Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1914 — One Billion Dollars. [ARTICLE]

One Billion Dollars.

Over one billion dpllars in gold is now in the United States Treasury. This is one-Bixth of all the gold In the world, the most that was ever gathered together anywhere. And besides the treasury gold there is half as much more In banks and In circulation. No other country has as much gold. France which is next to the United States, has one-third less. Great Britain and Ireland have little more than hall as much as France. Russia has more than England and almost as much as Germany. This amouni of gold Is sufficient to give every working man S6O. It is sufficient to meet all the payrolls of the United States. One gold ingot i,s worth more than che average man’s life’s savings.