Show NO SHIP SUBSIDY PREDICTED The wires yesterday foreshadowed ed the probability probability proba proba- of the tile defeat of the ship subsidy bill It says sa s 's the Democrats are arc confident in the house that with the help of a few Republicans they can kill it We think very likely they have been doing that now since 1865 Since then they have seen Germany Germany Ger Ger- many advance to the foremost place among mong foreign nations and one of the special means adopted to accomplish that has been by putting her ships on on the sea and keeping them going By so doing she draws probably annually from the United States for carrying United States mails passengers and freight and that suits those gentlemen gentle gentle- men in congress All they have to do is to refuse to todo todo todo do anything and let the tile government pay the expense expense ex ex- pense pease of building up and sustaining the merchant ships of foreigners continuing this year after year until our flag has practically disappeared from the sea and with it a great portion of our trade and among the semi-civilized semi nations of the earth we weare weare weare are no longer known And then too if we need to send a warship out for any purpose from the home port we have to send to Germany or to Great Britain to charter ships enough to carry her coal It is a wise business and can only be equaled by that other wise business which sits by and watches s while hile our export trade is destroyed with half the world and in with a large contingent contingent con con- besides simply through a law which in its wisdom our congress passed and which in their wisdom modern congressmen have not the courage courage courage cour cour- age even to discuss The outside world is greatly indebted to us because it draws from the American people quite a year in fares and freights and at atthe atthe atthe the same time we supply supply- the shrewd ship masters and statesmen of foreign lands with an inexhaustible ible theme for hilarious laughter I |