The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-09-09
THE SHIPPING BILL.

THE SHIPPING BILL.
When the Shipping Bill was up
in the House last week for dis
cussion Representative Cox, OF
Indiana, received great applause
when he said, in part, II want to
briefly mention amendment No.
48. This amendment gives the
Secretary of the Treasury power
to refuse clearance papers for all
vessels sailing to foreign ports on
refusing to- carry American-man-
ufactured goods unless the vessel
is loaded at the time the goods
are offered. I am heartily in ia
vor of this amendment. I am i'll
favor of any drastic law which
will make the nations of the earth
realize that the United States is
still on the map, The very idea
that almost from the time when
the first shot rang out in the
great European War the Repub-
lie of the United States has been
doing business by the grace of
King George OF England if you
please, is absurd, unbelievable !;
and yet that is the way we have
been doing business since the
outbreak of the war.
"The American business man
from October /, 1914, down to
the present hour has scarcely
known from one day to the next,
what England's contraband list
is or what it is going to be the
next day; and at last, adding in
suit to injury, England has delib-
erately placed a large number Of
American firms upon a black list,
refusing to trade with them, re-
fusing to ship and transport their
goods. For one, as an American
citizen, I am tired of this brutal
force of England. Never since
the day that a little band of
American citizens dumped Eng
|lish tea overheard from an Eng
fish ship in the Boston harbor,
have American business men
done business through the will,
or by: the consent of Great Brit
ain or any other foreign prince,
king or potentate. The American
business man until the present
time has done business in an hon
orable, upright way with his for
eign competitors, without asking
the consent Of any foreign power.
sent to the state department a
month ago and got what I sup
!posed was the then list of Ameri-
can firms blacklisted by England.
1t consisted of eighty odd differ
ent firms in the. United States do
ing business legitimate and lawful
under the Stars and Stripes; and
whether native born or naturalized
citizens of the United States, they
at least are doing business on
American soil, protected by
American treaties with England.
and all the other governments,
which have black-listed American
f firms 1?!!| . ~ g.
ao.:1 am in favor Of giving to the
treasury departments; a. club: "A
bludgeon,";and then I will risk
public opinion in this country TO
enforce the statute, knowing that
if the statute is enforced, Eng
land will soon be compelled to lift
her tyrannical, unlawful and un-
warranted blacklist"
The discussion between Col. r.
II. Callahan of Louisville and Jo-
seph Bremen of Boston, which
took place before the Catholic
Federation convention in New
York, appears to have raised a
difference of opinion among
many Catholics throughout the
United States as to the proper at
titude to assume toward the pref
udices of Our non-Catholic citi-
zens.
; Colonel Callahan, chairman of
the religious prejudice committee
fof the Knights Of Columbus, re-
marked:
Zone of the purposes of this
convention is to disillusionizc