The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-05-17

pectatlons, VIZ: preventing the alli-
ancemen from instructing for anyone,
and adopting the St. Louis platform.
Ship Subsidies and the Carryin.
Trade.
Fayetteville Observer
By the payment of comparatively
small subsidy to the faster ships of the
British merchant marine. for CARVING
the mails, that government secures
the right to use such ships as cruisers
In time of war. The British naval
strength is thus greatly increased at
an expense during peace that is tri-
fling compared with keeping the sub
sidized ships in commission. Congress
has just passed bill, which will no
doubt receive the presidents approval
and become law, gran ling an Ameri-
can registry to the "City of Paris"
and the Getty of New York" The
idea originated during the late Chilian
and Behring sea troubles, when the
effect of the tariff upon the ship regis
tration laws of this country became a
serious matter co the officials of the
navy department. These gentlemen
realized the enormous advantage
which Great Britain possesses over us
IL It's ability to call into service as
cruisers, at any moment, the fastest
ships afioat- an advantage which would
still be incalculable even were the
United States as strong in regular
war ships. The difference between
the subsidy paid by Great Britain to
each OF these ships, and that which
they will receive under our law
when they change their flag, well IL
lustrates the cost of the tariff to the
people. The British subsidy per ship
is $4,000; ours will be $144,OO0.
Thus, one by one, the evidences of the
plundering legislation to which the
country has been subjected by the re
publican party are appearing, and
they come in such a way nowadays as
to form very effective object lessons.
But, clear as this loss in the matter
OF the subsidies is, it is trife of the
most insignificant kind compared to
the indirect loss inflicted on this coun-
try by the loss of the carrying trade
Up to 1861, under democratic rule
and a revenue tariff, the United
States and Great Britain did nearly
all the carrying trade of the world,
and it was nip and tuck between
them as to which country should lead
the other. To-day we may travel from
London to Calcutta, and, in all the
ten thousand miles, never see an
American flag. In that wonderful
array of ships stretching along the
Hooghly River for four miles in front
OF Calcutta, six to eight abreast, the
American traveller of to-day has the
modification to see not one flag of his
native land. "Where is your flag -
ask the Calcutta merchants, sit used
to fly here in equal numbers with ours.
before 1861, but we never see it now. .
We can overcome our modification
however, better than we can recover
from the effect on the wage-earners of
this country of the loss of so much
wage-producing work. When the
American travels through that garden
of the world, England, and wonders
how thirty millions of people can sub
sist on territory no larger than
North Carolina, and beholds the un.
mistakable evidence of a widely diff
fused wealth, no matter which way his
gaze may be directed him remem-
ber that the genius of the British
statesmen has enabled the British ma
ton, through free trade, to levy tribute
upon all the peoples of the earth, so
that statesman and cottager are both
served, at the expense of other ma.
tions. Then, let him turn his eyes
upon the impotency of the puny peo-
pie who have made the laws of his own
country since 1865, and resolve in bis
heart that he will never rest until that
party is restored to power which
brought like blessings upon the people
of the United States up to the break.
ing out of the war.
Baron FaVa Back Again.
By Telegraph to the State Chronicle
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