Again. while our statutes are strewn with provisions implying a standard of skill in seamanship and a standard for manning. no standards have been established. And so it comes to pass that skilled men are overworked and life and property exposed to needless hazard. The manning evil is of the gravest influence. Many and many an American ship in coastwise and in foreign trade goes to sea so badly undermanned that voyaging is one tense struggle for life. and many and many an American vessel is lost as a direct consequence of undermanning. Moreover. sir. upon the Pacific our seamen are displaced by Asiatics. Every American steamship in our China trade is manned by Chinamendeck. Ealoon. galley. stokehold.
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