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CHARLOTTE DAILY OBSERVER, MARCH 22, 1CC3. from North Carolina yield to th Sen ator from Georgia? Mr. fimmon. Certainly. ilr. Bacon. If the Senator from North Carotin will permit cie to maks an In quiry in that connection of the Senator from New Hampshire, who la the author of the bill, while be la on lil feet. I de ire to ask the Senator from New Hamp shire if tho 4,6u-mil limit would not ex eluile Venesuelsa porta? Is not Vene zuela nearer than 4.9GO miles T Mr. Geliinger. Tee; and we nave the Red D ane te Yeaeiuela at the present time, sailing from .New York. They are third-class vessels, but we have com munication with Venezuela.. Mr. Blmmens. If the Senator will par don roe, I have stated several times that Venezuela, was an exception to the con ditions that I hare been relating;. We now bar not adequate, but fairly food communication with Veneawela. There la a line of steamers running there though they are small steamers. , ilr. Galllnger. Ws have a little line running there and they get a subvention Voder the aot ef IfflL idr. Baoon. I suppose f course the 4.000-mlle limit was fixed advisedly, eat therefore I ahould like to know from the Senator from New Hampshire what Is the first Bouth American port, taking the starting point, say, at the South .At lantic porta, that would be available un der that . 000-mile limit T Mr. GelUnger, , Of course the porta that we ere much more Interested In than any ethers are Bio de Janeiro and Buenos . Ayres. '.' Mr. Baen. Well, bow far la It to those places? I presume the Senator bas taken his dlstanoes from New Tort. Mr. Gallinger. From New Tork. Mr. Bacon. And Jt would be leas from Bouth Atlantic porta? . ; , Mr. Gallinger. It would be lees from Southern ports, of course. The distances, I will say Mr. Simmons. - To Australasia Hawaii It would be T.JO miles. That Is the long eat - distance. The shortest distance to any foreign port Included In the provision " ot the amendment Is a, 000 miles. Mr. Gallinger. mi cra.wr ,,v'u, North Carolina will permit me a moment,' there to not much difference between the Atlantis and Oulf ports In this respect. To Rio Janeiro is I.OOO nautloal miles; to Buenos Ayres, 1.000; to Hawaii, Japan, China, and the Philippines, 1,000; to Hawaii .Japan, China and tho Philip pines, l.KM, and via Hawaii to Austral- sis, T.M0 milesv mr. Dsnuo. A w vii ij afvuiv twit- u- terested In was to know whether the ' 4.M-mile limit would make available any of the Bouth Atlantio ports. Mr. Gallinger. Absolutely. Mr. Baoon. AH of theraT Mr. Gallinger.' Tes; and the Oulf ports. 'Mr. Simmons. J hive stated In general terms that th' shortest route would be ,900 miles. Mr. Gallinger, That to right Mr. Simmons. I have succeeded, now. In ftndtne- the latter from the Actinf Bsc- end i Assistant Poatmaster General, to which I referred a moment ago, and I will read It, It is dated March 6th, 108. and to as follows; Postoffice Desartment cond Assistant Postmaster General. Washington. March 6th, 1908. , Dear flenatori Referring to your per sonal call at this office yesterday, I beg to advise you that during the month of February one dispatch of mail was made from this country for Brazilian and other South American ports, namely, on the th. During this month there will be ir regular sailings which will enable us to avoid dispatches of mail via Europe. ' -i Reepeotfully. yours, JOHN W. HOLL.TDAT. Acting Seoond Assistant Postmaster Gen- r, . ' ' . : k . ' -'vi Hon. P. M. Simmons, & "j United States Senate. Think of that, Mr, President only one dispatch of mall ' from this country to Brazil and other South American ports during the month of February. South American to a great country, larger by far in area than our own, with a rich and productive soil, inhabited by an In telligent, enerretlc. and nrbrresslvs nso- pie, whose foreign . trade, already val uable, is rapidly expanding. It to not only a part of our own hemisphere and bound to us by strong political ties, but there are many reasons connected wits Its climate, .with the habits and pursuits of its people, - why, it should oe a great consumer of ear products, especially of . pur minui soiurea proauuii, ?9 wis grvat country, with which we are trying to strengthen our social, political and busi ness relations, we had during the month ef February only one dispatch of mall. When at the Postoffice Department few days ago I inquired how tbey kept up with the Irretrular sailings referred to In the letter of the Acting Second Assis tant Postmaster General. In response to this ..inquiry I was. advised that Just be fore these sailings the company notifies the Postoffice Department-of the day and hour of these sailings and the Depart ment orders the mall sent forward. I think In the face of these facts fur ther comment upon this phase of the subject to unnecessary. Mr,. President, the