Show my tc l i ltv effs f r ts THE AND k f SS v read rin n y recent number of one althe present se on the old world that country the U has become the nightmare of a certain num berof our the french industries and agricultures agri cultures but ought to be rei vied as alk eort of providence for in these last two years it has rendered the european continent a double and priceless service firt it has preserved u of the famine by its exports of grain for which we certain ly somewhat thankful hen it has suddenly re animated in europe the languishing and perishing industries if the industrial crisis which commenced in 1873 and la drawing to its end if mining is gaining a new and lively impetus i coal works are finding ready and well paying markets if also the textile industries are experiencing some however slight improvement states are the principal this of continental affairs by selling to us their cereals they have revived prosperity chy have experienced the necessity of taking in exchange not silver and gold out various of our manufactures and merchandises whatever they may be every american vessel arriving in bur ports with a cargo of grain has hero taken new freight to return across the atlantic it would be unwilling to return to america empty it would take new rails or any and all sorts of manufactures heavy or light in such a brilliant manner b as been accomplished the manifestation of one of those economical laws firmly rooted and established in the minds of theoreticians but bittell bit terl combat led and opposed by so called practical men the principle that importation ia the bait of exportation or that the develop anent of first year in this direction leads to the development of the year in that direction if america had sold esno usno cereals our workshops would be idle no smoke would assue from the chimneys of hiir forges there are still people affected bythe more or less confuse idea whether they dare to express it or nat tha t christopher columbus injured europe by discovering america this strange notion seems minus of our bunts absurdity has become BO evident by tins time that there distio need to upon it the recent commercial revival in europe which has been the consequence the result the direct effect of the importations of american grain ii a new argument against the too corn mon pessimistic conceptions m of the united beales has nothing alarming lor us it plows us on the contrary it is a pledge of abundance and progress for the whole world we fear neither the grain nor the c no more than wa fear the American cotton and still the cotton is monopoly ot america while the grain and the beef can be raised anywhere there is no such thing as over production of the fruits of the earth consumption is a principle indefinitely extensible it is a chimera to believe that the cultivation of the lands of the far west will transform the european fields into fallow soil all that we in france desire that is the united states would gradually remove or at least reduce their tariff of duties as the majority of the states of europe haap done during the last acore ecore of years in to achieve this our the french government ought lo 10 extend itself in taking up with more spirit and activity than over the old negotiation for the conclusion ofa commercial treaty be tween franco aid the united sta es are ideas worthy of nn organ of a republic embodying the broadest principles of liberty and the boldest aspirations such voices fram paris have an irresistible tendency to endear the gallian commonwealth to us the more so when wo consider the aversion german government not to our beef and cotton but to our constitution and free institutions if the same amount of statesmanship a that of schooled by the experience of were predominant hi the Capitol or white house at washington america would indeed be the chief country of the world TOM the poet arwa greili and of in one of the extracts from his diary which ba selects aby mr or hi new biographical sketch of the iri poet and wit has thia note under date of july ad 1827 lord lansdowne Lang downe mentioned a ift ter ho had from ireland speaking ol 01 the caw oct evidently think in that clause wa plural Blun dor of that kind are not very uncommon among people who do not know ailcy a illy how word look when they anro printed the chicago ocean telli u that ono of the oldest residents res identa of chicago was telling an acquaintance n few months ago about attending the of hi old friend jason mccord at the ont house and gjoke several times of viewing e carp evidently supposing the word corpse to be plural another gentleman neighbors neigh bora live on calumet avenue broke one of hl glasses ibe other day and to aaa an uncommon word faid he amt get a new in put in Hii word deemed very uncommon to chobo who were accustomed to regard iti fa singular the of the french chamber of ig ported as being to pronounce 20 arda in a minute wonder how many hh difo from the of her as old 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