Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-03-27

nlppGrS on the ocean,, anu as Cley
don't work for glory they have wisely
retired. 1t was not the tariff, nor the
lack of American enterprise, nor the
pluck of our sailors that lost to Amer
lean ship owners their share in the
carrying trade, but it was the dispro-
portion in wages. in the cost of main
tenance and the refusal of a govern
ment bounty by the American congress
to equalize the conditions. That was
the kind of craftsmanship that drove
cur flag from the ocean and from the
commercial marts of the world.
Through the wise provisions of a
protective tariff we have attained in
large measure commercial supremacy
on land. To attain that supremacy on
the ocean it only remains for our gov
eminent to place American ship own
ers on equal terms with their foreign
competitors. That implies the grant
ing of an annual subsidy to American
shipping lines equal to that paid by
foreign governments, together with the
estimated difference in the cost of
maintenance. The question which in
terests the American people is not
party advantage nor party precedence
in the presentation of an advantageous
measure. The question now before
oonorncc ic do tho A M ari 40 roor1o
desire to engage in ocean traffic and
get back their share in the carrying
trade of the world? If they do there
is only one way to get it-by granting
a bounty that will equalize the condi-
tons.
Regardless of the opposition to this
bill, the money cannot be placed to
better advantage for the Industrial in
terests of the country in any other
way. What the high salaried drum
mer is to the large mercantile concern
Jul merchant fleet will be the indus
tries of the country. Our subsidized
ships will carry the products of the
farm and the factory into every port of
savage and civilized trade. They will
find or make a market for the the sur
plus products of our labor. They will
restore our flag to the ocean and lead
in the race for commercial supremacy.
If the shipping bill escapes alive
from it's enemies it will call for some
of those millions for the construction
of a merchant fleet. Where will that
money go? Admitting that some of it
will be stolen, the major portion of it
will go to u shipyards, to employ and
pay labor for the building of ships.
From their hands it will go to the
grocer, the shoemaker. the clothing
store and the landlord. The farmer
and the manufacturer will get their
share, and when the requirements of
the family are satisfied there may
be some left for the insurance agent
and the savings bank. Workmen will
be employed, business will be i'm
proved. and a merchant fleet will be
constructed BETTING the requirements
and the flag of the greatest country
on earth. ALI of the foregoing bene-
fits must result from the shipping
bill. The foregoing is a workman's
view of it. Will any friend of labor
dispute it?
There is 25 per cent of our money,
So0O,OOO,OOO locked up in the treasury.
The man or the party who will present
some measure of public utility that
will require the service of our unem-
ployed workmen, through whose
hands that money will be returned to
the business of the country, will con.
fer a benefit on all industrial interests
and have the first call for the work.
mans vote.
Ii u democratic statesmen wouli
talk less about tariff reform and thint
more for the interests of labor thu
surplus could be made {
source of great national enterprise
which would augment our power O
production and transportation, ope1
new fields of industry and employ
ment for labor. and return to the PEG
pie as a newly discovered blessing"
The Winnipeg Morning Telegram
recently published an immigration edi
ton that contains just such informs