Show I 11 i T THE E SHAME OF IT On another page of toda today's TELEGRAM i 1 will win b be found a double cartoon copied from the I New York American which presents in striking I I dearness clearness at once an object le lesson son and a most I significant page of history On the one side I told in pictures is the progress of American t shipping from the beginning up up to o 1860 Away i back back in the distance is a little brig then I n nearer a small ship nearer still a larger ship i in the front an old time mighty clipper ship with mainsails topsails sails and topgallant sails all spread all bellying in a gale c the ship half omed ca caromed but plunging through the theseas seas the seas the fairest picture that commerce up to that time tithe had ever painted of her messengers Below is written that in that year of 1860 the tonnage of the ships of France was of Germany of England and of the United States tons that between 1806 and 1860 92 per cent of our o ocean ean commerce commerce com corn merce was carried in American ships duly 8 per cent in foreign ships The obverse picture shows our commerce in ina a a dilapidated little littIe steamer France comes conIes next I ith a large steamer Germany with a great 1 ste steamer mer and then England with a mighty leviathan levia levia- than of the sea and the legend below gives the tonnage of our ships at of France 2 1 of Germany of England I tons and tells us that less than 6 1 el r cent of our ocean commerce is carried in American inel ships and 94 p per percent r cent under foreign tJ 4 co Mw 4 I lags lags' j j. j The The cartoon is entitled The uThe Shame Sham of the I 1 American Congress Who Vho says that the appellation appellation appellation ap ap- ap- ap i is not just To have kept our place pace after lIter 1860 think how many miners shipbuilders I ers eis and arid sailors w would have found profitable I labor and all the money paid to o. o them and to toI the ships would have been returned ned to pur own I coffers Now we pay annually to foreign ships 5 quite finite OOOO We Ve pay that in gold or its equivalent Gold when converted into money is Tabor labor bor made mad immortal and always works The Ther r p paid id out annually in any savings ba bank k would draw When that is paid paid to foreigners the principal is is lost to us I forever the interest goes to the country that Jias the principal If we ve have been pay paying g this thi's I amount for twenty-five twenty years years we are tre re out in principal are we not That amount would have built and sailed some ships wo v it not And all the money would have I come come back to our shores It would have given i some tens of thousands of men prof profitable table labor would it not It wo would ld have meant t some thousands more of American homes would it not ilOt It would have l kept pt our flag Hag to the fore fore- I 3 f j front of nations on every sea would it not t t And we should have had our part in reducing J new lands to civilization 4 l Then r en th the int interest re t The first 1 1 paid n-paid out wenty- wenty twenty five e yea years ago if pla placed d in ini i some foreign savings bank ha has do doubled bled Figure Fig Fig- ll tire ure the interest on all the payments and see sec what hat has been lost Who says that the simple 1 l' l hIsto history is not only the shame of congress congress i Jut butan but an impeachment of the intelligence of the American people i |