Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-22
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10000 tons, and Of this total eleven
steamships of $1,000 tons were built as
aail steamships under the postal sub
ss..dy acts. If the outlook for the build
ing of steel steamships, In the United
States We're not at present more prom
Using than of late years legislation for
the development Of American shipping
would probably prove futile
He shows further that
On the basis of foreign voyages act
ually made by American vessels aggre-
eating 100000 gross tons, during the
calendar year 1899 the expenditures I'M
Ger the senate subsidy bill would have
heen s2,9O70OO, and under the house bill
s2,790.00O. Details and estimates show
that, with the additional shipping eligi-
BILE, the cost during the first year Of the
bills operation would be about $4,000 900.
The maximum of s9,00O000 would proba-
bly, be attained during 1094-5, when a re-
duction of subsidy rates would be nee
essary. BY that time the building of
over 100000 tons Of ocean steamships
and the necessary increase in number
and extent of shipyards would have ma
terially reduced the cost of shipbuidlng
Il in fha a .;t,.
Great Britain and Germany. Under the
bill in five Years American steamships
lin foreign trade would doubtless reach
1900, COO tons. and sail vessels $4,000
tons, sufficient to carry about one third
of the ocean trade of this country,
Every public-spirited citizen will con-
Hcede that American shipbulding and;
american commerce carried in home
ships should be developed, and no way
appears open to stimulate it 50 fully as
the payment of these small subsidies.
TO IMPROVE COUNTRY HIGHWAYS.
The. paramount issue of The ifnmetli-
ate future should be the improvement
~ country roads. The late election has
/ been regarded as a victory for earnless
and one that entities the country dis
tsiess TO more careful eonsidei ION.
i and II is esrtain that they canae. l,e
benefited to any greater extent than in
the Improvement OF the roae5yays.
Farmers who have come to Iowa from
other states have. in some instances
declined 70 buy farms here because of.
/ the wretched highways, thus enforcing
3.the need Of Improvement.
The good roads convention at Chicago
formulated three recemme naatious
which the committee on legislation ems.
bodied in a report as follows:
| /. That highway commissioned
shall be appointed by each state 10 have
i general charge Of al roads
.. That tbs poll tax systanl shall be
/ abolished and that all taxes on road
lsshall BE- paid in cash.
8. That a State aid read plan should
| be adopted in all states.
FfesiQent M9efe, IN support OF ths
last ontenstoll Of the association, said:
To-day the farmers own less than
Ione-fifth of the properly Of the eoun-
Try. Up to this time they have paid ali
the expense of roads for al the pepp!e
except in three or four stat s We be-
& lievs that this expense should he elial-
4 izsd ard that those in the cities should
give their Just share. BY using this
money in erecting, staI,ie roads mat
when once constructed VIII prove per-
4 manent good roads will ceaseto 70 be a
4 possibility ard VIII become fact. Ia
4 An amendment TO tiae report was
then offered recommending wide tires.
4 four inches being the width sested,