Against this modest proposition of aid to its foreigngoing shipping by the richest country in the world let us set the subventions now given by our foreign competitors to their own shipping Great Britain. $6.000.000 per year. not including the new grant to the Cunard Line of $1.100.000. France pays her steamships $5.000.000 per year in mail subsidies. and in construction and navigation bounties $3.500.000 additional. making a total of $8.500.000 per year. Germany is now paying about $2.000.000 per year to its two great steamship companies and gives thenm. besides. very large additional aid in special rates upon the Government railroads to emigrants and freight going by the German steamships. Under this form of assistance the German merchant tonnage has increased from 1.243.000 in 1881 to 3.393.000 in 1905. Italy pays mail sudsidies and bounties to her steamship companies of about $3.000.000 per year. 97.21 AustriaHungary. with hardly any seacoast. expends on mail and other subsidies about $2.000.000 per year. or nearly.twice the amount of oceanmail payments by the United States.
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