The age-herald., 1900-12-07
HE ONLY DAlLY, NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Subsi1y by the Wholesale.

SHUStIi D1 lHe UIiOiCooiSs
 The history of all subsidies is, that they quickly rise to the maximum; and if the pending ship subsidy bill be passed es- pecially with the section in it providing for the registry of foreign built vessels, the government will long before MT. Me Kinleys new term is ended be disburs- ing s9,0O00OO a year. and the subsidized will be clamoring for more. The pending biIl Is therefore a bill to appropriate SZ3O, 100000, or more than the highest estimated cost of any isthmian canal For the bill provides that the subsidies shall be paid thirty years, and at the end of that term the subsidized, like the tariff benefcaries, will invent some excuse for a prolonged term. But it is at any rate a bill that would take from the pockets of the masses $2SO, GOO, paying it over almost to the last cent 10 men who are already over-rich.
 The bill has been prepared with special referance to the rich passenger lines which are now earning good dividends, and do not need any assistance whatever: for it provides a bounty of one and one-half cents ton per 100 miles for the first 15OO miles, and one cent ton for each addition al 100 miles, This Is all fair enough if there are to be subsidies at all: but the hand of the trici5ster and robber now comes in, and provision is inserted giving prem ium for speed, so that the big liners will get as high as S.S cents ton for the first 15OO miles, and S.3 ton for every 100 miles above that. In other words, a fast big liner would be paid about seventeen cents out of the public treasury for carrying across the sea a bale of cotton, while a slow tramp freight steamer sailing from Savannah would get seven cents per bale. The difference is due to the fact that the liner would be owned by rich campaign assessed company, while the freight steam CT would be owned by an individual who could not and would not recognize a Mark Hanna assessment The difference is also sectional the chief bounties going to Re publicans in the northeast, and only small bountes for deeency's sake to the iron and cotton and grain carriers of the Southern ports.
 The grab-all nature of the pending bill is shown in the provision which shuts out from the bounties vessels that start from the great lakes laden with coal or grain or lumber Chicago and Pittsburg are en- gagged in building up big trade of this nature, utilizing the Canadian canals, and loading from lowed freight at Montreal; but all this business is to be handicapped because no such car goes are to be subsidized. The east wants all, or very nearly all, of the $23O, O0D, 900, and after the bill becomes a law under Mark Hanna's imperative mandate, it will secure that sum or very near it. Under the iniauitous measure the fast liner would receive from the lean pockets of consumers via the indirect robber GUS tom house route about $1O,O0o, while the ordinary freight carrier blowing along at the rate of about 200 miles day would re- ceive about $500, each making a voyage across the sea of about 5000 miles. Is this just? Is this reasonable? It is Republican, and it is written in Mark Hannas order book and that settles it. MT. Underwood may explain, never so effectually and elo- quently its villainy, as he has already done, but he cannot stay it's course to passage, nor can any other Democrat It is booked to pass, for Mark Hanna has said it, and the President has officially said 1t, and the Republican who votes against this spoilation scheme will wish he had never been born. Mark Hanna has accommodated any such person in ad- vance, for he has gone on record to the effect that such an honest man is not a Republican. And he is right.