February 7, 18 OL
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wore. lilerty-l3TtnK jiatriot. Horn
h-ittera an! trained markfn.n. they
are admirably Sited by Ions trainir
to carry on tbe rTlIla warfare which
r:. j feorIy tvi;pi ' Urtish
si jay.
Tfcey Kate i-o far sa-ce!ed In ob
taining by tapture a large portion of
tfc'ir fxpplin from the Urttifch. (n
eral Cnrttliaa Ieei. that sreatett
cavalry leader of modern UroeK. In one
wek Uut artcr-d fiZZ..i In gold and
lift.'") thsll unifortsa enough to
last the array four years. He haa alw
rajtured otr 1 w'.'M' hore and
prifoZiT. He and Lis fort-ea alone
hi indicted on the liritisb losses of
oT-r i2.jy.).
.Tr Ii.fA are -ry tnobS'e and hat
advanced to w ithm to days march -r
! xz.Y;- of Cajt-town. iot of the
l--i:ztr Lave two hor many ot
Xh'-rs. li r rnat!:n them to mal: ?
rapid nxarct- and quirk retreat. The
British inarch wearily axt the coun
try with waxtn. drawn by slow mov
ing 'jus. i sd d do c w ith cam,
iu:nrsrt and loot. Tne Boers have
anundanc' of X'oi iVJE. cnns and
aratsnltioa and when hort of the
ltr;Atan tm;4em-cta it U only nec
a..ry to rapiiire an oJt pot or provision
tratn mtl Leip ti.estis-lvrs. In the
tlcmnx of the war the Iloer were
m'trMi w.th JIaurer rif- nvirkr ptiia
htillfU. L-.t many of them now Lave
"-"deiford ruV. a d-jmdtira
b'jllM. a!! cf which have bn-a lapiurcd
frcr3 the BritUh and lar the arrow
mark of "U'tyiw t L." From the fore
coinc it can h r2 lily understood why
the Itoer can cootie - the war In
!efr."t!. reirardlts'S of the namt-er of
Ir:tih troCfj'Ni --nt as;ain.t them.
"The Iio-r total lo In klll-d and
tsyics fsota wound la battle have not
exceeded tut the loa in proper
ty and the imjoverihment of the peo
ple ha tw'n very great. ThousanJi
of worsen and children are left in a
t.e cf d-titsitioa and hundred of
thouand of dollar a' worth will he re-;-iir-J
to render theta effective aid.
"The war haa cot Great Britain
frt ja sold, m sum twice great
er than the entire value of the repub
lic, if m?M to the hihet bidder, and
ocr lfM)MA t! tta troops have bt-en
rerdered cr da i-oabit. iMring the
iit one rr two mcnth the British
have ben comj-elled to act almokt en
tirely on the Jeff nrite. The war is
cofcting Grta.t Britain at the present
time over f 1 "J .". a day to support
th trcops in the field and the Ikr
prjAonr at it. Helena island and
other points.
"The f vilvre of the British arms t'
oj n the Kimberly and JohannesVnrg
mine L;. deprived British stockhedd-
r of tn dividend on tecurities
iiaed at Ivio.Ai-j and Las rduce1
the out tat tt di.vrrori 1 and r;c 1 1
2H ,i and Las add. d J v.ij..j
to the taxation cf Great Britain and
!rland. tremendMjjt turns sut-
trarfe'2 from British re four re have re
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in by London stock brokers and are
the superintending causes of numerous
bankruptcies in British financial cir
cles." This state of a3airs has been
brought about in England by putting
a money grubber in charge of the na
tional policy. Joe Chamberlain is the
counterpart of Mark Hanna in this
country and each of them have been
engaged in forcing the same national
po'.icy upon loth countries. While
our war ha been jftst as unholy upon
the Filipinos as the British war upon
the Boers. It has not been quite so
costly. If we had Boers to fight in
stead of Filipinos, we should be dash
ing on to destruction at the same rate
that England Is. Our war is costly
enough in both men and money, but
It would be ten times more so If a
Filipino could shoot as straight as a
Boer and had a Dewet to command
them. There is no telling when such
a general will develop among the in
surgents and when he does even the
mullet heads will be willing for our
soldiers to get out of there.
