p. 78 | Commit this to Memory

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 1, 1877

Commit this to Memory.

Brother Jonathan commenced business in 1776, with thirteen States, and 815,615 square miles of territory, which was occupied by about 3,000,000 of civilized human beings. He has now a family of 43,000,000, who occupy thirty-nine States and seven Territories, which embrace over 3,000,000 of square miles. He has 65,000 miles of railroads, more than sufficient to reach twice and a half round the globe. The value of his annual agricultural productions is $2,500,000, and his gold mines are capable of producing $70,000,000 a year. He has more than 1,000 cotton factories, 580 daily newspapers, 4,300 weeklies, 625 monthly productions. He has also many other things too numerous and too notorious to mention in this small space.