Show AS AN OBJECT LESSON LESSON I Forty years ago if Germany needed a ship she employed a foreign shipbuilder to fo build it for her After getting her indemnity from I France she began building ships and to engage J in foreign trade She was very poor in money I and occupied a not flot particularly fertile soil Her HerI I I people too were leaving to find homes in it foreign f for for- rIi r- r Ii eign countries ies at the rate of thousands annually But it was not very long until she rivaled Or Great reat at t Britain in foreign tr trade c and and her home u nade de deI I ships were equal to the finest England had ever v r built lor 1 Moreover over she found it necessary to build I new factories mu and brought her Iter finest talent to toI to I bear to make her wares not only first class but butto butto t to o present them to 0 o the world in catching form I. I She found work for most of her lId people and continues con con- to though they have lu increased quite 60 per cent This year her city of Hamburg has done dane a heavier commercial business than London In Inthe Inthe the meantime she has bas grown rich in property r rand and has more money moner than the several states which make Inake up her empire had accumulated in 1600 years During these forty years our presidents and congresses have watched this going on and md have S not moved a hand toward vard imitating her bel work k When Then our little fleet of warships circled the world our government had to charter foreign ships to carry relays of coal for the fleet In Inthe Inthe Inthe the meantime too it may be mentioned that German capit capitalists lists have acquired vast interests in foreign enterprises which pay them princely interest and dividends And her people 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 hem is intent at all times tp remove every obstruction out of their way Our people are bright enough good workers enough but our government says if you have anything to sell you must hire lure a delivery wagon t send to-send to s send d it t away aw y inland in ind hue hire the Ue 5 sao S e wagon gO to o bring in you n need ed An ordinary merchant tIle the methods of our government would fail in inix six months |