The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-09-01
.~u NJ n Subsidized Merchant Ma
r,,.-The Navy Department Favors
Trust Armor
Control of the Wal Dep"r'"-
Hanna's Fat-Frying.
rspecial Correspondence

Seamen tHdt So"ie
The shin subsidy bill didn't pass u !
the war department has just received
t, nrotest from the American seamen
NJ the Pacific coast against manning
the transport Hancock with chinese
sailors. This transport sailed a lew
DAYS ago from San Francisco for
Shanghai.
The citizens of the coast object to
having sailors employed who might
think it an act of patriotism to scuttie
, shin when we are practically at war
with China. The Chinese sailors were
EMPLOYED because they we're cheaper
than Americans.
1t can easily be imagined that If the
United States. army authorities make
cheapness the first consideration In
selecting crews for war vessels or those
carving troops the masters of a sub
sidized merchant marine wouldn't
waste any of their profits paying good
wuges to American seamen unless they
were obliged to by law.
Trust Armor Plate
The unsettled condition Of matters
In the orient encourages those who be-
lieve in a big navy to urge that the
vessels now ordered be hurried to COM
p%letion.
The secretary of the navy recently
received bids for armor plate upon the
new vessels authorized by congress.
The Carnegie and Bethlehem COM
~panies bid $3.50 per ton for Krupp ar
NOR and a little less for other kinds.
The bidders stipulated that the max
ing of the Krupp rmo should not be
subject to scrutiny by government Off
Gals, claiming hat the process is a
secret one and could only be procured
by an agreement that it should be KEEP
so.
What a lot of nonsense. There is NJ
special secrecy about the Krupp meth
cd and the record of the Carnegie ant
bethlehem companies is not such tina
they can be trusted to produce t
dard armor without watching. 1t Wi
; be remembered that at the time Of tn
great Homestead strike this labor dis
turbance helped to divert attentio
: from about the most defective lot G
armor plate ever made for a credulou
n government.
IS Some confding people wonde
a whether the secretary of the navy wi
q accept these bids or build a govern
ment armor plant. OF course he wi
accept them and see that perquisit'
enough are allowed to bring the pri'
up to the original $545, for which Il
armor plate trust fought SO hard
congress. The democrats knew VIII
the republicans meant when thu
talked about leaving the whole matt
to the discretion of the secretary
the navy. That meant leaving it
! the mercy of the trust. There will
y no government m plate facto
. under a republican administration.
. War Department imperialism.
M The activity of the war departing
ID shows that practical Imperialism is {
ing its level best to involve the count
so deeply in unauthorized wars IL
Bryan would have difficulty in straig'
ening out the entanglements.
We are supposed to be on a pei
49, footing. The war department igno
the Philippines completely. Yet II
I'LL lions of dollars worth of war suppl
'ork are being shipped to Manila. Tn
ork are all sorts of things that our ar
hen cannot possibly want during the '
.au. season.
the Secretary Root hints that the S
ON plies are being sent in anticipation
inc. further Chinese trouble. The adm
the istration has 40 moral scruples alb
ming helping to partition China as soor
1t has the campaign off its hands
the can get all the troops it wants.
The The Russian government, it is S
MAJ has set the example by advising
that minister to accept an escort from
they king. 1t is said that the Russians
tend in this manner to short circuit
olors whole incident. This does not SO
iame like Russia, for she is in a better
the ton thar any other country to f
'i iav China to give up territory.
that The Chinese government maint
wnas a scornful silence in relation to
had Kinley's demands for free commul
elbow a., Nth orr ninis+ar ond HE
,eem- w" WIN >" ~ """ ms
h, as delivery to our forces.
'eessa The administration is hoping
Chinese affairs will drag along
after election. II defeated Mex
ana can leave the consequences of his
stood management to Bryan to repair a
reads. raalaotad tbars ,y;II st;u ha on n,
alting NN y
Oh as tunity to combine with Great Br
ryy In grabbing a port or two. The
ior to ish have landed troops at Shar
without protest from this govern
This means that Mckinley and
friends of the Anglo-American all
her are looking to the future and ths
just perialism will have even wider
stake than before.
a will Marx Mammals sEiIsat.