Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-13
No Cowardly Repeal of Our
NewShipping Policy! No Sur
render to Foreign Threats!


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There must be striking of American merchant marine
fag There repeal Of the per discrimination
provided by tariff law favor of American shipping
There must be Interpretation of that causothe most i'm
poran and about the only beneficial clause the tariff
bthat will nufy the expressed intent of Congress to be
gin the restoration the American merchantmen all the
seas There must be aFrghted Washington BE
CAUSE THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION HAS DECIDED
TO DO NOTHING THAT MAY BE DIsPLEAsING TO GREAT
BRITAIN!
OF the foreign protests will They began coming
the instant foreign learned Of the existence Of this
provision the earliest drafts of the tariff bill Now they
being repeated and pressed The million dollars day that
America paying foreign shpowners for carrying its
worth protesting about 1t is worth fighting for by
every method of intimidation by every sinister influence that
be brought to bear American President and Congress
But if it worth such struggle by foreign interests it
worth greater struggle by America What effective and
constitutional and honorable in the presdenoes of Washington
and Jefferson equally effective constitutional and honorable
to-day The policy that gave for seventy years
ryng of so cent Of entire foreign will
again TO the position of dominant merchant power
all the The Pail Mall Gazette quoted above recog
nze the potency Of the American challenge The food Of
sign protests proves the power Of the weapon.
The fight that early began this section the tarTthe
most significant fact in it, the Tory Pail Mall
frankly admits and therefore the profitable for
has already been waged bitterly First the section
the bill then dropped again restored and the
maintained only by the most sturdy courage Chairman
wood and three other stawa champions American
progress This newspaper and its allied newspapers Rave fought
necessarily and unfaerngy for the very life of shipping
Only few days declared that the fight of foreign gov
ernments representing foreign shipping interests would be
nned after the passage Of the tariff law carrying this hope
life aloa And the pressure has swiftly inperious
~. .-d meaacing.
IT,, free ships which told have guaranteed by
u uty treaties nearly all negotiated before 1860 long
became dead phrase owing the devious methods of gov
erumen which have made little effort to live up the
spirit Of the agreements Great Britain vast
chant fleets in many going far lend its millions for
the construction of Cunad posi-
bic terms. Germany with its government railroads.
grants preferred these railroads all merchandise
in German ships Japan substituting its
chant fleets extent which has left only five American ships
regularly in the trans Pacific trade.
But already, within few days of the passage the bill
there talk of repeating THE BEST PART OF IT In this talk
the Administration and the State Department appear to lead
But understood that the President Depart
ment fully Concurred in the settlements the final
ferenoes WHAT is THERE TO JUSTIFY so SUDDEN
AND CoWARDLY A SURRENDER?
is 1T THE LAMENTABLE BUT OBVIOUS FACT THAT
OUR PRESENT ADMINISTRATION WILL DO NOTHING AT
ALL THAT is DIsPLEASING TO ENGLAND?
it that Germany has gone far declare that
not even consent TO an Interpretation by United States courts of
the OF this discriminating section of TARIFF Does
many of whose steamship companies sold Spain during
the Spanish American number of its vessels that had been
trading with America think that has no rights
upon the seas? Has the sinister influence
in Washington it has in Pekin?
Or is it that France paying her vessels navigation bounty
of is cents ton each hundred miles outward
warda bounty that drove many ship off the Pa
cifc-has threatened to retaiate?
Or if it be that Russia and Brazil are the
only countries that will be especially hurt answer
plain? That must begin by building up merchant
marine at the expense of France and and Brazil it is
perfectly legitimate commercial policy which this begin
ming viii enable time to use with England and Ger
many and the rest That ultimately existing must be
amended abrogaed that the ship shall not rot
in its dock.
Or Is this talk of panicy due the begrudging
Of million dollars the tariff revenue sum which