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Show OPPORTUNITIES FOR AMERICAN INVESTORS. A well-known American banker writing writ-ing on "The Money Side of the War" tells in part as follows what the opportunities op-portunities for American investors will be after tho war: "Already there are ample evidences that the whole world is looking to America for financial help. It Is no secret when I say that with the exception ex-ception of Great Britain, overy European Euro-pean belligerent, and almost every neutral nation, has borrowed, or attempted at-tempted to borrow, money in this market. mar-ket. Russia in .January took $25,000,-in $25,000,-in one lump, France last autumn, $10,-000,000; $10,-000,000; Switzerland, a month ago, $15,000,000; Norway and Sweden each two or three million dollars apiece; while Holland, Italy, . Portugal and Denmark havo unmistakably signified that 'Barkis is willlu'. "Germany has borrowed something here how much nobody seems, to know. But certainly sho has itaken care of her obligations in excellent fashion. "American investors have loaned to outside countries since tho war began not less than $150,000,000 a very tan-glblo tan-glblo evidence of our financial strength. "Will American Investors lend largely to foreign countries? It seems altogether reasonable to expect that If the belligerent nations continue their purchase here of lood products and munitions of war on the same scale as now American manufacturers and merchants will treat them as they would other good customers, and will gradually extend larger and larger credit to them. "It may be that this credit will be through "the medium of the investor; in other words, it is quite conceivable that Great Britain or France, or both, might offoi a loan herd of $250,000,-000, $250,000,-000, at a late of interest so attractive that it would command tho attention and support of American investors. If thlB were the case, and tho money was taken, It would undoubtedly be upon condition that the proceeds of It were to be expended in America for the purchases which theso countries are making. By suoh a process, our manufacturers and merchants would be enriched from the profits In those commercial transactions, and our Investors In-vestors would be securing a high-grade high-grade Investment at a handsome rate of Interest." on- |