Show AS AN OBJECT OBJECT LESSON LESSON I I i Forty years ago if Germany needed a ship she employed a foreign l shipbuilder to to build it J for her After getting her indemnity uty from I France she began building ships and to engage I jn in foreign trade She was very poor in money and nd occupied a not particularly fertile soil Her i people too were leaving to find homes in fort foreign for for- t eign countries at the rate of thousands amill annually I But it was not very verj long until she rivaled Great Britain Brit in in foreign trade and her home hom lu made de ships ship were equal to the thc finest England had ever er r I built Moreover she found it l necessary necessary to build new nev fact factories ries and lil brought her lieI finest talent f to bear bear to make her wares Snot not ohly only first class but butto 7 to present nt th them m to 0 the in il catching form She found work for most of her people and continues continues continues con con- to o tho though gh they have increased quite 60 GO per per cent This year h her r c city ty of Hamburg has done heavier commercial business than London In Inthe Inthe the meantime she has grown rich in property and has more mOl money ey than th the several states which make up her empire had accumulated in j 1600 years During these forty years our presidents and l Congresses congresses have watched this going on and have a not moved a hand t ward toward imitating her work When our ur little fleet of warships circled the world our had to charter foreign ships to carr carry cany 7 relays of coal for the fleet In Inthe Inthe Inthe the meantime too it may be mentioned that German capitalists have acquired vast interests in ill f foreign enterprises which pay them princely inter interest st and dividends And her people ar are crowded into a country the area of which is less than that of our state of Texas But they are prosperous able to support themselves and to build a navy and support an army of men But they are workers and thinkers and the government behind them is intent at all times tO l' l remove every obstruction ruction out of their way O Our r people are bright enough good workers but our government says if you have have anything ng to sell you must hire a delivery wagon wagon t s it away in i hir the sa same r to bring in In anything you need T TAn f fAn An ordinary al merchant adopting the methods I of our government would f Ail if in six months |