Arizona republican., 1922-03-01
PAGE TWO
foI,otI.. for the American merchant marine

follows: n merchant marine
srsaeilers meiinpers OF Congress-when al
TessinS the congress last Decar,ha,.
eported to you the failure ~ tba
~sssutiVe 70 carry out the intent of
,.iya ~ ~ features of the Merchant Ma
inn &C.. OF 1870, notably the proyis-
com o..ls stls noilce OF cancellation of all
o,,- .s,'a,s tSiaI treaties which hifidered
irnncSrateaei Saeeiie OF discriminating duties on
ApoLts brought to our shores in tba
<aaneIlcan ships. There was M do,,bt
1ooul the high purpose of conrrass :
,alspiy TINS proven practice to tha
TupDullulng of our merchant marine
hau proven most effective IN the
sariler DAYS OF American shipping. II
t.u, At various times, demon sfrafed
80 .sLAectiveness in the upbuilding of
tions. ppins Aor otner ma
The success Of the earlier nractice
Ior This republic came at a time
Wnen we had few treaties. when orr
commerce was little developed.
tls supercedure by reciprocitv In
tapplng regulations and the adop-
Iuh OF other methods of upbuildinr
tnerchant marines through various
Iorms or government aid and the
century or negotiation of commercial
uedties, all combined to deveIop a
SSilualon which should lead to end
less embarrassment If we denounced
OuI lreatles. We should not only be
quite alone in supporting nolicv
long since superseded through the
SroWlng intimacy of international re-
lauonshlps. but we should invite the
disturbances Of those cordial com
mercial relations which are the first
requisite to the expansion of our
commerce abroad.
Should Aid u. s. Shipping
contemplating the readiness of
congress to grant q decreased dutv
on imports brought to our shores in
american bottoms and facing the en-
Oarrassments incident to readjust.
Anent OF all treaty arrangements, il
applying suitable aid to our shin
ping, which the congress clearly in
tended. and at the same time to avoid
Ene embarrassment Of our trade re-
lationships abroad.
The recommendation of today is
based wholly on this commemorative
incident OF congress. The proposed
ala OF the government to it's mer-
chant marine is to have its chief
source in the duties collected on i'm
ports. Instead of applying the dis
terminating duty to specific cargo,
and thus encouraging the inbound
SHIPMENT / propose that we shall
collect all import duties, without dis
examination as between American and
foreign bottoms and apply the here
toIore proposed reduction to create a
Iund Tor the governments aid to our
merchant marine.
by such q program we shall en-
courage not alone tho carrying OF in
bound cargoes subject to our traffic
Dut we shall strengthen American
SHIPS IN the carrying OF that greater
inbound tonnage on which no duties
are levied and more imports thar
these, we shah equip our merchant
marine to serve our outbound com
merce. which is the measure OF our
eminence in foreign trade.
II Is interesting to note in connec-
tion with the heretofore proposed
plan OF discriminating tariffs on inn
ports carried to our shores in Amer
lean bottoms. that the value of ali
dutiable imports for 1920 in all ves-
sells was $1.9S5, S65. 600, while the car
goes admitted free OF duty. on which
discrimination was possible, were val
ued at $3.115.95S. 900.
The actual tonnage comparison Ii
even more significant from the view
point OF cargo carrying, because the
duttable cargoes, measured in round
numbers. were 10000, 900 tons. and the
non -dutfable cargoes were 25.O00. 0OC
tons, the larger employment by two
and half times was In non-dutiabls
shipments.
Must Promote Reciprocal Trade
Continued trade must be recipro.
cal. We cannot long maintain sales
wnere we do not buy. In the promo.
tion or these exchanges we EhoulC
have as much concern for the pro.
motion OF sales as for the faeilita.
tion OF our purchases. There Ia not
q record in all history OF long main.
tanned eminence in export trade, ex.
cept as the exporting nations devel.
oped their own carrying capacity.
No story Of national development
is more fascinating or SO fun b
romance as that OF developing ca,
pacity for the exchanges OF com,
Inerce. Expanding civilization ma,
be traced DER the avenues az ex
Oh nging cargoes. No matter how
naaterialistic IL may sound nation
have developed for themselves an,
have influenced the world alrnog
precisely as they have promoted thei
commerce. We need not refer 20 tn
armed conflicts which have been in
ettient thereto. When commerce ha
sn destroyed, fading glories hay
attended.
II viii avail nothing 20 attemp
even the hricfeat resume or our owa
efforts TO re-establish that America
Importance in commerce carrying o.
the high seas which was recorded 4
the earlier days OF the republic. Th
aspiration lis nation wide. The con
fiict between two schools OF politica
thought heretofore has defeated a
efforts to employ the government
aid which other nations found advan
tageous. while we held aioof. and th
terms subsidy and ''subventi0n
were made more or less hateful I
the American public. But the nation
wide desire to restore our merchar
marine has outiiyed all defeats an
every costly failure.
Eight years ago the aspiratlo
found expression in a movement
have the government sponsor an en-
terprise in which individual genlu
seemingly had failed. 1t would b
difficult correctly 10 appraise th
policy. because the world war put q
end 20 all normal activities befor
we were involved. There was th
call for ships, and ships. and yet NOR
ships. and we enlarged old yards an
established new ones without count
ting the cost. We builded madl.
extravagantly, i:npracticaily. and "a