The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-06-01

p. Ausin will be glad to obliSe you. In
round numbers then, our trade balance
with Europe is 5000. 100000 or about S2.0OD,-
0o9 for every working day from January
to December. Inclusive. That is, we are
selling these people that much more than
we buy. The gold is flowing in a great
yellow river across the Atlantic, ana 1t
bids fair to be the biggest gulf stream
known to commerce. Do you wonder that
the people are frightened? | don't.
A Tour of Investigation.
Before / begin to describe the situation
y want to give a short outline of my pro
\ 3sed tour. am at this writing in Lon
d IN. l shall remain here for some weeks.
& ter which l shall visit some Of the in
. lstrial centers of the United Kingdom
e I'd then go to the continent.
In England | want to show you the
g .eatest markets of the world and how
Gu American goods are flowing into
I EN-, to look into the enormous electrical
possibilities above and below ground and
among other things to describe the ia
nous Tupenny Tube Electric line, which
b EQUIPPED with electrical machinery and
which cost about 5000 900 a mile. | shall
describe the place that America has in
these London markets and by pen pic
lures of this greatest city of the world
show where and how our position may
become greater still.
Outside the English metropolis I shall
visit the great industrial centers to tell
how some of our raw materials are turned
John Bull so wealthy. | want to picture
the new American factories now being
built on English soil. and to compare the
labor of this country with ours. L may
get to the coal mines which are so deep
that John Bull will from now on have to
rely largely on the supplies of Uncle
Sam to keep him warm and his factories
working.
In Russia.
Leaving England I shall visit our big
the I
to spend a while in Russia. At St. Pc
tehsburg ] shall give a letter on the
young Car and tell of the vast internal
improvements he is making on the great
est empire of the globe. | shall visit
Moscow and other great manufacturing
cenfers and show how 1t is from the
Russians that we have much to fear In
our trade competition Of the future Rus
largest farm population Of the whole
world and the extent to which we are
sailing it farm machinery will be inter-
esting.
Among the Germans.
Germany will he next visited. This
country is the giant of modern times. 1t
e one of the best manufacturers and the
shrewdest trader of all the European
countries and it is doing more in com
harrison with what God has given it than
amy other. The Berlin of 1902. the tech
meal schools. how Germany is capturing
the oceans. the mighty ports, the Ameri-
can hog ara now II goes INTO sausage Tor
German stomachs and American trad,
on the Rhine will be among the subjects
Of my investigation.
From Germany / will go to Holland ant
Belgium and then to France. Each OF
Z these countries will be treated along tn,
game and other lines. the only aim being
20 get news matters interesting TO Amer
leans.
On an American Cruiser.
/ came to England on an American
FnUlnnd have Ia.
bulk of the shipping of the Atlantic. $,
much SO that 1t IS estimated we pay Eng
land alone about $40 200, 600 a year for car
rying our freight. although we are be