Show OUR NAVY AND UKRCHANT MAK1NE The great todo now making about our naval armament in southern waters is ridiculous ri-diculous There is going to be no war with Chili nor with any other country and all this Sunday and night work at the navy yards giving dreadful note of preparation prepara-tion is only to put more dollars into the pockets of a few shipbuilders on the seacoast sea-coast We cant build ships in Utah nor in Nebraska nor Kansas now Iowa nor anywhere any-where in the interior They can be built nowherewith our high protective policy in operation which taxes all shipbuilding and shipfurnishing materialsexcept by subsidies And this reminds us that our shipping can never be restored to its old condition under any system of bounties whilst the policy of the Republicen party prevails 0 > DUlUt uur6 is nu inure rtJuuu for subsidizing the depressed interest inter-est of shipbuilding than in subsidizing grainraising or cattlebreeding in the west As with the war vessels the merchant mer-chant marine must not be made to depend upon bounties It cannot thus be restored or reinstated to the condition it was in before be-fore the war when its sails whitened every seaand even if it could be the western people object to it for the system is sectional sec-tional and unjust Tile only effective method of placing our shipping where it was thirty years ago is to restore to power the party under which it achieved its former for-mer proud position Our shipping flourished under Democratic administrations I administra-tions and our navy made a name under Democratic policyand a Democratic policy would put back both together |