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Show ltuuM, or i in: .liruciu.NT .miiiim:. A few daya ago tho people of New York directly, aud the (uiple of the rest of the country lndlrecll), were irlsllegtd to enjoy the fe4llvllle attendant tij,on thu unfurling uf the dtaraand Htrlpes from the mist of a Ilrel-clia modern steauishlp. Of coune there was u lima when the United Htatcshad u msroiutllo navy whoso propuitious were r.t Icait respuctsUle that the liiiiichlu or roiliterlng of one Americtn veael moroor leas uialu little dlflerence. Hut the Jubilation attending the iialurallxilloii, or conversion, con-version, or whatever wo liny call 11, uf the C'lty ol New York: prjves lint the ovenl nowadays Is ono worthy ol liirtlcularnud ot.enlatlois notleo. This U'lng the ciie, It Is pleasure pleas-ure tu note that what was done with thu New York n week or so ngu Is ibout lo be done, If Indeed nt Dili writing It hat not nl-realy nl-realy been done, with amine r foreign for-eign built ship one of tho best altoit the Oily el Paris. Thiastwottiuiiierr, Willi hare lo lly the American llag and perhaps aceei t au Amerloin subsidy, sub-sidy, are belluvud and hoped tu be the a iv nice guard of a mighty marine that unjer wlseatil generous legislation legisla-tion will carry our euslgu hruwdy ou every tea. That these twu foreign built vessels are permitted to come Into the houola and emoluments that have formerly been retcrveel to home-built home-built shl; e 14 due ton sustention of ceil alii restrictive provisions which, leaving (lolltloi out of the question, could ouly result dlaastruutly to us. N ,t only have wo by law discriminated discrimin-ated against the Impirtltlon of foreign built vr-aieli, but we hive alio forbidden forbid-den the entrance of materials Indispensable Indispen-sable to tho construction of shls nt home. It Is tho removal of these restrictions lu thu tuse of foreign bottoms bot-toms that furnishes us the cause for present rejjlrlngs. It Is rcrululy belter to havoas Amerlcib the steam-SkliifMS steam-SkliifMS New York and l'aris,oven th ugh they weru built at an r.tul.sh dock, than uot to have tin m at all. |