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born before the American Constitution was adopted, was still alive; so bank. We have five times as many students in the colleges. And we have Emerson. Most old people could remember the running of the first railway year that General Custer was killed by the Sioux; that the flimsy iron Peter Cooper, Cyrus McCormick, Lucretia Mott, Bryant, Longfellow, and railways, banks, libraries, newspapers, exports, farm values, and gasoline engines, no self-binders, no bicycles, no automobiles. There were Commodore Vanderbilt, Joseph Henry, A. T. Stewart, Thurlow Weed, times as much coal, fourteen times as much oil and pig-iron, twenty-two laying of the first Atlantic Cable. The Great Elm, under which the Revolutionary patriots had met, was still and Arizona was about equal to that of Des Moines. It was in this national wealth. We have ten million farmers who make four times as much was no Oklahoma, and the combined population of Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, much on our public schools, and we put four times as much in the savings railway bridge fell at Ashtabula; that the "Molly Maguires" terrorized so revolutionized our methods of production that we now produce seven There were no skyscrapers in 1876, no trolleys, no electric lights, no times as much copper, and forty-three times as much steel. that Boss Tweed and Hell Gate were both put out of the way in New York. Pennsylvania; that the first wire of the Brooklyn Bridge was strung; and crop and twice as much money in circulation. We have three times the money as seven million farmers made in 1876. We spend four times as standing on Boston Common. Daniel Drew, the New York financier, who was train; people of middle age could remember the sending of the first The grandfathers of 1876 were fond of telling how Webster opposed taking telegraph message; and the children in the high schools remembered the

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