El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-12-15

- have a lonE spoon
In the great fight for the food OF
today the devil is the kaiser and
Uncle sam has one Of the CHIEF seats
~ the table He has a score Of spoons
on each side his plate. and some
Of them are exceedingly long. In my
letters about the great American in
dustries I have shown how many Of
them surpass those OF the kaiser, and
the spoon write Of today Is the
longest Of all refer to the corn
c-op. II is vital factor in our fight
with the Germans In the shape Of
grain. flour, money and meat. IL is
filling our banks. our warehouses
and the ship which are crossing the
ocean loaded with food Tor our allies
in Europe. There IS nothing ike 1t
on the face Of the globe. Tt is the
greatest crop Of all time and all ma
tons, and upon u today are founded
our hopes for the future
Have you any idea what the corn
grown In the United States this year
VIII amount to- I have before me the
latest estimates Of the agricultural
department From its statisticians,
scattered throughout every corn rails
ing section Of the Union, It has fig
ured up the possibilities Tt estimates
the amount at just about 100000. -
oNu OuSlE4H- ana YOU cannot DuE
pHsnel OF Il auET here Tor less than
$40 The average price November
was Sl-46 per bushel. The total value
OF the crop is more than 81 zoe 000. %
600 II Il were turned into gold
eagles. worth $40 each. there would
hs 2oo,00o,000 OF them. so many that
If the Wandering Jew. who is sup
posed 70 live forever. had sat down
before a pile Of such gold pieces 100
years before the pilgrims landed on
Plymouth Rock and counted gold
piece 10 the minute from then until
now, he would be still on the Job
worth -Four Times the Public Debt.
The sum IS so great that before the
war began 81 would have paid our
public debt four times over II is so
great that It viii pay the interest on
any debt We are likely TO incur. At
; percent IL would equal the dividends
on more than $4,000. 200. 0O0. The crOu
this year Is equal in value to all the
money we had in circulation in 1916.
II IS equal TO more than half the value
OF al OUT farm animals and TO more
fhan that Of all the manufactures
We exported last year.
Better Than All The Gold Mines
Looking upon our corn fields as
one great gold mine, We shall get
out OF them in q single year more
than IS times as much a all the nrec-
1ouS metals We have taken from Alas
IA since We bought that country Of
tt@ rLNslal-s- ~ g Slal get so tunes
as much as all the gold mined in the
United States within the past 70
months and thrice as much as all the
gold taken out Of South Africa since
me precious metal vas discovered al
Johannesburg many years ago. The
Ia Is more Jnan elEht times as
sIFa- as en- the gold and silver
product or the whole earth I'm any
ono year since the world began.
moreover We shall have just as much
rom the same mine next year. and
TOT every year during the ages 70
come rms gold mine rencws itself.
l-'-.t me widow cruise ~ Is always
Il-- ana u 50 ll feed the United States
10 'n- enc o. time
il nov look a-aln NJ the ruaE1i-
Yt tAe tI1l ana CONSIDER the
----il- mass OF 1000 tHlis OF Whicl
is made. Il single Eraiu OF corn
~ iH me EARN oxen yields more
1-- -Y-" loiu- nave raised ma0E an
-i '-. l-+ farm IN lrzilra 81 hlc1 had
3Fe t-ai goo kernels on the cob. and
49, NAG TWO .r three ears on %
s-.-5le STOCK me T0lume OF the corn
.-l COMP r-leasln1- To say
q. .te--@-i eN more than $500. H1U.-
'.Sl--s OF SnelIed corn gives no
oL us linl' el.5it,
'@-"H r1ilh -round the " orld.
Sc what th- figures mean. let
- --lg s'l. upon wagons We
-'-- t lu-.i'-- or more Than
--' -ii -'-..A wagon such load would
'-9----- -lF t"o nOrSeS- We shall
TO -'ad l+e, whole crop and shall
- y-r process on eastward. put
95 Iue noses or the horses at the
~ tle wagons in front
~ lheIn- allottln- 10 each team 40
LT=- on Lne roadway. How far away
90 you lnlnE the first wagon would
~ when the last wagon was moving
suppose We start al The 9rfsefszf-,7{
river. would il he in pfffe-,T,,--- - *
other side OF fha Ohio NJ ~ -
ton on The coast ~ ~ -. ~
Supnose ne ~C7,r5 - - -. --- W.
uroT1id r. bs - - L-e ocean
II p "leFe our al my is fight
--g II france No The caravan
- -or- a. oEs ollu LnaL II would
E--let-Q on ana on across Russia. It
Hputu reach over Siberia. across the
EeclIlc ocean and come pack TO the
MISSISSIPPI valley where 10 started.
EFen then the train would hava
hardly begun. and not one ryre1ris+t
Of the crop would vet ha,-s 49,,
loaded. The train OF wavor= --o,,TJ
ra7rF7 NOV +rs- ea6 M. E--9 80
ciar+ - - - -----'a- sum
zbras-t II - ----S % lea!lS' -yt
80 - NeS rum Elllduel-
sCc = 4e5-i tl-----s-Y- 10 "oulQ Lill
---llCIl4i ltlsn VI Us with solid corn
Hs could orllse the skies and
staTL ne crop toward the moon we
snoulo nave double row Of teams
each carrying a ton Of shp11ad corn
reaching from the earth TO than dead
planet and $50 600 miles Ha--1-5 Il
we could load Il On rsrs a. 1000 f---y-
els 10 the c4- M t-g=,- ,,-.,-r.7 .----
The sIobe az +s-- --.-.-.- - 9. '-iI
r1f1es y. go csc t-el oi WIN many
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III.