proposition ' before tis Is not a proposition to repeal the act of 181. That act to the law ef the land and bas been . for , the last seventeen years. Nobody has offered a bill to re peal It. ' The bill before us simply pro poses to amend that act, wltTiout extend ing Its principles, for the purpose of cor recting certain demonstrated irregulari ties and making It workable in the dis patch of our mails to South America and the Orient as welt as to Europe; to amend It so as to allow the Postmaster General t pay "to the highest class steamers which . the exigencies of our commerce . and postal communication with South America and the Orient re quire and Justify the same compensation for carrying our malls to those countries as the original act allows him to pay to the luxuriously appointed and swifter steamers plying between New York and Europe for the same service; to amend ft so, that a ship speeding miles an hour may not be paid twice as much for carrying our mall from New Tork to Europe as one steaming 18 miles an hour ts paid for carrying it to China, Japan, Rio and Buenos Ayres. , V ' i Mr. Frye. Mr. President' The Vice President. . Does the Senator from North Carollna.'yleld t the Sen- aior rrom aiainer . , . .... ' '" v " , . . ' e hsve not by aoy means reached Mr. Frye. I xa 1 the attention i ef the MmJt ,f our Industrial growth. We ST?'.'? IrJ,Sr0lln Vrth. f,a he only fairly begun. With equal and that the bill wh eh became a law In 11. adequate sea transportation, we may when It passed the Senate contained the. BOtefully look for.our tP0WtB m wor,5 riHrt- knotm 'PP" rin of eon" this bill to 16-knot steamers. tury to become as striking as bas been Mr. Simmons. Tee. A consideration of (the growth of our home trade during the me, DiaiwM iujirmiHui eg cur i iraae witn oouin America ana tne ori ent as compared with that of- North Atlantic porta with Europe, leads me to conclude that a mistake was made in striking it out 'It. President I repeat this is not a reposition to repeal the act of 1894; It to a'raere proposition to amend it so that a 2v-knot steamship like those of the Cunard Une and the White Star Una. fitted up to accommodate the taste and between New Tork and London, or Parts cr Hamburg, shall not be paid twice as much for carrying the mails as paid to the leas pretentious, but to the business Involved, equally satisfactory steamships running to Sydney, Hongkong, Rio and Punos Ayres. - . Whatever may be said of the act of Slurrlsh livers and bowel in v mum of nearly every disease. Cleanse your system and regulate the bowels and liver to healthy, natural action hv HolIiter Rocky - Mountain Ta. The r.irrnt remedy known.- 3 5e, Ta cr Tsl'lets. R. H. Jordan & Co. lvil, the proposed amendment to that act Is not in any. sense a subsidy. It simply puts our mall carriers upon the Pacific Ocean and. upon Bouth Atlantic waters upon an equal footing In the mat ter of compensation with those upon the Northern Atlantic and allows tho receipt from our ocean mall service to be used tor Its Improvement and betterment. i ly as purchasers of our manufacture. I have no sympathy with bonuses and Neither of these countries ore maritime subsidies, but where a. great publle Pb-1 nations, like ourselves they have 'no deep, jeot is to be accomplished, where the sea merchant marine, and In present con benefits to accrue to the publle Is In- j dltione we are not able to help them and calculable, I would not oppose iegisla- lion to aeoure these benefit becaiy the Individual agencies through which these I reasonable share of the trade of these results must be worked out derive some '. countries we must have transportation Incidental benefit, trifling In amount 'and postal facilities with them equal to compared with that derived by the pub-! those of our competitors In that trade, lie That is not legislation for private This our European competitors will cer proflt, but for publio benefit: I am op- j talnly not furnish tor us. and If wo get it posed to a protective tariff.' J am now we will have to supply It ourselves, and I always have been In favor of aj I recognise the difficulties in the way tariff for revenue, with incidental oroteo-1 of bulldtne ud our deep-sea merchant tion. That was the platform upon which Democracy, won Its first great national victory after the war. That Is the prin ciple upon which every Democratic, tariff bill promulgated since the war bas been framed. In levying a tariff to raise rev enue to support the government I believe la placing a duty upon foreign produots sold In this country In competition with like borne products sufficient to equal the difference between the labor oost of that product here and abroad. The American laborer Is entitled to this equalization, whether his competitor tfi a European or an Aslstlo laborer, and the whole country participates In the pros perity which comes to him M a result. The