Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-09-11
WHY AMERICA IS
so THY
(From The London Daily Mail, June
%, 1924.)

Agitators demanding vast public
expenditure on their pet projects fire.
quently tell us that England is "rol-
ling in wealth." that it is "the rich
est country in the world" That was
perhaps, true decades ago, but mat
tiers are very different now. England
is poor, very poor, if compared with
the United States.
wealthy. Attic they possess only
about one-twentieth of the population
of the world, they have half the
worlds wealth and have more than
half the worlrs COLL, lannon's, pears
and precious stones of every kind.
The true wealth of a nation can
best be measured by the condition of
the masses. The prosperity of the
American workers is almost unbe-
lievable. More or less unskilled men,
such as carriers, milkn1en, builders
laborers, ETC.. earn ASS per day. Vast
numbers of skillet workers earn
6 900 and more per year
The assertion that Americas wealth
belongs to the few, that the high cost
of living counterbalances the high
wages prevailing, is incorrect The
white population of the Republic is a
little more than twice as large as that
of this country. However, the Unitel
States have not merely twice the
number of telephones and motor-cars
that there are in this country but have
fifteen times as many. To every three
families there are two telephones and
two motor-cars. Millions of unskilled
workers have not only roomy houses
which belong to them but have tele-
phone, a motor-car, an other luxuries
of which the English working men
scarcely dream.
Before the war England's savings
came to about G400,000,000 per year.
Attic the American people are terri
bly, extravagant, their savings are es-
timated to come to G27000,0000 a
year. Last year the Americans spent
on motor-cars and trucks alone
G750,0O0,000 If we add the expend-
ture on garages, etc, the motor-car
expenditure last year exceeded
e. 000.000,000.
1t is frequently stated that the
United States owe their great wealth
to the possession of their great ma
tural resources, to tn. possession of
a fruitful agricultural plain, extensive
forests, rich mines, etc. That explana-
ton is fallacious. Every student of
American economics is aware that the
bulk of Americas vast income is fur
nished, not by the farms, mines, and
forests, but by the factories and work
shops.
The United States are foremost in
the world, not only by the product
witty of their wheat6elds, cottonhelds,
forests, coal mines, iron mines, etc,
but also by the output of their manu-
featuring industries.
With existing arrangements this
country can produce 100000 tons
of steel per year. That figure has new
err been reached. The United States
can produce at least $4,000 600 tons
per year. They produce far more than
half of worlds steel and of products
made of steel. Among other things
they produce about 90 per cent of
worlds motorcars, both in their own
country and in branch establishments
abroad
In the city of New York alone vast
ly more building takes place than in
the whole of the United Kingdom.
The textile industries of the Republic
consume considerably more cotton
than the whole of this country: In
the production of goods made from
copper, brass, rubber, wood. leather,
etc, Americas superiority is over
whelming. In view of these facts
Cobden's prophecy, England is, and