Show GET UP IN TIME One of the best arguments In favor of the ship subsidy is 18 found In the homely statement of a Baltimore man who says It seems to me the United States in the matter of the shipping interests in inter ter of the world Is in the position of tIle the workman whO has lost a good job through not getting up early enough In Inthe inthe the morning American goods are carried all over the world by ships of foreign nations for the simple reason that their govern governments governments ments give bonuses forthe encourage encouragement encouragement ment ot of marine Interests And the strongest republic on earth has In dis distant distant tant ports a war fleet but no armada of business The Stars and Stripes float over visiting battleships that want nothing bring nothing take nothing add nothing And the commerce originating under that same com commerce commerce merce that adds to the fortune of every everyone everyone one who handles it and every on one to whom It nation declines to put Its ship owners on an equality with competing owners from other lands There Is reason f for r the hope that Con Congress Con Congress gress will in Its present session enact the shipping bill and that the charge of f having lost profitable business by not getting up early enough nough In the morning will never again be made ad I |