Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEBATE OF MARCH 28, 1888.Question: "Resolved, that Americans should be permitted to buy foreign built ships and to manage them under the American flag, and that no shipping subsidies should be granted...
...present policy is "vicious, inequitable and unjust" in that while purporting to protect American shipping it really ensures to foreigners a monopoly of our foreign carrying trade, and protects them in the enjoyment of it to our own detriment: Report of Secretary of Treasury, 1887, xliv.; Kelley, "Question of Ships;" Wells, "Our Merchant Marine...
...Free raw materials for ships will go far towards enabling the American builder to supply the demand which free ships will create: Codman, "Free Ships...
Best general reference: Hall's American Navigation...
...should build and manage our own ships exclusively.- (1) Because only in so doing can we gain the whole profit of our carrying trade: "Shall Americans build ships?" No. Am. Review, May, 1881, pp. 473-4; "American Shipping Interests," (pamphlet), pp. 6, 44, 48-51.- (2) Because, by so doing, we employ American labor, and use American materials: "American Shipping Interests," (pam.), p. 20.- (3) Because, in the long run, we can build as cheaply at home as we can buy or build abroad: John Roach, speech before Boston Board of Trade (pam); No. Am. Review...