Show NOW FOR THE SHIPPING BILL The rhe reception of the fleet at Rio and the all hails to it as it passed Valparaiso ought to be he an incentive to congress to pa pass s the shipping shipping- bill There is nothing nothing noth noth- ing that so impresses a people who arc are as yet only in inthe inthe inthe the suburbs of civilization as a n mighty might exhibition of power The rhe average Chilano had no idea that th the Ufe United Unite States po possessed any formidable ships until those passed in line before him He heard no doubt what the Dewey Dewcy the Sampson Samp Samp- son and and the Schley Schiley squadrons did but was ivas not greatly great great- ly 13 impressed No doubt runny many of them said It would have been vastly different had the they come this way But that exhibition last week weck gave them the vision of a power of which they had no conception conception conception con con- before and when finally the fleet sailed away and th tho thought came to them that were they to be assailed by some power beyond the sea and the integrity integrity in in- of their territory be threatened those ships would return firing firing- not blank cartridges but solid soli shot and shell in their defense they must have felt kindlier toward the United States than ever evel- before for Chile has hus not always s been especially friendly to our country Right n now w is the time when American steamship lines hues should be bc run on both the east and west coasts of South America for a transformation has begun in at least four of the greater states of that conti conti- nent neat Then during the present year the railroad between Santiago and Buenos Ay Ayres res ought to be completed The rest of the world has been pretty well explored With that road completed it ought not to require very extensive e advertising to start arage u a urage urage rage for a winter voyage around South Sonth America for the winter voyage would be running into summer sum stUn l flier mer ler all the way As the thc ships passed along the coast of Chile last lust week we presume the thc sailors if near enough saw the shocks hoeks of grain yellow in ill the field for it is harvest time lime down there The ships should be e put on and the mistake should not be made to introduce any inferior ships in that trade Thc Ilic steamers from England France Germany and nd Italy that run there are all fine ones and it would be better to send no ships at all than to send poor small and slow ones They ought to supplement for the commerce of the country what the warships did for the military arm armo It is time that our peaceable conquest ol or olour our part of South America began begau I |