The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-07-12
THE SOUTH AND sHrPPINo.
national Aid for Its Restoration to tn.

upon other industries, are arousing in
the minds of the people new thoughts
and hopes for the future of their great
section of the Union One of the most
reliable authorities on Southern prog
ress and development is r. H. Ed
monds, the we1l-known Baltimore
publisher. who keeps in constant per-
sona1 touch with the up-to-date senti-
ment of the leading manufac turers,
bankers, and influential men of the
South 1t is his repeated declaration
and result of his own observa-
lions that the
SOUTHERN BUSINESS MEN
are almost unit in favor of national
aid in the re-establishment of
ships upon the seas. He finds the SEN
ument among men representative of
Southern industrial and commercial
progress quite at variance with that
disclosed by their representatives and
sena tors in congress. The latter seem
to represent a theoretical opposition
to the utilization of modern methods
for the advancement of industrial pros
perity that has kept back Southern
development for fully a generation. In
the foreign trade of the United States,
as conducted between Southern and
foreign ports, one of the
RAREST SIGHTS IS THE AMERI-
CAN FLAG
floating from the sterns of the ships
conducting that trade That the de-
mand has grown in the South for ma
tional legislation for the upbui1ding
of our merchant marine seems to Mr..
Edmonds to be logical. He sees in the
realization of the growing hopes of his
people in this respect much of per-
manent benefit to the section he repre-
sents. He has made an especial study
of ante-beIlum sentiment on the sub
Ject of American maritime develop
SnrnriSRd a
far back as
SIXTY YEARS AGO
the sentiment in favor of safeguard
ing and promoting our merchant mar
inc commended the thoughtful atten-
ton of the most advanced of South
ern statesmen and business men. In
address before the Cotton Spin
ners' association at Charlotte, North
Carolina, recently, Mr.. Edmonds
stated that in 1S45 John G. Calhoun
presided at a convention in Memphis
at which the subject was discussed. In
1851 a report was made at a Virginia
convention in favor of facilitating the
steamship lines running between
Hampton Roads and European ports.
Another convention in Memphis held
in 1853 favored
GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGEMENT
AND PROTECTION
between Southern and European ports.
The Charleston convention of 1854
urged congress to encourage the eS-
ia Adjustment of mail steamships even
to the extent of granting state boun-
ties in the form of rebates to ship
pers employing American vessels. In
1856 Louisiana's legislature passed an
act paying So per ton bounty on all
ships exceeding 100 tons burden built
in the state A report made to the
legislature of Alabama far back as
1888 showed that her citizens contrib
uted 81, 100000 a year to get their cot
ton to Europe, and contained the
query: IF this amount must be paid,
why should it not be paid to our own
citiZens?" No wonder a score of years
later Alabama's legislature passed an
act granting a bounty of 81 per ton on
all steamers built within that state.
AT CHARLESTON IN 1889
Robert Y Hayne discussed the sub
ject before a commercial convention
held in that city, in which he said that
southern and southwestern states were
producing nearly three-quarters of the
domestic exports of the Union al
though importing not to exceed one
tenth OF the foreign merchandise en-
tering the United States, and that for
eign commerce was causing cities Of
other states to flourish while Southern
tenant NJ F. Maury, famous for his
invaluab Bile aids to mariners upon the
oceans was impressed with the
IMMENSE BENEFITS SOUTHERN
STATES
would derive from the establishment
of steamship lines between Southern
and European ports. For many years
he urged the investment of Southern
capital in such lines, showing the
great and growing power her rich for
eign commerce was giving to New
York, and dep1oTing the fact that the
South was missing its opportunities
to share therein He saw for Norfolk
Virginia, possibilities of development
which have never been realized, but
which it seems possible are likely of
fuIfil1ment through the growing scar
city of European coal and the newt
able dependence of the world in the
future for the greater part of it's coal
supplies upon the United States In
OUR TRADE WITH OTHER AMER
ICAN REPUBLICS
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