The great blanket dailies are be
coming more useless every day. A
Sunday edition of one of them weights
a man down, but the contents is a
hodge podge of stuff, ninety per cent
of which the average man will be
much better off if he leaves it unread.
Their head lines are sometimes printed
in type two inches long. Their ar
ticles are cut up into squares and run
from page to page in such a bewilder
ing manner that it takes minutes to
make the connections. When one
does find the connection he generally
has papers scattered all over the room.
After he has found It there is nothing
cf value in it. The editorial matter is
mere twaddle and gossip. Their re
ports of national leiirlatiod and tin
doings of congress are considered I.y
the editors themselves to be of no i:u
portance and are stuck -awsy in some
inconspicuous place. Their reports of
a prize fight will occupy a whole page.
A divorce case is treated in the same
way except that an immense amount
of space is given to illustrations. Ac
cording to the editor of a modern
daily, a woman who sues for a divorce
i always beautiful and always wears
a iow-necked dress. If it were not
that The Independent had other means
of getting news than what Is published
In the dailies, its readers would, re
main In profound Ignorance of current
events of importance. As a promoter
of Ignorance, the modern dally is a de
cided success. As a means of wasting
time, its equal was never known be
fore in all the history of the world.
For multiplying mullet heads it is the
best scheme that the plutocrats ever
invented.
It s said that Davidson's "Book of
Kings'" is being sold in large quanti
ties in London. That Is a volume
printed some years ago and was meat
for the English radicals. It gives the
true lineage of the then Prince of
Wales, now Edward VII. The pres
ent king can trace his ancestors back
to William the Conqueror, who wai
the illegitimate son of Robert the
tvvil. whose father was a Duke of
Normandy.
The house and senate at Washing
ton held a joint session on the 4th of
February to celebrate the centennial
of the appointment of John Marshall
as chief justice of the supreme court
Chief Justice Fuller made the prin
cipal address. That was an honor be
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longing to his office; but a good 'many
who heard him eulogize John Marshall
must have thought of the incongruity
of the thing. While he praised Marsh
all for the wisdom of hi3 decisions
decisions which in a great measure
settled the form of the government un
der which we live, he did not tell his
audience of jurists, senators and rep
resentatives, that he had taken it upon
himself to reversfe one of the most im
portant, decisions ever rendered by
John Marshall one of more import
ance to the common people than any
other and change the tendency of the
government from the course in which
John Marshall started it. The recent
Income tax decision was , not mentioned.
Wayne McVeigh was the other ora
tor of. the occasion. His whole speech
will commend. itself to every reformer
and lover of liberty In the land. Among
other things he said r .
" "America and her true mission in
the country,, as in the'old, is what a
great prelate of the Catholic church
has recently declared to be: To stand
fast by Christ and His gospel; to cul
tivate not the Moslem virtues of war,
of .sluaghter, of rapine and of con
quest, but the Christian virtues of self
denial and kindness and brotherly
love, and that it is our mission, not
to harm, but to help to a better life
every fellow creature of whatever col
or and however weak or lowly; and
then we may some day hear the bene
diction: 'Inasmuch as ye did it to
one of the least of these My brother
ye did it unto Me.'
"When we come at last to believe
that the true mission of nations as bf
men is to promote righteousness on
earth; that conferring liberty is. wiser
than making gain; that new friends
are better for use than new markets;
that love is more elevating than hat
red; that peace is nobler than war;
that the humblest human life is sac
red; that the humblest human right
should be respected; and it is only by
recognizing these truths, which can
never fail to be true, that our own be
loved country can worthily discharge
the sacred mission confided to her and
maintain her true dignity and grand
eur, setting her feet upon the shin
ing pathway which leads to the sun
lit summits of the olive mountains and
taking abundant care that every hu
man creature beneath her starry flag,
of every color and condition, is as se
cure of liberty, of justice and of peace
as in the republic of God."
