New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-28
Nrw-yoRK DAILY TRIBUNE, MONDAY FEBRUARY % 1884,

sesboard when have brought them so fat 20 tne
way 10 the worlds market. we leave them LOT
carriers transport the remaining distance linus wo
pay every from 50 70 iT
egn carriers. That vast a0iOun. o. gold IA constat
drain GU the country. IL la much to do WIZ delaying
tho Resumption Of specie paymrn Is Ha ~ 0rs
capital aud pay taxes for the support OF
It's payment %'t 80 sn forsSnera Il
should be kept ut home and paid 20 Anelcan shn3
pass INFO the hands Of American mechanics and from
Them to the American farmers. American worHngm.en
competition which would result FROM free.slps means
the reduction their wages below lbs hDe support
England interfering in politics and LEGISLATION,
in tho hope Of inducing our people to esia6sn poS
stus her ships other manufactures instead OF Der
gold But We want her gold, to enable ms 70 main'a MN
specie payments and to strengthen cur huanceei We
want 1t to build our ships.
WHAT WAS DONE IN TEN YEARS.
"From 1870 to 1880 there built in this country
100 rstclass iron steamships, with total OF looovo
TONS equal to $4,000 Of sail and these are the
very ships which. 1t is said cannot build There VIII
be finished in my own works. within the present
year. 20 900 of iron steam-shpplng Including the
rolling mills, In the shipyard and engneworks In Ches
ter and this city now employ $500 men, This num-
Der viii be increased in June, when we shall have
blast furnace in operation Of $4,000 tons capacity for
making Bessemer Steel And yet the free ship advocate
would close the shpya because American lab9r 700
well paid The truth IT, that taxation on the snip 9en
capital In this country the root OF the evil which
free ship advocates complain Of Taxation rs %nas
and put them under a foreign flag. For ~, IN
sSSn Swn nut ten i've Of
them under tie American nag. and Eve nnder the
British as II the net earnings Of each dypm
upon the investment amounting 10 $5O,OOOa year. ana
English line would only be ETA taxed psr Ssa & Gs
for the privilege of carrying the American flag Ensana
n bad had to Duy them from auOtner
country No nation can expect to control so mighty an
its tools It is upon another nation for them
and is Obliged annually to send millions upon NITROUS
abroad ~ support the working people Oh somo o'nei
Suppose should want to own ships s9o oo Worth Gtn
in England would it he wise to do It, aud send all that
money of the country away from our WORKING peo
If our own people from the farmer The profits would
be worth more than ten per cent ana snail we give ;
awaya Besides when have further developed SNIP
building we shall be able to do away with that
not forget that this
both tarm and mills Free ships frce-trade in the
thirty branches of trade connected with ship buiidng
can wOrkngnen one-half the shutting up Of Anerl-
can workshops. and rolling mills and shipyards they
mean the closing I'D Industries and the lowering
Of the capacity Of the consumer Again. close
by as re% 6s and Wnese is
come from to purchase the products OF tne
farmp .,,..... ,.o, ,.n.e.oa NV q
| protective policy u ,-. ,. - ho,
| In 1880 not single locomotive engine nau DCou
built in America The first two were brought r0m Eng
land in that year. We began TO build them soon after
| ward Recently made an examination as 70 the num-
locomotive engines and cara In the united STATES
and the cost OF their construction Inc numpe, OF 10
comotive engines IN nse January l. 1872 was l6,44o,
valued at $l64 900; the number OF carsincluhng
palace and freight cars was about 30OOOO when at d
| low estimate, would cost S6OOOOO,0OO. About one
tenth of these running must have been rebuilt
probably five times since lS30at cost OF S352Z2oOOo,
| making a total of $1146675O0O. or about twice as
much as England has Invested IN ships. Besides te we
have built locomotive engines for export TO all parts Of
the world or all those used In the English colonies
from 05 to sS per cent o-o were S SaYe
exported S25 900 In locomotive engines and double
mi amount IN cars 10 Canada, NewBruuswlck, Nova
Scotia Prince Edwards Island, Mexico Costa Roa Nc
gentine Republic Brazn, Cuba, Porto Rlco Jamaica,
Norway, Finland, RnsslaN Zealand, queensland, New
Snuth Wales Victoria South Australia and the sandwich
Islands We have succeeded in building engines or
snch quality and at such prices that we have taken
EpgGnds business In this line away from her IN her own
colonies There win be reason wnen our ling
is equally encouraged and developed Dy extending our
r de and making q Cen md for IT, why we sb0uId not
build ships for those countries which have not the re.
| sources to build them for themselves
"TD cars and locomotive engines are built OF iron'
| steel I wood, from American forest5 aud mines
Ninety per OF this enormous sum has been spent AT
home for labor and has helped 70 give the farmer bis
shin although IL built from the Same material rs Eng
fish spa and although the labor required TO convert
100 IONS OF pig into engines Is much greater than
AZ s IL into the hnishe1 SNIP ana just Us e1Pen
| siye. In our locomotive engine building had been
stranged in its infancy Efforts are now making 10
stranlle the p-budlnR, we should stll be DuylnR
rolling stock from England. Having the raw material
England did precisely what We have done regarding the
euRues1ut ships cheaper than any CtIer natlo gave
etpOy 10 her own people Kept her capital AZ hoh'
aud made herself iudependcnt or all other netlonO
beeye that tue day far distant when We shall sup
Div ourselves with the cheapest and best ships as we
| have with the best locomotive engines