Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1914 — One Billion Dollars. [ARTICLE]

One Billion Dollars.

Over one billion dollars in gold is now in the United States Treasury. This 1b one-sixth 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 halt as much as France. Russia has more than England and almost as much as Germany. This amount 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 is worth more than the average man’s life’s savings. Some people travel for pleasure, some for education and some sor 1 business, but most people go abroad to send souvenir postcards to ftltotr friends. ...... .. ... ' 7.J