Show 1 A PITIFUL SHOWING l L 1 A dispatch Sunday saidthat Admiral Ad-miral Schleyehart i embarked on a British Brit-ish steamship for New York Of I course the Admiral sailed on a British ship only bccajusc there was no American 11 Ameri-can steamer there to receive him I It seems a reasonable conclusion that V I If tho American Government cannot supply to an American Admiral transportation V trans-portation home on an American ship It Is useless to expect that American merchants can supply the people of that country with goods The changes are that to get home the Admiral will have V to first go to England and take another steamer there for Now York I If wo have no merchant steamers at Buenos Ayres or course wo have none at Rio or Para or Pcrnambuco That Is we have no steam lines to the lands from which in the next few years we hope for a I great trade The steamship on which the Admiral is sailing is a subsidized English ship Great Britain has kept I subsidized ships in that trade for thirtylive years and while this country coun-try at last l accounts was purchasing of IJraKll merchandize to the amount of 70000000 annually almost nil was first purchased by Great Britain paid for in British wares carried to England V Eng-land and there transferred to United I States buyers for gold or its equivalent equiva-lent which purchase Included the I freight oq the British goods out and 1 the Brazilian goods back to England We heard a great deal about the ship subsidy steal while Congress was In session but that did not break the force of the fact that we arc payIng pay-Ing 180000000 annually to foreign I shipowners In fares and freights And there are men who claim that the American people are a shrewd bright race What Is the proof of that |