ROOM FOMILL)0'V 1 S ) AND MILLIONS MORE 

 PROFITABLE EM'PLOVMENT FOR CAPITAL 



Only One-Sixteenth of the People on the Better Half of the Territory. 



WHY TIMES ARE OUT OF JOINT. 



HOW THE SITUATION WOULD LOOK TO 1895 IF HE WERE HUMAN. 

 BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL IRRIGATION COMMITTEE. 



WHAT is the matter with this great country? 

 It enjoyed very many years of sturdy 

 health. Then why the wild and feverish pulse of 

 1893, succeeded by the weak, uncertain pulse of 1894? 

 Why the widespread business ruin in the midst of 

 the Columbian celebrations of two summers since, 

 followed by idle factories, by armies of marching 

 tramps, by swarms of beggars in great cities? Why 

 is money quoted at two per cent, in New York, and 

 sometimes loaned on good security in London for 

 less than one per cent.? What is the meaning of po- 

 litical landslides, first to the South pole of De- 

 mocracy, then to Jhe North pole of Republicanism, 

 and both within the space of twenty-four months? 

 What does it mean when John Burns solemnly avers 

 that he beheld more misery and wretchedness in New 

 York and Chicago in a single week than he ever saw 

 in London during his lifetime? Why is the national 

 debt increasing at the rate of one hundred millions 

 per year? What has become of the prosperity which 

 was scheduled to arrive the day the Sherman silver 

 law was repealed ? \Vhere is that other era of peace 

 and good will which was to dawn when Congress 

 ceased to tinker the tariff? 



These are questions which strike close to every 

 hearth-stone. They are interesting not simply to 

 political economists and social philosophers. They 

 disturb the slumbers of the railway president, and 

 fill the bricklayer with apprehension. 



IF 1895 WERE A HUMAN BEING! 



These are the conditions which greet the advent of 

 the new year. If 1895 were a flesh-and-blood human 

 being, as he is often represented to be by the comic 

 artists, and if he were asked to study the situation 

 without previous knowledge or prejudice, what would 

 he see? Remember, he is just born. Ke is neither 

 Democrat, Republican nor Populist, neither free- 

 trader nor protectionist, neither gold bug nor silver 

 monomaniac, neither radical nor conservative, neither 

 capitalist nor pauper. He is just a fresh intelligence 

 from another planet, with no human entanglements 

 whatever. All he knows is what he sees. The aver- 

 age human vision is colored by its environment, edu- 

 cation and prejudice. This new personage, whom 

 we are creating in order that we may have the privi- 

 lege of looking at our country through his free eyes, 

 has none of these disadvantages. 



OUR IMPERIAL DOMAIN. 



The first thing that would strike young 1895 dumb 

 with amazement would be the magnificent dimensions 

 of the United States. Texas alone is larger than either 

 the Austrian or German empires, larger than France, 

 larger than Spain, larger than Sweden. California 

 and Montana are each larger than Turkey or Nor- 

 way. New Mexico is larger than Great Britain and 

 Ireland, and larger than Italy. Even the little States 

 of New York and Pennsylvania are each larger than 



