Show AMERICAN FREIGHT LOSSES I the gold mines of the United States were yielding 200000000 a year it would be D matter of congratulation from one end of the country to the other It would be a matter of wonder to tho I whole world outside Yet the foreign commerce of the United States amounts to 2000 millions of dollars a year that is the Imports and exports of the country coun-try and of that amount quite 200000 000 D year which are Just as good dollars dol-lars a those taken from the mines go I to foreign shipmasters and owners There is that much less received back from our exports and of course It goes to enrich the coffers mostly of Germany and Great Britain And that ought not to be J a merchant depended upon his neighboring merchant to deliver him goods paying him large freights for the I same the result would be that the merchant mer-chant who sold his own goods and delivered I de-livered them and also delivered the goods of the other merchant would own both stores In a year or two and It I is exactly so on a large scale with the United Stales She sits on the shore and says We have some contracts to deliver some packages of cotton and wheat and oil and locomotives and steel rails and preserved meats ete to the needy world outside But we do not propose to keep our own horse and express ex-press wagon Wo propse to send these packages by tho express wagon that will do it cheapest The Englishman and the German undertake to carry it cheaper than any American In the busIness bus-Iness and they get the goods The result re-sult Is that 200000000 of American money that ought to be In circulation in the United States Is transferred every year across the set which enables our neighbors to build beautiful ships and to carry larger and larger cargoes every year at lower and lower freights But it Is not business and though It seems like t simple proposition it Is apparently apparent-ly impossbile to get a majority of the American people to ever see It Prudent I England and still more prudent Germany Ger-many are lavish in their expenditures for ships and the only satisfaction that Americans have is that when such an accident aa that which occurred at lIe bokon on Saturday afternoon comes no American shins are burned |