Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-09-12

flag over the vessel after the year Is
up.
The above job Of craftsmanship is
found in Sec. 1874. You see that the
law does not apply to the foreign-born
citizen with political "pull" strong
enough to give him job representing
this government abroad.
Again, under Sec. 142, before an
American citizen (native or foreign
born) can get registry for his vessel
that has been built here, he must
swear that not so much as bolt or
thread Of 1t Is owned directly or indi-
rectly by a foreigner, and that no for
eigner is in the remotest degree to
share the profits of Its trips.
We invite, yes more than that, we
urge, foreigners to help us build our rail-
roads by putting their money into our
railroad bonds; to furnish the money
to operate our mines, and street rail
ways. And the courts of this country
are open to enforce payment by fore
closure. Moreover, because of this
foul brood Of protective laws, of
which these we are considering are but
part, the government Of these United
States is on Its knees before foreign
capitalists beseeching them to put
their money into its bonds; but If a
single dollar of such capital is invested
in ship built here, giving ownership
as 1t does On bonds and mines, the law
declares the ship to be so tainted as to
be unworthy of the benefit of American
laws.
Well may your "protectionist" ex-
claim with lofty sneer, "what do we
care for abroad"
Under Sec. 4 1871, foreigner, and
that means that he is neither citizen nor
voter, may own and superintend an
American factory or mine; (of course
he will pay what lunkheads call
" American wages, } he may be presi-
dent of and control an American rail
road stretching Its right Of way across
these United States from one ocean to
another; he may be the president Of an
American college,; he may be COM
missioned officer in the American
army; but he cannot be an officer of a
registered American vessel. Not by
long shot. The agents of "protec-
tion," we call them Congressman, who
passed these laws, are nothing if not
intensely American" you know.
Sec. 3 Ia, provides that if an
American built vessel, the property of
American citizens, becomes damaged
on foreign voyage and is repaired in a
foreign port, and where else could she
be repaired, when she returns home
her owners or master must under oath,
pay tariff-tax of fifty cents on each
dollar laid out for repairs. And if your
countrymen and mine on vessel
which they have bought in this
country, meeting disaster on the wild
waves of the sea, obtain boats of a
passing foreign vessel, to insure the
safety Of crew or passengers, must
when she arrives at an American port,
pay tariiltax of fifty cents on the
dollar on the boats thus loaned in the
name of common humanity, though
she does not own them and returns
them to the line from which they
were obtained. Thank God, the
American people are not 50 small,
mean and contemplate rs these "pro-
tective" laws advertise them to be.
Sec 4 1876, provides that foreign
built vessels, whether belonging to
foreigners or Americans, arriving in
United States in distress, cannot bring
repair. materials to be put on by Amer
lean workmen, unless the taritf-tax is
paid on those materials. Nor can
such vessel even land copper sheathing
to be used by Americans in re-copper,
ing her without paying u tariif-tax of
| forty-nve cents on the dollar Of the
value of the new copper, and four
cents pound on the old copper
stripped off, though it never enters the
customs houses, and is not offered for
sale but is thrown into the sea.
AS protection to American work
ingmen this section of the protective"
law is n bowling success.
need not refer to other sections of
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