Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-06-07


free ship advocates; and occasionally they
endeayor to answer the fact They always
fail to do so, however, because they make
general statements, based upon mere say
80, When they come 10 facts, they stop.
There is very familiar story of a
young lawyer saying to the inmate of
cell, sentenced for some minor offence:
"Why, they can't put you in Jail for
that" To whom the convict replied,
with some profanity of emphasis: "But
they hare put me in Jail for that"
Scd6Oard is like that lawyer. In spite
of its declared 'impossibilty of Ameri-
cans running ships in the foreign trade,
In competition with those of foreign ma
tons" it is fact known to everybody
that Americans are running-through
the grace of a Republican Congress at
that-two of the finest ships that float,
the Paris and New York, lin the foreign
trade, in competition with those of for
eign nations" and that the Cramps have
three vessels of the same grade under
way which are to be run under the like
impossible" conditions. These vessels
represent an investment of several mil
lions of dollars and the investors are
shrewd and experienced business men
who know what they are about. Such
men do not put millions of capital into
the exploitation of real impossibilities.
Within the memory of Americans
still in the prime of life the Stars and
Stripes tloated proudly and uuchal-
lenged over "ships in the foreign trade,
in competition with those of foreign
nations" voyaging to every land and
cleaving the waves of every sea. They
will do so again under the more enlight-
ened commercial policy of which we
are witnessing the struggling dawn and
the more enlightened navigation laws
that will follow in its train.
As the Harlan & Hollingsworth semi
centennial memoir says: "our seamen
have always been equal to any emery
ency, and when placed on perfect
equality as to the cost of our ships, as
well as that of navigating them, we
need not fear the competition Of any
power"
The Cramps are engaged in demon
strating that high grade ships can be
built on the Delaware as cheaply as on
the Clyde. The owners of the New
York and Paris have been taking care
of the navigation problem and there are
many millions of American capital now
ID - ri n,
that an extension of the legislation in.
augurated by the Mckinley Congress:
will transfer to the American flag.
-----as--
The practically unanimous adoption
by the Senate OF a resolution declaring
that the people of Hawaii ought to es
tablish and maintain their own form o.
government, that the United States ha!
no business TO interfere with their doinl
so, and that no other nation shall inter
fere, will be accepted as a generally
satisfactory adjustment of a trouble
some question inherited from the Harri
son administration. Under that admins
tration the American nation, through
the pestiferous meddlesomeness of OK
Minister Stevens, abetted by some nava
officer, whose name we have forgotten
and whom the country and the his
torian can do no greater favor than t
likewise forgct-came perilously nea
being placed in the disreputable posi-
ton of figuring among the family o
nations as receiver of stolen goods
and goods, at that, we have no earthl
use for and the acquisition of whic
would have embarrassed us in a de
gree incomparably in excess c
their value. Some day, when W
get further away from this Hawaiia
business, it will be recognize
by all right-minded people that tn
efforts of President TO undo the wron
committed under the shadow of Amer
can authority against the people {
Hawaii were in the highest degre
creditable to him as man and as Pres
dent. He did his duty as he saw it, an
he did it, in the face of prevailing oppt
sition and misapprehension, because
knew no discrimination in the admin
tration of exact and impartial iustic
Had it been a strong power in who
affairs Stevens aod his naval accompliC
interfered SO treacherously, there wou
have been millions who would ha,
looked upon President Cleveland
course through very different spectacle
But to attempt the undoing of wron
inflicted upon puny power, numberiI
scarcely more than the population
the city of Wilmington, was regard,
by many as too Utopian a proceedil
for this practical age. The verdict
time and posterity will, however,
justice to the President.
During the session of 1881, the legi
lative correspondent of a Winnings
paper, in one of his letters, criticised
member of the Delaware House of Re
resentatives, rejecting upon the sa
member personally as well as POLITICAL
The article was sufilcietly severe to W,
rant the member aforesaid in feeli
sore and mariana in colIinn both 4.