THE NEW EARTH 



The European art students, like all Europe, 

 were right ; it was a peace-loving nation that 

 was going to war, a commercial nation, such 

 as it is today, with, as yet, largely undeveloped 

 native resources, able from its great granary 

 to provide more and still more supplies for 

 those who are dependent. The only difficulty 

 with the foreigners was that they did not go 

 quite far enough, that they did not take into 

 account the fact that a man might handle a 

 gun quite as well as a hoe, should occasion 

 demand. The future of the foreign trade of 

 the United States in the products of the earth 

 seems practically limitless in its possibilities ; 

 it is in the pursuits of peace, not in the game 

 of war, that the destiny of this country is to 

 be developed. To those who gain their living 

 from the soil, in whatever department of en- 

 deavor they may be interested, the foreign 

 trade in the products of the earth is a subject 

 worthy of their most painstaking and exhaus- 

 tive study. 



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