| Show SHIP SUBSIDY AGAIN 1 C A call has been Issued by br a special committee of the New ew York Board Beard of Trade and Transportation for a con convention convention to be hold in Washington in January to make plans for the exten exton extension don sion of the foreign trade of the tile United States Governors of states and terri tern territories territories tories chambers of commerce boards of trade and similar organizations are invited to appoint delegates to the con convention convention The promoters hope to have a large and deeply interested attendance There may ma not be a bug buC under this particular chip but the fact that the tho names of or Lewis Nixon Ixon and some others who are the owners of or have stock st ck in great shipyards ards appear as signers of the call for the convention is enough to make malte the public just a trifle sus suspicious suspIcious The Tue chances are that the chief topic before the meeting will be the ship subsidy question And a large at attendance attendance Is Ig desired in order to make it appear to congress which will then Americans de desire desire desire be In session that many sire the passage of a subsidy bill billAt billAt At the last session of congress the senate passed such a bill The Tho house killed It perhaps for the reason that members of o the house care to go before the people with a subsidy bill handicap attached atta hed to them However that may be the measure m asure was defeated through inaction on the part of the house But the proponents of the tile IncaS meas measure me s sure ure are tireless They will keep on ham hammering hammering mering away at Itt t it as long IonS as they think earthly chance for them to there is an win winNow Now ow the fact fiot that a ship subsidy is necessary to the extension of the not foreign commerce of this tills country is so SO apparent that it should be recognized observer Tour Yo r foreigner by Dv every care what sort of ship brings Ills his goods Ml All ho wants is to tD get the theat th Foods at the right ri ht price Nor has there ther th t ever eer been an any difficulty in 11 II ships enough no ugh to tarry carry the goods that thatIs Is ships flying tho the flag of some country No Xo manufacturer whoso whose foreign trade amounts to anything has ever entered L La a complaint on this score I i As to the value of th the subsidy l in In Lu Increasing IncreasIng I creasing the number of ships flying fi ing the j flag of the country some statistics may be Interesting The Tile Bos Boston Boston ton Ion Herald presents l figures fi on tonnage as aa follows follow Tonnage in n In 1904 1901 19 H II I crease creaso British United States J 1007 fl q Germany German H l 1 France Prance OOOO t Great Britain grants a mull man subsidy amounting to about t a year ear Germany and the United 1 States grant no subsidies while France Prance grants the I heaviest of 0 all aU A comparison of the figures shows that the French showed s owed an increase considerably be beneath beneath beneath neath the tho gains of tile the other countries an indication on that the subsidy merely merly I the tIle shipbuilders and rails falls in il ilIts its all alleged ed purpose of increasing asing the tonnage tonii tonn g 1 If It the rule which forbids the of foreign built vessels for fo American r were abrogated the American Amerl nn tonnage would show how a great greater er and a quicker increase than could possibly be accomplished a c through a subsidy act As the law stands today every vessel essel that flies the American 1 flag must have been In an nn Amer American American ican shipyard ard jj |
