Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1904 — Ship Subsidy to Be Revived. [ARTICLE]

Ship Subsidy to Be Revived.

Of course Secretary Shaw directly represents the president in his public announcements and speeches. When he spoke at the banquet given by the New York Chamber of Commerce last November at Delmonico’s he was enthusiastic for the ship subsidy steal if no other way could be devised of increasing the merchant marine. As the junketing committee of congress headed by Senator Gallfnger has been holding meetings all over the country on purpose to gather evidence in favor of the ship subsidy bill, there is no doubt that such a message will be forced through congress if money and influence will do it. President Roosevelt has virtually endorsed the program that Secretary Shaw spoke of with so much favor, and the only means left to stop the steal is for the people to defeat those who voted for it. Nearly every Republican member of the United States senate is on record as voting in its favor, and several of them are candidates this year for re-election, such as Senators Aldrich, Ball. Bard. Beveridge, Clark. Depew, Foster, Halo. Kearns. Lodge. McCumber, Proctor, Quarles and Scott. The hill was not voted upon in the house of representatives. The Republican majority ieared the people, but it is claimed that a majority are pledged to do so when it comes up at the next session. Every candidate for congress should be made to pledge himself to vote against, a subsidy bill in whatever form it may he presented, and also that members of the legislature will not vote to re-elect senators who favored it. It is bad enough to be plundered by the trusts through the protective tariff, which is an indirect form of subsidy, but to rob the people directly by granting an enormous subsidy to the Morgan steamship trust would he a crowning infamy that the voters should guard against.