Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-02-21

Beating cummlns. They do not regard
Ianybody else as disturbing anything.
The particular man that they desire to
isget rid of is Cummilss.
SHIP SUBSIDIES.
| Will the editor q tl.s Times Republi-
| can grant an old timer space OH this
important subject
Noar editorial funeral sermon's based
Ton Senators Allison and Dolliver de-
isserting the bill indicates a misappre-
hension on the part Of the American
ispeople of their real interests in the i'm
por,a.t questions involved in this
measure. and raises the question Of who
is. al fault.
This subsidy nusstionsis a part of the
question OF sprotectol to American in
ldustries7 and involves the same princi-
lples and interests The founders ,f our
| government 50 recognized it and legis-
lated accordingly. our manufacturing
was protected by Tariff on foreign
Imports Our shipping. by discriminate
is.g port and tonnage duties on foreigr
shipping.
-Altllo spoken of as in the interests Of
American Industries and shipping they
We're in reality in the interest of .Nrler-
lean labor By some unwritten law
American labor has always held al
higher position and commanded better
compensation and consideration than
labar III ether parts of the world This
sslesired condition could only be main
tainsd by q protective policy.
Protection has proved the greatest
ben=factor Of American labor in main
timing higher rate of wages and de-
velopng greater degree Of Intelligence
and efficiency in their work Five sepa-
ratetimes, the last under Cleveland the
opposition 10 int elligent American labor
have secured legislation doing away
With protection and in no Instance has
y iai.ed 70 antagonize American labor
and American business
After. that of 1876 these movements
against protection We're always demi-
cratic as that under Calhoun. is the in
tcrests Of slavery so thoroughly brand
ed democracy With the free trade sheory
that it has ever so remained. This in 8
part accounts ;1r democracy's united
opposition To this and all other Amsri-
can measures for building up an
American merchant nerirs but Why
cur Iowa senator's should join their
ranks rs another question
senator Allisnl was first elected 10 the
Tinted States senate over a pronounced
lsprotectionist because he was NOT pro-
inounced. Deniecraoy's misleading edu-
cational theories and teachings thru
generations have had influence so that
many not in accord With democracy are
4 not protectionists, believing protection
benefits the manufacturer alone. and
iwhsn 4 comes 70 protecting American
shipping by subsidy they see nothing
but class legislation in the interest OF
ricil skip owning capitalists with Amer
lslcan labor nowhere considered
Why have republican journals been
less active in furnishing our great IN
terror country With the facts of his
tory than democratic journals have
been in furnishing the false theories of
q mistaken imagination2 Who are to
! blame for his erroneous misapprehen-
i sion59n the part u our great interior
/ country, whose very acre Of land.
every hoof of stock and every article
produced will be made more valuable
/ by the building up of an American
merchant marine We have nothing in.
the Times Republican that would tenc
to correct the error. 1.-THE T.-R has
from time to time published an abund-
ance of matter On this subject Ed
Allow us to glance over past history
and present conditions 'of American
ocean shipping Among the first acts
/ of our first eressdiscriminating ship
ping laws We're enacted. Soon what was
then considered first class ocean shin
4 ping exceeded in tonnage that of Today,
4 and all American interests, the great
ri
~ benefited Thereby. Our ships carried
over 80 per cent oi our own and much
4 foreign trade. These conditions inn
proved to the advantage of all Ameri-
can interests as long as our ships re-
ceived adequate protection
4 BY numerous commercial treaties or.
discriminating duties were given up un-
4 til our ocean shipping had little or no
protection and our ships lost the worlds
and most of our own ocean trade. while
outright prohibition of foreign shipping
engaging therein is all that save our
coast lines end interior trade to Amer
lean enterprise
i our foreign ocean trade now requires
the constant use of 100000 tons OF
shipping and the labor OF IS 900 men.
We have about one tenth OF this tom
mage and employ about 1000 men. I'm
/ der existing laws our trade employees
4 3.7S0oo0 tons of foreign shipping and
our people are paying to foreign CAPT
talists over s2oOOO00Oo annually. which
vast sum il forever lost to American
wealth and business. Does any Ameri-
can believe that tits loss does not seri-
ously damage the interests Of our
great interior cblntry" as well as ev-
s cry other American interests.
4 Outside Of the question OF labor we
can beat the world in building and run
4 ming ocean shipping IT sounds incredi-
BILE to say our foreign ocean trade re-
quires 100000 tons of shipping and
those astounding figures grow in i'm
mensity when we consider that the first
cost Of our required shipping would be
from $500, 000, 900 to $3.50 900 900. 1t liz not
the work of q year or decade. but IL
done in the United States American
skilled labor will receive fully 800. OO0.-
4 900 more for the work than similar la