Until we have just such a shipping. prosperous and profitable. the agitation will be kept up. the demand will be just as insistent and persistent as it is now. After half a century of decline. after American shipping has all but been effaced from the high seas. the demand for an American mercantile marine is still aggressive. still militant. still unsatisfied with existing conditions. still clamoring at the doors of Congress for relief. Our Democratic friends have a warm feeling for alien labor. they abhor and detest the protective system. so they tell us to buy our ships abroad. because they are built more cheaply abroad. and put them under the American flag. They say let us have "free ships." and "free ships" means nothing unless it means alienbuilt ships. And that is all that the Democrats seem to stand forthe employment of underpaid foreign labor instead of the employment of properly paid American labor. "The only objection that our Democratic friends have to Americanbuilt ships is that they cost more to build than foreign ships cost.
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