Show scandinavian FREE SHIPS Advant arc vt or broo truo illustrated ai cicil nearly every country produces ltv materials vl wl lich ich cannot bo be worked up in that country lint but must laust bo be exported tc other countries either because the laitem have better facilities for production oi 01 they possess or nio aio more mora accessible tc ic other raw material necessary for com the finished products consider Consi Con dei tho the shipbuilding industry for instance gibat britain possesses coal and iron which fire are very bulky articles and ami therefore very expensive in ill transportation r rs c wll well as handling scandinavia possesses timber limber copper and other raw ma material teriah w liichi arc used in build building ingve vessels asels of every description scandinavia uses many ships for its comparatively largo 3 et undoubtedly most of its vessels are arc made in great britain for that purpose macch ch of the copper and timber is exported to great britain the scandinavian governments see the wisdom and the tha advant advantage ago of allowing lowing tl material 3 needed for the building of vessels S to bo be exhorted o to a neighboring conati country y of permitting its ship owners tc buy and of permitting rt ing its cra to use of ships partly ardit bi ailt from row raw materials which it produces itself but built RS as ATC well 11 as owned d in a foreign country Tho scandinavian governments know that it is cheaper and more advantageous tor for their people to sell their raw materials used in shipbuilding and to have the ships they need built and even owned by a nation where tho the principal ingredients abound where the facilities for building vessels are greatest arid and where consequently ships can be built cheat cheapest t dut but if the lawgivers of the scandinavian ii ian pe it should resolve thit th it it is ia better for their countries to themselves build the ships they need and consequently should lay a high duty it upon foreign built craft in order to encourage and stimulate the buil building din of vessels in their own country what would bo be the consequence scandinavia would have to import most of the materials and among them very bulky ones used for building vessels and at a big high it cost of transportation tho the facilities for shipbuilding there are not so great as where the commercial fleets of all the nations of the world congregate and the time necessary to build such vessels will bo be greater the thousand and uno one little things needed in equipping a vessel must also alo be imported from tho the country where they abound or else must bo be manufactured at a higher cost of production the bouc consequence q of the protective law will then bo be that Sc scandinavia andina naia ia does indeed build its own commercial vessels but at what great expense the greater cost of tho the ships will put them entirely out of competition for tile the carrying tra trado do of other nations with tho the cli cheaper carer built vessels of their c competitors scandinavian merchants fing perhaps by law obliged to ship their goods in the high priced vessels of their count rys make will have to pay higher prices for shipping their goods and so cannot compete vi ith like products f from rom other countries or if the law of the land does not oblige them to ship their merchandise in the high priced vessels of their own coun arys make they will pass them by and ship in the cheaper vessels of other nations because freight frei glit rates with them are cheaper thus letting the ships of their own country lay idle or forcing them to take as low rates as their foreign competitors in which case the scandinavian a ship owners ners would conduct a bobill lobing business and the government would bo be obliged to assist them with mith bounties or subsidies now the protectionists projectionists there might point to the lio one great industry perhaps perli aps to the many industries they built up but they would hive have to 0 arlook the ruin their unwise policy had caused to others they would have lieve moreover to answer the very momen momentous tons opi question estion who pays for the industries our country formerly could not maintain for as lias has been shown wherever the luxury of protection is ia indulged in the artificial industries always exit eat may even thrive tit at tho the expense of the whole nation while tile the unprotected industries must foot the bill dingman herbt eg 1 in I T tariff ariff reform |