The decision of the supreme court is
still awaited with the greatest anxiety
by the Imperialists at Washington.
Every word that the judges say in pri
vate Conversation is weighed and com
mented upon that can in the remotest
way give any indication of what their
decision will be! Justice Harlan made
a speech in replying to a toast at the
Loyal Legion which many have taken
as indicating what the decision will
be. Several members of congress were
present and Representative Moody of
Massechusetts took down his words.
Among other things he said:
"The fathers never intended that
this government should ever exert any
power or authority over any part of
the earth's surface free from, the Jetter
and the spirit of the constitution."
Another sentence in Judge Harlan's
speech was:
"Our government was founded upon
the rights of man; founded upon the
theory that man had rights as a man.
If we enter into this world power busi
ness upon any other theory, we enter
it for evil and not for good."
The late decision of the supreme
court in regard to Cuba is making the
imperialists lots of trouble. That de
cision declares without equivocation
or evasion that Cuba is a foreign coun
try. When their constitutional con
vention adjourns and the constitution
is finished; it is said tha it will be sent
to the president and by him to con
gress. What the president orcongress
can do to a constitution of a foreign
country is something that no pop can
find out and they don't seem to know
themselves. One of the senators sug
gests that the Cuban constitution
should contain propositions like the
following:
1. A permanent naval base for the
United States.
2. The right permanently to main
tain military garrisons in the island.
3. Control by the United States of
all the public debts and credits of
Cuba.
4. Tbfi right of this country to con
trol all foreign treaties made by Cuba.
The question will immediately sug
gest itself to any mind: "How much
of a foreign, country would Cuba be
after those propositions were inserted
in the constitution?"
The news from China is to the effect
that the worst famine in the history
of the world is prevailing in the north
era provinces. This has been men
tioned before in The Independent, but
the great dailies do not seem to have
anything to say about it. The fa
mine has been produced by the many
expeditions sent out by Waldersee, the
German commander. It is the result cf
the "Christian invasion." Some of
the private letters say that the inhabi
tants are eating each other, that hus
bands are selling their "wivers,' and
mothers their children. While the
"Christian nations" have produced the
horrible conditions, none of them, ex
cept the czar, is doing anything to re
lieve the distress. He has sent largo
amounts of food and clothing tor dis-
f-tribution,' and is withdrawing his
troops as fast as possible.
The gold bug editors are beginning
to poke fun at the democratic editors
for the manner in which they have
laid down since the election. The In
dependent has been pointing out this
cowardice, but it is about the only re
form paper that has had a, word to
say. The Brooklyn Eagle scores them
after the following fashion:
" "A bill has been reported out of the
committee recommending congress to
enact that the secretary of the treas
ury shall, on demand, redeem silver
dollars in gold coin. We have awaited
an expected outburst of horror from
the advocates of the "money of pri
mary , redemption" at this emphatic
subordination of silver to gold- So far,
we have waited in vain, and the silence
leaves us wondering if all the ranting
and shrieking of recent years;. all that
fury of two presidential campaigns;
all the agony over the "crime of 1873"
was not, after all, only .the hollow
pretense of politicians grasping for a
plausible issue."
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' : HARDY'S COLUMN :
Republican Split War in Kansas
Black Spots in Victoria's Reign.
It looks as though the republicans
in Nebraska will have to split again.
