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Show JU8T LIKE FINDING WEALTH Next best 'to finding one's self richer rich-er than ono know is to And that what ono owes, on being added up, Is much less than one thought. It comes either way to the samo thing, so long ns ono Intonds to pay; and It hns Just hnpponed to this country In u vury large way. Tho amount ot Am? erlcan securities held abroad, hitherto hither-to estimated at from flvo to six billion bil-lion dollars, Is found to bo not moro than threo and a halt b'.lllons. . . It Is probable that as a result ot the war this country has ceased for good to bo a borrowing country nnd wo shall become a lending nation, not at once, but a generation sooner th.m might otherwise havo been tho caso. It will not bo a lending country in tho sense ot ono that exports capital and lives on tho Intorost, but In tho tjio great commercial ontorprlso borrows bor-rows less than It lends. Now York Times. |
