The morning call., 1892-05-14
FOR YOU, Mr.. HISCOCK.
kindergarten Lesson on the
Pacific Mail.
THINK 1T ALL OVER, SENATOR.
Then Correct Your Very Bad Mistake
at Once.
This Tells Y6u Why the Steamer China
Should not Sail Under the Amer.
lean Flag.
THINK 1T ALL OVER, SENATOR.

The Pacific Mail is trying to sneak bill
through Congress by which American regis
try is to be given to the steamship China,
in order that il may receive subsidy under
The postal-aid act
A good deal of light will be thrown on
that bill before it shall be very long before
the Senate.
Senator Frank HiscocK Of New York is
the father Of it.
III Senator Riscock knew much about the
condition of traffic affairs on the Pacific
Coast and the present temper Of the people
heEe.he would have reason &c congratulate
himself upon his being New York man IN
stead of a Californian. If ne were from
California and still had political aspirations
he would be so completely showed unuer
when il came TO election that he would
wonder what had happened.
The people out this way, M. Hiscock,
viii never send you a $50 set OF engrossed
vote Of thanks in an antique oak frame
The people out this way, MI HSeock,
know what the Pacific Mail is. Perhaps
you don't. There is simple way OF educa-
ting yourself.
fake day off and read "Fettered Com
merce," The CALLS pamphlet, containing
full Information on the subject
Iou will see then, MI. Hlsc1ek, now the
You Will see then. Mr.. Hiscock. how IL
has combined with the railroads to keep
overland rates Of freight up TO point that
is driving merchants out OF business.
You VIII see, Mr. Hiscock. how this com
bination has helped to keep alive IN Cali
fornia a tariff Of local freight rates that Is
so high that If il were suddenly put into
effect in the State Of New York il would
cause the people TO emigrate IN short order.
Mr.. Hisc0ck, read the chapter that tells
about the outrageous rates charged Dy the
Pacific Mail on freight between this port
and Panama. Does carrier that mas
treated the public In the way there set tOrth
deserve the slightest consideration at the
hands Of Congress?
The distance from San Francisco to Pan
ANA, Mr.. Hiscock, is 1860 miles, Inc
Pacific Mails merchandise rate per ton TO
Panama is Sl8-mind you, SIS
To sydney 1900 miles, or over twice the
distance, the rate is only SIC. What dc you
think of that Mr.. HiscOck?
To Yokohama the distance is 1900 miles
and the rate is only Sl2 How Is that for
discrimination, against Central American
ports, Nj Hiscock. To Shanghai, 5750
miles, the rate is So.
A pretty tough case Of discrimination, Ell,
Nj HlscOck?
Doesn't it look as if American Interests
were being pretty badly used, by your
friends Of the Pacific Mail COmpany2
Doesn't il look as though San Francisco
had q very just cause for complaint against
your friend Huntington?
and now Mr.. HiscOCk, with the facts Of
the case before you, how Can you urge upon
Congress the giving Of an American registry
TO the Mail Company Ciyde-buIit steamer
China.
Does the Pacific Mail deserve it? Does it
deserve any benefits from the hands OF Con-
gress?
Do you know, Mr. Hiscock, why the China
was not built in America?
il was simply to save few thousand dol
lars on the first cost. She cost about
$3.50 000 She would have cost 20 per cent
more if built in America, because American
WOrkmen are better paid than British.
Il was TO save this difference 10 wages,
paid to Woodworking men, that the China
was built on the Clyde.
Those wages, with 20 per cent added,
should have gone 10 American workmen.
Il was clean loss to them Of nearly
100000
How about that, Mr.. Hiscock.9
Are you going to encourage that sort Of
thing?
When you come to think of it, Mr.. His
cock, was not the building Of the China in
Great Britain the height Of ingratitude on
the part Of the Pacific Mall Steamship Com
pany?
OF course 1t was
What ether company, Mr. Hiscock, owes
more 10 America than it does?
1t is heavily subsidized by ouPGovern-
ment. as yOu know, and has made nearly all
its money in the American trade.
Our people have encouraged it in every
possible way.
Its leading stockholders have made mil
lions cut OF the American traffic, and they
have taken American money and spent it in
England 10 build inferior steamers with
cheap labor.
Now, Mr.. Hlscock, don't you think that
this is an outrageous proceeding?
Don't you think that ii is the Effel- tower
height of audacity for Mr. Huntington and
his pals 10 ask Congress TO let the China fly
the American flag?
Your friend Huntington is just as ndiffer-
eBt to California interests as be is TO wheth-
eT his meat is sheep or mutton, or whether
he hires Chi namen or white men.
II you will take the trouble to look it up
you will find that he has shown that indIf-
ference in hundred ways, and that the
Mail Company's methods are a fair example
of them
But it is just like his supreme gall to ask
Congress to overlook all these things and let
him put British cbeap-labOr steamers under
the American flag