They,, now have gold republicans and
silver republicans. The next slice will
take the name of Thompson republi
cans. WThy don't they get together in
caucus r and first resolve not to vote
for any one who has been voted for,
and second, the two new men who re
ceived the most votes on the first bal
lot should be the nominees of the par
ty. There are. a plenty of new men
better than any that have been talked
of. Rip your party up the back; we
are tickled over it . ;
The woman's, war on the saloon is
still raging -in Kansas. If the men
were kicked about by drunken wives
as much as the wives are by druken
husbands, they would join the women
in making the saloonkeeper obey the
law. The women have the constitu
tion and the law on their side just as
much as in killing mad dogs. They
would be justHed in the use of dyr a
mite as weir as hatchets. It is awful
hard to wean, a man from, whisky. It
is like pulling heart strings. They
will burn a man with5 a dark skin
twice as quick as a barrel of whisky.
It is really laughable to see editors
bow and paw, wriggle and twist over
the action of those Kansas women. It
is about time now that the army can
teen is outlawed, for Methodist bishops
to stand up for the Kansas saloon. Sa
loons in Tcpeka will save the trouble
of going over to Missouri to get drunk.
After the death of a neighbor or a
private individual it Is but proper that
we mention only his good qualities and
meritorious deeds; but hot so with a
queen or'empress, who has ruled the
most powerful nation on earth for six
ty years. The bad thiijgs she has done
and the., wrongs she t has perpetrated
should be mentioned, tq be avoided in
the future. There are several black
spots in Queen Victoria's reign.
To start ?with, there was the opium
war iWith China. A more unjust and
inhuman war was never ' fought, the
Philippine war alone' excepted. The
Chinese emperor knew that opium was
working a great injury to his people
and doing them no good, so he issued
a proclamation forbidding the landing
of opium in r any of his' harbors. Tha
English could collect the revenue from
the East Indies in opium easier than
in anything else and must have the
Chinese market to sell it in; so war
was declared and Chinese cities were
bombarded. The unjust . demands
were granted and the war ended. This
was in 1839. In 184Q,the second mean
thing was done, that of bombarding
of Acre to stop the Egyptians fighting
the Turks.
In 1846 the potato crop failed in Ire
land and it was Reported that a hun
dred thousand people starved. The
same" year England took a hundred
millions of dollars from Ireland in
taxes and rental money. Shipload af
ter, shipload of provisions were given
by Americans or many more would
have starved. General Wads worth,
who was killed in the battle of the
wilderness, gave a cargo of potatoes.
This calamity resulted in the , repeal
of the protective tariff and the levy
of an income tax. The policy of Eng
land since has been to sell where you
can get. the highest price and buy
where you can buy cheapest In 1857
the Sepoys rose in rebellion against
British rule just as our fathers did
in 1776, but : were overpowered and
hundreds of prisoners tied to mouths
of cannon and blown to pieces.
The Crimean war was a very unjust
war : on the part of England and
France. . The Dardanelles was Russia's
only way out in the winter and she de
manded of Turkey territory enough for
a fort to protect her front door 'as
England protected the straits of Gib
raltar. ;- England and France joined
Turkey in the war because they did
not want Russia to command the en
trance to the Black sea, as England
commanded the entrance to the Med
iterranean. The war lasted from 1853
to 1855" and ended in a draw game.
Russia since built a railroad to the Pa
cific and the Yellow sea, so she is now
able to protect herself, any time of
year. The English, French and Turks
lost a hundred thousand men and the
war cost them over a half billion in
crease in debts. The Russians loss has
never been known. Since then Russia
and Turkey have had another war and
the Russian army fought its way
through Turkey in Europe up within
sight of Constantinople, but a line of
English battle ships filled, the straits
and Russia was forced to turn back.
There are some things about the South
African war that are equally "revolting.
The plea of uncivilized savage does iot
hold against the Dutch farmers. We
hope the war will end as the revolu-.
tionary war ended in this country.
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SENATOR VEST'S SPEECH
In an Attack Upon Htsot'i BUI Ha Dla
! ensues Soma General Prinaiples '
In Very Spieey Wwy.
