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Show SUPPRESSING THE FLAG. J uit now murU noise emanates from Wa-hihgtun about an American merchant mer-chant marine. Without going into the question oi the advisability of govei nrnent owned trading vc-rdr, there is no doubt that a government merchant marine would be merely a makeshift. To ae omphidi any lasting good, legislation iuiv;t go deeper. Every i merk'Jt n citizen, resident iu Utah or clewhere, who has traveled abroad ua felt humiliated by the absence ab-sence of the Amei lean, flag from foreign waters, and has wondered why. Congress Con-gress furni:h'-5 the reason. li ere 0 re some of the wuy eougrPKS hn.i iii t he past sought to di'i'-ournge Ameriean shipping: No fo'-eigu built esclfi might fail und-T the Ami-H'-an fl'ig. When an American owner of a 'hip spent a certain tune abroad, his ef:-el automat iea I ly must Iupo its Anierb'iiii registry. Au foj eigne r could o vu j ih; i in ;i u A merieji n hi p nor command one. A a Arr.erir.m ve, :', if puirhaed by a foreigner, mu.d never fig.'jio under tho American Hfg. Jf an American ves.el nbould be repaired re-paired in a foreign port, it might enter an American port ngain only by paying to tho United St,;ite;; government one half of the cost of tho repair;; done abroad. Ainenenn laws require that the owner uf certain er ehi inir.t enrry eUra -si'-itnnt engineer, extra nibirfl, extra water teud'TH Jind extra quartcrniastoiH, not requir-d under fnrrign lav.M. I'url hermore, the American f.yit.cm of measurement x different, from that of l:'.ngland or Orum.iiy, ;o that Hi) Amcri-rn Amcri-rn ii rliip is obliged to pay evtra ch:i.rge-i fur win r( ago, pilot ing nnd olher fu'inihu' servi'-e. Cii pt.uin Knbert, Uolla r, w dm owhh diis mailing u ruler both the American and Kngli? h l!a !, luiyi figured it out that, on one tvph-al ve.".d of hif Meet, it v.'onh co t, ::I7,LM.'I a yenr more to rn i 1 under lhe Nui'TI'Tim ting than under the liril.i-h ling. Tii"ix luei 'oii'.;re.n ber-u bu.iy luwnr ing or -iippce-f.il,;; th' Ameri'-an flag on (,: pj:. L"t, ii h re; petfully r,iig;;ed noiun of th:". piv. '-at, entiiusi.'mu o rl i roel e, (oveir-I M rtu'J ' nf (he -uliei-t on hound economical linos, with the bopo of se- curing American shipping of a permanency perma-nency and magnitude worthy of this nation and its foreign trade. |