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Excerpt from "America for Americans!" The Typical American: Thanksgiving Sermon of Rev. John P. Newman D.D., LL. D, at Metropolitan M. E. Church, Washington, D. C., Thursday, November 25th, 1886
Certainly the farmer stands nearest to God. Agriculture underlies all national wealth. The farmer ministers to thewants of king and prince, of president and senator; the farmer must be esteemed as the direct medium of blessing through whom God manifests his goodness to the nation. We have been accustomed to such phenomenal crops that it almost goes without saying that the past year has been phenomenal in its agricultural productions. Indeed there has been a wealth in the soil, a wealth in the mines, awealth in the seas, which awakens astonishment and admiration in the minds of those beyond the deep - for it is a statistical fact that our agricultural products for the year just closing is not less than three and a half thousand millions of dollars in valuation. How difficult to appreciate the fact! One thousand seven hundred million bushels of corn, valued at five hundred and eighty millions of dollars; four hundred and fifty million bushels of wheat, valued at three hundred and fifty-five millions of dollars; six and a half million bales of cotton, estimated in valuation at taro hundred and fifty millions of dollars. And including all the other agricultural products, the statistician of the Government estimates the value at three and a halt thousand millions of dollars. And this is but a repetition of other years. No! It exceeds other years! It is a great fact that one and a half millions cf square miles of cultivated land in this country now sub jcet to the plow could feed a thousand millions of persons, and then we could have five thousand millions of bushels of grain for exportation.
In ten years, from 1870 to 1880, we produced over seven hundred millions of dollars of precious metals, and the last year the valuation is estimated at seventy-five millions in gold and silver; and rising above these colossal and phenom enal figures, our great manufacturing people during the past year have produced not less than five thousand millions of dollars in valuation. The mind staggers in the presence of these tremendous facts.
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