The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-25
DEPBV FOR HAGNA'S BILL
New York Senator Speaks on the
Ship Subsidy Measure.

His Colleagues and Almost Empty
GaIieries-Chnraeter the Mari
time bounty scheme as "a Patri-
Otic Effort to Aid Merchantmen.
II Senator Depew today delivered his maid
Pen speech in the upper body of Congress,
choosing as his theme the bOundless bene-
hts to be shed, according to his view OF
| the case. upon all mankind by the passa &c
of the Hanna Frye Ship Subsidy bill.
The eulogy on bounties was delivered
| to empty galleries. and hardly dozen
| Senators remained in their seats.
Mr. Depew stated that the United States
was today the banker nation of the world
Our railway lines are a feature of our
! greatness said he. and have given US
an internal commerce greater than that Of
all the nations put together"
He then stated that America owes all
that it is today to the wisdom Of Washing
ton, Hamilton, and Jefferson in the initial
legislation which they conceived for de-
veioping American industries and Ameri-
can Industrial independence by the policy
of protection.
IN the itt years. Sdlu ne LAElE La &c
been a few deviations from this begin
ming. each one OF them followed by panic,
industrial paralysis and general distress.
Since the close Of the civil war in 1863 eX-
| cept for the experiment under the Wilson
bill of 1893. the policy OF the fathers has
been the practice Of the country. IN this
| thirty-f years we have witnessed the
most remarkable part Of our country
growth The development Of our resources
enterprise of our people. and for the use
Jul, employment OF their wealth. and ne
cessitated the borrowing Of large amounts
Of foreign capital
I'VE have been so absorbed in produc-
ton that We have neglected utterly the
equally important question, if we are TO
be a world power. with all which that
means. of cur position upon the ocean
In other words. our development and
growth have been one-sided. We have
crowded upon our rails, cur lakes, our
rivers. and our canals an output from
every avenue OF production which must
find markets or produce stagnatiOn and
distress beyond our dreams, without any
provision so far as our Government or
our people or our Tag is concerned, for
its carriage beyond our Owz. seaboard-
The farm. the factory and the mine have
filled the warehouses and the docks OF
CAE -2liduLlC anu EdElL4t GUdSt5 " III -A-NAE
cor trfbutions TO national wealth. employ
nent. ard the happiness of our people.
and left their transportation to Europe.
to Asia, TO Africa. to Solth America, and
10 Australia, TO the greed OF foreign ship
owners. to the protection OF foreign flags,
and 10 he ha- ards Of foreign wars.
"A gene collision. which IS often
| predicted n the European newspapers.
| among the great Powers OF Europe, in
a So
/ to outstrip each other in the acquisi-
tion or spheres Of influence in Asia and
| Africa would act upon the United States.
! who might be simply a spectator of the
| conflict. as All embargo upon our coast
| We would be shut up within ourselves as
/ absolutely as if the nav5es Of the world
were blockading our ports
He then got down to the advantages OF
the shippTg bounty, and sadly mourned
the decline Of the American merchant
/ marine
He insisted that this was a patriotic
/ questioned aiding the merchant marine
He showed that Germany and Great Brit
ain. by paying big bounyies, had secured
great tonnage.
Nations in all centuries have warred
with each other" said he, upon ques-
lions of territory or dynasty, but national
teaIousies friendships and enmities arc
measured now by commercial riyalries OF
alliances. Partnerships for the promotion
| Of business are impossible among differ
ent nations and alien peoples, and there
fore the industrial war will be more acute
| each year. Already we have the echoes
Of it in the speech OF the Austrian states
| man advising a European alliance agains-
US. in tbs predictions OF the French econ
| o7nist NJ Leroy Beaulieu OF the menace
! We are 10 Industrial Europe and in tbs
| utterances within few days OF Lord Rose
| berry and Mr.. Chamberlain in their warn
ings ID the British manufacturers and
/ British producers TO the effect that the
| United States menaces their position and
| growth and may derhroEe them from the
| markets which Great Britain now occu-
pies.
While we are isolated geographically
automatically. and commercially. We
could have sentimental relations. usefu
| for international compliment and lauda-
tory addresses on festive occasions. bu,
now We have no friends. National senti-
ment of enmity or friendship speedily
makes it way to citizens or subjects. The
officers of foreign ships, the bankers and
| agents also foreigners. who now conduct
! our export business will grow more and
more hostile with advancing years II
their feelings. and feelings are reflected IL
actions.
with the construction Of the Nicaragua
! Canal which will be completed within the
next few years. the necessity for an aux
Hilary feet and a merchant marine be-
| comes still greater Whether We look al
+, this question as a matter of national de-
| fence in time Of war, or consider IT al
one of the factors in the solution Of oul
! Industrial problems as they arise from
| time TO time. OF sum up the possibilities
| for the American farm and factory and
! mine in the wants present and potential
Of the millions in the Orient the benef-
| cent influence of this measure become