The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-06-19
ANNUAL Gift
IS S3}6,0O0,0OO


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1t 5000 miles away. where II can nev
er run back into mat well Other PEG
pie drink that water, not he Ameri
cans"
AS for the many millions sreEt
abroad by American tourists, it is as.
serted by public men that most all OF
that money is also lost absolutely
from Americas store of active capital.
SO that 1t has to be replaced by other
money which otherwise would have
been used In other ways.
The drain on America Is unprece-
denied in the worlds history. No ma.
ton ever before gained Il million a
year In population by foreign immi
grafton. as this country is doing
There was never country other than
America from which 10000 to 10000
natives yearly went abroad on pleas.
ure tours. The large immigration to
Canada is mostly from the mother
country. England. Outside OF royal.
ties, Europeans do not, 1t Is reported.
spend much when they so abroad.
The exodus of tourists from European
countries is comparatively small
The United States. ii Is pointed out.
has no compensation In money sent
her by its own people who have EN-.
tnH ~ ~ ri
a few thousand Americans In the Phil
ippines and Cuba and Porto Rico and
Hawaii, but they cut no figure in In
ternationai totals.
Balancing all the figures up, they
show. the political economists say.
that America is heavily burdened By
the $3oo.000000 TO S5o0.000O00 sent
abroad every year. To overcome II
she has to gain an enormous trade
balance In foreign markets,
Last year the figures were:
Total exports ...,............... 81. 237 77s o09
Total Imports .................... S93 96I ,0V
Iotal .'...-....-.,............,. SS45sil.W
This trade balance in favor of the
United States was almost offset by the
money estimated to have been sent or
carried abroad by aliens and tourists.
Millions In Postal and Express
Orders.
The records of the New York post
Office show that during the year endins
Dec. 81. 1910. the following amount
Of money was sent to foreign countries
in the shape of postal money orders:
Number OF orders ................ 5,SsS s4i
Total amount OF orders .....,... $9S,t5S,lH
To this are to be added the amounfs
thus sent from Portland. Me: Boston.
Brooklyn. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mo
bile, New Orleans. Los Angeles. San
Francisco. Portland Ore, Seattle. Den
yer and Rocky mountain mining
camps. AT all of these places as we'll
as at thousands of smaller cities
throughout the country American mon.
ey is ever in a ceaseless flow from
this country to the relatives and friends
of the immigrants in New York.
Millions similarly destined are sent
across the waters by the express com
panies, which for years have been In
active competition with Uncle SANS
postoffice department Millions. too
60 by registered letters In the forms
Of checks and drafts. II IL estimated
that the total amount Of money sent
abroad yearly counts up something like
this:
Postal money and express or f.
0erS ..s.-...,..,.,.,........... x1S0OOO,5H
Checks and drafts and money
In registered letters ........,... 0,000.00G
Total 500. 0Q0.000
There Is evidence that even this to.
tai is far inadequate. for this reason.
There are in this country more than
100000 immigrants whose relatives
are still abroad Ii each of them sent
home only 500 year, low estimate,
the total would be S500.0OO,O0O
To the money sent abroad is TO be
added the enormous amount personally
carried out Of the United States each
year by returning immigrants and tour.
lists. In 1910 the departures by trans
atlantic steamships from New York
were as follows:
First cabin ..,..."................... sos