THE NEW EARTH 



two years 1903 and 1904, were twice the sum 

 of all our exports and imports for a year, and 

 three and one-half times as much as the value 

 of all minerals produced in the country, includ- 

 ing gold, silver, iron ore, coal and quarried 

 stone. 



Indeed, the farm of the New Earth is the 

 colossal manufacturing plant of all history. 



And the new man has learned lessons in 

 thrift as well as in agriculture. He has learned 

 how to keep a balance in the bank in his favor, 

 as well as how to raise better crops and have 

 a happier home, and surround himself with the 

 minor luxuries and all the comforts of modern 

 life. The increase in the bank deposits in the 

 state of Iowa, a typical western state, from 

 June 30, 1896, to October 31, 1904, was one 

 hundred and sixty-four per cent; in Kansas, 

 two hundred and nineteen per cent; in Mis- 

 souri, three hundred and one per cent, while 

 the increase for the whole United States in the 

 same period was but ninety-one per cent. In 

 savings banks in the same period, the number 

 of depositors in Iowa increased two hundred 

 and nine per cent ; in the United States as a 

 whole, thirty-six per cent. In the southern 



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