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Show BOY'S PLAY AND MEN'S WORK. For many years the British have tried to win back the trophy which the old America took from them fifty-two years ago. The utmost foreign skill in designing and building foreign yachts and then in sailing them has been exhausted, but all in vain. The changes in construction and in models have amounted to an evolution, but on this side the advances have been still more pronounced pro-nounced with the result that the most gallant of foreign contestants returns once more to his own country carryng no news except that he has again been fairly beaten. But while the yachts were maneuvering for position the other morning the great Deutchland came by on her way to New York and after the race the Lucania likewise came sweeping in from one ol her swiftest voyages. Why do Germany and Great Britain carry continuously the honors of the sea? Why can the men of New York defeat de-feat the utmost efforts of foreigners to beat them in yacht racing, but when it comes to carrying the world's ocean commerce, Great Britain, Germany, Ger-many, Trance, even little old Norway, jean call our country down? -Theris but one reason. The governments of those countries stand behind their ship builders and sailors. Great Britain thirty years ago was almost the only sea power. But she won it by the payment, during twenty-fl.YQ.y.eayj3) twenty-fl.YQ.y.eayj3) of some $200,000,000 in subsidies pure andc8bnl)Jte. ' Germany saw the situation and after tKeRrftnco-Prussian war she tried the same plan except that she went to building swifter ships than the British, was more careful in preparing her goods for market, was more attentive to foreign agencies and had more capable agents. -The result is that she has wrested much trade and prestige from her great rival. While she was making these exertions Mr. Vilas as Postmaster General under Mr. Cleveland, was sending United Unit-ed States mails to Cuba by fishing smacks, trying to get passengers in San Frarcisco, en route to Central America, to take the United States mails as personal baggage, and in his report for that year he boasted that through stamps and other government perquisities he had saved the govern-ment govern-ment $300,000 by his contract? with foreign governments gov-ernments for carrying United States mails. B Is is any special wonder that the United B StateB flag on merchant ships makes but a poor fl showing? B The decree as it goes out reads that in the fl boy's play of racing yachts the Americans are the fl handiest people in the world, but a nation of boys B and refuse to accept and adopt the only means B through which a great merchant marine can be fl built up and maintained. B And still there are Democrats in every state jfl who want Mr. Cleveland re-nominated and elect- ed, because of the masterful statesmanship that fl he revealed when President before. |