New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11

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The chief source of the increase of ve2s was due to
the sale of many belonging r. ts-t nlted states TO
British owners IN inc hIst tIeVeh ohoFS 81 IoO'
sells but increased to the extent OF 3d. tuns, entered
inudrd 1t increased by 1909 vessels. registering
bT39l0 tuns. cleared Oacard; while Foreign tunnage
decreased in comparison with 1866 to the extent
of 1904 vessels, registering l20543 tuns entered IN
srard: and Increased 573 vessels registering 10000
tuns clearing OattCdrd with cargo In respect TO the
value of British shipping an Improvement arose with
a return of confidence in the money market"
The Hon. George Opdyke, an eminent Free Trader,
touched the corner of an important truth when he
observed -
"Iti universal truth that the more populous
country becomes, the less of agricultural products
will be exported from it, because it will require
larger part of them for home consumption lncreas-
ing density Of population always tends 10 develop
the manufacturing, mining, and mechanic arts; and.
when the population grows so dense that II consumes
more agricultural products than IL produces-lke
England for example-it necessarily becomes an i'm
porter of agricultural products and an exporter OF
manufactures. During the period OF transition the
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business some fifteen years ago, and persisted in It
till our energies were absorbed in our great Civil
War: but it proved costly undertaking TO our
Treasury (by means of heavy subsidies for Mail
snviCe and not very profitable to those engaged in
it 80 we have almost wholly ceased to run steamers
to Europe contenting ourselves with subsidized lines
to China and Japan to Brazil with smaller packets
to Havana. the Isthmus of Darien, and few points
of minor importance. While we did run steamers TO
European ports, they encountered this obstacle to
success Most of the freight that could afford to pay
steamship charges consisted of British French, and
German manufactures, shipped by the makers and
their agents. who, very naturally gave preference
over our vessels TO those of fher own cOuntrymen,
leaving our ships to empty OF to fill up with
freight that did not pay their running expenses.
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our merchants were glad TO abandon it.
What would exactly serve and suit our shippers
and shpbuilders would be Protection for our Navi-
eating interests. and for nothing else. Give them
foreign Iron and Copper Hemp and COrdage. An
,chors and Gables, free of duty, with monopoly OF
our Coasting Trade, and fayoring discrimination
in our Navigation laws and port charges, and they
might experience instant enlargement of activity
and revival of prosperity but if we had no National
Debt and no Tariff at all, but the most absolute
Free Trade. with our Labor far cheaper than now as
1t naturally would be, the advantage would still las
Sir Morton Peto shows be on the side OF their Brit
ish rivals who have through years of prosperous ac
tyty in the construction and use of sea-gong steam
ers accumulated Thousand facilities and labor-sav-
ing devices which, along with experience, eminent
skill and aggregated capital, we have still TO acquire
and concentrate Ocean steamers are still rapidly
superseding sang-vessels; and those steamers are
and will be mainly built and run by nations that
produce a surplus of manufactures, and are constant
1y exploring the out-oftheway corners OF the earth
for new markets wherein to sell them. for our
sTbs sales Of American foreigners during the forty years
closing 1867 amounted 70 7% tuns whereof no less THAN
77<6 tunsosudeIaby more hw1e made during the four
wears i3s1 And though s0nsbe proportion Of these sales
we're merely nominal intended only the vessels thereby Transferred
protection from under neutral hCengTess has
tbus Tar r,. petitions any them to be sgso registered
American tss Annual Report Of COmmsres and Navigation
for 1867. p uI
Tbe Resources and Prospects America sseesned during VISIT
u the Of 1905 BY Sir Morton Peio Bari Lon
dOB. 1864.
"AB AmspseE ObrLOrd Iaee By Joseph Whitaker
LONDON: pp JsL
'"Pcseisgs AID Debates 10 u. S.sgstoaa Convention of tue
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