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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There must be no striking of the American merchant marine
flag There repeal per discrimination
provided by the tariff law favor Of American shipping
There Interpretation of that cause.-the most i'm
portant the only beneficial clause the tariff
nufy the expressed of Congress be
gin the of the American merchantmen all the
There be aGghted Washington Pr
CAUSE THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION HAS DECIDED
TO DO NOTHING THAT MAY BE DIsPLEAsING TO GREAG
BRITAIN!
OF foreign protests will They began coma
the instant foreign governments learned of the existence Of t
provision earliest of the tariff bill Now they az
being repeated and pressed The million dollars day thot
America paying foreign shpownrs for carrying its
worth protesting about 1t 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
worth greater struggle by America was effective and
constitutional and honorable in the presd.nccs Of Washington
and Jefferson equally effective constitutional and honorable
today The policy that gave for sevenywo years the
ryng of 80 per cent of entire foreign will restore
again the position of dominant merchant power OF
all the The Pail Mall Gazette quoted above recOg
nzes the potency Of the American challenge The flood
egn protests proves the power of the wearon
The fight that early began this section the ari-tho
most significant fact it, the Tory Pail Mall Gazette
frankly admits and therefore the profitable America
has already been waged bitterly First the left
the bill then dropped again restored and the
maintained only by the most sturdy courage of Chairman Under
wood and three other stalwar champions Of American
progress This newspaper and its allied newspapers fought
necessarily and unfaerngy For the very lite shipping
Only few days ago declared that fight foreign gov
ernments representing foreign shipping interests would be
tnued after the passage of the carrying hove
to life ahoa And the pressure has swiftly mperous
ly and menacing
free ships which we are told we have guaranteed by
than twenty treaties nearly all negotiated before 1850
ago became dead phrase owing the gov
ernments which have made little effort live up
spirit of the agreements its vast mer
chant fleets many ways going lend It's millions for
the construction Of Cunard vessels The easiest posi-
bic terms, Germany with its government owned railroads
grants preferred rates these railroads 10 all merchandise
export in German ships. Japan substituting its Pacific
chant fleets which has left only American ships
regularly in the trans Pacific trade
But already within few days the passage of the bill
there talk of repeating THE BEST PART or IT In this talk
the Administration and the State Department appear
But understood that the President and The Depart
ment fully coEcurrod in the settlements the
ferences WHAT IS THERE TO JUSTIFY SO SUDDEN
AND COWARDLE A SURRENDER
is 1T TIL bAHlENTABLE BUT OBVIOUS FACT THAT
OUR PRESENT ADMINISTRATION WILL DO NOTHING AT
ALL THAT is OISPLEAsING TO ENGLAND?
Is it that Germany has gone declare that she will
not consent 10 Interpretation v United
the scope OF this discriminating section tarE2 Ger
many OF whose steamship companies sold Spain during
the Spanish American number of lis vessels that ha6
trading with America think the United has no rights
upon the seas? Has the mailed fist the same sinister influence
in Washington as it has i'll Pekn?
Or is it that paying navigation bounty
of is cents each hundred miles outward and home
warda bounty that drove many American ship off the
oiho-has threatened 20 realiate?
Or if be that France Russia and Brazil are the
that will be answer