THE COST OF MARINE FREIGHTS
The Cost of Marine Freights ADMIRAL ROBLEY D. EVANS is a good, hard-fighting old sea-dcg—but what he doesn't know about trade would be a very valuable contribution to the sum total of human...
...A sad case, truly...
...We pay hundreds cf thousands of dollars a year to the Germans for meerschaums, mechanical toys and harmonicas, and never get a solitary thing for the money—except the goods...
...Remember," says the good admiral, "that all this good money has gone into the pockets of foreigners, and a similar sum will go every year without benefit to our people beyond carrying their products to market...
...We pay millions to draymen, and get nothing for it—but our hauling...
...And yet he is as intelligent as the average...
...And we pay to British, Germans, Norwegians and Spaniards all those millions for carrying our goods over the sea, and bringing goods to us, and they never do a thing to earn them—except carry the goods...
...If we get five hundred millions' worth for fiv« hundred million dollars, who loses?—Farm and Fireside...
...We have in mind his black-typed anxiety in Hampton's Magazine as to the amount we are paying out each year to foreigners in ocean freights, amounting to five hundred million dollars a year...
...The Cost of Marine Freights ADMIRAL ROBLEY D. EVANS is a good, hard-fighting old sea-dcg—but what he doesn't know about trade would be a very valuable contribution to the sum total of human knowledge...
...And it goes all through our business life...
...We pay the Asiatic millions each year for tea and get nothing in the world for it—except the tea...
...Cheer up...
Vol. 2 • July 1910 • No. 26
