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Hereditary foemen forget their slogan, kith and clan. 



'Twas once glory to be a Roman, 



America makes it a glory now to be a man." (Applause.) 



And then, my friends, while, as I have said, the economic 

 development of our country is not parallel with the economic de- 

 velopment of Germany, France or England, it must be remem- 

 bered that we are today the only great exporting nation of the 

 world' — the United States and the Argentine Republic. There 

 were, in the last fifty years, only three great exporting nations — 

 the United States, Russia and Argentine Republic; but since 

 the entrance of Russia into the war, the United States and Ar- 

 gentine Republic remain the only two great exporting nations of 

 the world. 



To show the wonderful resources we have at our disposal, 

 a brilliant writer on the Pall Mall Gazette, England's leading 

 paper, paid a rather humorous but effective tribute to the abso- 

 lute dependence of the average Englishman upon the United 

 States for everything the Englishman eats, drinks and wears. 

 He said — in the morning the Englishman gets out from between 

 his New England sheets, shaves with Williams' soap and a Yan- 

 kee safety razor; adjusts his Kentucky suspenders on trousers 

 manufactured in Massachusetts ; slips on his shoes manufactured 

 in St. Louis over socks manufactured in North Carolina, and 

 goes down to breakfast. 



The breakfast of the Englishman consists of some beefsteak 

 from a middle western cow, while his wife plays with a piece 

 of Chicago ox tongue, and his children amuse themselves by 

 eating some cereals or rolled oats from the Middle West. The 

 Englishman then goes to his office. At hisi office he finds every- 

 thing is American. He sits down on a Nebraska swivel chair 

 before a Michigan roll top desk ; writes his letters on an Under- 

 wood, Smith Premier, Remington, Caligraph, Oliver, Royal or 

 other typewriter of American make, and signs his letters with a 

 Waterman, Paul E. Wirt or Parker fountain pen, all made in the 

 United States ; and puts his letters away in a letter file made by 

 the Macey file Company, of Grand Rapids, Michigan. He then 

 goes out to lunch. His lunch consists of some roast beef taken 

 from the same middle western cow; flavored with some Pitts- 

 burgh pickles ; and tops it all off with some canned peaches from 

 old Arkansas. (Applause.) 



