The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-26

there were no Algiers it would be worth England's while to build one
 The commissioner of navigation in his report for 1885 says:
 It was the great dsparagement by Lloyds' agents in the ports of China and Japan that prejudiced shippers against the steamships of our Pacific Mail-the Picking and ToSio--in 1874 and 1875. But Consul Jones proves even more forcibly this influence. He says again: Shipping creates great demand for iron and steel in their various forms and qualities, as well as for engines and boilers, chains and anchors, sails and ropes, for every variety of hardware, crockery and glassware, and for uphol- stery and carpets beds and bedding, electric appliances and telephones. Elm ployment is afforded directly and 1nd1- rectly to an army of men and women of every social grade and intellectual calibre, from the wealthy shipbullder, with his estate in the midlands and his seat in parliament, to the hard-Worked puddler at the furnace.
 Were I called to prescribe those rem edies that would restore to the nation most directly its former standing in the over ocean trade, I would say,
 First-Admit to enrolment for over ocean trade all vessels without regard Ito place of construction.
 Second-A governmental regulation or system of inspection and classifica- tion for purpose of insurance.
 Third-Some system of governmental insurance that would be safe for the government and helpful to its citizens until such time as private enterprise should volunteer to supply the much needed want.
 Fourth Construction of ofaninter-ocean- ic canal uniting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, which would place us in direct communication with 90O,000,000 of people of eastern Europe Asia, Africa, Aus tralia and the smaller islands of the Pacific. Such would put us 2,700 miles nearer the western coast of South America; 1900 miles nearer Japan, and 1000 miles nearer Australia than Eng land
 Itwould shorten the water route from San Francisco to London 1000 miles; New Orleans to San Francisco, l1,O0O miles, and New York to San Francisco, 10000 miles. Such would enable us to at once commence the resurrection of a once rich and prosperous, but now dead and buried ocean commerce, at the same time enabling us to take a strong hold of the finances of the world and transfer in a very few years the money center of the globe from where 1t is now, so strongly intrenched on the little island of the extreme wester- ly coast of the European continent to New York and New Orleans.
 Some of cur statesmen claim that the Clayton-Bulwer treaty stands in the way of this much needed improvement. If so, ask England to join in it's con- struction on equitable principles. On refusal. annul the treaty by legal meth ods. if any exist If not then tear it up and tramp 1t under foot, and go on and build the canal, and should England attempt to interfere by overt act, she would soon find a world in arms against her. The same spirit that led her to an alliance with brutal North American savages during our revolution for the purpose of scalping defenceless women and children still exists, and was made glaringly apparent in our civil war.
 It was English gold and chicanery playing upon the representative hu- manitarianism of our worthy people more than all other influences combined that precipitated the civil war between the north and the south, and when we were locked in what seemed 8 deadly conflict she cast her influence on the side which promised most effectually to prolong that struggle, bankrupt ant permanently divide the union.
 Colonel Mason W. Tyler's place wa. filled by the toastmaster who made clever extemporaneous response to tn, toast, "The Bar" Another absente, whose place was filled on the spur O the moment was Hon. Willie c. Young Tn his place Prof. John M. Tyler O. Smith college real a letter of regret ant greeting from his father, revered ant honored old Prof. Tyler of Amherst col lege, who is four score years and more MT. Charles Hopkins, A. M., of Brook lyn, responded humorously and in :; very interesting manner on Some Hu morous Sides of Assurahce" "Bol Voyage was Willard c. Tyler's toast and happily he did bid his kinsfolks fraternal farewell and godspeed
 The reunion closed appropriately witt
 
 all Blessings Flow" the whole famil, rising and singing fervently.
 The next reunion will be held in Bos ton on the first Wednesday of Septem Der, 1898.
 THE OFFICIAL PROGRAMME.
 MORNING SESSION
 Order called at 9.30 by Harvey G. Shepard esq, New, Haven, Conn
 Invocation by Prof. Henry M. Tyler, A. NJ
 Smith college.
 Hymn (composed for the occasion), by Mrs Charlotte L. Tyler) Kilby, Brooklyn, N Ar, America"
 We gather on the spot
 Where patient sires have wrought
 Right royalty:
 For us they braved the foe,
 On us they did bestow
 name to which we owe
 Our loyalty.
 May their pure blessedness
 RnUcHo HoN RATH