The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-22
A new ship SUBSIDY SCHEME.
SECRET tRI ROOT TELLS or PLAN
ron SIN AMERICAN LINES.
Says the BIIl Has Been Drafted ana viii Be
Presented 10 Congress Proposed That
Vessels shall Ply Regularly
American Ports and Nix Foreign cities.

ST LOUIS, Nov. 2I.-In an address be-
fore the Commercial Club tonight Secre-
tary Root said that a bill has been drafted
to provide for six lines of subsidized Ameri-
car ships to sail between American ports
and six foreign ports. Heurged his hearers
to use their influence with their members
Of Congress to vote for the bill.
Mr.. Root also said that the deep water
way from the Lakes to the Gulf would
eventually be realized, hat he feeling
OF the inhabitants of South America toward
the United States had materially changed
in the last twelve months. and that the
completion OF the Panama Canal would
link Uncle Sans domain with the COM
merce OF the world.
In presenting Secretary Root, o. L. White
law said he was the hero Of the conquest
OF peace and characterized Mr.. Root az
one Of Americas brightest sons.
Mr.. Roots speech was confined largely
to a discussion OF future relations between
the United States and South America.
He said in part:
I'm South America there appears to be a
dawn Of a new era of industrial life. From
IOTtlRu COunJTJcr WHcTC Nv POPhiHNiOh 10
becoming almost a burden the people are
iocking to the fertile fields OF South America
It is a great market OF the present n
greater OF the future.
There was an impression in many parts
OF South America that the United States,
in asserting the Monroe Doctrine. was
bent on conquest. My journey was made
with a view of d~issipating that feeling.
A large part Of what we produce the people
of South America need; what we need they
produce, 80 it is plain to see that therecipro-
cal needs are beneficial to both but in
furious to neither.
but we cannot get there and they can
not get here. On my trip of inspection /
could not have gotten there had / not had
a man of war TO carry a message OF peace.
Our mail service is so bad that the Post
mast err Genera il seriously considering the
advisability of sending our mail by the way
Of Europe.
Il don't know how soon the Lakes to
Gulf deep waterway will be completed,
but | have no doubt it will come. Now is
the time to provide for hat which is i'm
mediately before US.
"The producers in the North cou Id send
their goods down the Mississippi to its
mouth, well on the way to their destina-
tion in South America.
we should feel to South America as we
do toward the various States in u Union.
We were first Of the colonies OF the Western
Hemisphere to set ourselves free from our
mother country. Our example has been
seized upon by the countries at the South.
They have taken our Constitution, adopted
it and are now asking for our friendship
Mr.. Root explained the benefits TO be
derived by the United States from Ameri-
can steamship lines. He said a bill had been
drafted and would I've introduced in Con-
gress calling for six lines from the United
States to various cities. IF you believe
we ought to have some American ships on
the seas, he said, please ask your Repre-
sentative to vote for this bill.