The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-02-21
Guilerm O on Ship subsidy.
Shady Grove,

SnaQy Grove,
Jan. Is, 1906.
Deer Gents,-Whut in the name Nv BIZ
Tilmun ia ship subsidy? An whut hev W,
got TO do with ship subsidy when we live or
terra Gotta. three hundred miles frum tn,
ocean?
1 ont give er continental hooraw ir
Halifax whut 1t is, I'm dead against 1t
I'm agin emmy thing unde the sun. moon
Its origin Two inches tother side OF Mason'l
and Dixon's las survay.
AS nigh as Ion make 1t out the ship sub
sidy amounts TO suthin like this:
ermong the nations, needs q big navy arc
I mus nave one, otherwise them amon.eyec
chinese an pestiderous Japs mite come ovel
here an thrash the stuffin' outen everything
10 twenty-five mile Nv the coast er else OLE
John Bull or Wilhelm the, I disremembel
whut number. mite take q notion tibet we're
gittln to big FUR our boots an order us into
q sb smaller s4a 4spe. I Bein' as bow we do a rte
'blighed to hev protection, an Therefore We
want q navy es big es emmy uv.em.
l agree TO all that, an I calkerlate every
body does, lessen he's q plum fool.
The trouble ofhavin a Big navy howsomeye,
Is the expense. Now 10 time NV peace the
navy jes moses erroun', the officers an men
hev'in a big time. dom nuthin In particular
They les loiters up an down the coast, comes
Into Charleston down here an Charleston
kills or chicken and churns fur their specia
benefit, then they slips erroun to some other
town an me same thing happens ergln. an
so sSs on s5 an s Snrln, Nv R peace: Now heres where
SEE build ez many ships ez you want, pul
men on EN-. an in time Nv peace take one
Nv these boats an turn II over to the Clyde
line an tell 'em TO run q line direct fran
Charleston 10 Cuby or from Charleston 10
Liverpoll; taxi enother cumpany an say
take this boat an run q direct line frum
Mobile TO Brazil which you say you CAM
do cause 1t don't pay, we'll let you hey this
boa. provided you'll run this line.
In this way all these boats could be let out
an be dom suthin. Then you'd say To alj
Nv EN- thet the only thing required Nv 'em
is to keep these ships in good order an pay
States calls fur .em fur war bey 'um reddy
an tern EN- over. AS soon as war wus hn.
ished the ships cud stop ften an 20 10
work again: THAT'S whut ship subsidy is as
AS It Is now II yoa want to go to Cuby
you've got ter go by New York. II you wan
TO 60 to Englend you've got to 60 by New
20 19r r. 81 ii ~ 9 So went to 60 10 Airaky you've
kamsehatky you've got TO 60 by New York
II you want 10 ship emmy thing emmy where's
you've got to ship 1t by New York.
snip subsidy would DO away with this an
ports; Charleston fur nuisance cud have d.
rect lines 10 Englend an other places. Lines
cnd be put on an run by Americans insted
Nv duchmens an greasers.
I agree to all this an 1 reckun eyrybody
does lessen they're plum bIoomin' idIits.
AS l stated at fust, howsomever, I'm ppos-
cd 10 1t all tooth an toe nail an III tell you
why Fust an principally, because Bin TIL
nun SEE It's wrong.
Second, because II mite bring immlgrashup
here insted Nv to New York an cause Ian TO
GO up so ALFRED hi a Teller cuddent make a
Third, because none Nv us wants TO 20 any,
where's and 1t makes no difference 10 US if
me DINER teller has to 90 by New York to git
Fourth, I'm agin It because some OF our
Southern cities down here mite grow 10 be ez
Dig e. New York an have life Insurance cum
psnies In II, which wud he a terrible Gala mi.
~.
Fifth. I'm agin 1t because some Yankee
started It, an l wuddent axe u pension Nv a
Numbered dollars q munt, II IL wuz voted me
by a bloomin Yankee.
sixth. I'm agin II because It mite stimu-
late trade an bring things cheaper an the
merchents mite git rich an b%igheaded.
l cud name o hunderd reasons why I'm
agin It but youc'n See reason enuff In the
above without my enumeratin' emmy more. |
think all readers Nv you paper will agree
thet I'm rite on that we don't need no sblp
subsidy so permittin' the question to subside,
| am as ever
Yourn,
Guilermo Sed.