Show 1 t t E-t ti lE HE SHAME S AME OF ir IT ll V V s' s j f. From June 1 to July 31 the twenty five leading Sot t l of Paris Par had for guests Americans N New Nw w York Yorks Herald thinks more could be I r rf f fut ut down to other hotels in the city thinks they tj f 1 ach francs in all francs spent or l' l 1 liat as much more was expended for cab hire the the- 1 I t ter r tickets etc Then the milliners and V 2 ers rS and nd the others levied their assessments and the I r rand d aggregate shows lio ho how much the American V t urist trade is to the gay city The Herald thinks V i Paris should lift up a monument to to Christopher V i Columbus for had be l never ever discovered America I Americans would never have been able to visit 1 yaris Paris is but one city of Europe All AU European Euro Euro- I vean Countries have cities and many of them lakes r and nd mountains and everywhere in the tourist season seaon sea- sea V V son on V the American tourist can be e found And V the jho ships plying between our country and the tile old world are loaded down with passengers It is all allright V 1 right too tho though gh the aggregate every year Jear foots up perhaps and with the freight added j on what lt we send away and on what we purchase i. V t am amounts to inor more and almost all goes goesl l' l lo to o foreign ship o owners rs This is what ha t. t Ameri Americans ans rrt f. f grive over They cannot see why th the the American r. r sailor should be banished from th the sea sea sa Why the American in foreign ports can never sc see see the American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean flag as a remind reminder r that somewhere Ol on- on the map of f. f the world there is a country called the United L Stat States It is so strange that pride does not ot sting our congress into action and make it it t de de- V that our country shall as a symbol ol of J p prestige ge and P power Pe e h have yea a l merchant le chant n marine rile It is isI I C i. i K h more bre stia strange c that there herc seems to be no memo mein- V 1 ber bei of f either ll house use capable of explaining the effect V r or drain of pe per annum upon the finances of the country the effect upon property values and the loss in interest alone which which which- would V be he enough to ke kelip p great ships running to every V important port of the world and moreover would in tIl twenty years twenty years give us the prestige in tra trade e which Great Britain now has Then too Then too think of the V extra skilled workers in the iron mines I V I in in fl the smelters rs and ship shipyards ards and the extra I freight our transportation companies would have to provide for The situation is most humiliating to our country conn- conn try it is is' isa a reproach to American sta statesmen it it is isan isun an un impeachment of American intelligence Germany has has' grown rown rich through her ships ship I since 1872 Great Britain owes more to her shipping shipping ship ship- V ping than to any other orle one thing for her place in inthe inthe the world Our countr country country- is great and rich V and V pro progressive ress resse e but the vision vision- of our our statesmen never 1 tends beyond our country's own shores I |