The chronicle=news., 1914-12-29
A Message from the
Country on Foreign:T rade

arr icles is forbidden by the interstate
commerce act and the ruling of It's
commission, while the Sherman act
intercferes with combinations for for
cign trade All the foregoing Is
known to the organized activity of
business men constituting these great
commercial organizations. They have
done everything possible to help
themselves, but now they realize that
governmental action is necessary to
liberate our merchant marine from
its present trammels, to release the
over-regulated railroads from those
regulations which prevent their as
sisting our exporters, and to free our
producers to make such combinations
in foreign fields as they like. Give us
this new freedom for our foreign
trade. and American brains and
energy will soon get for American
labor and capital what has been so
long going to foreign labor and cap
ital. ~ lhB1D
OF these three great and immedi late
desired by organized business men
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"'''' op'a'he"' Law eouiu speeuh'
''' ''oo'i 'he i"''i
'o'''i''e'e az So d. ~ pe'h'''
railroads to grant preferential rates
"" s'o"S ~ NV sea 'i'e.,ueu ~
export, and the other amending the
,'ne' ma" ao' ~ 'n"' ~ e"ail NC law
full to make combinations for trade
on.sl"e our 'oruers' AS 10 tne ,hiru
to'"'' NV assistance oi our merchant
MAJ rue mas oeeh 50 ''i"ch "iscuss
I" 'n"' ~ mas 'oi'ie 70 seem u''''-
e'''t p'o'ic'ii' "'' Is IL Lei "s see
We '"i'! ""i' PEI 'eh, VI o''i ioi
e'Sn 'i"'' Ill amer ie''' SHIPS anu w
IL" ~ p'a ""s '"'es ~, ''ie 'es' vi
1t 'ia' tue 'oie'Sn shipp'"s commune
"e'''c "ro'' we All WANT " Sc' p"'A
u so,ie s"oh ia"s as were put ."
our S'a'u.' pooNS III 800 ny WASH
'nS'"'' N'"''''i an" 'e'i sun 1T
Tune wien our s"ips carrie" pul
per zen. Vi our eNpor's an" Imports
an" winch Jaws u, 'eoo IA" 'e"".
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r;o,,,,,,ra, sa,,,h ,,d Voc, o,r,,,;,ea
against tI,e shining interests of New
ENGLAND and n,ssed tho rec;nrocitv
at.t or 1928. opcninr oilr trade TO for
eian comnetition whore,,non there at
once hogan n loss which has now
shrunk our total down tn F., roItrv
and shameful \ .ner cent A Demo-
sro,ic southern president Polk 500.
ing thu success of English subsidies
in tho tbcp now steamship trade fol-
lowed their cxample and soon orr
success in steamships was riyolinr
orr earlier success in clinner huilt
ships but ,he hitter sectional ouorrcl
betwc south and north in 1886
coused tho sou,berncrs in congress-
led nv jefferson Davis tn strike
nlo>v az tbc shiubu;ldinm north nv
repealinr tho mail subsiIios If suc-
coad.d Tropt cod ,b,t o,,rro, AVID
its causo no longer exist
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r.ei! oouS wants our merchant
INA 'i'' "s9's'eo--i' WIS promised by
~ 'al''0' III 'he campaign Oh l9lz.
w at n"Plrht" ai'e' the erection
ne '''i'"'iatic party, Ill cohtrol OF
pc'i' 'TahcieS OF the congress ana OF
'ne eAes"'iH' enacted ihe tariff law
% o'to"cr % I'i"' ana III IL put
sec' ION sfah'lh" . per cent reduction
III '"tiSS I" soo"a c'rrieu Ill Auierl-
''i oo' '''''S' ouii"E io.eish gov
e'in'en's promptly liieo protests
WIN U" Stale department. lHeSf