This nation, that has given more to the rest of the world than it has ever received!
This nation - of all others on this earth - must be content with the money of the enslaved East Indian coolie; must be content with the money of the decaying Chinaman; must be content with the money of the half savage republics to the south of us!
This nation, whose chief magistrate is the embodiment of power never dreamed of by the Caesars and Napoleons in their palmiest days! This nation, that is impregnable against the combined armies of the world, is being sapped and mined of its wealth under the very eyes of its driveling lawmakers, and silver is becoming the badge of its humiliation and inferiority!
XIV.
The national debt of France is $7,000,000,000. This exceeds the combined national debts of the United States, England, and Germany.
In territory, France is not as large as California.
Her population is[2] ………………….. 37,000,000
The population of the United States is ….. 65,000,000
The population of England is …………… 37,000,000
The population of Germany is …………… 40,000,000
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Total ……………………………. 142,000,000
The French navy is a fairly close second to that of England.
Her army is as large as that of Germany.
France, then, supports an army and navy of the first class, and has only 37,000,000 people to do it with. And this same 37,000,000 people pays interest on a debt that is greater than that of the 142,000,000 people in the three countries named. Yet there is no wail of distress, such as we are familiar with, heard in this France, with its great army and navy, and its fabulous interest-bearing, debt.