object accomplished is a publio ob ject. ' To levy a higher duty for this purpose than is necessary to equalise these labor conditions would be a private bounty and wrong. Mr. President, international as well as domestic trade depends upon .transpor tation, not ony of merchandise but of the malls, through which business en gagements are , induced. Initiated, and consummated. Commercial and postal communication are In a sense Interde pendentthere will be little commerce wlthntit vuuitsl mmmnnfrjitlon and lfttl postal communication without commerce. . th. Urg, of mall matter will be largo. Where the business to' large, as between New Tork and London and Hamburg, there is no trouble about get ting ample and quick transportation, for both merchandise and mall, but where It la small, as between this country and South America and the Orient,, the situa tion is different. In such a case the quest ten to. Will we leave these great in dependent Interests to their own re sources to find suck transportation as they can and to develop under the slow and tedious process ef Inadequate facili ties controlled by hostile and unfriendly interests, or will we stimulate and quick en their development by helping to se cure quick and adequate' facilities of transportation and communication? That to our problem to-day with South America and, to a lesser degree, with the Orient. It to the' same, problem which confronted us fifty year ago in the development of our Internal domestlo commerce. We had a great country. Stretching from ocean to ocean, covering over three and a half - billion square miles, but it was poorly linked together; its widely separated parts needed to be brought Into communication by rail and water. I need not atop here to recount In detail the many ways in which th government, the States and their sub divisions, v and the people lent their co operation to encourage and aid In se curing our present vast and eomprehen slve system of inland rail and water transportation and postal communication, nor what we are sun doing in that di rection. During the past forty years the nation al government bas spent millions of dol lars "in T klie improvement" bt 6UrWvers and harbors, and the government,' the States, the counties, and towns, by way of subscription and donation, have in vested many more millions to aid private capital in the eonstructlon of railroads and to provide Inland transportation to accommodate the , seeds of Intercourse and postal communication and for mar keting and distributing the produots of our fields, forests, mines and factories. Wherever the pioneer has gone we have soon sent to him the railroad, with Its postal and express facilities. If we could not send the railroad to him we have sent the mail carrier. Likewise with our rural population, without counting the cost over the plains - and across the mountains wherever he has bullded his habitation we have sent the mail car rier to take to him bis letters and pa pers. First by the star route and stage coach we dispatched onoe a week the malls to the rural postoffice along their lines, and on Saturday the farmer went for his letters and his weekly paper, , It was an Inexpensive service, but it was not what the publle Interest required; it was not what the farmer was entitled to receive at the hands , of the government In response to this demand we decided to give the farmer a dally mall delivered at his gate, and to-day we are paying ap proximately 88,000 rural carriers a salary of ITS per month to ride over as, 000 rural routes every day, without eference to whether the receipts ef the route he serves are sufficient to pay his salary or only a small part of It. Starting with a email beginning a lit tle over fifty years age we have In that short space of time built up the best and most comprehensive domestlo system of rail transportation and postal communi cation In the world. ' With these un rivaled facilities of transportation and communication as a chief factor In our development we have In an Incredibly short time become the greatest producing nation, with the greatest domestic mar ket in the world. We are not only pro ducing nearly everything we oonsume, but much more of many things than we can' consume. : The question with the American manufacturer Is no longer one of supplying home consumption, but te find other markets for what we cannot i consume, and the problem which con- j fronts him to no longer ono of Inland, but one of ocean transportation. Pressed to find a market for their products to re lieve the congestion at home and to make possible further Industrial expan sion, they are" anxiously looking abroad and everywhere we ' are' beginning to tiaV iYi fr Ta th t K - fit oomes- to . us from the factory, .the mine, the forest and the field. . last quarter. In the industrial and commercial con dition which confronts us to-day equal i and adequate deep-water