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Show Representatives with Democrats. That might not be so bad. It would be much better this year than two years hence," for there, is nothing that .makes the country so weary of the Democracy as to give them full swing. They-never fail under such circumstances cir-cumstances to develop the bull in the china shop disposition so offensively that the country at the first opportunity fires them out. In the meantime quite 100,000 men would be working in the coal and iron mines, before the coke ovens and smelters, in the rolling mills and on the ship yards. They would be earning and receiving the money which,' without the bill, will go to British and German workingmen; the money thus earned would enter into the general circulation of this country instead of swelling the volume of money in Great Britain and Germany, and before the Presidential election year some great ships, carrying the American flag, would be carrying . American freights and passengers passen-gers at reduced rates, and the freight and passage money thus obtained.would.be another addition to the volume of American money, and far-off lands would, begin' to ".see the American flag and to learn that there was a great Republic called the United States, with wealth and power. immeasurable; that its people are by nature maritime people; ' that this Republic has been feeding half the world and supplying half the world'w ith textiles for years and years, and that it Jias now determined to do a part .of that carrying trade in its own ships. , And the secondary effect would be to make our own people see that In its results the ship subsidy law was working precisely as did the tin-pfate tariff, and was transferring to our country more than f 100,000,000 per annum which we have so long been paying foolishly to foreigners. x SHIP SUBSIDY BILL. The New York Nation -closes a bitter article against a ship subsidy with these words: "So unblushing the demand for subsidy from the public funds, that a greater piece of folly than for the Republican managers to give way to the impudent im-pudent appeal, could not well be imagined. Their Congressional campaign looks none too bright as it is. If they pile a ship subsidy on top of the tariff burdens, which they have refused to touch with one of their fingers, the outlook for them will be black with politipal disaster." , If it would be, would the Nation be so solicitous for their success? lias not the Nation always been i run in the interest of British and German coir, merce? , - Has it not steadily-fought the protective tariff I and the ship subsidy, since its first number? Has is ever proposed any plan for restoring American ships to the sea except through abolishing abolish-ing the tariff, which whenever tried has stranded the Republic financially? Could it more effectively serve British interests if it were published in London Lon-don instead of New York? The passage of the bill might fill the House of |