Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1919 — A Foreign Ship. [ARTICLE]

A Foreign Ship.

Homer L. Ferguson, president of the chamber of commerce of the United States has stirred up the patriots over the reproduct ion of a being on our lw*tHiiy-iloUar blllsr- Maktngpross his auditors with the fact that this country has entirely too few ships, lie whipped out a twenty-dollar bill and declared: “Why, even tlfe ship reproduced on this bill is one that, was taken over by this country during the war. It flies the American flag, all right, but. It is a foreign-built ship.” Examination proved he was absolutely correct. The ship has four funnels, and there never has been a fourfunneled ship built in this country for our foreign trade.