transportation and' communication to and with the countries upon whom we must rely for the sale of the surplus products of our mines, mills, and factories has become, or soon will become, almost as pressing a question as that of domestic transpor tation In the last three or four decades. Unfortunately, upon tne deep seas we tatlon except such as our competitors In trade have graciously furnished us. Be cause It to to their interest to do It the great commercial nations ef Europe now furnish us ample transportation for our trade with them, Great Britain. Germany and France ned our foodstuffs to feed their millions of operstlvea and they need our raw cot ton to operate their mills and spindles to make the fabrics with which thr clothe the worM. They stand ready at all times to furnish us thlra not only to trsnsport the products to their own ports, but t5 ftrn'h us ;:h su'-h ef thlr own pr1- crtg as we rr.sy stand In nrd of. Europe y already takes all ef our surplus In arrt-rtus the maximum of our exports of eot cultural product our manufactured pro-1 ton goods for any one year baa neve ducts they do not to any considerable ex tent need. But we-cannot rely upon the maritime nations of Europe to furnish us equal and adequate transportation to Af rica, to Australia, to Asia, and Bouth , America, upon whom we must chiefly re- J tbey art aot able to .help us In the matter ! of transportation. If we want to, get eur marine In tho face of present conditions. I know . that, men do not Invest their money in enterprises from motives of pa triotism; they must see a reasonable prospect of proCt Upon the ocean com petition to free our tariff laws and our exclusion laws do not protect there. In several respects our competitors on the sea have us at a disadvantage. First the greater cost of building a ship in America; secondly, the greater cost of operating a ship manned by American seamen; third, the fact that our competi tors upon the ocean are paid more tor carrying the ocean mail of tneir, own country than' we pay. The difference the cost of ships has Veen In part over come by removing the Dingley tariff du ties on materials entering into the eon structlon. of American-built ships. It may be altogether overcome by admitting to HCIZ ZgFZfm owned by American citizens. This can be done without serious injury to anyone. because but few ships in our foreign trade are now built in our own ship yards. Of course the higher rate of ray for carrying the malls to a difference which can only be met by our paying a higher rate. If other things were made equal. I think our postal rate will not be so far below that of ether nations that our shipowners could not overcome this difference and maintain themselves in competition with them. The most serious difficulty to the great er cost of operating our ships on account of the higher wages paid American sea men and sailors. -If It were competition between white labor, the problem would not be so difficult The greater efficiency of the American sailor, like that of the operative in our cotton faotorlea and our factories for making machinery and agri cultural implements, would in a measure compensate for the higher wages receiv ed and enable the shipowner, as the cot ton manufacturer and the maker of ma chinery and agricultural Implements, to meet European competition. But it is not Caucasian competition, it to Astatio com petition, especially on th Pacific and largely in our Bouth American trade, be cause, whether the ship in those waters Is a Japanese. English, or German ship, as rule It to largely manned by Chi nese or Japanese sailors, willing to work for a price at which a white man would starve. By our Immigration laws we have protected American labor en the mainland against Aslatia competition, but tnese beneficent laws do not extend to the high seas.' The ocean to free, and upon it everybody Is equal. It is a great " and difficult problem. which will grow more pressing ss the years go by. It Cannot be Ignored or pushed aside;' It must be met and solved. For myeelf, I have an abiding confidence that tho wisdom of American statesman ship and the pluck, energy, and enter prise of our people wilt in the end, solve it wisely and Justly, and that our nag will regain its prestige upon the seas. Undoubtedly both Germany and Eng land will gladly continue to furnish us transportation, for any business we tney have with these countries; but in the future, as In the past, tney will furnish such transportation for this purpose as will make our competition with them for the trade of these countries hopeless. No better evidence of this statement, Mr. President, to needed than a compari son between the small line ef slow-oing, poorly equipped steamers which the Eng lish and Germans are to-day running be tween this country and the Important countries of South America and the five first-class mall and passenger lines