Will some advocate of this bill explain the difference in principle? If there is any difference. it is in favor of the farmer. because his surplus is shipped abroad and sold in the open markets of the world. And. besides. that surplus sold abroad is sold in competition with the pauper labor of every land. not only so. but the price paid for the surplus abroad fixes the prices in his home market. and. for my part. I would vote a bounty to the farmer for the articles he exports and sells in competition with the pauper labor of Europe and Asia before I would vote a subsidy to shipowners. But they argue. in the second place. that American shipowners can not compete with foreigners in the ocean carrying trade because the American has to pay higher wages for sailors. Mind you. there is no law which requires an American shipowner to hire citizens of this country to operate his ships.
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