Show FREE SHIPS Commenting on Mr Vanderbilts imported im-ported acht which it has been decided de-cided he was entitled to bring in free the Boston Post says It has been finally decided that Mr Vanderbilt mav Import a pleasure yacht free of duty The attempt to I enforce the protective features of our navhration laws against the yacht Conqueror have failed If however Mr Vanderbilt had sought to bring here a vessel built abroad to engage in commerce and earn something in the carrying trade under the American flag he would have found an insuperable insuper-able obstacle in these same protective protect-ive laws In the one case the laws favor luxuries for the personal enjoyment enjoy-ment of a very rich man in the other they forbid the same privileges to commercial com-mercial enterprise for the benefit of the whole country This is the practical operation of the Republican idea of protection In ships and yachts It works lust as it does in other things The few are favored at the cost of the many Whv not make ships for commerce com-merce free as well as fast boats for Dleasure That the few are favored at the cost of the many under protection is one of the strongest arguments in favor of it by its beneficiaries though they do not cry that argument out on the stump Protection is the putting in practice of the theory that to him that bath shall be irivrn I |