Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1915-01-01
l Hail the
New Year Says
Uncle Sam

Minneapolis Journa)
am Uncle Sam. Today, as the year draws apace to
its close am minded to boast.
Not in vain-gory and arrogance, but with due thank
funess that indeed strengthened to boast For am
at peace with all the world though half the world has gded
up its lons and has gone forth with its resultant de-
vastation and DEATH
And fain would boast also that at peace with
ourselves oday-foryeght great in great union
strong and indssouabe with one territory Alaska
aar, and district where Columbia national
goddess holds her imperial Beyond the have
lands never possessed Porto Rico and
many-islaned Philippines Hawaii and Panama and Samoa
and little Guam dot in the undermining Pacific where
cables land their under the neither
side of the world boast of all these and their 10000 OO0
population inhabiting the 100000 additional square miles,
maintain an argosy of 10000 sail and 600 of ships
that the north and SOUTH and In all
do they total eoooooo Of tons And these are but small
totals 20000000 of in ships for my work. and other
lands almost as much
Turn now to boast again the domain wherein my
l0o00o000 dwell 1t is raversed by 253033 miles of rail
way full third of all that girdes the globe. boast the
$20000000,000 that they call their capital boast the
10000 miles of telegraph wires that flash their talk to all
my people from uttermos to uttemost end OF all my vast
hafcontnent All the world has but 775oooo miles of
wire so fifth of the length of the whole And
it my people send their 900 messages each twelve
month More than 5000 telephones used by these
people, which numbers than other land
that is the face of the earth.
Content not alone with these latteday facilities for
communication my peoples postal mails the greatest in
the world In the span of single year do they transmit
mong each other 8500000000 screeds and parcels and
papers for which the cost is $262OOO,OOO
My 1000 national banks hold within their vaults
within their call wealth that totals $l0 0OO000 And
other banks and companies of finance add than $5OO0
900 mighty beyond the finite brain of
to comprehend
Fully | 900 900 souls do place their money in my
banks They their deposits today at 100000
far greater than the boarded wealth OF OF earth
Kingdoms In my postal banks for savings more than
OOO the garnerngs of but three have pride
in my banks and those who save therein!
Left still the gigantic amount Of 81 35708 0OO
900 of coal OF this mine 600 600 tons each
My petroleum fields give forth 9328,75556 gallons in the
same time Of all the minerals that rank high demand
lack supply approaching my needs in only n nickel and
platinum My silver and my gold known to all the world
for have boased them since those great days of 49, OF
these alone took from the bowels of the earth the that
past$88 600 in yellow precious metal of silver min
ed $40000000 more.
In the space of sing year garnered more than 3OOO
100000 bushels of yellow far priceless than gold
ofentimes My wheat brings $579 100000 every
year, and my $425,000,000 grow $l0,00000O in
buekheet and potaoss humble though they
gather cut $lo5,oooooo in lumber house souls
and for those who need housings produce in hay not
quite 55000000 tons and brings the who harvest it
the of $784 4926,000 boast my hay, second
only unto my corn in value among things edible.
Now of my do boast and glorify for in all
the world does approach Eight and nine hundred
reach the astounding value of 81 00000000 is
10000 600 bales and than 5000 600 pounds OF
this 600 pounds goes other lands there be
into useful cloths And $51 100000 goes
broad in things already perfected in my looms.
But these naught the baser which total
$1,000 600 time the earth spins round the
its yearly course.
praise the barnyard hen She lays year enough eggs
to the interest the national debt which ST. O48
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am Uncle Sam. | am great; am forceful; am young
number but 39 years age yet surpass many things