Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-03-12


/ ~ II. 81 hiIuSt IN me city Of Portland
/ oI[" curing the wheat shipping season
I ''Hd count twenty or twenty-five ships in
! Pprt 1pr Whe%t and flour. etc, and OBJ
/ serve mat AL carry the English or a for
I tiEH nag, ana not an American ship
! among tn"n II his blood does not course
/ more rapidly or his Indignation soar on
/ q very hiSh plane, he Is sailing under a
/ ldlSe name when ne pretends to be an
/ American desiring American supremacy
| for he is not: he is a stupid nonentity or
worse, perhaps he is the kind of material
| 0l Whlch some of our so-called American
diplomats were made of at certain peri
'dS ~ our former history.
certain u Is. he l. not d true American.
| me alleged crime of 1873 (even if true as
charged Is a mere imaginary speck COM
pared with the thirty years crime ton our
pafu since the War of the Rebellion. The
failure ana neglect Of this nation for thir-
" years 10 protect its interest by the re-
building of its merchant marine and
Amerlod an Shipyards and protecting our
American Seamen 50 that our foreign
commerce should pay freight to Ameri-
cans ana 50 that the policy OF reciprocity
In commercial affairs shall be made pos
sible, i a crime against this great ma
tlOn, which cannot be measured in words
ana is not yet generally understood but
Will be when the American people under
stand that there can be no genuine re-
clprocity IN trade until We have the ships
to carry our own manufactured goods
nations received IN exchange Tor our own,
and thus fix ana receive the freight
charges both ways, which means that
we levy as much trlhute as We please
When Inc other party has no snip, and
hence is az our mercy as to terms. The
nation without shlps is always in the
rs trade ANA cammercn is 7'itpn rpncopnnd i%
ne weaker are always IN the power of
ne stronger. NJ o,.--
! ! ioiii '"tl @tle @ AtIdiitic c anu racine codStS
IL IaSt Slo"inS IN Importance as IS aIso
"a. II auc @ WI tile Nehtidi anu oouti
-hiil''i m l,an l.PuoliNS, anu Win tIle !dplu
u'N Ntloi'iileht no" ~ proSIcSS III thesc
countries continued ior zen years 70
come. there VIII De an immense traue Ill
rec Iert rom M tn5 Iaclilc coast Win tneSe
ooulitil ~, any W We sHaii act very unW WiseiS
- " ii't.ion IL we ia,l 70 appreciate II anu
ir Nluc m AlherISah shlpS ana other Iaciii-
ne tieS VIII ".iiCn ~ col!uucL anu col'Iroi II
1iu f shai IN us ptieiits anu aiso oe oh
.ld'iu @ lhu Pieldieu 70 TphuuHt anu con-
t%loi % VIZ tldue vi the hawaiian lsidlus
~ ilir @ 80 ~ - ny ~ su i
M IoM l@iVdi @ at HdIlu ShSiii stNe tlei, People
NV coul ~ iioie ouSiiles9 anu pet'et
Sprti ~, lIliieilt; ~ ~;
ne repuilulhs Oh our american mer
!, tht'il il,ii iiit' Aiielltal ships aIus anu
@ @thT euuGdt!oh OF american seatheh can oe
!uliy dchieNeu ana the american foreign
49, iIug iansleileu - anu secuieu 70
u a ST. 90 IN ~ 'iie tIeleps
llcheu So"WV'Voo annually our lnanuldc-
tults stiens t,ieIieu' our coliiiiie~lcial ~ @ @leid-
tlo.i- tHi.ti seu' anu iecipl ocl.y hidoe eaSS'
VIII hatiolls pufthdslns our lhdliuidc
e" So'uS anu paying lleiSntS ~ oul
snip owners, ny enactment OF proper
ID" lol the pulpose'
A HINT FROM ENGLAND
In recent number of the British Uni
tea Service Magazine, Mr.. NJ. KEGS pa
% % t-lEn
English ships convey nearly every BUSH
el of wheat exported annually from Ore
gon, Washington and California. and they
would quickly drive the American ships
out of the San Francisco and New York
trade. but for the law which limits the