| Show OUR OCEAN TRADE the report of the bureau of statistics 0 oatho f the treasury Tro Trea aury gury department just issued states that thai our foreign commerce measured by its value has declined from 75 per cent in 1850 to to 1349 1249 per cont cent in ili 1890 foreign vessels carried percent per cent during the last fiscal year in a recent report made to congress it Is estimated that this country paid boo to foreign ship phlp owners last year for or freight and transportation tho the tribute which tile th states has paid during the last thirty years aggregates or a sum greater than was the national debt at tho the close celoso of the war our foreign trade began to pass from under tho the american hag flag in 1855 stearn steam began then to dispute for t the he ocean carrying trade seriously in 1854 great britain increased tile iho subsidy to glicr ter steamers to per annum the nere mere withdraw it 11 from our steam lines entirely lit in 1854 art and d ID fit tho the american shipping bip engaged in tile tho foreign trado trade of tho the countr counters had declined IS 15 per co cent t a since 1833 1855 anve haaro are in the habit babit of saying a a Y it was at the war and the lite coated c ro alto cruisers that swept our mercantile navy front from the sea in point of tact fact had the same policy been maintained that thai was adap adopted tell in fit 1858 and had there been no war our foreign vi bould list haio a been the same as it Is it would have rave been carried on in foreign ships low how any government can call persist in being so blind as aa our government has boon it Is hard to understand |
