The Question of Ships: The Navy and the Merchant Marine (Classic Reprint)

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It is an axiom that the greatest good to the great est number is secured, where trade and industrial questions are operative, when the whole population of a nation is engaged in those pursuits which pay best under the environment of the country. There is no imperative demand upon any people to possess a Carrying Trade, a Shipbuilding Industry, or a Foreign Commerce. The carrying trade is an oc cupation of men who own or control ships, and dif fers from shipbuilding as carting does from wagon building; looked at broadly, the two interests are hostile, because shipowners wish to buy new vessels at low prices, to keep the competing vessels few in number, to maintain freights at the highest figures, and to buy cheap, good Ships without regard to the nationality or locality of the builder.

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