Free Ships: the Restoration of the American Carrying Trade
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Iron steamship building was in its infancy in 1857. Its greatdevelopment was merely coincident with our civil war. That war was ahorrid nightmare. We found that our navigation interests, with manyother things we could ill afford to lose, the lives of hundreds ofthousands of our young men, vast sums of our money, and not a littleof our morality, were gone. Those lives can never be restored, whileour money may be regained, and it is to be hoped our morality may beimproved, but as to our ships, we... simply refuse to replace them withthose that are better.
One argument in opposition to free ships is founded upon the injusticethat would be done to our shipbuilders. Were this true, it might besaid that ship-owners and the general public have some rights thatshipbuilders are bound to respect. The interests of our whole peopleare paramount to theirs as were those of the English people in 1849, when the proportion of their shipbuilders was greatly beyond that ofours at this day.
In point of fact, however, the suffering of our shipbuilders by therepeal of the navigation laws, would, from the first, be scarcelyappreciable, and, in the end, would be more than compensated byincreased business.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Iron steamship building was in its infancy in 1857. Its greatdevelopment was merely coincident with our civil war. That war was ahorrid nightmare. We found that our navigation interests, with manyother things we could ill afford to lose, the lives of hundreds ofthousands of our young men, vast sums of our money, and not a littleof our morality, were gone. Those lives can never be restored, whileour money may be regained, and it is to be hoped our morality may beimproved, but as to our ships, we... simply refuse to replace them withthose that are better.
One argument in opposition to free ships is founded upon the injusticethat would be done to our shipbuilders. Were this true, it might besaid that ship-owners and the general public have some rights thatshipbuilders are bound to respect. The interests of our whole peopleare paramount to theirs as were those of the English people in 1849, when the proportion of their shipbuilders was greatly beyond that ofours at this day.
In point of fact, however, the suffering of our shipbuilders by therepeal of the navigation laws, would, from the first, be scarcelyappreciable, and, in the end, would be more than compensated byincreased business.
What to read after Free Ships: the Restoration of the American Carrying Trade?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Codman John to read onlineMoreLess
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