Show WHERE WE MISS IT according to from washington there is ome hope that congress mil occupy with the amending of the navigation law yet in his session A prominent independent new york journal expresses serious doubts of this arguing that our congress standa abill teo much under the influence of monopolists to make ap y energetic efforts towards a much needed reform of the disastrous abuse existing it beema almost beyond the reach of figures to calculate the damage caused to the United StAtes by th law according to which only abias built in the united are permitted to tail under american flag still few figures will indicate what are the bleab inga of protective protect iTe tariff thi watchdog guarding the interests of a few capitalists at the exclusion and expense of people at large the reports of the trade of aaa year chow tha inns oceanic which landed in our ports during the ascal year of 1880 tons were by foreign ships against ton american tonnage thi nukes an increate of foreign commercial narino in american trade of ton in 1856 while our own transoceanic fleet baa by ton in the ane time last year alone the tonnage of foreign vessels at new york barbo increased percent while the american vs wf bowed an increase of only 25 our share of freight which one wa 75 per cent had unk to 23 in 1879 and festl at year to it i therefore acy no raca a dign oi melancholy to predict that at k rate abe will completely disappear diB appear from the teas still more t eim to become how a people can quietly such a flagrant neglect of if we confider con that will all the boasted protection our ship abuid ing t en tho death roll A early aa 1850 we built doaa and reached in but jn hf of protection advanced backward to the pittance of too in than any year tince 1850 and thia in the face of the f act of the colombi colo Mii improvement of trade alone lie ing noy aten times what they were then and anally the afon who loyld revice dead man with gal vanto aero apalie to contreas Con greas for the languishing shipbuilding rade oh thou art a jekeli |