Let us t ike a glimpse into the bewildering m Lzes of results that have been the dispensations of Providence rather than the decrees of Satanic power. The general prosperity has been affected from time to time by numerous causes. some favorable and some unfavorable. An enormous public debt. incurred in a few months. was paid off with unparalleled rapidity. paper money was issued and redeemed after a long struggle. vast sums were borrowed abroad and repaid on a proportionate scale after the crashes of 1873. railways were built over thousands of miles and with magical swiftness of enterprise. great areas of virgin forests and of arable fertile tracts were opened to settlement. more of the splendid riches of our mineral resources were discovered and developed. the arts and sciences advanced in all directions. revolutionizing many branches of industry and supplying new comforts and luxuries: with all this there came anext.raordinary immigration. and I believe. finally. that the excesses of our high import duties would have operated with frightful force but for the rapid improvement both in the means of communication and the methods and vehicles of rapid transportation on land and ocean. annihilating so much of time and space that it could but be a very material and important factor in the growth of the United States as a whole. But if wealth has been added to the sum of the nations treasures. if the bulk of the money credited to our people in the balance of nations has been augmented. it has been with theenrichment of smell chsses and the impoverishment of large masses. The manual laborers of the country. who have constituted its real and genuine wealthproducers. have suffered while the nonproducers have prospered.
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