The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-07-17
uoWTHE MONEY GOES
IONS Upon MILLIONS WILL BE
W." LEFT ACROSS THE SEA.

,oreap Steamers Crowded With
- .;can sightseers-There They Will
change Money For ExperienOe-KnOwl-
Of Our own Country.
Al the steamers that left New York
g. Europe last Saturday were crowded,
I'D ~ many persons were left on the
a suoks boping in vain that some one at
u Wv last minute would give up the trip
w offer the ticket for sale. There are
w., orders ahead for the next sail
~: e 5av to take all the available berths,
a arG the rush is expected to continue for
go" trips On the other side the no.
~ keepers and the army of people who
mate their living off the tourist public
and fatten particularly on the American
aontipgent have been waiting anxiously
for the annual fight of Americans from
their own country and are counting their
mains in advance.
The most conservative estimate Of the
omonnt of good American money taken
owav to be spent on the other side of
the ocean goes into the millions Some
If the money comes back IN one way or
another, but the greater part Of it is ut
ter]y lost to u.s. The American tourist
takes his money abroad and exchanges
it for experience. 1t is a profitable ex-
change for the other fellow as a general
thing, although some of the travellers
hiring back with them a conviction that
their own country is the best to stay in,
and that knowledge soften worth all it
costs
II would be a good thing for thecoun-
try and for a large proportion of those
who spend their time and money abroad
nearly every summer if they were to
make the same expenditure of time and
money in getting a thorough acquaint-
ance with their own country and peo-
pie. 1t is big country, this Of ours,
and well worth getting well acquainted
WITH and yet a very large number of
those who know all the capitals of Eu-
rope are ignorant of more than a small
section of their own.
There are foreign tourists who land
in New York, race hither and thither
across the continent, get a glimpse here
and there of the natural wonders Of
which they have heard, stay day or
two each in several cities east and west,
and then go home to tell all about the
United States and the ways of Ameri-
cans and be scored for their presump-
ton, and who yet have larger person
al knowledge of the country and the
people in widely separated sections than
very many Americans of wealth who
swell the stream setting every summer
from the new world to the old
Foreign travel is valuable part of a
full education. 1t enlaTges the knOwl-
edge and broadens the view of the in
tellgent traveller. Unfortunately all
travellers are not intelligent, and some
Of those who cross the Atlantic neither
|enlarge their own knowledge nor re-
hect credit on the country responsible
Tor their birth and bringing up. But
even the most judicioUs and observant
OF Americans visiting the old world
you'd profit more by a pretty thorough
examination Of their own country before
gong abroad, They would then be able
70 see wherein America and Americans
differ from Europe and Europeans and
could turn the comparison to profitable
account to themselves and their country.
he who knows his own land we'll before
gong abroad will return more of an
american than ever, while acknowledge
ing there are many things across the
ocean that it is desirable to know and
safn to good account Cleveland Plain
Dealer.