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Show " City of Tokia." New York, 22. At a meeting in the steamer 7U-i'i to-dav, Mr. A. A. Dow said the ship preoed that it was not for want of material or skilled labor that the United States had lost prestige on the o:can. We paid other nations for carrying our goods because government refused to back up our steamers with subsides as England has hew. He hoped when these vessels encountered their British competitors fin the Pacific our government gov-ernment would be found equal to the maintrnanco of our flag. J. N. Dale, of the American Silk Association, on behalf of that association, associa-tion, presented a beautiful American tl.ig to the ship- |