The Republican journal., 1881-03-24

Two thousand and thirty four newspapers have
made the Joke about the Beers being bores, and
several counties yet to hear from This country
is afflicted with too much Wit ll5oston Post.
That is not the worst OF it. The wit is not fairly
distributed. For instance, the All Sorts man OF
the Post seems 70 haye been over looked in the
distribution.
A schooner has cleared from New Orleans for
Aspinwall with cargo Of lumber and supplies for
the luter oceanique. Canal Company, and the New
Orleans Picayune refers to it as the first move
ment made towards that great enterprise destined
to bring the port OF New Orleans in direct commu
nicaton with all of the large cities on the Pacific
coast
The Greenback Executive Committee declined
to attend a meeting called by Chairman Murch,
and notified him that his resignation as Chairman
was accepted and that they would soon call the
entire National Committee together to elect his
successor. There is trouble in the camp. evident
ly What Mr. Murch has done to be so uncere-
moniously bounced does not appear Perhaps he
has learned something since he went to Washing
ton and proposes to turn his back on the Green.
back folly.
Che New York Shipping List in article Oh
the revolution in shipping and who Shall control
the foreign trade gives utterance to opinions sim
liar to those recently expressed by the Journal
1t notes the encroaehments of the steam marine
upon the field so long occupied by sailing yes
sells but maintains that the latter will for long
period, and perhaps always, have a place on the
i.Thp SAILING I.r;u ha
needed to do its share of the constantly increasing
carrying trade Of the world, as, in the nature of
things it will be enabled to carry certain classes
of freight cheaper than its competitor that has
steam engine to feed and watch. To that extent
1t will have an advantage which will be likely to
secure for it, if not large at least fair profits during
ordinarily prosperous times. On the Atlantic the
competition between the two interests is more
conflicting than in other directions and in view of
this fact, may anticipate a disposition on the
part Of shipowners to seek in distant fields the
profits which transferring to their rivals trade
nearer home Long voyages for large sailing yes
sells are now the most profitable of any, as indi-
Gated by the fact that while ships employed in the
Atlantic trade in recent years have barely paid
their way, those employed between the Atlantic
and Pacific have generally made money for their
owners
Our own vessels, which should naturally control
three fourths of the foreign carrying trade as they
did, approximately, quarter of century ago.
have now less than one fourth. "The disease
says the Shipping List, lis apparent enough, but
the cause and the remedy ofe- subjects for dis
pute Political economists, whose panacea for
everything is free trade, put fol ward that with
their customary confidence in this case but they
fail to show how the shipbuilding interests, already
feeble enough, to be strengthened by this final
blow at their existence The real evil lies further
back. 1t is largely consequence of the heavy
burden which is imposed upon the shipping in
terests by our system of taxation, local and ma
tional-a burden far in excess of any which is
imposed upon the shipping of any other nation,
and one which often represents the difference be-
tween living profit and ruinous loss. Two
things are certain-the first that the question is
grave enough to demand the most serious and
thoughtful craftsmanship and the second, that the
Government can better afford to extend generous
aid to our shipping interest than to allow our
carrying trade to be controlled by foreign nations