We must so manage that ocean transportation shall likewise belong to the Trusts.
How?
NOW YOU SEE WHY YOU DON’T GET THE PARCELS POST.
By giving to the merchant marine a sum of money out of the public treasury, over and above the freight which is earned.
Then, indeed, every incident of the Protective System will present a harmonious color-scheme, for THE TRUSTS WILL HAVE HOGGED THE WHOLE BUSINESS.
And that donation out of your tax money, which is intended to save the Trusts from the injurious burden of their own damnable Tariff System is the Ship Subsidy which the fat man said we need.
So long as the Protective System hurts the Common People it is a national blessing and must be gratefully sustained: but the moment the same system pinches the Protected Interests, they must rob you under the form of Ship Subsidy to get back what they lose by their own tariff.