Show HOW ENGLAND DOES IT I Great Britain not only believes in III keeping her herships herships ships on the sea but in extending every facility to to them Fifty-eight Fifty years Jears ago she was sending I her hel subsidized steamers to all the principal ports f of cof the world one line to the east cast coast of South America another to the west coast by the V West t I die and Panama A Afew few ew years ago when the theoffice officer who is v to our postmaster general gave a contract to tn foreign o ign line of steamers steamers' to carry the mails bei be- be A. A i ty en England and the United States there was a i i all over England Three years ago she leaned the Cunard company to build i w ships which should all the German Germans I hips s and since the two great ships were built she taken a little imperfect harbor on the west c coast of Wales Vales built a great railroad to it and if reak aters and to form a platform to back the tons of rock were blasted f tp the tl th sides of the adjacent cliff and piled in the It And all sli this was to make it pos possible ible to transport trans trans- f port bit passengers between London and New York inand in s 's and to reduce the time between beb New Nework ork anti and nd Paris by six or seven hours As As soon as the oce ocean n cables were made Blade a tt sue suc- cJ c- c J is' is he stretched her cables to both sides of South Sonth 3 America and guaranteed to merchants who j li 4 b branch anch houses in iu those thoe ports that they should have ha steamers come to them regularly for all time in the future and the cables were to en- en ble them to telegraph for goods In that that way her merchants abroad have learned the languages of pe countries and and the habits of or the people and for t. t that at she is the for foremost most ocean carrying countr country in inthe inthe the the he world and no outside country can compete with her until it too loo can run its ships to those ports and nd can establish trading stations and an as England did three score years ago learn the habits and languages of the people and what sort of goods they want vant And Ancl so if our congress passes ses a s subsidy law it will vill have bave to put behind it a guaranty that the subsidy subsidy sub sub- sidy sl shall all be paid and the steamers sha shall J. J run nm for forlong forlong forlong long years in advance until Americans c cap can n get on the same ground that English and German mer mer- have chants in those cou countries tries Gr Grit Great t Brit Britain u lives by trade and her idea of trade is to hae ha have e every every facility the tho ca carrying anc and the receiving g and the disposing of goods superior to any other ther power and further that the work must be done don in the shortest time possible because speed is the tho great factor in this modern world What she did in and about South America she has done all around the world She owns on the Chinese coast she has control of India south Africa north S Australia Australi everywhere Australia everywhere a her work ork is seen and it is always in this same thorough manner and her flag is as familiar to the barbarous nations of the ca earth th as it is to h her r own people I IVe I'Ve We Ve have a great many statesmen in America but none of them s seems able to take on the comprehension comprehension compre compre- hension of what a nations nation's ships ought to be be to the nation and what a a. a nation must be in foreign trade when it has as no ships of its own |