National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-06-24

An adjourned meeting OF the National
American Shipping League was held at
Wizards Hotel yesterday at IL m. In the
absence OF the president (Col. cambridge
McRae) the meeting was called TO order by
the secretary, Mr.. Robert @. Wood, of New
Orleans, and Capt. Ambrose Snow was
made temporary chairman. Col j. II. G.
Pitkin, Of Louisiana, made the following
address:
When an exchange at New orleans rendered
me credenta to this body IL assumed that
whatever personal Inconvenience might at
tend the service, owed at this juncture more
10 the republic, to her great valley, and to It's
marine gate than TO myself Under that per-
suasion come and shalt be frank. In war, a
nation seeks 10 bear It's standard forward at
whatever expenditure Of blood and treasure;
in peace, II should strenuously announce Its
IiRhtiul empire by advancing It's mast and
then holding II firm by the anchor. To con-
tfuct ordnance ut need Is n cost, but to pro-
ject and plant the cannon ball repays that cost
len thousand fold. The merchant.mlrlne is
the navy OF civilization, and commodities Its
ammunition; and / am hostile TO any policy
that iorbids US from conveying our American
messages from farm and shop on American
kcels to the markets Of the world; against any
policy that infers abdication Of American au-
thonty anywhere upon the seas over which
the winds once kinded our tall spar.pcaks to
flame OF sovereignty. apprehend that sus-
picion has long since dawued upon many folk
In thisland that much OF the threeply wis
dom that comes forth from this capital Is in
texture and practical value sorry unwisdom,
and that II serves TO quicken new faith In the
stability of American conditions only because
they really survive SO many experiments of
and forecast the amazement of our children
hall century hence that despite our Centen-
NAL citation over our fathers resistance TO
Great Britain she has 50 numerous delega-
ton of tories in our American Congress to-day
to arrest enactments for an American marine,
70 guard the American stanchion for tue
know no craftsmanship Mr.. Chairman, in
economic politics The right of American la
Dor from the hoe that heaps the hillock to tho
monition to duty, within his province, to every
man in whose blood leaps a feryent aspiration
for the health and growth of this republic.
British medicine is no less British because
American representatives commend the vial
with congressional label When on the 10Th
of last month IFS members voted down In the
House the Senate steamship clause Of the
postal appropriation bill. and In that majority
were found two peryerse members from Louisi-
ana that waits by the sea with millions OF people
behind her In valley encountered with sur
plus products, with Latin-Amerlcan countries
below her awaiting exchange with us, and with
n foreign marine busiy steaming past her to
forestall IT, felt that you have still your Bur
goynes and we our little Packenhams that
that there are YorktowDs and Chalmette5 yet
10 be reclaimed, and that 1t Is Idle TO devote so
many annual millions to assure more direct
and vehement push to the Mississippi tides, II
at their mouth their momentum is TO be spent
and lost in O gulf dedicated by an American
Congress TO q foreign marine constabulary.
Congress should thrust forth the ship as we'll as
the outlet. The logic in the one case is that of
the other. Knowing the temper of the mer-
chants and other progressives of New Orleans
whom represent, and in whose honor, enter
prise; and aspiration largely dwells her future
phasis that they are sorely dissatisfied with the
recent action OF the House and of men who
enter 1t to visit upon Louisiana by their mis-
tol ono a Nv for hor mia
taken confidence.
New Orleans has the smell of the sea In her
nostrils, and at her great exposition, open from
November, "a, to May, 'S0, she found manifold
incentives to commercial intercourse in the
marshalled exhibits OF Latin America and the
great valeyi she looked beyond the plantation
and down across her gulf; she began to forecast
Lowells and Manchesters at the south, q Liver
pool In Brazil, and Bremens and Havres still
beyond. Columbus swung commerce round
nom the southern " the western coast of Eu-
rope, and in New Orleans and the west behind
her there stirs stout desire to bend their
trade lines round from the eastern TO the south
Ouradversaries admit that there is fever in
our Industrial system, plethora; and they
term the iniirmity over production,, az II a
great nation In generous health sinned against
nature by tasking its activities We must
breathe languidly, and suffer our sinews TO
What demand upon a broad.shouidered re-.
public, planted between two oceans to com.
mand both, belted with climates for every in.
