If it were not so. he would be on these ships. You can not divert American capital into an unprofitable business. and we ought not to want to divert American capital into an unprofitable business. You can not put American men in competition with coolies and with the people of other nations of the earth who are willing to work at wages half or less than half of the wages that can be earned by our citizens upon our own soil. Our people are not doing this work now. You want to enlarge the field of our enterprise. and you can not enlarge it unless you enter into competition with the world. and entering into that competition you must employ the same methods that they employ. or you must compensate for the difference in contributions from the Treasury.