The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-05-11
Travel to Europe-Want or an American
Steamship Limo.

Travel to Europe-Want or an American
Steamship Limo.
1t appears from the number Of people
making application for passports at the State
Department that the number Of visitors to
Europe this summer will be greater than in any
previous year. We do not understand why
Mr.. Seward should be troubled by applications
of this kind, because passports are not required
now. The tourist can travel all over Europe,
except Austria-where nobody wants to GO
without passport from the American Secre-
tary Of State. However, the number Of appli-
cants is an indication Of the number of visitors
which Europe is 70 receive from this side Of
She Atlantic; and this recalls 10 mind the shame
full fact that, with the exception Of two steam
ers, the Fulton and the Arago, every steamship
between this country and Europe belongs to
Foreign companies, and American citizens are
compelled to sail under the flag of France or
of England, or the Hanse towns How much
more satisfactory it would be if Americans
could step on board vessel at Liverpool or
iHavre, or Bremen, with their own flag at the
peak The American flag covers American
son, and they would be at home at once, even
before they crossed the ocean. That they can
not do 50, and that all the profits Of the trans
atlantic passenger trade goes into the pockets
of English, French and German companies is
the fault of Congress. While that radical and
revolutionary body is voting thirty millions to
the national banks, which are rapidly becom-
ing a source of national danger, and eleven
millions to the Freedmens Bureau, an elee-
mosynary institution scattered all over the
South for the reinstatement of the negroes, it
will not vote dollar for an honorable enter
prise like an American steamship line.
A subsidy of five hundred thousand dollars
n year suficed to maintain the Collins line,
which narrow-minded Congress withdrew,
and the last American flag at the masthead of
an American steamship vanished from the At
.lantc. The governments Of England and
France, and even the little government of
Italy, grant handsome subsidies to their mail
steamship lines. Why not our government do
the sames 1t Is because with the men now
legislating at Washington the interests Of the
country find no favor; the interests of party
are alone considered. The commercial pros
pe-.v or the honor Of the United States are
Fseconoa.. TO the success Of An election that
may secure .se of power for faction that
il using the pow n now holds IN obstrnct
the government and ..o-.,,,s Tho nation,
The travel to Europe next ~ lin rroh,hlv
be double what 1t is now, and ". ,houla nre.
pare at once for the establishment q American
steamship lines. Let us have combinasor ~
the largest capitalists of New York in An
enterprise wi oh will be o credit /. the conn.
try. One large line, with the best sh,,s that
.oan be constructed, well oficered and prop,rly
managed, carrying passengers at TAI,
.ate would SUM sweep rhS n.vaBn mo
snopolies of he seas. 1t is the duty OF such
men as Vanderbilt and Moses Taylor, Marshall
%. Roberts md W. H. Aspinwall, who have
great experience in this business, to set aside
whatever lille pioaes and jealousies may
exist befweei theu, and unite in the formation
of $ grand Aperican transatlantic steamshir
1iir: IL wound be c pra;sewosthy national un
dftaking a. sell as profitable commercial en-.
erprise. They should insist upon Congress
granting their company subsidy, and we dc
not believe that their demands would be re.
fused. Public opinion would be SO largely
with this project that the radicals would hardly
-cnture 10 difcountenance 1t. II is a disgrace
TIA great maritime nation like ours that ID
chzens should be compelled to cro~s the
atlantic under the protection Of a foreign Rag
Iiere are no privateers now afioat to moles
ztheStars and Stripes, and there is no excuse fol
our'ublic spirited capitalists Withholding theil
assisunce from 49, establishment Of an Ameri
can steamship company on grand scaIc W,
call the attention Of the above named gentle
men to serious consideration Of this subject.
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