The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-18
A SAGEBRUSH SAILOR.
THE DICK DEADEYE OF THE TRIB-
UNE CALLED DOWN.
Goldman Once More Shows Up in His
Characteristic style the Bombast
and Froth of the Brainiess Mari
ner OF the Great Salt LaI.e-The
Old Salts Hard Blows.
no the editor of The Herald:

To the Editor of The Herald:
L should leave The Herald and the
Tribune to settle between themselves
their dispute over the ST. Louis, were
it not that the Mariner of the Great
Salt Lake has dragged my name into
a controversy in which I had taken no
part.
He probably would not have said I
did not see fit to respond" to his last
ebullition had he carefully scanned
your columns, in which a suitable re-
ply was made. 1t would be more in or
Ter for him to point out my inaccur-
--cies than to make sweeping charges
against my Veracity--but he is entitled
to his own favorite method of argu-
ment. He seems willing to give me
credit for knowing how to steer a trick,
to haul out a weather earin', to cross
or land down royal yard. to make a
long or short or an eye splice, Mat
thew Walker. or a wall and crown
knot, to turn in a block, to rattle down
rigging, to pulling an anchor, to put on
Selling, to trim sails, to tack or wave
ship. TO box haul, and to execute vari-
Gus other nautical eVolutionS and mat
tiers of seama.nship n general; but as
L have spent nearly half Of my life on
the ocean instead Of in a lawyers office,
or in an editorial chair, there are GER
tain questions connected with Ameri-
can shipping which landsmen are more
apt to know than old tars," and SO
my opinion of them is not of much ac-
count.
He still maintains that mail subsidies
are given instead of being paid as a
quid pro quo. and that they are not
conferred especially for the carriage of
letters, but for the purpose of ship
building. He forgets to note that all
the nations whom he tabulates as sub
sidy-givers, first began by substituting
the ships they had bought in Scotland
and that many of them do so to this
day, while all of them but the United
States have had liberty to import ships
free Of charge or duty, and this would
strike an ignorant sailor, although it
might not so strike a Rocky Mountain
Landsman, as a queer method of pro-
noting domestic shipbuilding by sub
Sidy. Being a, landsman, he reasons from
things upon the land. His logic in re-
gard to ocean subsidies would lead him
to conclude that when in former years
we paid a large subsidy for the pony
express mail 10 California, it was for
the purpose OF raising ponies, and if
he were here in Soda Springs today,
he would labor to convince me that
the contract made by the postof1ice de-
partment for carrying the mail to Car
iboo was designed to encourage the
building of wagons. 1t is a great thing
to qualify oneself by living in the sage
brush for a knowledge of maritime
affairs.
Recurring to the question of the st.
Louis, now that we have dropped this
Web-footed landsman, it may not be
amiss to tell the whole story of the
partial naturalization Of the City of
New York and the City of Paris, de-
failing the circumstances that occa-
stoned it from the beginning down to
the present. The commencement of it
all was the passage of an enormous
subsidy bill exceeding in amount any
mail contract now paid by England,
in favor of class OF ships of high
speed and large tonnage, adapted to
the service between the United States
and England, with smaller rates for
those in the South American and Pa
cific trades. These latter only partially
awaited themselves of the subsidy al
lowed them as the conditions coupled
with it were too onerouS for them TO
assume, and although it would seem
American-built ships was sufficiently
tempting, for some time no American
builder or company cared to undertake
Il Meanwhile, the City of New York
and the City of Paris formed part of
the fleet Of the Inman, or as 1t is now
called. the American line, for it really
was an American line, the principal
part Of its stock being owned by our
countrymen who, like many others in
the same predicament who own indie
pendent ships or cramps" were obliged
to sail under foreign flag, because our
odious navigation laws forbade them to
hoist their own national colors over
their own property. The City of New
York and the City of Paris, as they
were then. called, never had a mail
subsidy, but they were two out of about
dozen of a class of ships that were
built according to the specifications of