| Show OCEAN TRADE lost last year ships with an aggregate tonnage ot of and carrying 2 S passengers liaised parsed through tho the suez canal the receipts tor for tho the year were vere out ot of the ships only five anere cre american commenting upon tint that tact fact tho the philadelphia record says tho the policy ot of repression which hs been maintained lor for tile lust last thirty years tho I 1 he expansion of tile tho foreign trade of tho the united 3 has ila neadly banished our nas flag trofa from all tho the great highways of tho sona and all that limit Is bosh tho the bulk of 0 tile the shipping through the suez canal Is carried on in english french german and italian ships find and the reason for ib 11 Is becal because lse or 0 tho the trade between those old countries and their colonies england goos goes on her way to india and australla australia through the tha suez canal germany has ian a large larce trade in south africa the operations ot of the french in madagascar and slam for fop the last year have been very extensive and so 60 liaa has the italian trado trade with the trade aud a ud tho the war llo united states has no possessions that way thero there la Js j no real reason aay bihy very many american ships should pass through tile tho suez canal the trade of oc england with india find and australia la Is very much the name that mat the ina or of rew new yolk aou would id be 10 with our west coast if tile tho darlen darien canal or the nicaragua canal were finished and when tile tho decord talks about repression that 1 is baby talk the way france and germany an and d great britain have built up lip thel their r great caal marine has bee been it by using business principles by giving sub subsidies sidles to their ships by establishing trado trade centers centera in ill tile the chief ports parts of oc tile and maintaining them by stretching tho the cable under tho the sea bea and telegraph wires on tho the land that is by making trado trade a business anil and inin labora tig to it in at a business way tile the united states haa duno done nono of 0 that thal we have not oven even a cable to hono hann lulu we depend on foreign cables to to do our work overt with augerl OIL oa when a subsidized british still it la going to mail from tile harbor of new york to the harbor of RIO hlo tor for instance it if that alp ship wilt will carry our malls a few dollars less than an american v alp w without a L our government MO lit in its wisdom alca bilal cinalt tv tu tile foreign ship and has not the to bee that by the very act it alms a fatal blow blew at american trade irada |
