The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-01-28
Especial to the Record)
(By F. ]. Dyer.)

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 23.-
In .hc opinion of many patriotic
Americans the time has come when
IN effort ssould be put forth to re-
store the American flag to the high
seas. Senator Gallinger who has
slyen This que stion exhaustive study
and whose bill for the encourage
ment of the merchant marine has
received very wide approval, has
recently introduced an amended bill
for the granting of pay to mail steam
ships flying the American flag and
plying in South American ports, and
TO the Isthmus of Panama from home
ports on the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts. 1T is pretty generally con-
eeeded," said Senator Gallinger to
your correspondent, that the most
desirable way to encourage the es.
is to pay reasonable sum for car
rying the mails in fast modern
ship, which shall be available for
the use of the government In time
# war. With very moderate ex-
penditure of money, not more than
S4,000,000 year, some 30 or 40 large
steamships, costing from $1,5O0 900
to $4,000 900 each would be built
and put on routes to countries such
such as Argentine, Brazil and Chile
with which we now have considerable
exchange of business, and with which
our trade could be very largely in
creased if reasonably good facilities
, in the way of mails and transporta
ton were proviedd. Thus far ther,
has been little opposition to this plal
9 except in some Of the inland farmin
-lrummnnffies rai,Ara IL hna saas.s x
: to the people that they could no
] derive any interest from breakin
4 down the foreign shipping trust
b which naturally enough Is workin
n to extend the interests of foreigl
s commerce at the expense OF thi
+ country"
: FARMERS WOULD BENEFIT
: Farmers will benefit both directl.
and indirectly by the extension O
foreign commerce carried in America
bottoms" continued Senator GaIlinge
"In general way anything that bene
fits one benefits all, The east ma,
! possibly benefit more than some othe
sections, but on the other hand east
ern senators did not refuse to Civ,
: tht'r support to irrigation and con
servation enterprises because the,
! seemed to be of benefit mainly to tn,
west. We realize that we have to b.
broader than that. This country, witt
its diversified interests, could not ge
! legislation at all IL we took tn
t ground that only such Legislation
should be enacted as would benefi
j all classes. But our foreign trad
k really does benefit all. II we can ir
8 orease that trade we open new ma
J kets for the products Of our mills
S our shops ard our farms. If some se
lions seem to benefit directly les
L than others, they will benefit indirec
n ly Rusier factories mean a large
e consumption of farm products an
better as well as more stable price
t Moreover, as we adopt better metho
s )f agriculture our surplus produce
If are likely to increase.If we have goc
D. transportation facilities 1t will becon
II easier to find a profitable market
n absorb such surplus. That the farmil
ID interests realize this is Indicate
l. ! think, by the decreasing opposite
ly shown to the extension of our foreis
IT trade by giving reasonable pay +,
n eanying ocean mails"
T. This question was live issue as Il
back as 1845 when members of co
n gress from southern states urged go
" ernment appropriations, to pay Il
C. carrying mails, to encourage foreit
trade AS a result three America
in steamship lines were established
n europe, several to the West Indi
and the Isthmus, and from the LIST