Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1898 — It Is High Time. [ARTICLE]

It Is High Time.

Although* Americans have invariably shown the highest degree of skill and pnoficiency in everything pertaining to ships and seamanship, although in every contest on the sea Americans have led the world, yet almost all of our ocean carrying trade is done in foreign bottoms. We lag behind all the world in that in which we might lead all the word. It is high time for such a state.of affairs to come to an end. It iB high time that there should be given to our shipping interests the encouragement and Protection which are given all all.other American interests.