of wlft and commodious steamers which they and our other European competitors are now operating on regular- schedules from their own countries to Rio de Jane iro, Buenos Ayres, and ether important South American points. ' Having surrendered to 'Our European competitors the control of our means of transportation and communication with South America, they, have arranged it most admirably to promote their own ad vaatage they carry our malls for us, but they take twice as long as they do to carry their own; they carry our com mercial products, but they charge a high er price than they charge for carrying their own. Sometimes they provide pas senger accommodations, but they are ao poor and the Journey ao tedious and slow the American business man whose busi ness takes him to this country generally finds it preferable to go first Jo Europe and then by one of the swift and luxu rous steamers that they have provided for the accommodation and dispatch of their own business with these countries. Mr. President no country outside ef Europe would seem te offer better op portunity for the sale of nir manufac tures than Chins and South - America. They are an agriaultural people and buy in considerable quantities tines of manu factures that we produce in excess of home consumption and that we have dem onstrated our ability to make and sell at a satisfactory profit in these markets in competition with our European competi tors... Our manufacturers recognise these facts, and In recent years they have been making special efforts te get a foothold in these markets for their products. This is especially true of our manufacturers of machinery and agricultural Implements and cotton goods, and who have In recent years shown their ability-to meet the prioes ef their English and Germsn com petitors In these markets. Mr. President not only South America, but most of the countries of the Orient by reason ef the character of their pursuits, the habits of their' people, and 'on account of taelr climate, have great need for eot ton goods and for machinery and agricultural Im plements. I had time I would like to discuss more fully the possibilities of en-; larging our trade With those countries In the eale of machinery and agricultural Implements. It to a very interesting subject' but I have not the time, .with out trespassing too greatly upon the time Of the Senate, but I de wish to briefly call .etu.ntrn to the present conditions, with' respect to markets for their surplus, of our cotton mills In the South and te the efforts our oottoa manufacturers have made In recent years to secure a part of this trade end what has been lhe result Our cotton mills are making, as every bed- knows, more clothe than we need at home. Our domestic demand, great as It is, to no longer sufficient to consume their present output We have got to find a market for this" turplus, or this great industry of th fcr.uth and New Kniland ' has reached the limit of Its expansion, and we have rot to stop, for a while at least, building new mills and enlarrln old ones, although we do not now manu facture over one-third of the raw cottoa we produce. Our European competitors manufacture the other two-thirds, and with tbelr ship sailing every sea and o-Ing- to every quarter ef the globe th-y find a market for all they make. We have the raw cotton and we bav the factories, " or we have the - money vxa which to build thefactories. We can eon. vrt this eot ton Into cloths and sell It la the comjetltlve markt of the worM as clplr j our competitors, but we have not the sHr to carry them to th. fire'trn t ut (r,rrm, sod ss a rwu't cf s'l our !Totts to find a market for tl.:s s jr- reached as much as S0.(iU,M, and that bas fallen off materially in the last two years. Last year our exports of cotton goeds did not reach half that amount. Mr. President, if we bad the same transportation and postal facilities which our competitors have for reaching ' tin markets of the world, we ooulj.. and In the next ten or fifteen years we would. manufacture half of our raw cotton In stead of one-third, and And a market for j the converted product. That would mean - not oniy employment to many uoueaas more operatives, but it would mean the greatest development in the . cotton growing and cotton-manufacturing States in the next two decades which itas evr taken place in the same length of time in any other country In the world. I have in my hand a book I call it a book because It to In the form f a book, though it Is not in a literal sense such published by a distinguished citizen ef North Carolina In Ubtf. for th purpose of showing the difference between the value of the raw cotton grown in North, Caro lina and what -would be Its value con verted Into oottoa fabrics. It U a very interesting book. Oa one side of each page to a sample of a cotton fabric man ufactured in North, Carolina, and an the other is a comparison, bet