Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-17
OUR MARVELLOUS GROWTH

n M you awake 10 the greatness Ol tllS CHllSu
~ States? You and | and our neghbors have
been numbered and we reach the enormous
total of ,972,266 the American continent alone
Including the lands that now enjoy government
under the Stars and Stripes we are nation of
104000000.
The figures just announced by Director Durand
would stagger any people other than the Ameri-
cans, but we who live amid the making of this
der are prone to merely say "Of course. But
when you come to compare it with the progress
of other nations and of other days the marvel of
our national achievement grows
Iust to think that New York city today con-
tans more people than there were in the whole
United States when John Adams inaugurated
president. New York is only an instance in the
growth of America, and every Angeleno is proud
of the fact that Los Angeles was the real pace
maker in growth during the last decade with its in
crease of more than 200 per cent. The growth has
been wonderful everywhere, and the Old South in
its fifteen slave states now has as great popula-
ton there in the entire country at the time
of Abraham Lncoln's first election.
Compared with the great nations of continental
Europe, Russia with her approximately 100000,000
is the only one in the same rank. The German
empire comes next with 64,000,O00. Austria-Hun-
gary with 48O0O000, Great Britain and ireland
numbering 100000, the French republic with
100000 and 100000 in Italy. Of the Asiatic
nations China claims 4000O0000 and Japan has
49OOOOOO.
America is not only great in population but the
first in wealth among all the nations of the earth.
1t is estimated that the census figures of American
wealth will show anywhere from $l250000000O0
to $130000O00000, or more than twice that of our
two nearest rivals, the United Kingdom and Ger
many.
America is greatest in wealth because it is the
greatest producing nation in the world 1t is esti-
mated that the farm products of America for this
year will amount to at least $l0O00QO0,000 The
entire available gold supply of the world above
ground does not equal S15,O0OO00O00 and that in
cudes all the boards in the national treasures and
the banks all that is in use for personal adornment
and the arts, even down to the wedding ring your
wife wears. This means that when the American
farmer goes to market with his products the world
has to pay him two-hfths of the worlds entire sup
ply of money metal or its equivalent.
Besides that the Americans have caught the
knac of producing the things the rest of the world
has to have. and while all of it does not appear on
the surface in the list of American exports the peo
pie of every nation paying royalties to Ameri-
can genius on almost every household necessity
and in every line of manufacture.
Proof that America is just starting to grow in
greatness is to be seen on every hand and esPe-
cally right here in this land of the eternal sun,
where the groundwork has only been started for
the most prosperous section of the American en-
pire and with the influx of power from the Owens
river acqueduct and the many manufactures it will
start here Los Angeles has the opportunity to SUR
pass the records of the last decade There is build
ing room here for a city twice the size OF London
between the mountains and the sea- and all the ad-
vantages of climate, transportation and soil that
make this an ideal homeland.