The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-04
OSCAR STRAUS
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| of the Panama Canal the benefits from
 fnem sr,ss win never adequately flow to you yo,
 transportation to carry your products and your malls in your own ships. un- | der your own flag. by the most direct rout etc the markets that you seek to Commerce is reciprocal. and the ships that go to the South and Gen. tral American markets to carry the products that you sell must return with products which the people of those countries sell to us. All of the great maritime powers of the world, whether protection. create and maintain fast freight and fast passenger lines to their foreign markets by means of lib- eral postal payments.
 Sixty years ago President Polk re- commended. and. Congress granted. sub vertions when our commerce was in- significant. These subventions were, | on a moderate and limited scale, re- | established fin the postal law of 1891. | and what is demanded new is that that postal law be extendeds so that your commerce and your passengers will on this continent by the way of Eu- rope and by twice crossing the At- lantic Ocean.
 There is bill now before Con- gress. the purpose of which is to ex- | tend this subvention SO as to make | 1t effective in reaching the markets on this continent and along the Pa- | CHIC OCedn, nuHelY. tO klNe tTo cdTic postal subvention that is provided for under the law of 1891 and adapt 1t to ships that ply in those waters. or. in other words. to give q a ton per mile 1000 miles or more m length, outward 1 voyage, to South America. to the Phil ippines. to Japan, to China, and to Australasia. To accomplish this will require at the outside no more than the profit that the Gowernment Is now making on its foreign mail contracts. Tn other words. the actual cost to the Government last year of the ocean-mail service to foreign countries, other than Canada and Mexico, was in round num- | bers $3.000,00o, while the proceeds re- affixed by the Government from post age between the United States and for eign countries. other than Canada and l Mexico. was a little in excess of s6.- | 900, 900, leaving 8 profit to the United States in excess of sS.0oo,ooo per an- l nun.
 Tn other words, the commerce of the country yields to the Government this $3.o0o.0oO in postage atone, and all be devoted to extending the commerce of the country in American bottoms under the American flag. This is the commercial end of 1t
 of war for military service Is indls- pensable, both for the army and the navy. Not many months ago 1t became necessary to dispatch small force of sent under the British flag. The peace full and magnificent voyage that our powerful fleet of .warships Is now max ing from the Atlantic to tho Pacific would have been impeded. if not made prohibitive, unless we had secured the shelter of foreign flags to carry the
 "This. my friends, is not a party question in any sense of the word. It Is a question affecting the commerce of the entire country its mail service.
 Al nR o n to insure adequate naval protection in time of war.
 National Council of Commerce.
 "In the old South the industries were chiefly agricultural. and therefore sec. tionaiized. But the new South Is fast developing its manufacturing possibil- ities and nationalizing its industries. and it's commerce is an integral part of both the domestic commerce of the nation and the nations commerce with the world. It has been truthfully said that the scepter of nations has passed from camps to commerce. and Is con troiled not by the booted and spurred captains uf dragons, but by the cap-' tains of capital and enterprise.
 'sThe leading commercial nations of the world. recognizing that not only the power of the nation but the well being of the people depends upon it's commerce, have for many years past encouraged by liberal appropriations a close and cooperative relationship bc- tween governmental agencies and com mercial organizations.
 "The Department over which 1t Is my privilege to preside was establish ed five years ago in response to that same purpose to afford such help as the Government can properly give to the encouragement ard development of commerce at home and abroad. With the view of making that cooperation practical and effective last December summoned to Washington for consul tatlon delegates from the leading com mercial organizations in the larger cities of the country. Several of the commercial cities of the South were represented at that conference. and the plan developed was to organize a Ma tional Council of Commerce, represent ing every section of the country and every industrial and commercial or bureau at Washington. under capable administration. which should be in con stant touch with those governmental departments. such as the Department of Commerce and Labor. the State De- partment. the Interior Department, and the Department of Agriculture, which tries of the country and with it's do- mestic and foreign commerce. No country has more contemplating. more capable. or better trained men in it's business and it's commerce than we have. and therefore all the more the need that there should he a close re- lationship between the Government and the commercial bodies of the country
 
 of it's great business int Q ,ts. We require a body such as Gl cat Britain has. such as Germany has. that when
 1t speaks it voices the true commer- ciaI interest of the country, Hnhamp- cred by selfish interests. or sectional claims. or political limitations.
 Labor and Immigration.
 For the proper development of your industries you need an adequate sup ply of the best kind of labor, and in order to obtain that supply you must make tho standard of wage attractive to that class, to the skilled and enter prising immigrants that continually
 Tt is rather the vogue now to speak against the immigrant and immigra- tion forgetting what we are and what we owe to the 25 900 900 willing work CTS that have come to us in the past 100 years to develop the great possi- the great nation that we are. All hon. ar to the descendants of the Puritans and Pilgrim fathers, but fin honoring them let us not withhold our high ap- preciation and meade of praise for the immigrants who have come to us in the succeeding decades, to them and to their children. who in peace and in war have proved no less true and noble Americans than those who preceded them in time. but did not surpass them in the love of our common country.
 Yes. we welcomS the immigrant to our country, the self-respecting and honest minded alien, no matter from to share with us not only the blessings but also the duties and responsibilities of our great country; but they, as we'll as all of our people. must understand that in this land of liberty. equality and justice there is no room for so-