Show 0 OUR U PUBLIC FORUM r sj R P schwerin on tha stamena Sy 34 amena jamens bill the american Plow plowmen me fire are interested in sea corn morce it 13 1 expensive anil and ilkew lie humiliating to have to fa iceo a foreign flag every timo time a farmer want wants to ship a buthel bushel of wheat a bale of at cotton or it pound ot of farm Product a across tha the ocean tho american farmer to a en titled to the protection of hie his flag flax in bonding his prod lets jet aaros croaa 4 the eca sea and contreas Con trees should five nuch such courage Ia fijut to shipping interests la to necessary to meet foreign iou 14 ocean commerce A recent bli known as a the emane 1111 became a law under the president presidents a sigua signature ture and mr it P schwerin vice president of the pacific mall mail steamship company when eked to dealno this lew law and outline if its effect upon amera america l knee mid II 11 la in part the bt oro providen bat that hip ship of any shall bo be to aella it ercul any tha met united states unless iho sho haa has on board a areil sot not lin yae ave per conium of which la in tach cach department thereof is 1 l tu to ader stand any order giten givin by the tho of vessel nor forty per r la in ih the first 1 year forty per in the second year fitly per nguia nt uia in the third year fifty flye five per in the fourth year after the thel at 0 ails till act and sixty ave per of her deck decy crew crow of at licensed cers and aro are of a not le 1 than able seamen the oversea trade of tie the world la 12 therefore the original leal cot cott 0 of the hip ship aad the operation of the hip ship have to be boned with in the keen competition ot thee rival katims with ono one another the oriental la Is obedient and competent and la Is the cheapen cheapest at war 11 in the he world it la Is therefore manifestly clear that it this thi law applied to all la in tho the all would bv on an tha thet same econ economic omle baite balls but it work works a singla hardship to alt all toe tae ships of the jorj except the Japa japanese tese and american Amre aa ships and with the latter it works two hardships with the enrol a mn tle coat of at constructing a hip ship la is ro harber than han the cost of con st retting a ct bip ship but it they bd to provide olcan crowt aello the japanese operated with Japa nef ners crews the condition of competition ond b be auch that they could not liot overdone over oYer cone come the band handicap leap and they would be driven off dut the Ame american ricart alp ship have to contend not only with the trem tremendous enious increate In creAle of cot cost of at in the substitution ot of the european crew ew for the chinese crew crow but also the greater initial co cott of the thip ae an the jopes haye paw n done away with thir european and japanese crew crows all ot 0 whom speak ft common lam mite there islia I 1 M tor for them thein to 0 o comply etli all the conditions ol 01 the abill and continue their japanese Japan japs eee nese crew crews with oriental wages M the no law the therefore refo e of assisting the american ship adda adds another keavy ru den while It plAces none notie whatever upon the japanese ship but on tha 1 contrary turne oer oter to the japanese Japan eee the ot of tho t oan whick the ambric ship Is forced to forbito by act ct of congress ot valton v a k |