The Washington times., 1922-06-13
Anti American Interests
/ Oppose Ship Subsidy Bill

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yX7HAT the Of opposition
N yeopment of American merchant provided in
- the Presidents Ship Subsidy bi .Et
No American interest be discovered which against
The the country represented by American Farm
Bnrean Federation demand that the legislation be passed
The taxpayers have learned instead being raid on
tho Treasury the Subsidy bill will stop daily drain from the
Treasury unchecked -} '...I l..
today paying subsidy of fifty million dollars from the
Federal Treasury the Shipping Board deficit in
operating 4o OF the Government owned merchant vessels
The other 1000 swing idly at anchor tied per daily
loss for watching and decay.
So paying the highest subsidy any nation
paid and we are getting nothing for it.
No Intelligent taxpayer anything but gain the Treasury
when fifteen ship subsidy is paid
for actually operating the ships instead of paying fifty
dollars the Shipping Board supervising ships twohrds
which kept idle and rottng.
Albert D. Laker, chairman of the Shipping Board the
country clearly just who making the fight against the
merchant marine. :.
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That diplomatic way of saying that official British in
uence and British propaganda attempting to have
Congress postpone consideration of shipping legislation
another year.
Because our democratic institutions
and because of the racial mixture population foreign
ernmnt always find here its its dupe
ingly or ignorantly work for foreign interests.
These foreign pade nearly dragged the League of
Nations They did drag into the FouPowe Treaty
cancel the debt Of 81 which England
addition to expendng 100000 American lives forty billions
of money to the others from defeat and ruin.
The Tories and their followers against the
niquy of the Ship Subsidy bill, which will give a merchant
of and free from foreign control
trade.
The ambassador picked the clause the Subsidy
bill which most to the British shipping
the clause requiring that so
American ships He persuades Secretary
there doubt whether this
treaty rights with
Our Secretary of State asks the House
chant Marine promptly the so
from the shipping bill and reserve for future legislation
Another triumph for foreign diplomacy!
Sir Auckland Geddes real ambassador He knows the
carrying OF half immigrants will give profitable employment
to twenty five American passenger immigrant
traffic is the most profitable business the
No knows better than the British ambassador
how deep the roots of British control carrying
and how persistent and Irresistible is it's influence
On November 49, 1920, address before the New York
Chamber Of Commerce, he said
III n ,7as e there here & &shty.1 @ :, s 5 sailed
% meet the American demand ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "A
He might have picture ships that tronged
Liverpool the 1sO0s62 until they ounumber
of England herself
He might have pictured another kind Of slipped
Of British ports the dark days of the Civil War; Confederate
patee which destroyed half ships and drove the Others
for safety sake, to be sold under the British flag
He might have depicted the stanan American merchant
from 1865 1914 sagnant while the great British
cpane building their fleets liners profits from
carrying American goods and travellers and immigrants
He might have recalled the despang cry of Britain
whe her back to the WALL she besough build ships
ships to her materials and lest she perish
The shpnow that she savedshe
US from using in commercial rivalry against her.
Eventually the President and the Secretary State by
telling the British government polite but firm language
shall direct the and Of immigration
the so per cent immigrant provision will become law.