Show TWO REASONS In tho Dail Daily Consular and Trade Reports the notice notice notice no no- tice that the tile Levant trade though in its infancy is ve very considerable Turkey alone alono c. c exports orts goods annually an an- annually nn-I nn I to the value valne of the United States buys in a year Turkish products to the amount of about and sells to Turkey American manufactures valued at about Egypt exports exports exports ex ex- ports annually merchandise to the value of the United States takes about of Egypt's exports and furnishes 1 5 of imports Persia exports and aud imports but jut the Americans have no trade with Persia This report cannot see why wh- America is left out because as freights are now arranged goods from America I can be sent to those markets almost as quickly as from Liverpool or Hamburg and at about the same rates The reasons are twofold The first is that America America America Amer Amer- ica ha has no ships what she sends she has to send by German or English ships and then the currency of those countries among tho the common people at least is all aU silver They o havo had the silver heresy for some 2000 years rears and they cannot give it up The result is that tho the wise United States with its rigid gold standard finds no place for trade in these theo countries coun coun- tries |