The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-01
OUR LONG NEGLECTED SHIPPING

Suppose our country had done what Germany did for twenty-five years previous the coming of the present war the of foreign trade what would have been the situation now?
 Take for example, the east coast of South America.
 Suppose with the regularity of the stars our shpS had called at every principal port going and coming
 It would have been long before great merchants and manufacturers would have had trading stations at Para Perambuco Bahal, Rio, Santos Monevideo and Buenos Ayrs They would have been obliged to exchange what they had rubber at Para and Penamuco for sugar at aa Rio and Santos for hides and meats and grain at o but the grain would have been disposed of in tropical ports All the employees resident there would have acquired the language talked and written They would have written home where railroad needed electric power and lighting plant OF bridge or the nucleus of city, and United States cOmpan es would have doing that work Long the people there would learned that if they wanted anything our country the best land in all the world to apply to-
 As has been they have sent us more than half of all they exported but how?
 An English or German ship has loaded in home port and found it's way of the eastern ports of South America
 Arriving there the people wanted the cargo and they have had nothing exchange for it their products
 ''Very good' says the German English ship master Thereupon he ma up the goods the freight from the home port and takes in exchange rubber coffee or sugar or whatever the people give him. Then he sails for home Arriving he adds the freight charges for his return Voy age That makes two transatlantic treghtS that ne holoS against the goods. ~
 Then another English British ship pulls into port with cargo American flour preserved meats or something else and by little natural trading the of flour IS exchanged for cargo of sugar In making the exchange tine shp from adds the freight for carrying the cargo across the At antc That makes three transatlantic freghts and when the our is unoaded and from South America started across the sea to New York fourth freight is added
 course if the people south of the equator wanted any thing costly like fine cotton silk, linen goods or auomo bes or pianos electric machinery, any ot thousand other things it perfectly natural for the foreigners who held the field to inform that the climate of the United States bad that their wood work will not bear the eNac- tons of tropical cma that indeed they so inefficient that their work is always inferior
 And our people and government have on in this way for five and twenty years great party in Congress looking
 wiser than tree full of owls has praised their own sagcy and patriotism that they have been too wise and true to permit any souess American ship monOpoy get government help o swell profits And the majority o them nave known of the they have been discussing ta does driver the Sahara know about running sub- marine And through all these some that pass as great newspapers New York city have prescribed way to run an except there has been poison enough in the plan to kill the enterprise
 Now we ships and Americans who are forced to cross the sea take their lives in their hands when they go abroad in foreign ship to make the voyage And we have no status among outside nations.
 We talk the center of the commercial world graV- ang to New York forget that have close comme cal alliances the world around and more than hall or e people do not know our flag when they see it.
 And Congress about to air what it does not comprehend in relation shipping than did the Indiana con esnan in the long ago when he fought the magnetic tee
 ph as but the incandescent dream of unac and when dispatch finally reached his Indiana home from Washington he looked dubousy at it and finally sad H may do for ght ackaees but still insist it will be worth damn for heavy freight"
 Out of the various twists of the argument in past months, Mrs Maude Wemore contrived when she told the