The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-12-23

lican ranks. Frank P. Blair i
named as the Democratic candidate
while B. F. Town, j. F. Asper and J
Benjamin are spoken of by the Re
publicsns.
As SPECIMEN of the fairness
with which the Democratic pres
deal with matters, we give the fol
lowing. extract and all, from the
Bucyrus Forum;
Our depressed commerce. is subject e
which I again call your special attention. Al
the last session, I suggested that We VIII IN th'
future have to look more to the countries
south of US, and to China and japan for lta
rsvivnl. Our representatives to al these gov
sv,rneDts have exerted their influence TO en-
courage trade between the United States and
the countries to which they are Accredited
but the fact erists that the carrying IS done az
most entirely IN foreign bottoms, and Whlie TINS
state of things exist, We cannot control our due
share of the commerce of the world. That
between the Pacific States and China and ia
nan is about all the carrying trade now con-
ducted IN American vessels. womb recom-
mend a liberal policy towards that Line OF
american steamers; one that Will insure It's
success and even increased usefulness. me
cost of building iron vessels, the onty ones taat
- $1,000 ,,;th FOREIGN ships in the carrying
trade IS so much greater IN the OI1ttea ct0tes
tkqn 4, foreign countries, that without some
assistance from the government they can not
successfully be built bere.-GTa'lts Message.
Here IA a confession of ineompetency and
blunderinp from President GIANT, that was
entirely unexpected. We give him credit Tor
csndor.
But what a revelation "The carrying trade
ia done almost entirely in foreign bottoms"
This means in plain English that goods are
almost entirely, carried TO and from tins coun-
trv in foreign and not in American vessels.
And now comes that important questloner.
ssTTbvP1 demanding a solution of the problem.
In Democratic days American SHIPS carried
the bulk of the trade. Congress then dlo not
lseislate ship-building to death as II does now.
Thousands Of men who earned their hveil-
hoods by ship-bullding, have oesn seht q
necessity from the dock-yards OF Maine, and
Boston, and New York, to seek employment
at something else or starve
Inadvertently Grant lets the cat out Of the
sack: ssTHE COST OF BULDINo IRON VESSELS
Is so MICH eREKTRR IN THE UNITED STATES
TEAM N FOREIGN COUNTRIES" There Il the
whole thing in = nutshell.
We hardly know which to pity
most, the subscribers VINO are com
PEELED to read such trash, in the
shape of argument, or the editor
who so peryerts the truth as to
Law before his readers such insipid
and transparent nonsense. If his
intelligence does not teach hlm bet
ter. he is unfit for his position; if he
writes to mislead his readers, he is a
knaye; but in either event it meas
ures the standard of his readers.
HIn Democratic days American ships
carried the bulk Of the trad" " Tru-
ly. and in Democratic days the bulk
of the nations ships were spread
over distant seas, while the remain
ing portion were laid up in Demo
cratic harbors, where they were sto-
len by Democratic rebellionists, or
destroyed to prevent their being
used by the government against
those Democrats who controlled
matters in those Democratic days"
Democratic Shenandoahs and Ala
bamas, swept our commerce from
the seas and necessitated its trans
fer to foreign vessels. And since
the failure of the Democrats to over
turn the government as well as to
destroy our commerce, it has not
recovered its lost status, and the
natural increase of a decade since
the war began. But the animus Of
the Forum is further apparent, when
he refers to the cost of building
iron vessels in the United States,
in order to bolster up his free
trade policy. The cost of building
iron vessels consists not so much in
the material, as in the labor neces-
sary to their construction, and that
is the main point in which foreign
huilders have an advantage. Our
vorkmen are paid from two to three
times the wages paid shipbuilders
in foreign lands, and hence the ca
nacity of the foreign builder to build
more cheaply. Are we then to un-
derstand that the Forum, which pro-
fssses to favor the masses, is In favor
os reducing the workman's wages to
q level with those of Europe in or
der that our shipbuilders may COM
pete with foreign builders? This
would be the natural result. Why
not then avow it as an honest man,
and let your readers know the logi-
cal sequence of your arguments, and
not by sophistry try to hide the |
issue? Such would be the result
.uch would be the result in every |
department of labor, and the laborer
.honld understand it. It is a very
nleasing delusiOn to think of being
able to purchase cheap goods and
obean food, but when they have to
be purchased at the expense of
cheap labor, the prospect is not SO
inviting. The Japanese lives on
two cents a day, but when he labOrs
s;,,bt hours to procure two cents,
his paradise is transformed into
ob.rnel -. house. And so of our la
borers. If, in OrdertO procure cheap
goods, our vorkmsn are obliged to