Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-03-25 | Page 4 | Merchant Vessels are Almost of the Past

companies found it wise to put thIr liners under European managcmenL Sinco then, the shipbuilding states have held congTess by the nr.se with a law which allows no vessel to carry our colors unless it i3 built in an American Amer-ican shipyard. There are hundreds of vessels owned and manned by Americans, Amer-icans, and carrying American cargoes, compelled to sail under foreign colors. col-ors. "If wo can try the ship subsldr and get away from the old restrlctlng'laws, we will find that tbe merchant, marjne of thl'j country is second to none la the world," MERCHANT VESSELS ARE ALMOST OF THE PAST Chicago, March 25. "One of the rarest sights to be seen on the oceans of the world today, is a merchant vessel ves-sel sailing under American colors," says Professor John C. Freeman of Wisconsin, in a communication to the Chicago Association of Commerce. Onlv once in the last eighteen years," he declares, "has there entered enter-ed the Port of Copenhagen the largest on the Baltic, a vessel flying the American Amer-ican flag. That was during the presidency presi-dency of Grover Cleveland. "W'hy la it that our merchant marine, ma-rine, which, before the Civil war, was the greatest pride of our country, has become so insignificant? One reason is that, during the war, the Union