The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-25
VAST WEALTH OURS
UNITED STATES RICHEST covN.
try ON EARTH.
outetrippjna Anything That Ever Has
Been Known In History Is the
Measure OF Uncle Same
AMluenec. 10y

The United States Is tho wealthicst
country IN tho world. In the brief
span OF its young life this infant ma.
ton of ours has broken all records rc.
lating to the accumulation OF riches.
aud we are beginning to think Of bill.
lions instead of millions. Take II any
way you like, and the measure of our
aiIluencc outstrips anything that has
ever been known before. says the New
York Sun
Our country has more actual money.
more gold, a larger volume of exports,
greater banking facilities. richer
farms, more productive mines, moro
mlllionaircs. more wcll.todo trades
men, more independent farmers. moro
highly paid laborers and greater dis
tribution of the luSuries which riches
bring tlian any other nation has over
enjoyed since time began.
One day last October Uncle Sau,
had gathered into his money store.
house in Washington the greatest
amount of gold ever collected at ono
place in the history of the world
gold representing sS7l ,S93,S9o. This
was indeed high.water mark. We
had tbero In one little room more gold
than was in circulation In Great Dri.
tain.
The largest receipt ever given, the
greatest money trust ever undertaken
in history. was when the present treas.
urcr of the United States, Charles IT.
Treat. went into Office. lie receipts to
ellis Ii. Roberts. the retiring treas.
urer. for all the money aud securities
In the vaults of the treasury. n total
Of ,25?,59s,27s.5S. II required from
July to September ) TO count tho
money. and at the completion of the
task the accounts balanced to a frac-
tion.
The costliest governmental estab.
lishment IN tho world is the British
navy, upon which billion and half
has been expended within tho last ten
years. Yet three individual Amcri-
ans-Rockcfellcr, Carnegie and Clark
could have paid the whole bill and
still have some pocket money left.
The United States is now spending
about hundred millions year on its
navy, and VIC arc new at this kind OF
expenditure. That we are not invest.
ing more than we can afford is shown
by the fact that our display-lovlng
women spent $100,0OO,O0O for dia'
r.onds purchased In foreign lands dur
Ing the last two years. In fact. VIC
are so rich that the sales Of produce
aud manufactured articles that we are
sending abroad each year Is equal 10
"a sum sufficient to support all the
navics In the world.
When II comes in individual wealth
We havo dozen citizens who are
worth moro than all the kings and
rulers of the world, taken collectively
or soverally. The czar OF Russia is
rcputed to have greater income than
any other living man, but his private
fortune Is so mixed up with the gov.
ornmental revenues that IL Is impossi.
bic to separate them. II distinction
could he made John ID. Rockefeller
could undoubtedly make q comparison
with the weak.spined Nicholas, and
show the biggest pile. The Russian
monarch's wealth is the accumulation
of an empire, centuries old in the max.
ing. while the Ohio oil magnatc can
remember when he had nothing.
To say that the total valuation of
the wealth Of the United States is
$107 900 900, 900 is not understandable
A hundred billion dollars IL such n
pile of money that the simple mind
cannot grasp It's meaning on the In.
stant. II is more than twice the total
amount of the wealth of the United
Kingdom, of France. or of Germany;
and over. three times that of Russia
or of Austria-IIungary. Probably tho
best way of illustrating the actual ex.
tent of Uncle Sans riches is to state
that II he could convert all his assets
into money he would have nearly four
times as much as would be required
10 pay off the entire national debt of
oil tho governments In the world, In.
GLIDING his own.
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