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Show THE CITIZEN 6 convention. Consequently he is piping lustily to assemble his clans for the battle, if we may use a little Scotch for so dry a theme. The Wars of the Roses will be as nothing compared to this struggle between the cocktail and the horses neck. GREAT BRITAIN SOLVENT Great Britain really enjoys being called bankrupt by her THAT and foes in America may strike one, at first blush, as a surprising assertion. That it is valid, we are warranted in believing when the usually active British propaganda in this country utters no sound of protest. And our opinion becomes almost conviction when we find the Englishman, in his own bailiwick, proclaiming his solvency in trumpet tones of optimism. By drawing a long face and posing as a gentleman who has lost his fortune and, therefore, must- rely upon the unsolicited largess of friends, John Bull has been greatly the gainer in the last few months. Our new secretary of the treasury has been so profoundly moved to sympathy that he is clasping the impoverished gentleman about the neck and weeping down his backbone. And lest the old gentleman get desperate and threaten suicide or something almost as dreadful,, our new secretary wishes to forgive him his- debts for if this years to come. Soon all of us will be weeping in chorus, thing keeps up and then someone will declare the vote carried that we forgive J. B. the principle as well as the interest and take up a collection for him by selling doughnuts or buttons on the street - - corners. If we may credit the British Board of Trade Journal, the debt of Great Britain to other nations is $6,813,100,000. whereas her loans :to the Dominions and her allies amount to $8,462,843, oOO. This reveals her as a net world creditor and not a net world debtor. Ad? mittedly, of course, her credits will not be productive of an annual return for the present. The depreciation of British currency and the fact that the mer- . chandise balance of trade is against Great Britain has caused a wave of sympathy artificially stimulated to sweep over the country. The British pound sterling sank to a new low mark a few weeks ago, as measured in terms of our dollar, but this should not lead to the palpably false conclusion that Great Britain will not be abl to recuperate from the financial effects of the war. In 1864 American currency, at its lowest ebb, was worth only 38 cents on the dollar and the average for the entire year was not above 50 cents. It was at a discount after the war until the resumption of specie payments, January 1, 1879. The whole southern section of our country was virtually ruined industrially by the war of the states, and yet, within less than fifteen years, the nation as a whole was financially sounder than ever. If the United States, in such circumstances, could recover so rapidly from financial depression, Great Britain, with all her industries except shipping unimpaired, will be able to recover in a far shorter period. The Board of Trade Journal tells us that before the war th annual balance of merchandise trade against Great Britain was about $650,000,000, but that this was more than offset by what are termed invisible exports. The Journal points out that Great Britain collected toll from practically all international transactions because she was the carrying nation of the world, the insuring nation, the worlds banker lending money and garnering interest and dividends and, in addition, was a mecca for tourists who expended hundreds of millions yearly within her borders. We find the amazing prediction that Great Britain will buy abroad goods to the amount of slightly more than $2,000,000,000 in excess of the goods she sells, but that, against this large import excess, the nation will have invisible exports to the amount of more than $3,000,000,000, leaving a balance of practically $1,000,000,000.-00- 0 on the right side of the ledger. Someone remarks that Havana should now take a census. 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