That the principle of protection is
as immoral as the slave trade and
based exactly upon the same principles
is acknowledged by every economist in
the whole world. Slavery is taking
the fruits of the toil of producers and
giving them to those who never earned
them and "protection" is exactly the
same thing. Senator Vest tells how
they originated together and were pro
pagated by a compromise between the
New England states and the south.
One got "protection" and the other
the extension of the slave trade. - The
following extract from the speech of
Senator Vest is commended to the
subscribers to The Independent for
careful reading. "
Repeal the navigation laws in such
a contingency, and you could buy a
merchant marine for onethird what
it would cost to construct it We
could name our own price. They would
be glad to let us have their ships and
to see the flag of the 'United States
placed, at their masthead. The same
thing would occur, except in a much
larger degree, that was cited as exist
ing by the senator from Ohio (Mr.
Hanna) at the commencement - of our
civil war, when 630,000 tons of our
wooden ships in the foreign trade were
sold to foreigners .at whatever they
would pay for them. Nine-tenths of
the merchant marine of Germany and
England would be for sale. But the
navigation laws will never be repealed
as long as New England dominates
the politics and policy of the United
States. Mr. President, the navigation
laws are a relic of barbarism.
Mr. Hanna: May I ask the senator
from Missouri a question?
Mr. Vest: Certainly.
Mr. Hanna: During that interim
has there never been a time when the
democratic party in power could have
repealed ' those laws, had they so de
sired? - " . .
Mr. Vest: Never, sir; never, never.
Mr. Hanna: Was there any time
when they had the executive and con
trol in both branches of congress?'
Mr. Vest: Yes, Mr. President; and
there never was a time when certain
democratic senators from the sea
board states did not vote with the rs
publicans on this question. My per
sonal experience indicates the truth of
what I state. Unfortunately this ques
tion has been determined by local in
terests, very much as General Hancock
once said about the tariff, that it was
a local question. Never has there been
a time in the twenty-one years that I
have been in the senate when we could
have passed through the committee
on commerce a bill for the repeal of
these Outrageous navigation laws.
The whole tariff interests and in
fluences of the country . were arrayed
in behalf of them. The tariff system
is an interdependent mutuality of
greed. Whenever you touch one part
of that-system every portion of it is
in arms. The navigation laws embody
the essence and spirit of barbaric ex
clusion. The idea that a citizen of the
United States can not take his money
and buy a ship and put it under his
own flag is an insult to equality, an
outrage upon justice, a standing mon
ument to individual greed and avarice.
I stated, Mr. President," these navi
gation laws are a relic of barbarism.
They are worse. .They, came from an
infamous coalition between the ship
ping interests of New England and the
African slave trade. . The proceedings
of the convention of 1787 that framed
the federal constitution show the truth
pf what I state. Luther Martin, a
delegate from Maryland to that con
vention, after it had adjourned, ad
dressed a , letter, to the legislature of
his state, giving an account of his
stewardship, in which he embodied
the facts I am about to state. James
Madison wrote the same thing to Tho
mas Jefferson, then a minister at
Paris, and his succinct and " distin
guished summary can be found ii
Wells' History of the American Mer
chant Marine, accessible to every sen
ator. it appears" that in the convention of
1787 there were two propositions pend
ing at the same time. One was to in
sert a clause in the constitution re
quiring a two-thirds vote of each house
of congress to enact navigation laws.
The other was a proposition to extend
the African slave trade to 1800. When
these propositions came up for consid
eration Governor Morris moved to re
fer them to a special committee of one
from each state in order, as he ex
pressed it, that a compromise or ad
justment might be made, mutually sat
isfactory to b&th sections. The motion
prevailed, and three days afterwards
the special committee reported, strik
ing out the clause requiring a two
thirds vote of each house of congress
to enact navigation laws, and extend
ing the African slave trade to 1804.
