The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-09

twelve round trips in year. and the sum
she will earn amounts to sl44, GOO.
The sister steamers viii be built by Mr..
Cramp, one of the most violent opposers of
free ships. The Inman company will be
Obliged to pay him his full price, which
will be at least rs per cent. more than the
cost of the City Of Paris and the City of
New York, but in view of the enormous
subsidy they can afford to do it. and there,
with possibly one or two more such in
stances, it is TO be hoped that all attempts
TO restore our carrying trade by such q
direct robbery of the people, will end.
These men are no more entitled to their
plumber than the farmer is entitled TO so
much rod for every furrow made by his
pillow.
There is one ghost that never will down.
AS often as 1t is met, IL vanlshes into thin
air, but 1t always rises to be confronted
again. It'll so constantly asserted by pro-
fectionists that England, the greatest mari
tine power Of the globe, FOSTERS or zen
c0urages'' her shipbuiiding Dy bounties
and subsidies. that the majority of people be-
lieve il to be true. There was never Ut
tered more unqualified, unmitigated false
hood. England never conferred bounty
of penny on her shipping, and she never
gave q subsidy she merely pays for
value received, and always gets an eQuive-
lent.
There are about dozen ships like the
OF Paris and the City of New York were
among then) which receives $50 600 annu-
ally from tn admiralty in consideration OF
being built n such manner that they
may serve for naval purposes If required.
This entails + or the ships large extra ex-
pense, loss of room for freight and passen-
gers and the location of the machinery be-
by the companies scarcely adequate COM
pensation for these requirements, and they
say that the admiralty has the best of the
bargain. Certainly then, in this case,
there is nothing given" 1t is merely a
guild pro quo.
AS TO the subsidies paid for mail transpor-
tatiOn they are ABOUT equal on the aver
age to the postage collected by the govern
ment.
Moreover, it is not made q condition
that the mail steamships shall be built in
England, and it was only in one instance,
that of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam
ship company, stipulated that the vessels
wherever built, should carry the British
flag. England today subsidies line Of
French built steamers on the west coast of
South America, and Two American built
steamships under the American flag run
ming between San Fran cisco and Australia.
Further illustration is not necessary to
prove that the sole object of England's pos
tai subsidies is the promotion of CONNER
tionists abhor while they illogically put in
their claim for supsidies), and not at all for
the purpose of domestic shipbuildiug.
Although this srncle is somewhat long,
could not answer the questions proposed
10 me in fewer words. In conclusion
have only to call attention to these undis-
puted facts. Since the Introduction of iron
shipbuilding the carrying trade Of all mari
| tine nations, including even China and
Japan, has largely increased, while that of
the United States has been almost snnihi-
! lated. In all these nations the liberty ex-
lists to buy ships anywhere and every
where free of duty.
In the United States, Importation of a
foreign built ship continues to be absolutely
prohibited
The reader may draw his own infer
ences and conclusions as to the cause of
the decadance of the American CONNER cial
marine. JOHN GOODMAN.
IDAHO SPRINGS. idaho.