Show S SHIP IP SUBSIDIES I I The Thc New York Sun Szn approves g generally of th th-j th j presidents president's i ent's speech hi in Se Seattle h in wl eh he lie said ho lit t would l recommend a n subsidy for Am American rh ships Ii Sun in the thc course of its its' article n H The Thc t government i. helps the farmer furmer manufacturer mm v. Why should it not help the thc ship hi builder t. t j It strikes us that that's la Is a a. a am m very n narrow vic v of the thc question tion If to hn have our Hag hug restored to tu t the l seaf va sea m i Would not hel help hell cr c every ind industry st r ill in our country h i if I f- c ouId be bc as liS we hero here re in 18 1839 1859 liei ouI our ships cached d over every overy port of importance in the world anti ami fl i its s tOl tonnage I age exceeded 1 Iha tha of any other nation anI l anIlie t lie IC fact would not help trade if it would not t lid help thc tile the prestige of our om country if jf it would not adl aiLt 5 the thc fourth wheel hecl to our wagon wago 1 that is lUl running uj on onI I I if l ler wheels now then we wc would sa say remain as us we c are I i ft Ji I v Wo 0 ship ll a away hundreds ol or millions of Jf f dollar lullar f f worth of di or American prod products AVe y c bring n in iii him un re g of millions of dollars worth woith of or foreign ti- ti i ducts duels We Ve sell very cr little to South America wc e ve t absorb from South Am America rica especially from Brazil Bra Bra- zil til il nearly all aU her exports we e do not nul d do it f it t. t com 5 h by wa way of Germany or En England to on om shores We Wc pa pay three three- freights upon lIpon it r We Ve pi pa li l I 1 on oti the goods that go out from flom from I pr or Germany German to Brazil which goods are HIt traded ed f for Brazilian products and th the freight a added t Th Thim Ihn n nv v I wo YO p pay lY r the thc freight back tl on fl those goods to Germany I or England with th lh the freight added mill and then ve vc C pay a foreign ship for Jor bringing those products L across th the seji to n ns At the same Bame time Great Britain lends one steam steam- 1 t hip company with which to build twi 1 ships hips to exceed in iu speed P C and grandeur grandm l. l and nini carry carry- hi hJ capacity cH anything that Germany ever cr built jre Tl ris is no that sacrifice England Englund will make to keep her mastery of or the he sea with the rt result uH that she has the great trade of the ocean Germany ou th the same lines is next to her A And yet all ocr over our country olI are men men- some of them bright brightmen t men who lio in insi j that a 1 subsidy to ships shies meHUS making JUal some sonic rich men richer It seems scents TO rn TOis us is it is as senseless as any assertion ever cr made madr because a n ship when it to Is built huilt represents little ex- ex eel cep Kept Ute tile conversion on l J i n of iron by coal coil and an nit air ah blast into steel and the con conversion ou of that steel into nto a form fornI which we we- call cai a ship hip and find no iio great Steamship company in iii the world is is making large returns today The after running thc thier r ships hips under a subsidy for for sixty yours years in III order to h build two t superior ships shins were wore obliged to borrow horrow the the- he money from Great Br Britain and Great Britain pa pays lays s 's on pu these two ships pO a year ear in suh i dies tICS lies 4 Now when an an editor an-editor cd it 01 a ay f that all w wa need lv i. ji to o g go gc abroad and nud buy ships ship in order to run them cl c a against gaint such Mich competition it ion as us that its it s m ei-m em to H us Bs he lucks lacks the tho to o reason from to Even el the c editor of the lime Olt ve we we understand we have hac riot not seen the article sti su j ts' ts that we wc UI c foreign built ships that are arc kIll idle rather tha a to bui build them and run them our our- this this too JIen if five e of tJ the c finest of mo Irn I- I em ern rn ships ships' were anchored in the Willamette awl and tendered r c ri free freU gift girt t to the editor of tl the Or goni 1 there here is no port ill in the all th the seas to which coull rm un those and have th them m p pity pay cx expenses We Yo see sec that Admiral Dewey joins with the resident and says we VC e ought to to have a merchant nt marine and ought to Jo have it a as every very other other- l nathn that hat has hns a merchant marine has obtained it it Eyon n he the Japs who vho ho h have c ti r cheapest kind of coal an and whose labor is 60 per cent cheaper than American lu labor abor or get for cY cv every ry voyage that th ir ship hips make e to our our coast and ba back bak k The I e subsidy anti people of J th UI United States have lave successfully fought off anything like subsidies dies ies for fifty r years and in all that time they hanot ha have not lot suggested d a way through which h an iii Americ line ino of steamships can be run mu At At- Atthe the same some time tinie he thc have ha prore professed se to be he anxious s to have an anAm Am American merican l merchant merchant- marine fJ This h s last they ought might to fo o omit in fn in their arguments ts because people who rend read them do 10 not believe they ther tire are re sincere They arc nrc simply asking an 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