DECADENT SHIPPING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 626, 4 October 1909, Page 7

DECADENT SHIPPING.

/ MUST'BE REVIVED. V. PROGRESS AND POWER IN THE PACIFIC. , : -HANDICAP IN;WAE-TIME., : ;: ; v : (By Tclegraph-Proße Aseociatlon-Oopjrlght.) ' (Roe. October 3, 5.5 pirn.) ' .■'•. New-York, October 2. .President Taft, Waking at Seattle, in Washington• State, promised,to do. ; his utmost; to induce Congress to legislate; in favour of the restoration of America's mercantile marine. Hβ proposes to ask Cftngross to devote 7,00(1,000 dollars i (about ,£1,400,000), tho annual profit from the foreign mail services,, to-sub-sidising stettmtlip lines'to South America, and tho Far East. , : ' .. ,■ . : •-.•..'. ■ '■;' In the course of his speech at Seattle,' the President declared that commercial progress would bo greater in the, Pacific than anywhere during the next ■■ half century,. especially in China;and Japan.. He also' said:.. . -■. v' ir , "If .the United States went to : .war. tnJay, 6tir merchant marine would lack sufficient tonnage in the auxiliary unarmed ship's, which are absolutely necessary to a navy's proper W6rkihg, and she jvould be compelled to pur« oiiase'6uch vessels abroad." >.-/ ';'\ ■'■ ■■' v .: A LOVING-CUP. ■ v TTNITED .STATES; SAIiiOHS TO THE j -', ■■■■:;■.•.■,.;■■.. JAPANESEi, .■,;/'■■.. .■■•:" ■• :' V V ;' ' New: York, October i.'.- . Tho sailors ■ cf the TTniUd States joiind-tho; world fleet-have' subscribed fori a gold hWingoup for presentation to. the -Japanese ..Navj;,;, in. token of appreciation ■• of ; - the ' shftwnthbm during-their visit to, Japan. 1 ■