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Show Rngland a. a Lender. England Is tho great money lender of the world. A statistician estimates that she has 1550,000,000 invested in land and mortgages in countries abroad. Sho lends to foreign governments govern-ments and municipalities nn average of 1200,000,000 annually. She finances railways in India, Canada, the United States, Australia, South Africa and South America, her Investments of this class aggregating 12,100,000,000. English Eng-lish capital la Invested In this country coun-try In wator and ftas companies, cnttle and horse raising, breweries, flour mills, street railways, Iron manufacturing manufac-turing and mining. |