Show KNOW AMERICA AM ERICA FIRST FJ Wall Street JournU The transportation companies of tin the United States both rail and water have adopted as a their motto for tor 1998 and in intend intend intend tend to put upon their stationery and into their advertisements this terse and In Inspiring Inspiring 8 iring line Une See America First Magnificent advice that should com corn mend Itself alike to the patriotism and the pockets of every American citizen Very few Americans however really take the trouble to know America first The first four or five weeks of vacation which they secure they use in ina a trip to Europe If they want a rest they en gage passage on a swift Atlantic liner for a n whirl in London and Paris If they want the inspiration of grand scenery it is a trip to Switzerland that they plan The tide of American travel to Europe rises year after year vear It promises this summer to advance to high water mark The engagements of passage upon the transatlantic liners for tor the coming sea son have broken all previous records The Tho steamship companies have ha YC before them the prospect of a most profitable summer r Few people have any conception of the enormous sums of money which are ex cx expended in Europe every year by b Ameri Amen American can tourists It is Impossible to com corn compute the total but if it be estimated as is high as that amount would be equal to 5 per cent a year upon an in vestment of If Europe therefore could capitalize its receipts from American tourists the company would have to issue of stock and there th re would be no water in it Now it would be idle to deny the ad advantages vantages and the delights of European travel They are many No person who is able to afford the luxury should forego 0 the advantages of a few weeks or months passed in Europe A man ought never to be so 50 provincial as to tie himself down to his own country alone until he gets to thinking that there is no good in any thing outside of its boundaries Foreign travel like foreign commerce increases cs peace and civilization c But the American should know Amer AmET lea ica first Surely his first duty Is to learn the resources of his own country In Tn no noway noway noway way can he do this to such good pur purposes purposes purposes poses as by b traveling through it The Theman Theman Theman man who falls fails to cross the American con before he crosses the Atlantic ocean has failed both in patriotism end nd In wisdom He ought ou ht to be an object of derision to every ever with whom he comes Into contact Yet there ther are mul of people who can tell you all an about London Paris Berlin Vienna and Rome but know nothing about Chicago St Louis Denver and San Francisco or even Washington They can give an en account of Swiss scenery but they know nothing of the grandeur of Colorado They have visited the Rhine I glacier but never have feasted their souls on the solemnity of the Grand Canon or the majestic beauty of o the lh Yel park pork They have hae traveled up the Rhine but not up the Hudson They have crossed Lake Geneva Gene a but know nothing of the delight of steamship trav tray travel travel el through the great lakes This i la is a shame and a loss to the coun try The extravagant sums of money which Americans spend In Europe are the least item Itam of loss Let us not be begrudge begrudge grudge Europe the t c money which she makes from American travel even though the aggregate ag regate is so large that it cuts down the great trade balance which Eu Europe Europe Europe rope annually owes us for our products What we should most deplore Is the Ig Ignorance Ignorance norance which so many of our own peo pea people people pie have of their own country of its scenic beauty and of Its material re resources resources resources sources A A trip up the Hudson is balm for the soul A visit to Niagara or to the Grand Canon inspires to higher thoughts even than a cathedral service A trip across the continent discloses to us as nothing else elS can do the wonderful USi richness of f the country the marvelous mars lou lous capabilities of our people and the splendid destiny of f the nation j |