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24 DEVOTED TO EVERYTHING AND EVERY INTEREST CONNECTED OR_ ASSO- CIATED WITH MARINE MATTERS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. Published monthly by The Penton Publishing Co CLEVELAND. BUBPALO: 6s occtsveuenss 932 Ellicott Square. CHICAGO, .4s5 50. ca ss 1328 Monadnock Blk. CINCINNATI..... First National Bank Bldg. NEW: YORK) 0. feces 1005 West Street Bldg. PITTSBURG re 5.5 cise seni 510 Park Bldg. ACL DL hase is he co we 302 Pioneer Bldg. Correspondence on Marine Engineering, Ship Building and Shipping Subjects Solicited. and Mexico, $1.00 per annum. Canada, $1.50. Foreign, $2.00. | Single: copies, U. S. and Mexico, 10 cents. Elsewhere, 15 cents. Back numbers over three months, 25 cents. Subscription, U. S. Change of advertising copy must reach this office on or before the first of each month. The Cleveland News Co. will supply the trade with the Marine Review through the regular channels of the American News Co. European Agents, The International News Company, Breams Building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C., England. Entered at the Post Office at Cleveland, Ohio, "ag Second Class Matter. _January, 1910 NOT A SUBSIDY. The application of the word sub- sidy to the Ocean Mail Bill creates a false impression. It is in no sense of the word a subsidy, but is direct pay- ment for definite service. It is simply payment for the carriage of the mails. The expression subsidy could just as well be applied to an expressman who is employed to carry one's trunk to the depot as it could be to vessels which are employed to carry our mails abroad. Both are engaged in trans- portation and both are entitled to compensation. It is a business trans- To call it subsidy is erroneous, because subsidy in the pub- action purely. lic mind is associated with. gratuity. TAE Marine REVIEW Many persons hearing the shipping » measure called a subsidy associate it with a general raid upon the public and without treasury condemn it further consideration. It would be well to eliminate the word subsidy altogether and to use only words which directly convey the meaning of the bill. The Ocean Mail Bill is not a sub- sidy. The original Hanna-Payne bill was a direct subsidy measure, but the Ocean Mail Bill is a different proposi- There can be no sound objection to it. Whatever ob- jections have been advanced have been either academic or through a misun- derstanding of Funda- mentally the measure merits the sup- of Let the people once understand its real purpose and tion altogether. its' nature. port everyone. they will move asa phalanx to de- mand its passage. Its blessings are not only pro- but stimulate national pride by strength- It will manifold, for it will mote industry and commerce, ening our common defenses. benefit not a class but the whole people, not a section but the. whole country. The measure is intended to further our mail facilities to points not now reached by American ves- "sels, namely South America, the Phil- ippines, Japan, China and Australasia. Vessels of the first class are not re- this but rather vessels that combine moderate speed quired for service, with good carrying capacity. The country has been to assist its ship- The nation practice of every © maritime ping through legislation. that has been most consistent in this Great the fesults ate to be seen in every har- bor of the world. It has achieved this end by liberal compensation for practice is Britain and 'carrying the mails and admiralty sub- She carrying trade and has firmly estab- all This was done ventions. now does the world's lished 'business connections in quarters of the globe. by steady, *constant and never-ending protection to her shipping. Whatever may be said to the contrary, she has never for a minute permitted that lao le business proposition with her simply protection to has. been a --definite payment for definite service. January, 1910 AN AFTERWORD. The articles on the Naval Waste which have appeared in THE MARINE REVIEW during the past five months have attract- ed more widespread interest and dis¢ cussion than any series that the Review has ever published. They have been the topic of conversation in every ship yard, in every navy yard and in every circle throughout the United States where men congregate who understood the justice and force of the indictment. The ar- ticles were written with great directness and intelligence and with an assurance that was- final and supreme because it was founded on fact. They were dis- tinguished by a total absence of general statements. lay the author's great bulwark; his weapons were facts, a vast storehouse of them, incon- trovertible, specific, precise, largely dug out of the department's own reports, nothing Herein, indeed, nothing taken for granted, presented on mere hearsay or rumor; but just simple, unbiased interpreta- tion of existing conditions as revealed in the department's own records and by close first hand observation, and by . that constitut- ing the most severe and pointed ar- raignment of the naval administration very circumstance that has ever been drawn. The charges cannot be denied; not only that, but of the available evidence but a modicum 'has been adduced; it 'is not possible within the limitations of space to make the case complete ff all fie. tacts could be un- covered. eVen) There has been much speculation as to the identity of the author. Well, he is not of the corps of engineers, nor yet of the navy department but his equal of either and his practical ex- than -both... Costs have not been to him inconsequential trifles; he has had to make his busi- had to distribute stockholders. technical training has been the perience greater ness pay; he has dividends among his His passport is of undoubted authen- ticity: He has The wells he has tapped have been available for in fact all that he has done has been to pass the bureau reports the right to speak. of information which years. through a kind of mental prism, to hold them up to the lime light, and ¥ See