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20 MARINE REVIEW. [December 20, MARINE REVIEW Devoted to the Merchant Marine, the Navy, Ship Building, and Kindred Interests. Published every Thursday at No. 418-19 Perry-Payne building, Cleveland, Ohio, by THE MARINE REVIEW PUBLISHING Co. SupBscRiPTION--$3.00 per year in advance; foreign, including postage, $4.50, or 19 shillings. Single copies 10 cents each. Convenient binders sent, post paid, $1.00. Advertising rates on application. Entered at Cleveland Post Office as Second-class Mail Matter. The Review has had little to say about Senator M. A. Hanna. Dur- ing the four years in which he has been identified with national life it has been fairly silent about him. It has seen him villified and abused, mis- represented and maligned more than any other man in public life. What reason there may be for all this calumny is not known. It is certainly not the opinion of those who know him well at home. There is no man who has lived a more open or more honorable life. One is forced to the conclusion that the character of the man is generally misunderstood. "Where did he get his money?" shriek the saffrons of the east. It would be diffi€ult to put one's finger upon a man who has worked harder for the wherewithal than Mr. Hanna. He has known nothing but hard work alll his life and, indeed, his chief advantage over his fellow men is in his ability to work hard. He gained his wealth in the open market and in competition. "He is a labor crusher" cries another. For an answer on this score ask those who work for him. In all this country there is not a better organized house than that of M. A. Hanna & Co. and in no industrial organization of a like character are men better paid. During the street car riots Mr. Hanna's employes remained at work. They had no grievance and declined to join the strike. His vessel men have always been well fed and well paid. Mr. Hanna is regarded by his men as a model employer. But the caricaturists have preconceived him and have fashioned all his doings to meet their preconception. The general opinion of Mr. Hanna is that he is so saturated with commercialism that the dollar mark clings to his clothes. So universal is this view that the connection of Mr. Hanna's name with the shipping bill has been the source of its greatest weakness. But nothing could be further from the truth. Mr. Hanna is one of the truest of patriots. Such was the cpinion of him in his own city long before he was known in national politics. In the selection of a representative American, one could not find a finer type. M. A. Hanna has done more for the United States of America than any score of its leading citizens, and in doing all that he has done he has been actuated by motives of the deepest patriotism. This patriotism in him, which partakes of the quality of piety, is so little comprehended by the public in general as to cause surprise when it is mentioned. But it exists and is the moving force-in him. Does anyone suppose that that masterly effort in the senate last Thursday could be produced by a mere commercial mind? If so, he knows little of the arithmetic of state. That effort was the effort of a statesman. For blood and bone and courage, for that combination of heart and brain which marks the manly man, Mr. Hanna is a rare example. Mere intellectual achievement which is not backed with truth fails to interest; one must be sincere to be convincing; but Mr. Hanna is both intellectual and sincere. 'There has been in many a day no speech to equal the one he has just made in the senate. It has been known all along that some of the best speeches made during the late campaign were made by Mr. Hanna. They were naturally hurried efforts, but there was meat to them. He embraced at once the center and circumference of his subject. One could feel the brain throbbing in his words. But it remained for his speech upon the shipping bill to reveal the depth and strength of his statesmanship. Its keynote was earnestness---that sincerity which carries conviction and is the parent of eloquence. It was a truly splendid bit of work. Spoken with ease and without notes, lucidly and logically ar- ranged, it distinguished him as an orator. The naval board on construction this week gave a hearing to Oliver Roland Ingersoll and Capt. Ira Harris of the army transport service, formerly a lieutenant-commander in the navy, on the merit of an im- proved self-righting, self-bailing life boat, of which Mr. Ingersoll is the inventor. Mr. Ingersoll said that two boats of this type were on every army transport, and he urged that his invention be adopted by the board for use on warships. Capt. Harris said the boat gave general satisfaction to the transport service. The board did not take action in the matter, Senator Hoar on Mr. Hanna's speech on the shipping bill: 'Mr. Hanna's speech was masterly. In manner of delivery and in force of argumient it was exceptionally strong, and it was marked by great breadth of view and by genuine statesmanship. It was one of the most powerful speeches I have heard in my public career." From London comes the announcement of the death of Michael G. Mulhall, who was widely known on account of his efforts to popularize the knowledge of the statistics of trade and population. lien ee ES CAPT. STONE ON THE SHIPPING BILL. Editor Marine Review: The subsidy bill, now being discussed in the senate, is a measure of vital importance to this country's best interests and one that has been endorsed by most of the leading men of our coun- try in and out of congress for the past twenty-five years. It is therefore the opportunity of the hour to secure and foster, in a greater degree than at any time in the past, our industrial conditions by the passage of this bill. The opposition to this measure are asking '"What is its purport ex- cept to pay money out of the public treasury for the benefit of a private en- terprise?" It is this: A simple business proposition