The people of New , England were
anxious for navigation laws, because
they had just commenced constructing
the fast clipper ships, and the busi
ness was exceedingly profitable. The
southern states Georgia and the two
Carolinas were anxious to extend the
African slave trade, because the cul
ture of cotton was. becoming very
profitable and they . wanted more ne
gro labor. New England had sold her
negroes to the south, but there weru
not enough of them. -
WTien the report was ; made to the
convention General Pinckney of South
Carolina moved an amendment, ex
tending the slave trade to 1808. Madi
son and Mason of Virginia vehemently
denounced the proposition, declaring
that it was an insult to the humanity
and intelligence of the Atnjwrican peo
ple. The vote was taken, each state
casting one vote. I should have stated
that when Pinckney made the motion
it was seconded by Gorham of Massa
chusetts. The vote was taken, and all
the New ; England states, with New
York, Maryland, Georgia, North Caro
lina and South Carolina voted in the
affirmative, while Virginia, Pennsyl
vania, Delaware and New Jersey voted
in the negative. Hand in hand Massa
chusetts and South Carolina marched
at the head of the procession, carry
ing the shipbuilding interests of New
England and the African slave trade.
The south has paid a terrible pen
alty for that infamous conspiracy. She
paid for it in 1861 with tears .and
ashes and blood. Today her social
system-is deranged and her industrial
system destroyed, and the man is a
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bold one who can prophesy what will
be the result in the future. " -
But New England is rich and power
ful. Her people have made money in
every coutiixsenqy and in every era in
the history of our cOuntryr First they
drove .back - the Indians, took-tJt?ir
lands and sold ; many of their chiefs
into slavery in the West Indies. Then
they pursued with great profit the
African slave trade, and finally. In a
war waged against the people to whom
they had sold their v negroes, after
they had found . them . unprofitable,
they had government contracts which
filled every savings bank in New Eng
land, until now they are - the most
powerful and the rich, relatively, of
all the sections of this country.
I am not attacking the : people of
New England. I admire them; I ad
mire their courage, ! their sagacity,
their aggressiveness. With a sterile
soil and an inhospitable climate they
control the politics and the policy of
the United States. They send their
ablest men to both branches of con
gress and keep them here as long as
they can preserve -the material inter
ests of that section. It makes no dif
ference how much these representa
tives and senators' may "differ with the
people as to matters of sentiment and
abstraction, if they are true to the ma
terial interests of New. England, that
is enough. The two senators from
Maine differ as widely as the north and
south poles upon the foreign policy
of the United States, but they are
both here today by the unanimous
vote of the legislature of Maine. ' The
two senators from Massachusetts are
equally diverse In their, opinion as to
the Philippine question and the Phil
ippine war, but the people of Massa
chusetts send them both here because
they know their, ability and recognize
their usefulness. , -' '
-T hope I may be pardoned for quot
ing what a very eminent sop of Massa
chusetts once said, .the Hon. William
M. ; Evarts, who remarked in a public
speech that the Pilgrim Fathers land
ed on Plymouth Rock, fell on their
knees, and then fell on the aborigines,
(Laughter.) 1 : '
, New England . is properly named,
and I do not say it in any inimical
feeling to her people. . Old England, a
little island up in the fogs and mists
of the northern ocean- controls tho
literature, finance and commerce ot
the world. New England, six small
states, a majority of , them not as large
as counties in Missouri, controls the
politics of the whole United States.
There is no measure before the sen
ate or the other branch of congress in
which New England does not receive
the largest share of the government
bounty. " ' . ;
Take this bill. Mr. President, and
look at-its provisions and you will
read between the lines that it Is a New
England bill. Its chief sponsor is my
friend, the junior senator from Maine
(Mr. Frye),-who has given his life to
the cause of the navigation laws and
his opposition , to. free ships. , Tdij
navigation laws are today as dear, to
the people of New England as when
they wanted a monopoly of construct
ing wooden ships. This bill was drawn
by the most astute New England law
yer in existence, ex-Senator Edmunds,
and his handicraft can be seen in ev
ery sentence and -line of it.
