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
fag repeal the per
provided by tariff American shipping!
Interpretation of that clause-he
poran and about the only beneficial clause the tariff
bthat will aufy the expressed intent of Congress be
gin the the American
There afrghted Washington BE
CAUSE THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION HAS DECIDED
TO DO NOTHING THAT MAY BE DIsPLEASING TO GREAT
BRITAIN
Of 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
America paying foreign shpowners carrying its overseas
is worth protesting about 1t worth fighting by
every method of intimidation by every sinister influence
be brought to bear American President Congress
But it worth such struggle by foreign interests it is
worth greater struggle by America What effective and
constitutional and honorable in the presdences Washington
and Jefferson equally effective constitutional and honorable
to-day The policy that gave for sevenyw years the
ryng 80 per foreign will restore
again the position of dominant merchant power on
all the The Pail Mall Gazette quoted above recog
nes the potency of the American challenge The flood of
eign protests proves the power of the weapon
The fight that early began this section tarG-the
most significant fact in it, the Tory Pail Gazette so
frankly admits and therefore the profitable America
has already been waged bitterly First the section left
the bill then it dropped, again restored and
maintained only by the most sturdy of Chairman Under
wood and three other champions American
progress This newspaper and its allied newspapers
necessarily and unfaterngy FOR the very life of shipping
Only few days ago declared that the fight of foreign gov
representing foreign shipping be con
nued after the passage the tariff law carrying hope
to life ahoa And the pressure has swiftly mperous-
ly and menacing
The free ships which told have guaranteed by
than twenty treaties nearly all negotiated before 1850 long
became dead phrase owing the devious methods gov
enments which have made little effort live up
spirit of the agreements Great Britain subsidies vast
chant fleets in many going far lend its millions
the construction of Cunrd monster vessels the easiest posi-
bic Germany with its government railroads
grants preferred these railroads all merchandise
export in German ships Japan substituting
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 this talk
the Administration and the Department appear to lead
But understood that the President Depart
ment fully concurred in the settlements con
ferenCes. WHAT is THERE TO JUSTIFY so SUDDEN
AND COWARDLY A SURRENDER?
is IT THE LAIIENTABLE BUT OBVIOUS FACT THAT
OUR PRESENT ADMINISTRATION WILL DO NOTHING AT
ALL THAT is DISPLEAsING TO ENGLAND?
Is that Germany has gone declare that she will
not consent to Interpretation by United courts
the scope this discriminating tariff? Does Ger
many whose steamship companies sold Spain during
the Spanish American number of its had been
trading with America think that the United no rights
upon the seas? Has the mailed sinister influence
in Washington s it has in PeBin?
Or IS that France paying navigation bounty
of 10 hundred outward and home.
warda bounty that drove many ship off the Pa
oifo-has threatened to retalate?
Or 1t be true that France and and Brazil are the
only countries that will be especially the answer
plain? That if must begin by building up our merchant
marine at the of France and Brazil it is
perfectly legitimate commercial policy this small begn
ming will enable due time England and Ger
and the That ultimately existing treaties must be
amended arogated that the American ship shall not rot
its dock
Or is this talk OF panczy retreat due to the begrudging
Of ten million dollars tariff revenue sum which