UubtTlHl uCnlcNtmcuL hllu output, anu DehI-
Ing a sovereign right to minister 70 alien peo-
pie on a massive forehead that honors the
law of sweat without, and holds a brain Of
might within. admit the lodged fever, but
II needs, more than all else, the commercial
fOot.tub of the southern Atlantic.
Europe will still take our grain and meats,
and SO noursh the muscles in her industries
as to afford no market for our manufactured
surplus. Latin America has her food at hand,
but needs this surplus OF the products ofour
mechanical skill.
Great Britain once unwlttingly served us by
inspiring the colonies to dralt a declaration Of
independence; Is she now serving us melting q
declaration OF an American continental policy!
policy while 1t stands at Its seaboard on
crutches2 A cardinal cause that moved our
fathers to determined resistance was British
introduction of our commerce, and as Jefer-
sons original draft read BE II so, since they
will have 1t. Theroad TO happiness andto glory
bR to SS NE will SbrsS y SSse so
PATRIOTS after having tanned vast tracts yoked
streams to wheels, reared mighty cities, and
Sand IN 0resS ana mos p
and for axles and fuel TO drive them, tamely
confess, in effect, TO the world that the sea 4
not open to them, despite our industrial over
plus and the Invitation and need OF our Amer
lean neighbors. A most notifying spectacle
We have only to exercise the crude sense OF
the common savage and secure markets as he
secures food he fits a cord to his bow and
launches an arrow. We have the stout arms
the bow and arrow: and ask only for the string
AZ tDc nhnub OF COnBreSS-h thlr mai COutract
We should penetrate q foreign market with q
felt American impetus and precision and i'm
bed the arrow there.
Instead of the British ship, let US accept
jealously fosters II In dock yard and foundry,
puts mail subsidy in Its pocket and a new
ensign at It's head, and sends II forth, with
faith in her maternal care and with an asslr-
ance that If its annual earnings shall forbid O
fair dividend on its capital she Will guarantee
The shin enters our coast nm eloouent ad-
monition. IL IL British territory with the
British ministry in its cabin and Lloyds at the
masthead, 80 TO speak.
An American and a better ship floats in the
same harbor and awaits our Grand. Then
ensues a quiet, deadly renewal. In part, of the
duel Of the English Scraps and the American
Bon Homme Richard OF 1779. There are more
fatal things than cannon. The Englishman re.
duces its freight tariff because, treasured o.
thus laid itself athwart the hawse ofthe Ameri
can, the Lloyds underrate the latter. British
freight and insurance rates rake 1t foreand AT
and an American Congress then awards pre-
the same hand 1t clenches in reprobation o
subsidy and confdes our mailbag 10 the ag
5 Sa has w dSTn our IN
memorable farewell address, "Timely dis
bursements 70 prepare for danger frequentl,
prevent much greater disbursement TO repel II
Constantly keep in view that il is folly In on,
nation to look for dlsinterested favors from
another-tkat 1t must pay with portion 0
N5 lnucptlueuco iOE WnhtcEeT IL may uCcepL,
and he commends a commercial policy tina
should give trade stable course, define tn,
rights of our merchants, and enable the gov
eminent to support them" Are We not rasl
Bpendthrifts OF our Independence? We hay,
practically surrendered the seas ever since
cruiser or two slipped out Of the Clyde In 62
we hug our capes and ply inland waters with
eS00O0,QOO In steam tonnage. and venture be
yond the coast with but ,00O which
amount we fully pay out in exchange II
the Central and South American Dalanc
of trade; we practically dsown our Mon
roe doctrine by suffering usurpation o
the Latin American markets and thu
powerful persuasion which foreign com
modities continuously enforce; We PRACTICAL!
confess 10 the world that not only have we re
manned whipped since 1865, In grave degree