The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-04-06

foreign shipping, higniy protected. aid,
ed and subsidized.
Undergraduates on land duftne
The last forty years f0r business eater
PRIZES aud business Investments nave
been 90 great. particularly ~ the west
that bot little interest has been teAei
IN Industrial pursuits on the seas. e.
peciaIly a. they were entirely unpTo-
tecled and gave no returns.
'lR1urth-in thg abssncg az any pro
lection or aid 70 American shipping u
hap Ind 10 pay heavy taxes AZ homie
higher rates OF interest and hiEaelt
wages than foreign shipping VITA
which II completes.
"Fifth--The hostile Discrimination OF
British Lloyds Register In lnspeet,ng'
rating and classifying American shlps,
OF insurance on carEoes and take tns
lowest rate OF freight ind wait t1e
longest In various parts OF the worll
f1r charters. Added 10 this the war OF
English Insurance companies N 'ae
United States against lnsuring cITgoes
carried in American ships.
slxth-The decentralization aud loss OF
shIDyinG incident 20 the civil war As
our laws gave no protection TO Shlpplpg'
IL was not rebuilt
The Bsnshesnt Results.
THE beneficial results ot this poi!cy
OF protection and discriminating duties
ia building up our shipping interest VIII
be found In the records OF the treasury
department. From these records u
app4ars that from 1883 to 1900 the carry
ing OF our imports In American ships
increased from III 10 y per cent, and
OF our exports from 20 TO IS per cent
and from lSO0 20 1910 this increase was
substantially maintained. making the
average Of our foreign commerce car,
rietI IN American ships for the perlod
OF from 1900 20 1910, StfI per cent OF OUT
imports and 81 per cent OF our exports.
He then reviewed the course OF the
United States IN yielding 10 British per-
suasgons, and said that In 1873 the free
frelghtinW act" was the anal act OF
ruinous reciprocity" In iSe5 Daniel
Webster said after a time OF protection
and discriminating duties: We have
commerce which leaves no sea une1-
plored: nayies which take no law from
superior force"
After giving tables showing the In
crease OF American shipping under dis
eliminating duties. and its decrease IN
der maritime reciprocity, Mr. Eikins
said;
No amount az s3PhIstrF, 10 amount
OF explanation, no amount OF specious
argument can change these facts and
the results OF these two policies All
impartial minds must agree. In the face
Of this showing, that the policy o. flIF-
thine reciprocity has not only been 4
failure, but under II American shipping
has been weil-nIgh ruined and destroy
ed In our foreign trade and Throughout
the world Ths other conclusion forces
itself upon the mind that American
shipping 10 grow and prosper as an IN
dustFy. must be. protected as was IN
ths early history % the government
lie reviewed az some length the ship
ping legislation since 1850. and also the
navigation laws nf Great Britain, calm
ing that for one hundred and thtrty
years England disseminated in favor
OF English ships and built up a greai
merchant marine. By maritime reel
pr0city England continued untI enc
controlled IS per cent o. the carrying
trade OF the world.
Nr Elklng sad ;hat the 70 per cent
discriminating duty should be applied
10 goods admitted free as well as TO
goods upon which duties are now paid
The senator said that n we had aban-
d0ned the policy % excluding foreign
built ships from our coRstwise trade
seventy years ago. that trade would
nov be in a condition as deplOrable as
our foreign shipping. He said Il might
be well 20 extend our coastEt5e trade
relations with states and countries OF
North and South America under Teci-
procal regulations.
Mr.. Eiklns quoted the Republican nI-
tlonal platform IN tavo! OF disc:imtnai-
ing duties also che letter % President
Mckinley, accepting the nomination in
which he endorsed the policy. As 10 the
result OF this policy Mr. Elktns said:
"FIrst--It would give US Immediately
large share In carrying our foreign
commerce. all OF our imports and part
Of our exports. and q share IN carrying
the commerce OF countries not owning
ships
.seoond-It would stimulate ship
building and establish new sAipy3Tcs,
Third Shlpbuilding would stimulate
other Industries Of all kinds and give
employment TO thousands OF skilled and
other workmsn.
"Fourth--It would save TO the people
OF the United States annually, more
than 3loO050,0OO nov paid 10 to'elgn
shIp-owueES for carrying our foreign
commerce. with the chance IN a feT
years OF saving another hundred mill
ions by the increase OF shipping and
the carrying OF the worlds commerce
in American ships.
"Fffth-It would not only build up
and Increase shipping IN the foreign
trade. but II would be the means OF eH-
tending our trade in the foreign mar
kets Of the world. 50 much desired by
the people
Commercial Treaties.
Mr.. Flkins discussed at some length
the commercial treaties with other eaun-