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Show THE MERCHANT MARINE MAR-INE QUESTION Vessels engaged In foreign inilo which entered tho cleared Ainc-lcan ports during the fiscal year cnneil Juno 30, 1019, nggregnted neariv 93,000,000,000 net tons, according o official flguies. Of this tonnago nearly near-ly 52,000,000 wns foreign and !.-000,000" !.-000,000" was American, either now or temporarily opcrnllng under our flag. Of tho American tonnage n -er 33,500,000 piled between the U. S. nun rsorin American pons. Total trade for f Ihcal year i ' 1 ' , wos if 10,179, 000,000, IniporlH J-09C, J-09C, 000,000 and exports $7.07. 00 .. 000. Our total trade with ::oith America came to $2,344,000 l).il) of which $1,814,000,000 was hajiled by1 cars and other land vehicles, iun.ni; something like ono billion" d'j'ir.t a ! worth of our trade to be lO'cd ly! 33,500,000 net tons of Am i a i . e-' sols. I Wlille this was going oa lh u-! u-! malder of our trado with tho w ir 1 'amounting to $7,835,000 005 in yil- ue. w.ih being carried by lometliiuB under tin, 000, 000 or not toniitg or I which nearly 90 per tonturs f-ji oign oi, nt n rough enlculaMo,!. i (Oipu M-setB carried about svon'bll lion dollaru or 70 per cont or our m itlre'trado Inst year. Thus w'l i. .t;l i 500,000 net tons of America.) u'mhMm :were handling ono billion mlif" woith or our foreign trado within tho confines of tlio North Amorlrm iii slim, 52.000,000 net tons of lure in vossoIh wcio getting paid fo linnijl- Ing neen billion dollnra ".voi' 'i i.f our toioign trado to and fiom tin ul- tcrmost confines of tho c.trrn i .d In betwci-n. Ton for ton, fnri:tii i n' nngo sboweil on clllclency net' fimi and ono-half times creator iluif cur I - own in jotting cargoes. I'm example, Japan, will) an rn i i trance and clearance In N.noi'loanJ p...!.. or 1J588.000 tons, mi"-i ini.ir." oiio billion dollars wrtii it r fo'olgn Intdo, or with Ima ibnn' ciiu -nv.-ntleth or tho tonnof do-voted do-voted to North American trudo, th' .1 his hati'iilctf ftn cuuol vi'ite ' nr I iin . trador; Our inorcliuut iim.mic in tit-. Imvc the full support and cojp-j erution 0 tlio governineul and I no pooplo If It Is to succeed, ami lb'3 will tu'ccssltnto govornmont alii ami, ultimately, prlvato operation and ownership to lnsuro business olll-1 i-ieiipy and fnlr returns. What wa'i ive in aid will return an hundred-, fold In trado for a ship Is tho best salesman In tho world and tho people must support tho program for perpetuating per-petuating the American flag on th" high fens. |