Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklet - Element of Inspiration in the Schools (1902) [PAGE 13]

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That in the last two or three years large amount l apital have been withdrawn from the United Stal I England, Germany and Russia have become, \'i)\- the fl si tim borrowers of American money. Who can fail to the sitri an- of all this or be blind to the fad thai i1 means quite li to the labor as to the capital of the [Jnit< d Stal ;nf lei us not be tbo much puffed up or too rapacio h, eign trade of Great Britain is almosl a matter of , i leath with her. We could gel on very well by oui Ives \\ oiId rai all we need; we could make all we mi t ha> ' and w < uiid prosper withoul selling in foreign marketi Bu1 il no« o with her. She can aol meel the needs of hei \u ( ,i r n | | | her own fields. Her workers musl depend on materials w M\ to them. If her manufactures do no1 command other mark a than her own her mills musl slop and multitudes of her p < jjjij i come to want. To send manufactured goods as well ai