Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-28
Recognized by Government.


Recognized by Government.
"All foreign nations recognize these
conferences and combines as perfectly
| legitimate, and uphold their agreements
by law. These combines today practi-
cally admit that they are guilty as
| charged In the courts of this country,
but their answer is that we have no
| remedy.
Il have bill that l believe will give
a remedy. If it does not. one will be
| found that will give the remedy. This
| bill gives the court jurisdiction and the
country remedy by excluding ships in
these combines from our ports.
| NO American citizen worthy Of the
name will ever admit that this great re-
public stands helpless before this foreign
| combine that is sapping the very life
blood of our commerce. Bug the gov
eminent and the government alone is
strong enough to destroy 1t.
I'VE will not have one law for the
foreign trust and another for the do
nestle trust. Both alike are enemies of
| the people and both will be brought to
obey the law or they will be destroyed.
The foreign company that will not obey
our laws must be driven from our
shores.
| The remedy is to give US merchant
marine. 1t is the cost of operation and
the subsidies paid by other nations that
| have driven the American ship from the
sea and not the cost OF construction.
I'VE hear much of the discriminating
duties, the remedy of the fathers.
| But discriminating duty downward
would accomplish nothing between here
and South America or between here and
the orient. and very little between here
and Europe. Even if by abrogating our
| treaties with other nations of the world
would cause us no difficulties or embar-
| ra ssment, for most Of the products
| brought from South America and the
| orient are now on the free list.
System of the Fathers.
"A discriminating duty upward-that
is. the imposition of an additional tariff
would be a remedy that would build a
merchant marine. This was the system
of the fathers but today, justly or un-
Justly the majority OF the American
people are clamoring for reduction OF
the tariff.
ITO advocate increasing the tariff at
this time is to advocate political i'm
possibility To advocate reducing the
tariff to assist our merchant marine IS
| to advocate an absurdity.
The only way this nation can get
| transports for the army and an auxiliary
| for the navy, and rapid transportation
/! for it's mails and commerce. is to get
them the way every Juliet ~ eiAN
earth mas secured theirs-by payment OF
| a mail subsidy direct from the national
Urea sury.
THE battlee'lip is useless without the
auxiliary. while the auxiliary is OF great
value even without the battleship. Every
vessel in the world that carries mail on
| a government schedule receives direct
| subsidy from the government 1t serves
| Every first-class foreign vessel in the
world today receives directly or indirectly
I~e{I
what other nations, with their .cheap
labor their cheap construction and their
cheap cost of operation, cannot do:
Challenges Truth of Statement.
| To-day many of the newspapers and
magazines and many of the members of
Congress that are opposed to ship SUBJ
posed to subsidy in any form to any in
dustry l challenge the truth of that
statement absolutely. / have never
/ known a member of Congress either in
| to a subsidy that was to be expended d.
rectly for the benefit of his constituency.
There is not a man of that kind in Con-
gress today.
| I'VE subsidize everything upon earth
ard water except our foreign merchant
marine. We are subsidizing our rivers
and harbors direct from the national
Treasury $.0.G00.OoO annually. We have
already subsidized them in the sum OF
more than 500 OOO.GcO and have only just
begun, and this vast subsidy is largely
for the benefit of foreign ships.
where is the subsidy -despising patriot
in Congress or out of 1t who does not
eagerly seize whatever is going to his
community of this rivers and harbors
subsidy? l am a member OF the rivers
and harbors committee. and If any of
these patriots should ever appear before
that committee and object to the part
of his subsidy that we give him I believe
that the shock would cause half the
committee to die of heart failure.
| Demand for More.