The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-14

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Let Delawareons remember these words
when rejecting on the business depression
of the coutry and their own State, and com
pare the action in Congress of Senator Gray
and representative Chas. B. Lore upon
commercial and trade domestic questions as
they have arisen during the past session.
Senator Gray voted against the postal APP
preparation saying 'oh its a subsidy"
Mr.. Lore voted for it,
Forty years ago, one OF Englands greatest
premiers, Lord Palmerston, said where
there is no mail there is no trade"
The Hon. William D. Owen of Indiana,
speaking in Congress said "Forty-six years
ago, in 1910, England, as an experiment paid
| $3.50, 900 to line of vessels to carry her
mail to Boston and New York. This was
so successful in creating trade that the next
year the pay was increased so percent
1t was about this time that the crafty
D'Israeli, the deceased Lord Baconsfield
Mr.. Gladstone's great rival, said, "Trade
follows the flag"
Then England said 1--WE will put our flag
in every port in the world" And she has
done so. The ocean mail policy of England
has bean the master commercial stroke of
this century. She has now much more than
half the trade of the world.
"Trade follows the fag"-Ah those are
significant words for our picayunish, small
minded Senators in Washington
Compare their purblind, bat-like action
with the astute commercial policy of these
English statesmen.
They indeed are capable servants of their
country! They have proved it by results, by
hard facts that no abstract theorizing or
petty squabbling over niceties in legal talk
can obfuscate.
The limited foresight, halting action, reit-
Grated obstruction to patriotic favoring of
American needs in Congress by such men as
the Hon. George Gray will always hold and
keep our country in slough of despond." I"
Let us not dabble in small niceties or minor
points of constitutional law or international
law but look up and out on the grand ex-
panse of the country's general needs, and
push forward en- masse. II penny be lost
here and there, a comprehensive policy which
sees in the future "a step forward along the
whole line" of American trade and COM
merce, will abundanty sanction or excuse
the slight peccadillo!
When the large seine is thrown out, no
business-like fisherman stops the work of
the day to patch up one little mesh whereby
a single sprat may be lost At the end of
the day wneu vtio uveru i,oi.-i.sslJ, largo har-
vest is drawn in, is that little loss noticed !!
Let us not interfere with proper compre-
hensive measures for the general onward
progress of the country, because one little
obscure point may strike us as lacking com.
plobo SAaCIueSS anu
Senator Gray is accused of this picayn-
nishness and the accusation is true one if
his action and record iu Congress bear any
relevancy whatever to his personal ideas up
on national questions.
And yet this gentleman is held up to Will
mingtonians and Delawareans as a right and
fitting legislator to represent business COM
munity in Congress
1t is simply wrong to do so.
Senator Gray is not entitled to reelection.
Can we forget only within the last few
weeks his neglect of the interests of one of
Wilmington's most prominent ship-building
and machinery constructing firms whose
name is already of national reputation-when
the good name of that firm was assailed in
the United States Senate-when a Senator,
Mr.. Plumb, from the State of Kansas, was
moved, in the face of the neglect or indiffer-
ence of that firms proper and rightful pro-
tector and vindicator Senator Gray of Della
ware, to take up the cudges for Wilmington
to defend our productions against Wash
ington Departmental ring that sought by
shameful unpatriotic subteriuee to belittle
the superior American sorghum or sugar
machinery in order that money might be
pocketed through placing the order for the
construction OF United States government
machinery in France
Where was Senator Grayl-Absent, silent,
or Indifferent.
Senator Plumb Of Kansas had to take the
work out of Mr.. Gray's hands and vindcate
Wilmington and he did SO by the sharp
persistent, industrious, and vigorous aid in
the House Committees Of Charles B. Lore !
Need we add that success followed these eff
forts This shameful ring was revealed,
its contemplate untruths fully shown up,
and the superiority of American machinery,
built in Wilmington, established before the
eyes of the world.
Then again more recently comes the oleo-
margarine bill. What a pitiful record that