The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-03-16

their countrys achievements Is the article ON Yankee
Clippers" by William Brown Meoney in the Saturday Eve
ming Post 1t is story of time when the American nag
was in every port when American clipper ships con-
tested with the British and the prize for fast SAILING
long voyages and when the United States held the ute
mistress of the seas in peace As early 1709 vesse
flying the American flag appeared Calcutta In the war OF
1872 the amount of British destroyed by American
prvatees $900000 only $4,000 less than that which
the British captured In the OF the next two decades
the percentage OF American commerce carried IN American
bottoms to 3d. Between and 1886 the American
merchant marine increased 12% per cent the British
only III per cent.
The glorious days of the American clipper ship
the two decades Immediately preceding the Civil When
new designs of John Willis Grfths adopted American
ships outsaied everything aoat College educated In
the classics and knowing French and Spanish became COM
mander OF ships step to becoming and merchants
The foundations of presentday fortunes thus laid
pecay in the boom days of the gold rush to California and
Australia The Sovereign of the Seas which made record
from Honolulu to New York and which ousailed the
Cunard steamship Canada the Atlantic netted her
Ter Donald Mckay 100000 in eleven months On voyage
from Boston to Liverpool the Lightning made of 436
miles in "a hours average of Is 6 knots hour which
was not exceeded by steamship until 1889 The
James Banes in 18545 sailed the world in 1872 days,
making record which sailing ship has excelled
When the Civil broke out the total American tonnage
529975 compared with 5710968 for the entire British
empire, and ships carrying 20 per cent of
ports and So per cent of imports But the days Of the
clipper ship numbered 1t had already to contend with
the adverse influence of asinne craftsmanship Now began
hopeless contest with steam and with iron and steel ships
Fosszed naval officers reported congress against steam
shlpS and merchants adopt them. Our
Of steel and engine building relatively undeve
oped while Britain supreme in both respects During
the Civil lost lead and the proportion of
carried in American bottoms steadily decreased
til in 1913 it was beggarly $50 per cent.
Can regain lost maritime Supremacy We certainly
Every factor other than legislative which against
us in 1860 is in favor. In 1913 production of
pig the material of STEEL 52 TONS against
for Germany and 917 for Great Britain
total still growing We lead the world in steel
struction and engine building and easily skill
in those directions to shpbuildng The has given
opportunity to make good start in this neglected indus
try for it has eliminated the difference against cost OF
production and has temporarily boosted freghs to point
where our higher cost of operation is immaterial.
The immediate future for shipping looks rosy capital
lists that they have crowded every shpyard all coasts
with contracts and have induced the establishment of
yards Despite its lack of iron home, the Pacific
sharing in the hpbudng boom by bringing steel from The
It has the opportunity to make its steel by i'm
porting pig from China The Columbia river basin prom
Uses enter the field with steel shpyards at Portland
That the strong foothod which the United States
gaining the shipping business may be maintained and tina
may continue to gain need invesmen
in ships proposed by the administration We need only
to revise shipping laws in such that after the
shall be able compete with other nations equal
The conditions under which shipping business now de
veopng mainly abnormal and temporary That may
hold and enlarge the place gaining it
that change the normal permanent conditions All pre-
paratons legislative and administrative, do this SHOULD
be made before the ends.