The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-10-23

vessels are excluded from this
t-adel.
The following table will be in
Structive,
Vessels Tonnage
England ,.,... .1l517 1S,S2O,66S
Germany ,.,.. 9O94 4,1lO,562
Japan ,,..,..,. SOS l.l52,SO0
United States 49,, 10 19O,456
Japan has voted four million dol
lars Of subsidy to nine vessels; three
running To san Francisco, three to
Seattle and three to Tacoma CJapan
North American Line).
The Japanese have started to drive
as out of the Pacific and they have
we'll nigh succeeded,
Our President Taft, at a dinner
rendered Speaker Cannon at Wash
iugton. came out SQuarely for imme-
diate merchant marine legislation.
Public sentiment is changing rapidly.
Speaker Cannon is in line, We have
Il navy and an army-we must have
merchant marine TO be perfect.
The foreign shipping trust takes
Oft annually from America three hun
bred million dollars-easy money
ana they can we'll afford to advertise
and give some free transportation
for able work done in knocking the
agitation of merchant marine,
Today We sell more than we buy,
To-day no nation imposes a discrimi-
uatory duty, Such system may
have been juStifiable century
ago. To return to it now would GER
tainly be out of harmony with
Twentieth century thought, holding
that the economic. social and philO-
sophie views OF men have undergone
an immense change during the last
century, there being a distinct trend
toward such policies as lead TO great
er differentiation among nations as
asanSt policies that tend to stir up
strife and restrict social and com-
vuercial Intercourse,
ConyreSS in 1884 attempted TO
restore the early day policy OF ait
IerAMttal duties The Democratic
panty reUSed to take senator Frye's
amendment seriously, IN 1896 the
repuOltcan national platform advo-
catea the r,-adoptjoU Of the early
aay ajScvtmt0atjag duties The Ding
ley tariff NtW ot t$SS was So amend
"a as u put the former policy into
yol eyloct, except where treaties pro
,e>tca imports agatNSt the c0llec~
Uou OF an extra or dtScrtmNatng
duty
The (>(kjNS Nlll 60 Ce-cStaOltSO a
ayScrlmjaa,tNg policy was then be-
Soy,> CoNgreSS aud Il was mcorPor~
ate3 in tho NjNgley tariff act as Sec~
tom ~, but with the provision eltm-
mated that would have aOrogated
all TREATIES in conflict With the N0ll
and complete pe-eStaNllSAMeRt Of the
policy, The Attorney General ana
the board OF geNeVal appraisers by
Op5N}on aud decision RUllified al,
ether force that the act may have
had, and IT has been further eVtSoeC~
ated by an executive that, il being
held by the president that CongreSS
has no right 10 enact laws in conflict
With treaty relations,
FOrelgR marines grow as ours de-
cline, When the United States With
drew its protection from Atlantic
steamship enterprise and LETT it TO
perish, the nations Of Europe and
Others, our competitors, were Steadj-
1 ly Increasing their ship SUbveRuonS
and extending their steam lines from
one ocean to another,
This table sets forth the approx
mate amounts nov beiRg paid by
other nations in the way Of subsidies
Tor the maintenance OF their foreign
/ marines
EOSlaDd ,,,.-....,., SlO,OOe,oVV
JaDan ............... 9,OOO,O OO
/ France .,-., -.....,....- >,2VV,OVV
Germany ..-...,,,.. 6,Ooo'OVo
Italv ..... 100000
( SnSin ............. 100000
Austria ............. 100000