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Question: "Resolved, That for the present system of subsidies to American vessels should be substituted a system of free registry of foreign-built ships by American owners...
...March '94).- (3) It is an objectionable application of public funds to the promotion of a private enterprise which does not exist except to get the benefit of subsidies: Ibid.- (x) American ship-yards, generally speaking, have not for 30 years built ships for foreign trade: N. A. R. 160: 90 (Jan. '95).- (4) Subsidies are demoralizing to the recipients by causing extravagant management: Cong. Record as above.- (x) Example of the Collins line: Free Ships. (b) The present system is totally inadequate.- (1) The present subsidies on the Atlantic apply to very few ships, and of the most expensive...
...Free ships furnish the only practicable remedy.- (a) To compete with other nations we must give our ship owners the right to buy their ships in the cheapest market: Free Ships 45.- We cannot keep foreign ships off the ocean.- (b) Buying ships abroad which can not be built here can not injure our builders: N. A. R. 160: 87.- (c) Free ships would stimulate building by requiring great repair shops and by encouraging American inventive genius: Question of Ships, 50.- (1) Example of Germany, Ibid.- (d) Germany got her enormous carrying trade and encouraged ship-building by allowing free...
...Subsidizing is advantageous for economic reasons.- (a) Subsidizing benefits our merchant marine.- (1) American vessels can compete with subsidized vessels of foreign nations: Bates, Am. Marine, 147; Hall, Am. Nav. 78; Lipp. Mag., 719.- (2) American marine will then be increased by many new vessels: Hall, Am. Nav., 79.- (b) A superior merchant marine benefits our general trade and commerce: Bates, 425.- (1) By offering superior transportation facilities: Hall, 81.- (2) By opening up trade with new nations and increasing already existing trade.- (c) Increased trade increases agriculture and the industrial products of the country: Hall, 80 seq.; Lipp...
...system of free registry would not be advantageous.- (a) It will add nothing to our merchant marine.- (1) Why do not Americans now buy foreign vessels and sail them under foreign flags? Hall, 75.- (2) Foreign subsidizing gives an advantage to foreign carriers and there is not sufficient difference in the cost of building ships: No. Am. Rev. vol.: 156, p. 398.- (3) If ships should be built abroad our ship building industry and ship yards would be ruined.- (b) Free registry was proved unsuccessful in the United States.- (1) In 1859 when subsidies were withdrawn our transatlantic lines failed...