How is it that you have so much more ?" "That is a very pertinent question, Mr.West," replied Dr.Leete, "and I should not blame your friends, in the case you supposed, if they declared your story all moonshine, failing a satisfactory reply to it.
It is a question which I cannot answer exhaustively at any one sitting, and as for the exact statistics to bear out my general statements, I shall have to refer you for them to books in my library, but it would certainly be a pity to leave you to be put to confusion by your old acquaintances, in case of the contingency you speak of, for lack of a few suggestions.
"Let us begin with a number of small items wherein we economize wealth as compared with you.

We have no national, state, county, or municipal debts, or payments on their account.

We have no sort of military or naval expenditures for men or materials, no army, navy, or militia.

We have no revenue service, no swarm of tax assessors and collectors.

As regards our judiciary, police, sheriffs, and jailers, the force which Massachusetts alone kept on foot in your day far more than suffices for the nation now.