The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-18

ton laid in it's navy and merchant ma
rine.. The war just closed has shown
that naval battle waged by modern bat
tie ships, with all the accompanying en-
gines Of destruction will practically mean
the total destruction of both naWes en-
gagged In the struggle, which will be brief
and destructive.
"A great navy and auxiliary ships will
be the best guarantee OF peace, as no
nation will be anxious to invite its own
destruction by hastily declaring war
Now. as a resource of this nation, 1t
opens up the most profitable avenue of
enterprise that is now left undeyeloped
Our commerce on the seas Is as expansive
as the surface of the earth. New mar
kets can be found and extended that will
absorb the products Of the farm and
manufactured products of labor.
1T will create a new industry In the
United States. ship building, and q new
occupat alton, that of the American sailor
The establishment of this new industry
will create new demands for labor and
will multiply new Industries Of the forest,
mine and manufacturing plants to make
and fashion the materials necessary to
build and equip modern ship, and then
to man the same with American mechan-
les. sailors and officers in steady and
profitable employment. Then we can earn
the $500, 900 which we pay annually to
ing our merchandise to and fro. With
this enterprise thoroughly established and
equipped it will take 100000 men from the
ranks Of Idle labor and give them per-
manent and profitable employment 1t
will give an avenue for investment to
the capitalist Of over S100, 000 900 that will
be turning out vessels annually that will
cover the seas and carry all our own pro-
ducts and enter the field of foreign COM
| merce, and earn dividends from their for
eign trade for their owner, and bring vast
volumes Of income to this nation that it
now contributes to build up foreign ma
| tions
FAVORS A BOUNTY.
lowing to the generous treatment that
| foreign nations give their ships and COM
| merce we will be at an immense disad-
| vantage If we do not receive government
| aid in starting this enterprise for the
first twenty-five or thirty-five years in
| the shape. Of bounties and subsidies.
| When we contemplate moment that
! we could have annual appropriations, of
| say $3.50, 900. for this purpose, 1t would
not be drop in the bucket out of the
| $100, 900 900 appropriations of the last
two or three congresses. 1t would give
| the proper encouragement to tin1id CAPT
| tai to invest money in this gigantic en-
terprise that would give this nation g.
| bulwark of strength as a national de-
| tense, q profitable source of investment
! for the capitalist and a permanent and
extensive source of profitable employ
ment for the American mechanic and
workman. A source that would broaden
and extend our foreign markets for the
products of labor, and would establish
completion that would insure better prices
for our farm products and better wages
for our workmen.
''This question Of protection involves the
necessity of many safeguards that will
give fair proportion of the bonus and
subsidies to the American laborer. I do
| not want the kind Of protection for the
American workman that was promised
by the Republican politicians during the
campaign of President Harrison, by
claiming that the Mckinley bill would re-
store the wages of the American work
man and remove him from the necessity
of competition Of foreign and pauper
labor of Europe. I do not mean that
protection that was given to the iron
industry by the increase Of the tariff On
steel rails from So to $11.50 per ton pro-
lection on the output of the Carnegie iron
mills should be put into such practice that
1t called for cut of wages In all depart
ments of that immense plant and industry
that received such generous protection
from the Republican party that it called
forth a reduction of the wages of the
American workman of 20 per cent in all
departments, and when the American
workman refused to accept this reduction
he was shot down like dog for refusing
to submit to a condition different from
what he was promised by the successful
political party.
ct do not believe In the intense and
friendly interest that the Democratic
party held the American workmen In
when they rebelied against the injustio
of the PuIImans when Grover Cleveland
ordered out the federal troops and shot
men down like dogs because they would