Show A BRITISH SUBSIDY TRICK The American cpmmerclal agent at Port Antonio Mr NlUidlas N i Snyder L in n report to the Department of State gives the I details of an odd steamship subsidy JUt granted toa liritfsh hue tinder a Ionyear contract Messrs Eider Diinpstcr i Co of Hnglnnd In I return for establishing cstablshht n fortnightly Hlcumshlp service between Jamaica and lmal Great Britain are to annually receive 194CCO Cnohalf of this sum is to be raised in Jadnnca and the plan Is to lax the banana lands enough additional to raise Jamaicas share These lands I It so happens are owned by h an Ameri can company which company I 11 l main mining a steamship service between the Ira ted Stairs and Jamaica under an annual subsidy of 55000701 fiom our f01 olr Government Tills American company It Is now proposed to lax tax through Its possession oft the larger part of the Janiaicau fruit linds to pay its British rival t subsidy nmountn to about three and a half limes I the stun the Ihuls slm lhl United Stales pays bo thc line AmericanJamaican lne Till1 IK a pretty trick for the Jamaican Cfov crnmonl to engage in and for Great Britain to approve of Jamaicas chief Industry until untl recently re-cently was the raising of sugar for export ex-port to Great Britain This was ruined by the competition of the I bountyfed sugar Imported Into Great Britain and which despite the appeals of the Ja o maicans Grcit Britain refused lo Impose II Im-pose a countervailing tax upon equal to the amount of the bounty received by 1 the foreign exporters Then it was that I American capital stepped in and made the then unprofitable lands profitable PIoftable I I by the cultivation of ultralslnsr and further aiderl Jamaica by establishing n direct steamship line with the United I I States t Great Britain now sets out to reward I this American companys enterprise by compelling It to pay to Its British rival steamship Hue for len years a r1al sum I closely approaching the Iota I amount of i he subsidy paid to Ihnt I i American l10unl companys ships by tin > fulled States I And yet wi hear the I fiee trade newspapers news-papers in the United Slates opposing the payment of sub ldle 0j08Inl thr lb lo American ships on the success Is I In no nay due to lime payment ground that Great cue I i nlns maritime of subsidies to her steamship Ine9N Y Mall and Express I Ex-press |