
home market, Continued the speaker. Il
want to see this protected In every
possible way, for it is the foundation
of our prosperity and Of our enormous
possibilities There Is no market like
this. We have more wants than any
other people, and spend more money
10 satisfy them, We consume three
times as much per capita as the people
Of Europe, our eighty millions I'm that
respect are equal to any other two
hundred millions. We are equal as con-
sumers to two-thirds OF all the people
of Europe, This market We must keen
TO ourselves, and the tariff must be so
adjusted that there will be no danger
Of losing IT,"
GREAT FORTUNES AND THEIR
DANGERS.
"I know we are rich Mr.. Speaker, But
are we not growing too rich? Are you
not alarmed at the growth Of the great
American fortunes?'
M Most Of our great fortunes have
come from small beginnings They are
the result OF the brains and industry
Of the men who own them, and when
their owners die they win soon disap-
pear | know many of the multi-mil.
liouaires OF today.
Take Marshall Field. when | first
saw him he was a boy clerking I'm a
store He is worth many millions now.
John Rockefeller who started life poor,
is said to be worth hundreds OF millions
and the same Is true OF Andrew Car
neQie and Others When those mon d.
a.. Npllup Ktftth
thcm. Naked came they into the world
and naked they shall depart from Il.
That fact exists today as 1t did in the
time Of the Scriptures"
Yes said T. but the fortunes still
remain IN the families"
mot long" replied Mr.. Cannon, TT
IL an old saying that II is Just three
generations from shirt sleeves TO shirt
slccves. II is impossible 10 tie up for
tunes 80 that they will remain long In
the hands Of ones descendants You
may remember the case Of old Thule
son. who died about 200 years ago That
man was enormously rich for his day
and he wllled his fortune so that II
should be kept intact, and invested and
re-nvested for generations. and nj the
end divided among his heirs. His win
was contested again and again, but IN
vain The result Of It was that the
English parliament made a law that
no man could dispose OF his property
for longer than the lives Of his descen-
dnnts I'm being. and for q years there
after. That law has been adopted by
nearly every other country, IL is a
part OF the laws Of every one OF our
states.
TAXES FOR THE RICH.
"Such things however are, after all.
I'm the hands OF the people, continued
the Speaker. 1T Is they who make
the laws regulating the accumulation
and continuance Of wealth. I'm many
Of our states there are now inheritance
taxes graded according to the size OF