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Show wi'lflijii THE SHIP SUBSIDY.. Si 111 w If Wb bave a figntIns Irish friend wno was for' Hlli' IB r'l merly a sailor. He came around yesterday and Hi' IB I i made us a speech on the stupidity of the minority HI ! I I ' that In congress opposes a ship subsidy. Tit was Hf III . about as follow: H I M "Did the blank blink idiots ever see a full-IB full-IB 1 rigged American ship, one of the old lino glories? HI III I saw one leave Singapore one day, carrying the Hfi: - f If f American flag at her fore, and she seemed to me Hf f j - & dream of loveliness. Next day she returned, but Hi m ; her flag had been changed to that of Great Brit- 13 ain, and all her beauty was lost in my estimation. J The Alabama was just outside, and American merchantmen were not very safe in her vicln- ity. But now, do not those men on the commit- ? tee know that by the outside world the nations are . . judged by the ships they sail? Did not China H' HI '!' doublo her purchases in the United States the HI 1 year after Admiral Dewey sank Montejo's fleet? H Wa 1 1 Have not Great Britain, Germany and France the H H trade of the outside world because their ships in BE' fi , outside ports come and go with the regularity of IK i Hit a cic? I 111! l When a" provincial is elected to Congress, he B m III I ' ought to be seized, put on board a ship and com- B m III I I polled to circle the earth before he is given a seat. B m ml - Ho woulcl loarn so much that he ought to know; BW'HmI I , ne woulti unlearn ao much that he ought to for- B1MI I 1 get' Tnere are foola and ools DUt tnQ worst of HH j all is an educated provincial idiot." bih i i |