to expend not to ex- ceed $9,000,000 per year of the people's money in order that the same people may save and receive a net profit of $100,000,000 annually, taking into account the earnings of our ships, together with the immense amount of labor employed in mining, conveying and turning into modern steam- ships, mountains of iron ore; giving opportunity to thousands of young men of our country to become skilled and efficient seamen, a calling that must remain sadly neglected unless the government shall by a liberal policy extend such encouragement, as well as to attract capital and enter- prise in the upbuilding of our merchant marine. It has been strongly urged that we should let private enterprise build and run ships on the oceans, and having proceeded with this policy, it has resulted in our being able now to do only about 9 per cent. of our own shipping to and from our shores. There will not probably be a single argument brought against this bill during the entire discussion in or out of congress that has not been used against every government appropriation of money to further the interests of commerce since the government was established. The broader view, however, has prevailed and our country has progressed. The narrow view always made strict economy the "paramount issue," and, like a steamboat manager who allowed economy in the line of fuel to absorb his entire attention, stopped his steamer and saved the entire fuel expense. Of course the earnings stopped, but economy in fuel was maintained. Whether the liberality of the government is manifest through a sub- sidy to ships, or appropriation for light-houses, harbors, deepening con- necting waters or canals, it is one and the same thing' in purpose and ef- fect. Were it not for the progressive element in congress and the Michi- gan legislature which saw and grasped its opportunity to immortalize itself by building the Sault canal, an outlet and inlet to Lake Superior, our great west and northwest would still be a howling wilderness instead of furnish- ing a commerce to and from that region of $250,000,000 annually in cop- per, iron ore, grain and lumber, and furnishing employment to armies of men. The volume of business made possible by the improvement of these waterways and consequent evolution in ships has steadily reduced freight rates on the great lakes so that in the very near future, should the government extend its assistance and encouragement to our ships beyond the shore line, our farm and manufactured products can be laid down in foreign markets in favorable competition with other producing nations. Thus the general developing process will go marching forward, while private enterprise will only receive its share by way of the increas- ing volume of business and necessary labor. The bill was certainly prepared by men who knew what was wanted on this score. No better ees from the shipping interests of the country could have been selected. I believe this bill will only be opposed by those whose economy outweighs their statesmanship and whose arguments might be likened to the argument of a county commissioner against an efficient and substan- tial county bridge on the ground that there are so many people in the country that do not own teams; such range of mental vision, not extend- ing beyond the fact of taking money from the public treasury, forgetting entirely the fact that this is only the process of taxing the property of the country that it may in turn be put into the hands of labor, insuring its immediate circulation without a dollar going out of the country for labor or material entering into the naval or merchant marine. It is ear- nestly hoped that the broader view will prevail and that economy on this question will not degenerate into parsimony, destroying this great oppor- tunity of the fifty-seventh congress to mark its path by such action as will commend itself eventually, not only to the friends of the bill, but to its enemies as well. JAMES STONE. Cleveland, Dec. 19, 1900. TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYER BATLEY'S PERFORMANCE. If the official trip of the new torpedo boat destroyer Bailey equals the performance of the boat in its preliminary tests off Newport last week the United States government will come into possession of one of the fastest and finest torpedo boats in the world. The Bailey is at present under the command of Capt. W. A. Miller, the well-known master of the record breaking steam yacht Kanawha. The record was taken by Charles Seabury and officials from the Newport training station. The little craft went over the course which is technically 6,082 ft., a nautical mile, three times. The first run was made in 2 minutes 1 second: the second in exactly 2 minutes, and the third in 1 minute 58 seconds. -- _ The Bailey carries a crew of fifty-eight. She is 210 ft. long, 19 ft. 6 in. wide and has a draught of 9 ft. 3 in. The contract calls for a speed of 30 knots an hour for two hours. The trial will probably take place on Thursday of this week off New London. FLEET OF LITTLE REVENUE CUTTERS A GREAT SUCCESS. Capt. Felix H. Hunicke, chief of the revenue cutter service of Cuba, who went to Elizabeth, N. J., a few weeks ago to take the fleet of revenue cutters built by Lewis Nixon to Cuba, writes Mr. Nixon as follows: As for our trip, there is so much to write that to give you any conception of our varied experiences I would have to take a day off. Suffice to say that we made it successfully, reaching Havana on Sunday, Dec. 3... We have lived through the severest gales that any small boat was ever caught in, and jumped bars and passed through surf that seemed mountains high without accident. I, who have so thoroughly tested every quality of these boats, can congratulate you far more than words can tell on the excellence of the fleet. Gen. Wood js more than pleased and so are all who have seen them. After making 2,000 miles we are ready to go to sea without one dollar of repairs."