Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-25
OUR MARTINS NEEDS.
ships and Ship 0Tgners-Great Wan
~ i'm America.

OUR MARITIME NEEDS.
ships and Ship 0Wners-Great want
~, i'm America.
Following is an article from the pen of one
of our prominent New Haven citizens on a
! subject of national interest and Importance;
one which appeals strongly to the patriotism
| of every citizen of our country:
| sfWhosoeyer commands the sea commands
| the trade of the world, whosoever commands
| the trade of the world commands the riches
1 of the world, consequently the world itself j
| These memorable words, uttered centuries
l ago by the illustrious Sir Walter Raleigh,
have ever been the watchwords Of the Eng
lish people. They have been fostered and
handed down from generation to generation
| as something that every child born in Eng
land must learn and repeat like morning
prayer.
| History will tell you how faithfully they
have cherished, been guided and Influenced
| BY this remarkable saying. It will also tel
| you the way in which, as q people, they be
came first in astronomy, navigation, chart mal
| ing and the manner of complimentiug them
selves; and that too deservedly by drawing
| an imaginary line or the first meridian
| through their royal observatory at Green.
| which, from which they sailed one hundred
| and eighty degrees east and one hundred and
eighty degrees west, and how their ships aud
/ flying squadrons, fitted out regardless of out
| lay, visited every bay and haven of the
| ocean world and whenever or wherever in
l Accommodation of the Pacific, Indian and
| other oceans, islands were discovered that
| the sun had made fertile and attractive, that
| no time was lost in landing, and soon after
| they were peopled by their ships and made
colonial and productive. Not only islands
and continents, but empires of wondrous ex-
| tent, population and wealth were swayed,
and eventually BY chivalrous energy or
ssright of might" by some called Anglican
civilization, brought under control.
The noble or ignoble purpose evinced in
these gigantic grab game adventures comes
not within the pale of argument because
ships did the work, and success, like charity,
mantles the sin of conquest. And if they
did not succeed in getting into their posses
sion or control the whole continent: it was
not the fault of their ships.
Indeed, ships have made England the
bank of the world, and through them her
vast and splendid colonial possessions on
which the Ffsun never SETS" were derived.
Not only dominion, but the magnificent
buildings erected for devotional service, and
for charitable, hospital, educational, scien-
tifc, national and manufacturing purposes
together with the splendid castles, palaces
and halls of the nobility and gentry of Eng
land, had never risen above ground but for
| their ships. In fine, ships have been the
| making and sustaining of England through
| thick and thin, and never in the great and
\ varied history of this proud and energetic
people has her maritime interest been neg
| lected but sustained by all possible means,
| and at this period her merchant marine, pro-
PEELED by steam, is in number, size, appoint
| ment, ability of command and splendor OF
| construction, the most magnificent the world
| has seen or yet produced.
| Thus much for the renowned Anglo-Saxon
I and achievements
l will tell, there can be no mistake about it,
| and as people we are throughout Yankee
| dom-in particular-moIe or less of, and al
| lied to them by ties of blood and all sorts of
good and peculiar things. And if we are not
the most absolutely perfect people known to
| the world it is not our fault, the defect is
| traceable to bit of alloy that got into the
| Anglo-Saxon blood by mistake or by inherit
| ance from a very ancient family. Neyerthe
less, whenever in this country man crosses
your path who has high regard for the
moral and intellectual and is brimfull of snap
| and honest endeavor and seemingly inclined
to work this planet for about all II will yield
you will find if you are at all inclined to trace
his pedigree that he is an Anglo-American.
The AnRlo-Americans are descendants not
ancestors, their ancestors were Anglo-Saxon
of course and they left England, it may have
been for their country's good, as to that q
diversity of opinion has been expressed
II
sentiment was clearly shown in their religious
views and devotional exercises. Nothing was
1 clouded or ritualistic; everything they die
i was in bold relief and could be plainly seen
They brought with them, not in thei1
| trunks but in themselves, lots OF pluck, en-
| ergy, endurance of privation and indomitabl'
perseverance. They came to stay, and wert
! for time under the control or partly gov
1 erned by "the folks at home" But after
while they were numerically strengthened
| and in counsel resolved to cut loose from
| what at that period was called the mother
| country and go it on their own hook. And
| if the truth must be plainly told, the getting
| of this huge ship of state under Roadway anc
| sailing her into unexampled prosperity dates
1 from the landing on Plymouth Rock. The
1 stranding will date from the uprising of the
| Vandals, not, however, while the Anglo
American ia on guard.
AS a people we have risen soldier
rises, from rank to rank, to very enviable
| position in the eyes of the world. Through
1 energy and enterprise we have attained the
| rank and celebrity of being growers, inven'
/ tors, builders, merchants, manufacturers
| educators engineers and Christians, and W.
| can truly say that we fully equal, if we d.
not excel, all other peoples in the inventio,
| and make of superior agricultural and me
/ chanical labor-savin0 machines, and in tn
/ make of all kinds of implements and tool
4 for useful and practical work, and the re
1 noWn of being premier in the marvellous ap
plication of electricity and magnetism as
/ power and force for overcoming distance il
| Communication and for mechanical and illu
minating purposes. Also for the manufac
ture of everything needed for men, womel
and children's wear, and for growths of su
! perior staples; cotton, for example. A
to cereals, we can grow enough t
keep our elevators full as
| reserve, and all this in a climate that EN-
/ braces all the zones and every degree of hea
and cold that can be rated in climatic theory
Yet it is easy for one to gain wealth and pc
sition in a country like this where the soil
wonderfully productive, the climate thong
/ varied healthful, and the mineral resource
the greatest in kind, quality and quantity
we were not, however, aware until recent
that we could, in this State, indulge the lux
ury of high-toned blizzard. This make
l our assortment of weather complete and mus
| be included in this ef-hand account of de
| scent and whot we are as a people and wha
we have done and what we are now doing.
We are doubtless doing great deal, Blu
whats That is what we are driving at, wher
! are our build of ships with the stars an
stripes waving proudly aloft az of yore loade'
| with and carrying our makes, growths ant
products abroada With the exception of
few small craft now and then seen in tn
4 Caribbean Sea the Yankee ship has become
l stranger to the oceans of the world, and this
too with magnificent seacoast of almost IN
limited extent, Astounding in sounds, bays
/ inlets and harbors, very many the finest il
the world, out of which the merchant ship
of all nations but the American go to and fir
| from all the seaports abroad with cargoe
both ways.
The decline and disappearance from tn
ocean and the seaperts of the world of tn
magnificent American feet of clipper sailing
4 ships that were the admiration OF all mari
| time nations is mystery. So well and de
servedly acquired in reputation was the buil'
| and the energy and ability of their gallan
/ commanders that they obtained high freight
| and quick despatch wherever they went.
If this is at all doubted we have only te
name the splendid clippers that sailed from
| New York to San Francisco and from thenc'
to ports in China and Japan where they com
1 manded and obtained from ten to twenty
| shillings sterling more per ton freight t.
England than the ships hailing from the Brit
| ish and other Transatlantic ports.
This will be confirmed by resident repre-
sentative of the old time clipper ship nebili
| ty of command, who, in the absence of some
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