Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1917-06-28


100000 are stored In railway cars.
warehouses, freight platforms, with
enormous quantities piled on the
ground and covered with tarpaullns
These American goods have been sold
to Russia, but we have no ships for
their transportation. Meanwhile Rus.
sia declines to pay for the goods until
they are delivered Daily these goods
are deterlorating In value, and the log.
lcal result would seem to be bank
ruptcy for the American owners. hut
this instance is typical Once we had
black slavery upon the land, and
now American merchants and manu-.
facturers are white slaves toward the
sea. For years our country has been
drained OF billions of dollars paid to
foreign shipbuilders, foreign shipown.
ers and sailors, but now with this nc.
ton OF congress and the letting Of con.
tracts for thousand wooden ships, a
little fleet that can later be strength.
ened by steel fleets, the day OF our
T'hAh' liHNl'H Nlul We Ut uNuu.
Our Former Prosperity Upon tho Land.
Wise men always try to forecast
the future God gave men minds
with which 10 think. Consider that
the prosperity OF the United States
hitherto has been based upon agrI.
culture aud manufacturing Wonder.
ful the progress or our nation by
reason OF Its farm land, mines, herds
and locks, but for the last hvo years
II has been Increasingly evident that
tho agricultural era and the indus
trial era must be Immediately supple
mented by the development Of our
shipping TO avoid financial distress
and Industrial peril, II we call the
T9ll o, tbT c9uSss q our prosperity,
through which the country has accn.
mulatcd over 10000 100000 OF prop.
erty, we shall find that the era OF eI.
pansion really began with the dscov.
cry OF gold In California. Gold Is now
and always has been n powerful ton.
ic to the financial and Industrial heart
II Is the one medium ~ exchange
that In every country and cline viii
buy arl control every Kind Of labor
Literally hundreds Of millions NJ dol.
lars N gold was found with lhi1
treasure men stood before the factory.
the shop. the mine. the fell. the mill.
offering 90 buy their prulurts Fac.
tories doubled IN Size. Mills ran day
and night Towns Quadrup'cd their
population The uu''cl State, entered
upon a new Industrial era
Second Force the Discovery Of Steel
Then new impulse toward wealth
and industrial expansion was usher.
ed IN by the announcement % a proc.
css for making steel rrlor 20 $50
ours was uu era ~ cast iron or very
inferior steel one day young Eng
li>hman named Henry Hcs,cmcr con
cciycd the idea u mixing bis iron
coke and limestone and pumping Jets
" cold air through the mixture, thus.
through tie excess ~ oxygen burn.
INK up all the impurities soon he
was pouring on liquid stream NJ the
finest steel That simple discovery
made east iron. worth $50 ton On
lN1 take ou value NJ $500 ton
II brought rs Inventor title and
million pounds sterling An American
engineer brought the news Of the
process 10 this country
Tn. Opening Up OF the Grea, West
The close ~ the civil war brought
another new impulse 10 American
prosperity through the homestead
law. Offering 100 acres ~ land To each
soldier aud sailor AZ ore time or an
other It * believed that three fourths
Of the Union soldiers spent more or
less time I'm the great northwest
Within ten years they settled the great
states Of Kansas Nebraska. Minucso
ia, North and South Dakota Long
lines ~ covered wagons crossed the
Mississippi river New railways We're
projected The trip to California 10y
the iSthmus NJ Panama was cNpcu
siye and pcrllous Stanford. Hunting
ton, Croker and Hopkins conceived
the idea ~ building railroad over the
top " the Rocky mountains ~ Cali
fornia. The whole northwest became
a vast granary. OVERLOOKING with treas
urc Just n Egypt was once the bread
pantry Tor Rome. So the west began 10
furnish the loavcs for hungry Europe
Tools Further Increased the Prosperity.
Then the providence NJ God sent
new impulse unto our people II seem
cd aS II his spirit that had once hap
tizcd tongues at rcntccost had hap
tied tools To redeem the people from
drudgcry aud increase their prosperity
In 1910 men cut their wheat with
scythc, IN 1850 with mower. IN $500
with reaper, that lcft the wheat IN
piles for the five binders; in 1870 with !
a self binder, that tied the golden
grain with hemp string hut 10y 1910 !
the inventors brought In combined !
that clipped OF the heads Of
wheat In the Oregon fields, carried the
heads IN cloth apron into tiny
tarashcr, poured tie wheat In golden
river into the sacks " grain aud loft |
II ready for the mill Another tool
was invented Tor the Touring mills.
Not less wonderful the work " the |
looms to cluthc ufnn against the chill |
Of the winter.
How remarkable the rcdcmptlve