The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26

| here we've built it and now we'll give it to anybody who wants 10 use it; then l every nation on the globe would hold an equal interest in the canal and if any enemy of ours in war times attacked the canal he would have to answer to the whole world, for they would all protect it.
 "The repeal of the free tolls act I think I is right. But I don't give any credit to certain parties who are claiming credit l for it. Every ship including American, should pay tolls to use the canal. Eng , lands position was that she didn't care how much we used the canal for coast wise trade, but she didn't want an Amer- ican. ship to go from New York to Hong l Kong, for instance. and not pay canal tolls, while an English ship would have to pay tolls
 "The tolls question will nave no effect one way or the other on merchant ma- | rine, which we will never have until we have ship subsidy and we'll never take our rightful position among nations until We get a merchant marine. Only through merchant marine can be built up our | foreign export trade and we must have more export trade or our government will go to ruin
 "Our pay roll is now larger than all of the rest of the world put together and people are learning it. They are com ing in here by the thousands and going | to work in the factories and just as soon as there is no market for the product of mans hands he becomes a dan | gerous man, l don't care what his na- 1 uonallty. We are now consuming about | e5 per cent of our manufactured product and have to let the other per cent go to the scrap pile. The per cent we can't Ifrg. Ia- sa,a- aA.f. l to get 1t away and sell it is through a merchant marine.
 l These democrats say they are not for 1 ship subsidy but they are. Everything 1 Is subsidized. You are subsidzing agri- 1 culture in Alabama when you maintain an agricultural department and expend l money to educate ana aid the farmers. 1 Every place. everywhere you turn is sub | sidy. Direct elections subsidize the con gressman, the congressman passes the | parcel post law, the parcel post law subsidizes the mail order houses, the mail l order houses subsidize the newspapers Through advertisements and then the 1 small town is wiped off the face of | the map.
 l T don't believe in direct primary cleo I tions and the longer it continues the more chumps we'll get into the United | States Congress People can't elect a con | gressman by popular sentiment and aver age the right man once in a dozen times Moreover l believe d congressman should | pay no more attention to the sentiment 1 Of his constituency after he Is elected | than judge should pay to the senti- ment of the courtroom il, deciding a case 1 before him. If the people cant elect men | to Congress who are smarter than they are themselves, We have come to a bad end. If man the people elect to Con- gress does not know better than they 1 do about public questions and acts ac- cording to his knowledge and not ac- cording to their beliefs the time has come when we must have a change and have ] it quick.
 | But to get back to a merchant ma | rine. it would be the best thing in the world for Birmingham. You remem- 1 Der that trip Joseph took down into
 Egypt for corn. Well, there's a lessor 1 there. People in all parts of the world
 must have food and raw materials and ] theyll go after them to any part oi | the world
 l England must have our corn and our | wheat and our cotton and she comes | over here after it just like Joseph weni l down into Egypt. But when it comes tc manufactured goods, then you have to | sell it yourself. There is nothing manu. 1 factured in the whole United States whicf l anybody in any other parts of the world | has to have. But if we had a merchant 1 marine, that merchant marine woult
 drum up business for itself and nciden.
 tally be selling all of our surplus manu
 faeturing stuff at the same time. Eng
 land, France and Germany all three toda,
 are using but D per cent of their outpu
 of manufactured goods. The rest of i
 they sell through their merchant marin,
 and everything that comes out of Ger
 many is marked Made in Germany t, advertise their goods. German ship:
 don't want them. They are trying to sel i their own. But they do want our foot
 and our raw material and that's wh, T they come after them. That's also wh,
 out of the millions and millions of expor
 trade in South America the United State
 today has but 10 per cent of it. German,
 and England and France are selling thei
 extra 9 per cent first and we haven
 any ships to get into the game with
 Right there I'll say this much abou
 city building. Neither imports nor ex
 ports make a town. Neither does lumber
 not coal, nor iron, nor agriculture. Bu
 manufactures are what build a city. Sir
 mingham nor any other city will grow a
 she ought to grow unless she has manu
 facturies and lots of them Raw ma
 terials are carted off somewhere am
 wherever they arc set down and turne,
 into the manufactured product ther
 youll find a city"
 Governor Shaw is here to look owe
 some alfalfa lands in the black belt whicl
 he intends buying. He already has
 farm located in Iineville. He thinks tn
 south and Birmingham the coming sec
 tion of the country
 He is not in sympathy with the Mexican
 policy but asked not to be quoted o that line. While here he is the guest O Mr. Thompson and states he may b
 here several days. | MT. Shaw was governor of Iowa tw terms from 1898 to 1902. He was Score tary of the Treasury under Roosevelt fo five years-1992-190T. At present he Is en gagged in banking and farming. holdinl extensive agricultural lands fin Iowa am
 other states. His home is in Philadelphia