Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-03-01
Uncle Sans is the Richest Coun-
try in the World.
IT Is GREAT IN ALL THINGS
Our Count Y Fa More Actu,l Mercy,
h ore Coll and Ficher Farms Than
alY Otter Nation.


brief span of its young life this in
fant nation of ours has lroken all
records relating to the accumulation
of ri"nes and We are beginning to
think in billions instead of millions.
Take IN any way you like, and the
measure of our affluence outstrips
anything that mas ever been known
before.
Our country has more actual
money, more gold, larger volume
Of exports, greater banking facilities,
richer farms, more productive mines,
more railroads, more internal com
merce, more millionaires, more we'll
te-do tradesmen, more independent
farmers, more highly paid laborers
and greater distribution of the
securities which riches bring than
any other nation has enjoyed since
time began.
One day last October Uclen Sam
! ad gathered into his money store
house in Washington the greatest
amount of gold ever collected at one
place IN the history of the world
gold representing $87l,s9s, 500.
This was indeed high water mark.
We Lad there in one little room
F'o II d than was in circulation
Great Britain, that purse proud
mistress of the seas, which boasts
much Of the sun never setting on
hei domains. What thoughts this
statement must have raised in the
mind of the self-opinionated Brlton!
The largest receipt ever given,
the greatest money trust ever under
taken in history was when the pres
eut treasurer of the United States,
Chas. II. Treat, went INTO office.
He receipted to Elias Il. Roberts,
the retiring treasurer, for all the
money and securities in the vaults
of the treasury, a total # l,259,-
59S.27s. So. 1t required from July
to September to count the
~. 11ey, and at the completion OF the
task the accounts balanced to frac.
ton.
The costllest governmental estab-
Hsbment in the world is the British
navy. upon which billion and
half of dollars have been expended
within the past ten years, yet three
Individual Americans, Rockefeller
Carnegie and Clark, could have pait
the whole bill and still have ha(
some money left. The United State
is now spending about 100000 I
year on its navy, and we are new a
this kind of expenditure. The ex
trayagance of it, socAlled, has beel
the subject of much oratory.
When it comes to comparing on
total wealth with that of the oldes
and richest of nations, the measur
n
Of our afluence is so excessive tha
there really isn't any comparison
10 wonder foreigners think tina
money grows on trees in Amerlc'
We have a thousand millionalre'
New ork has more wealthy cit
vans than London, Paris, Berlin an
s. Petersburg combined.
Fully one half of the rallwa
mileage of The world is in the I'M
! o5 States. and we possess one-thir
q ali the worlds banking PoWe
An accurate measurement OF OF
uonetary strength shows that v
are really in class by Ourselve
and in many respects actually a
.nm,pg the proportions Of a worth
rival Of all the rest of ehristendo
.omb,ned. No wonder EaroI
views our growth with alarm an
.,d Ike 10 talk Us INTO 3 VI
with Japan or some other power
,ha hone of having us crippled.
when one remembers how your
"a and that only I