Show SHIPS ARE ABE EDED when situation the to in which the unfit ed states finds herself at the dose close of 61 a most successful war is considered sd si lit it will probably be found halt one of the first requirements vow mow is ct a larger amount of american vessels tor the foreign trade it would be a take to give ait attention to army and navy mea measures sires to the exclusion of the interests odthe of the mercantile marine the war wair with spain has clearly early ol demonstrated the value of ships not origin auy ally intended tended ini for flor war had we become involved with france or even germany lit it Is impossible to say to what an extent we might have been handicapped perhaps humiliated and disgraced abott in oft from lack of warships but from lack of merchant vessels capable of tran transporting spoTting troops carrying carry ing i ng coal and doing the infinite variety of things that merchant ships are cap capable table obbes of being made to do in times of 0 war thomas Jeffer jefferson sov in Ms his report to the third session of the first on oa the privileges and restrictions of the commerce of the elated states says in part if particular nations grasp pt at un due shares of our commerce md more especially if they seize on oin the means dt the united states to convert them into amment for their own strength wd and withdraw them entirely from froias port of those to whom they hey belongs belong defensive and protective We measures lasures become necessary oft ifie ae part pant of the nation whose marant mari ante resources are thus 4 invaded or it will be disarmed of ftp st defense its productions will be at ait the mercy off of the nation which has possessed DO itself exclusively of the indans oneana of carrying them and its policies WW be by those who command its commerce if we pose the and artists whom it ft now employs we lose the present means of marine defense and time will be requisite to raise up others ewhen disgrace emki losses shall bring home to out olin tep feelings the disgrace of having haring abandon ted them there nevar amx WB vt ft tane W when en the axioms here laid clown applied with gr greater eater for force ce than the present ot Mi giesy eSy aih the acquisition of colonies in two tw oceans the united states has beccie maritime power and nd must be to hold its bosmon posu as such Is needed is an american built bui 11 magant marine handling the bommer oom mere vt the country and ever ready lat aae request ot of the government to Tea olUr hsuch services as may be required r built eh ships aps should no ao unger meager be registered as american veasel ve asea our own shipbuilding toe be eream aged and if need be protected prot ted uran it his has assumed such feat vessels can be cheaper and tetter better than those built by oxy other here the material is here land and the kill Is |