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

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Ici IS PREPARING 70 cHALLENGE THE SUPREMACY VIZ 3"
LOyG ENJJTED As CARRIERS FOB WORLD challenge.
i'm reapars oheetoh she made the
industries thing the past"-Fom the PAIL
NALL GAZETTE or LONDON, ENGLAND.
There striking of the American merchant marine
fag There be repeal of the per cent discrimination
provided by the tariff law in favor of American shipping
be Interpretation of that causethe most i'm
portan the only beneficial clause the tariff
bthat will nuly the expressed intent of Congress to be
gin the of the American merchantmen all the
seas be afrighed 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
foreign learned the existence 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 by
every method of intimidation by every sinister influence that
be brought to bear American President and Congress
But If it is worth such struggle by foreign interests it is
worth greater struggle by America What effective and
constitutional and honorable in the prdencies of Washington
and Jefferson is equally effective constitutional and honorable
to-day The policy that gave years
ng of 80 per of entire foreign will
again the position of dominant power on
al the The Pail Mall Gazette quoted above recog
ns the potency of the American challenge The food of for
sign protests proves the power of the weapon.
The fight that early began this section in the arihe
most significant fact in it, the Tory Pail Mall Gazette
frankly admits therefore the profitable America
has already been waged bitterly First the section left
the BILL then it dropped again restored and at the last
maintained only by the sturdy courage of Chairman Under
wood and three other sawart champions
progress This and its allied newspapers have fought
necessarily and unaerngly for the very life of shipping
Only days ago declared that the fight of foreign gov
men representing foreign shipping interests would be
ued after the passage the tariff law carrying this hope
life aaoat And the pressure has swiftly mperous
y, and menacng
TIE free ships which told we have guaranteed by
a twenty treaties nearly all negotiated before 1850 long
became dad phrase owing to the devious methods of gov
hants which have made little effort live
spirit of the agreements subsidies its vast mer
Grant fleets in many ways going far lend its millions for
the construction of Cunard vessels the posi-
BILE terms Germany with its AFOREMENTIONED railroads.
grants preferred these railroads all merchandise
export in German ships Japan substituting its Pacific
chant fleets extent which has left only five American ships
regularly in the trans Pacific trade
But already within few days of the passage of the bill
there talk of repeating THE BEST PART OF IT In this
the Administration and the Department appear to lead
But understood that the State Depart
men fully concurred in the settlements at the final tariff
ferences, WHAT is THERE TO JUSTIFY so SUDDEN
AND CoWARDLY A SURRENDER?
is IT THE LAdENTABLE BUT OBVIOUS FACT THAT
OUR PRESENT ADMINISTRATION WILL DO NOTHING AT
ALL THAT is DIsPLEASING TO ENGLAND9
Is that Germany has gone far declare she will
not consent Interpretation by United
sooPe VI sectoh OF DoeS Ger
of whose steamship sold Spain during
the Spanish American number of its vessels that
trading with America think that the United States has rights
upon the seas? Has the mailed fist the influence
in Washington it has in Pel1in9
Or is it that France paying her navigation bounty
of is ton each hundred miles and home
warda bounty that drove many American ship Pa
cifc-has threatened TO retaliate?
Or it be true that France and Russia and Brazil
only countries that will be especially hurt is not the answer
chant
the expense of France and Russia Brazil it
perfectly legitimate commercial policy, which this begin
ming Will enable in due time with England Ger
many and the That ultimately existing treaties must be
amended abrogated that the American ship shall
its dock
Or this talk of panicky retreat due the begrudging
Of ten million dollars from the tariff which
il claimed will be temporarily What are these ten