ween the value of the oottoa crop of that State, esti mated in the year - In which this book was published at 660.000 bales, and what would be the value of that amount of cotton converted , into that particular fabric On the first page Is a sample of what la known as "J-jard drill"1 It to. X be lieve, the cheapest goods made by. our North Carolina mills. At the time this flflrui varouna muu. a mm v,n book was printed cotton was selling at M ' the estimated value of the crop for that year to fW.ooo.ooa, and In that year S-yard drill, like the sample, sold for 1 cents per pound, and the esti mated value of the North Carolina cot ton crop converted Into these drills .Is Mo.ooo.000. On the' next page to s sample of North : Carolina "sheeting," and tlje difference between the North Carolina cotton crop in the 'raw state and. manu factured Into this product' Is estimated at 130.000,000. On the next Is bleaching. The difference between the North Carolina cotton crop In its raw state and its value converted into this cloth in that year is estimated at 135,000,000. Then we have "cheviot" which a difference of $50,000,000 between the raw cotton and the finished product The next is "f-ounoe denim," with a difference in value between raw cotton and the manufactured product of 10,000,000, and then ginghams, with a dif ference In value ef $75,000,000. and so on until we reach the highest grade ef cot ton goods then made In North Carolina, known as "fancy ginghams," and here the difference la Value to estimated at $639,000,000. Mr. President Korth- Caroline-and I say It with pardonable prlde-Js the only cotton-producing State In ' the Union which manufactures as much cotton as It produces. The story of that State's ex ceptional material development la the two decades through which we have Just passed: of hew. starting almost at the foot it has within that short space of time advanced to the front of the column in the march of Industrial progress; ef how in the last decade it has surpassed all ef Its sister States In the averege percentage of material development has become a familiar story and one which has excited universal astonishment as well as admiration. If we should look for the causes of tbls wonderful growth and development we would find many, but! next to the energy and Intelligence of Its people we would find the chlefest Of all' I of them In the fact that we are manufac- .ui i a . , w . - , - -- as much eotton-ne we make, and that Instead of realising from fifteen to twenty-five million dollars from our an nual crop we jure realising from two to three hundred, millions for the fabric which we weave out of it. If every cot ton State Of the South would do what North Carolina to to-day doing and oould enter the markets ef the world and find purchasers for their products. In twenty five rears, yes, in less time, the South would be the ' most marvelously rich I country upon which God sun has ever rose and set I know of no reason why we cannot manufacture the most of this cotton and find markeu for It as eur European competitors now manufacture two-thirds of It and find markets for It except that we have practically ne transportation beyond the water's edge save suoh as Is furnished to us by countries which have an Interest In keeping us cut of markets which are now almost entirely supplied from their own factories. Mr. President some ef our Southern cotton mills are largely dependent on foreign markets tor the sate ef their pro ducts. In recent years they have been making strenuous efforts to sell their sur plus products both in China and Pouth America, With the aid of our consuls In those countries and that ef the special Investigators sent oyt by the govern ment they have learned what kind of goods those markets require, ana meyi have been making their goods in accord-1 ance with those requirements. What I Mr. President baa been the resuK or these efforts? With China we started off welt In 1903 we sold her ootton goods to the value of about $10.0O.Ajo; in 1904. about $9,000,000: in 190S, $3,oo.o; but as soon as we began to be troublesome to our competitors in this market through their control ef our means of transpor tation they put the screws upon us, and our trade with China began te fall off. In 190C It fell to $20,000,000. while ia 1907 It fell to less than $3,0,0u. while In the latter year Great Britain's sales to ber advanced te about tu.0uo.009. and Ja paa'a. which in 1806 was only about one sixteenth as great as ours, advsnced to nearly the seme figures as cure. In Bouth America they have not let us get much of a foothold at any time. In 190 Argentina bought about r4.00Q.0lv worth of cotton goods. We sold her in ' that year only fc.7ttoe worth. In that year Brazil bought about $15,000,000 worth of ootton goods, of which we sold her only $479,900. In that pear the countries of South America bought f74.7J!,. worth of cotton goods. Of this amount Great Britain sold In round nsmbers $47, 000,000; Germany, fU.6fli,0; France SS.400. 