The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-05-12
By Rev. Newell Dwight Hills
copyrighted. 1919. by the Twenty
first Century press-)

1t is easy to make an optimistic state
mcnt as to the condition Of our country
! today. but unfortunately ii is also easy
10 discover many unfavorablc lid
alarming aspects. Arc conditions m
our country improving" The answrd
il. TINT the wheat and iarcs arc growing
| III the same field. and that both wheat
and tarcs arc growing taller and strong
err Good mon and good conditions
arc growing bcttcr---bad mon an down
aspects arc growing Wrosr.
Hopeful Signs.
Our wealth is 2jn billions.
Our annual income this year about 81
billions
Tho average income per American
family is $500 annually.
The avcraE" family in Europe has an
annual income NJ 5000.
Our output of grain. clothing. minerals
equal that of Britain. France and Italy,
with Spain thrown in.
Tho United States has Tho goods ana
Europe wants In buy them.
Tho United States has money. Ind
Europe pays good Interest," 10 borrow.
Our private and government loans 10
Europe. aggregate IS billion dollars.
This years wheat harvest will b" one
billion hushcls--2D0 millions more than
tho fivc-ycar average.
Half OF tho worlds steel is mad" in
the United States.
Tho United States now has ton mil
lion tnns Of merchant ships.
BY the end of 1870 We will have Is
million tons Of merchant ships.
The failure Of government control ~
railways. telephones and tclegraphs has
settled many problems ami cleared Tho
ground for better methods.
The people have learned many things
through war, and most important Of all
have learned To depend upon themselves.
Miltarisn and autocracy are dead
L. -, ,,f &c in Ct ph
1t is difficult Ia max" an argument
against tho incvitahlr prosperity OF tho
United States during. tn" next ton
years.
Dtscouraging Aspects.
Enrland's prr-war dchi has inCrra .st'd
trn Zines: Gcrmany's six and three
quarters times: tustrias five and ono
half times: Rusia's five times: tho debt
If Franco and Italy is three and hair
times larger than it was before The
Tho United States has goods and food
10 buy
Tho high taxes ut homo and abroad
must continue for years Ia como.
The property loss sustained hy Inc
world during the war is 200 billions
!his means an enormous loss of interest
and dividends on capital destroyed.
II tho nations that buy are impovcr-
tshcd our country. that has goods 70
sell. will also suffer.
Tho worlds shortage both of food
and of fuel.
Italy has no coal md England has no
ships Ia carry cnal Ia Italy.
In our own country 100000 idle freight
cars
Unemployment steadily increasing.
with no drop in wages.
Cost Of living cannot fall until wages
como down.
Fifty-ciEht percent Of lahornE mcr:
of foreign birth, and without stake or
tradition and history in our institutions
FolShrrism. communism and anarchy
are being taught tp children by urganiz-
I'd groups of agitatnrS.
Question! The clouds are thirk--will
the sun break through III" clouds?
Question. Given lures in the fields.
will the whcnL choke out the tnrcS
Since il is safer to trust our hopes than
our fears. we find that history tells IFS
that in former years liberty has always
been conquered tyranny. truth has nj
ways conquered error, wrongs have al
ways been destroyed BY right. summer
has always melted snow-drifts. and the
argument is that the clouds will break
ard the victory Of the sced-timc and
harvest be an inevitable victory!