It is no surprise that my , friend
from Maine so vehemently advocator
this bill, because It is in entire conso
nance with his opinion In regard to the
taxation system of the United States.
In a speech delivered some -years ago
before the Home Market club of Bos
ton that distinguished senator declared
that if he had the power he would not
allow another pound of foreign goods
to come into this country. to compete
with the product xf : American manu
facturers, and I have no doubt today
that biit for the profit of the export
trade he and a majority - of - his col
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leagues would favor the announce
ment, of Henry, Carey, the father of
protection, that If he could he would
have the Atlantic ocean an ocean of
fire over which no foreign ship could
pass. . .
;.,This bill breathes the essence of ex
cluni'Vjrv The principle upon which it
is based Ts'so -iHxious to the civili
zation of the world thaKeven China
has abandoned it. But we aul're to it,
and the people of the United'States
are asked now to give up their tax
money to " the enormous : amount1' ot
$180,000,000 in twenty years in order
to sustain this exclusive principle.
- Mr. ' President, there is one clause
in this, bill apparently insignificant
that shows its animus. There is a
clause in the bill which provides that
all documented vessels of the United
States engaged in the deep-sea fish
ery for .three months out of twelve,
one-third of. the crew being United
States citizens, shall receive $2 per
ton for the twelve months, and that
every. American citizen shipping upon
such a vessel shall receive $1 extra
pay. per month, out of the treasury of
the United States, so long as he re
mains upon a voyage.
.The senator from Maine -defends
this provision enthusiastically, be
cause he says it makes a nursery for
sailors on the naval vessels of the
TJnited States. Why, Mr. ' President,
what intelligent man does not know
that the , character of sailors has
changed with the character of tha
ships upon which they sail? The ves
sels engaged in the deep-sea fishery
are sailing vessels, not steam vessels.
The sailors that are upon our war
ships are not sailors that live In the
rigging and who can exclaim with
Lord Byron:
"O'er the glad waters of the dark bias
- sea, -. .
Our thoughts are boundless and our
souls as free." .
They live beneath the decks. They
are 6tokers, firemen, gunners, engi
neers, marines. The old sailor of Glou
cester, who fought the naval battles
of 1812 and 1815, has passed from the
foreign commerce of the world. Tak-?
one -of the greyhounds of the Ameri
can linear, of thevCunard or White
Star Hn6. for Europe,-and if you see a
sailor at all, a genuine sailor, during
the whole voyage it is an accident
These vessels only carry enough sail
ors today to rig the sails in the event
of an accident to the steam machinery.
Steam, is the great propelling power.
As the commissioner of navigation
says In his report for 1900, sailing ves
sels are; becoming a. thing of the past
and are fast disappearing from the for
eign, trade of the world.
-Mr. President, what nursery is it for
the navy of the United States to take
fishermen ; from little smacks, unac
quainted with steam machinery, and
undertake to make them the fighting
sailors required' On . ou r. great war
ships? rltr is . an i absurdity upon tho
face of itv jYet tny people in Missouri
are to be made to pay $175,000 a year
that is the calculations of the senator
f rom - Maine for the purpose of en
couraging the fishing trade on the
banks of Newfoundland and the coast
pf New England, and to pay this addi
tional bounty to American citizens
who a.fe' engaged as seamen upon ther.9
vessels. V: :-rs.,- ' " ', "
Have . we . not done enough in our
general statutes for, the fishermen of
New England? Upon tho prairies of
Missouri the poor farmer, struggling
to support hiS'family and educate his
children, killing a few hogs or a beef
to furnish meat for his winter's use.
must pa.y the price for salt which is
asked by the great salt trust, protected-and
created by the Dingley tar
iff law, ,;The meat packer of the west,
great or small, is at the mercy today
of the great salt trust. But the fish
erman !of New. England receives his
salt free with which to cure his fish