000; Italy, ever $7,0C0,0ua, and the United States only $1.(30,100. There may be, a has been frequently ' suggested, several minor obstacles such as establishing agencies upon the ground, lack of adequate exchange facilities, etc., In the way ef our getting eur reasonable share of the trade of these countries, but the real reason to our slow. Inefficient Inadequate 'and expensive means of transportation and postal communication as compared with the cheaper and up-to-date service In these regards of eur com petitors. And that condition will not cbante for the better Just so long as ws allow, as we do now, eur competitors for this trade to own. regulate and con trol the instrumentalities ef eur com mercial and postal eonnnunlcatns with these countries. Mr. President we are told ea the one hnd th,t ' Mc1ur r,MO"b1'; quate transportation la our owa ships to accommodate our trade, present and pros, pective, with the countries upon whom we must rely to sail the finished products of our cotton mills by perlng out of the profits we. now reallie from eur forrlsn mall service te the altrhlly slower ships required ts accommodate this trade lit same price for carrying the mail that are now paying to the faster ahlpe. that have been construe!'! to awom ruo-1t the riih and antocrtlc trarei between this country and Europe. On the otnr hand, we are told we must sot do this, we must s j.Ter conc!:t.ons to remain ss they are. that our rorr,;tl!ors must not be d:iturb4 In their pj..n cf the rlt-b rnjirk-ts, that t!. r doors muti r n.a n c!odj to the products of Ameii. an WIXJJASX FIRTH, Pit. X S. COTHRAN, labor and capita), because, forsooth, It is claimed that In providing this transpor tation under the aegis1 of the American flag we will have to pay the American shipowner for carrying the mall on quick and regular schedules something more than we are now paying to the foreign shipowner to carry it oa slow and Irreg ular schedules; because some private In terest may be Incidentally advanced and promoted; because the American ship owner may receive a trifle more than they think to fair and Just for the ser vice performed, although after seventeen years it has been shown he cannot per form it for less, we should forego these vast publio benefits, continue the em bargo upon our trad with these coun tries and place a disheartening limitation upon the expansion of the greatest Indus try, hot pnly la my own State, bt in tne South and In New England. - Calmly, dispassionately., and laborious ly, with no thought except to discharge my duty te the public and to tne coun try. I hove studied and Investigated and probed, that I might, find out and under stand all the facts, and in the, light of , . ,K j.llt whioh si 1, r if thii bodJ commission as a .member of this poor lmnoaee unon me. Mr. President I am not lnfUUbieno man to; I cannot see ne man can see further than the Ugh; which has been given me will let me see. I may. err In my position la this matter aa I have erred In many things before; but employing such powers of .mind and heart an have been given me, my duty In tals matter seams aa dear to me aa the sun en a cloudless day. If I ahould fail to discharge .this duty aa my mind and conscience -have shown it t me be cause ef a fear that some, through a mis. understanding of the fact, and others through prejudice based oh a misunder standing ef the faoU cr otherwise, may disapprove and censure, I should be un worthy of the seat I now occupy in this chamber and of the great and enlighten ed people whom X, In pert have the hon or to represent en this floor. During all my-, publio life I have taken counsel from that , "stlH, small voice which never fails to apeak its counsel to the willing mind and heart, and I will not new turn a deaf ear to Its whtoperlngs. Mr.' President, there are ether phase of this question ef large and far-reaching Importance whioh I would tike te discuss, but they have been dismissed by others, and I will not detain the Senate te give expression to my views with regard te them, because I feel that I have already trespassed tee loag upon its time, and be cause I know Senators are anxious te take up the regular business assigned to consideration after the expiration ef th morning business. We Will Send Sample Showing How n. It 11. Cures Above Trouble, also Ecxema and Itheumattsm. For twenty-five years Botanlo Blood Balm (B. B. B. has been curing yearly thouesnds ef sufferers from Primary, a r TM-tiarv Blood PHaoa and all forma of Blood Disease. W solicit the most obstinate casee. for B. B. B. curee where all else fails. If you have exhausted the old methods of treatmmt and still have aches and pains ia -tioiks, h.,k or iolnte. Rheumatism, Muoue Patches la mouth. 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