Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
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assistance many others were unooupteuiy
assisted in manner which, If 1t could pc
proved would have subjected them 10 de-
portation. -,
abroad each year about 100000 worth
of merchandise more than tney puy III
foreign markets. AS experts hold that trade
must necessarily balance itself, TINS dlHer-
ence is generally accounted for by allowing
that $50, 900 600 is spent abroad each year
by the American tourists. SZoo,Ooo,ouo rs
paid to foreign carriers, $o0,o0o,o0o USED IN
the extension of credits, $1O00OO,0O0 paid
as interest on American securities held
abroad. and the other $1OO,0OO,OOO used for
the purchase outright of American securl-
ties so held or in other words, the graoual
discharge of private foreign Indebtedness.
To this surplus of merchandise exports
must be added this $JOoooooo sent nome by
immigrants for which no equivalent is re-
turned. 1t is large Item In the con-
tribution of America to the comfort and
prosperity of the people of the old world.
Emigration from Italy has probably
reached it's greatest volume, for there is
every tendency in that country 10 improve
the condition of the people by legislative
and other reforms. There is no prospect
of any decrease through diminution of
supply, and any reform in this direction
must come through economic nettermen..
There is more probability that the emigra-
ton from Hungary and Austria will In
crease rather than diminish, for the imme-
date future is not bright in either of these
countries
and the political sky is overcast, owing to
strained relations existing in the dual mon
archy 1t is freely predicted by those In
formed in European politics that the pol1t-
ical union now existing between Austria and
Hungary will end with the life of that
benevolent and wise monarch. Franz josef.
This may be pessimist1c view, put no one
can live among these people without reanz-
ing the lack of real unity and the slender
ness of the thread which holds them to-
gether as one country
Hungary is a country OF large estates
and feudal system, and 1t is SAID that
twelve men own at least one-sixth OF the
land. Should Austria become part or the
German empire, not Improbable outcome
Of the future conditions would rapidly i'm
prove and emigration from that country
would decrease in consequence in the same
manner and for the same reason as emigra-
ton from Germany has decreased.
How much money is sent to Russia by
Americas adopted gitizeps It is dlmcuit TO
there js less doubt as to the purpose for
which is sent, for the sole desire of thou
sands of the people of western Russia is to
ESCAPE to land of greater freedom and
brighter promise. The thrifty natives of
Great Britain, Scandinavia and Denmark
who have gone abroad undoubtedly contrib
ute largely to the comfort of their kin at
home. In none of tSese countries, however
does the amount received from the United
States approximate that sent to Italy and
Austria Hungary, and the evils following
In the train of such remittances are not SO
great, II any exist at all. So long as pros
peritv reigns in the United States little at
| tention will be paid to these remittances
made by adopted citizens but when the shoe
ninches. as II may some time in the future
the amount involved will assume new Inn
portance. J. d. WHELPLEY.