The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-07
,1ROWLS FROM GATH.
He Comments Upon Shipping Inten
ests and Such Things.
Also Has Something to Say About
Lobbies and the Credit Mo.
bilier-Pofnts to Phi
Josephine Over.

CINCINNATI, Aug. 7-"Gath" sends the fol-
lowing to The Enquirer:
The English steamship companies, which
probably send to this port 800 iron ships in tha
regular line on tramps, have come to consider
the United States like some small power in
the east, and none Of our orders are obeyed.
There are commissioners of emigration
under national law forbidding the land
ing OF professional paupers In the United
States, people who are virtually slaves or un-
der the padrones, ETC. These British steam
ship captains considering that we have no
navy, and are not going to have any foreign
policy after the 4th of next March, have
been disobeying the commissioners as coolly
as if they were dealing with the Sand
wich islands. The commissioners have
bounced the Anchor line, the larg-
est of these, and refused Satur-
day to take large number of Italians from
her decks or to let another steamer land for
having lot a man escape who was to be taken
back. am in favor of loading up with
these padrones an equal number OF the better
element, the presence of whom will finally
compel us to adopt the English flag with the
various English ideas now being pressed
upon US
L0BBIES.
Much of the scandal of our time is nothing
but deceit of the people by using some words
which will strike an ignorant mans imagina-
tion, such as lobbiest, or a lobby. The
young fellow from Washington sends a dis
patch: There is big lobby here on behalf
of building the dikes around Cincinnati; they
are using every means in their power 10 &C
complish their purpose. The country
should be warned" The pious
farmer up in the interior reads this
and tells his wife: "Ah, | see there
is Cincinnati lobby at Washington again!
What will this country come toF" 1t will
take twenty years to catch that farmer and
inform him that this lobby is the only means
in our day to have anything done 1t is
committee of the people, picked with clever
ness and address, to ask the United States in
its capacity of having control of the water
highways to deepen the channel at Cincin-
nsti, and at the same lime give the benefit of
TIE dikes to the people who are drowned out
there every few years
Ii you want your government to do thing
which it can with consistency do and it is a
pressing necessity to you, you do not preach
a sermon, but you get a smart, quick -witted
| and Join him to others and send him to Wash
ihgton with good purpose. If this is not
honesty it is business, and am afraid that
IN this country business is honesty. The
| churches do the same thing.
SHIPPING AND SHIPS.
| 1t is stated In dispatch from China that
! an American company has bought for over
! 5000 90 the Chinese merchant marine, in
! ANTICIPATION of a war between China and
! lance. Whether true or not, here is clear
! commercial opportunity for this country.
! Ihe great roasln why our commerce feli
/ was not the rise OF iron ships, nor even the
destruction Of our commerce by privateers,
! Lat lie mach greater chances opening Is the
, sra ft,rins class lii our interior than far away
! Tne a,,Ia9e old sea captain male hut cheap
| Hy,ar. HI, homestead III the New England
! yII!aae shows him to have been a very penu-
! rIuu. Tia Tty man. He was VIGOROUSLY d
! c!G7e leeder, and to this day wherever You
/ find ali American skipper ne gives out the
ratlon~ SO close that our consuis are CON
| stanuF In disorder at adjudging appeals
| rom his sailors. Those men have been
working the ocean for all it il worth for ii
| good while, and it has not been worth very
much If there had been plenty of money
| i'll 1t We should even have changed our ton
mae laws in order to get hack at it. Blu.
there never was enough money in it to pre-
duce respectable lobby in its favor ct
Washington.
| We l.st our shipping when we recovered
our Union. When We recovered our Union
We did not want our shipping bac'. Every
body in the interior of the country was pay
ing 10 per cent for the use Of money because
he could make per cent to 10 per cent
more by the use of it. The shipping business
has never paid over about per cent, am
| told, and in the case of some Of the great lines
does not pay over . per cent. The great
maritime companies of England. especially
| thoss which run to the United States, are IT
the most depressed and crippled condition. II
is true you see their ships and their flags upon
them standing at the pisrs of New York, but
when you 60 around among the officers and
seaman and talk about the wages they receive
YOU will see that the business could not pay
the American people with their opportuni
ties and comforts.
The time, however, is at hand when WI
must again go to sea- because we have so in
creased competition in our interior that tbs
profits will not be what they were. We hav,
multiplied farmers, put railroads through
almost every farm, and established factorie
all over the country. We still are the
greatest market on the earth, and every
nation wants to have us for customer ant
to get US cheap.
Asia affords great opportunity of thi
sort, and it is plain that somebody is looking
after it.