The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-11-19
CHAMP Ct ARK Tells
OF NATIONS GROWTH
Speaks OF Growth OF This Country
Since 1880 And Compares With
One Hundred Years Hence
REFERS TO WEALTH OF q. s. A.
Says That President Had More Power
Than Any Ruler On The Face
OF The Hearth

IMAM Any Ruler On The Face
OF The Hearth
By Congressman Clyde II. Tavenner.
Washington, November 19-"Ladies
and Gentlemen, the words I have just
spoken constitute the written speech
which gave out in advance to the
newspapers because they wanted It.
Now I am going to say a few things
pertinent to the occasion for my own
satisfaction
Speaker Champ clark was adj
dressing a large audience Of distin-
guished Americans, including Presi-
dent Wilson, on the occasion of the
rededication Of famous old Congress
Hall at Philadelphia, when he paused
and made the above remark. It was
characteristic Of him. Perhaps no
man in public life has such wealth
of statistics and information at his
tongues end as does the Speaker Of
the House of Representatives and he
takes great pleasure in speaking ex-
temporaneously Here are some Of the
things Mr.. Clark said but which he
had no intention of saying when he
arose to speak.
From the smallest beginning we
have risen to a commanding position.
I'm 1900 we had $685. 83 people. In
1910 our population was 1892 66 In
continental American alone, exclusive
OF Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Porta Rico,
the hilippines, and the Canal Zone.
If our population increases at that
rate for the next ITO years in 201O 1t
will number 2,0O0,0OO,OOO souls $780,
100000 more than are supposed to be
on earth today. It makes one think Of
Andrew Carnegie's gorgeous vision Of
THE United States of the World" Not
long since Mr.. Secretary Of Agricul-
ture James Wilson declared in a pub
lie address that if the Mississippi VAL
ley were cultivated for all its worth
on the average one acre would sup
port one human being, which would
give us 1,250,00O,0O0 citizens betwixt
the top of the Alleghenies and the
crest of the Rockies.
in the beginning the ratio for "a
Representative in Congress was 3d.
600; now it is 212, 500. With the first
ratio and our present population the
House of Representatives would con-
sist of 2,7S7 representatives.
I'm 113 years our total wealth null
tiplied 125 fold and is now rated by
statisticians at the enormous sum Of
one hundred and forty billions of dol
lars, which, if equally distributed,
would give $1,312 to every man, wo-
man, and child between the two
oceans. But there's the rub, for while
a few are rich beyond the dream of
avarice, many have not the where
withal to feed and clothe themselves.
am fain to believe that the crown
ing glory of the philosophy, state
craft, humanitarianism, and religion
of the twentieth century will be to
devise scheme whereby every man,
and every woman, too, shall enjoy the
usufruct of his own labor and to pre-
vent one greedy soul from monopoli-
zing the toll and sweat and lives Of
thousands. I say blessed be the name
Of the man forever, without regard
to politics or religion, who establishes
abiding peace between labor and CAPT
tai, which should be friends and not
enemies.
Should our wealth increase for the
next 113 years at the rate Of the last
113, in the year 2O26 it will amount to
seventeen quadrillions five hundred
trillions of dollars, sum so stupen-
dous as to be incomprehensible by the
mathematical powers Of the human
mind.
In 1900 our territory was circum.
scribed by the Atlantic on the east
the Mississippi on the west, the Great
Lakes on the north, and the Floridas
on the south. It did not even touch the
Gulf of Mexico. Now it extends from
the sunrise side of Porto Rico in the
east to the Lord only knows where II
the west.
I'm 1890 we were fourth-ratt
power, a feeble folk of little value ii
the worlds calculations and plans
Now we are in the front rank, ant
there is not an emperor, car, king
prince, potentate, or premier WHIT
does not lie awake Of nights night.
trying to discover what we will d.
next. The President of the Unitet
That's