| Show THE DRAIN or OF GOLD last year tho the steamships plying between new york and europe made OH trips they brought lit in cabin and steerage passengers almost every ono one of those ships f la Is owned ex elusively in groat great britain or on the iho continent Contin ont whon to the pas passenger gonger money tile tho freight money Is added and alien n lien it Is remembered that almost all ail probably quito quite SO 80 per cent of 0 thon cabin were Amerle americans aus returning homo home that iho elie money to go out as well ivell as to return was p paid a id to foreign steamship companies that tho the ships were built abroad and that all their important repairs aro are dono done abroad wo we bokin bogin to realize how far wo no aro are behind tho the real maritime nations in our shipping and d in our mccan com co merco mmerLe somo some es cs ternate that tho the expenses aps of americans aho vho vi lie mako make trips to europe average each it we estimate that as many cabin passengers gers go abroad as como come this way may that halt half tho the travel last year was american and that their expenses averaged 1000 each it will bo be seen that all lit in american gold was mas used id that way and lost to tills this country fo lorner reNer that the iho film is equal to three times tile tho product of all our gold mines slid and in excess ot of all the ho product of both our gold and silver mines still there aro are men who lie claim that wo but tho ot of our silver mines as money wo no should all bo be ruined was there pitr so find and wicked a cry |
