That would be a commerce of the gross amount of six and two third cents for each inhabitant of our country in the next century, with that whole vast region adjoining you, wherein dwell one fourth of the human race!
Reid illustrates the potential economic impact of trade with Asia on a per capita basis.
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Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?