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Best general references: Kelley, The Question of Ships: D. A. Wells, Decay of our Ocean Merchant Marine - Its cause and cure; Fossils in re, Free ships and Reform of Tariff and Civil Service; John Codman; Shipping subsidies and bounties; Cong. Rec., 1891, p. 1010; Dockery's speech, p. 1044; Fithians speech, p. 3468; Hopkin's speech: North...
...Natural growth under present conditions is ineffective. Our merchant marine has died an unnatural death from (1) Harbor duties; (2) Unwise tariffs; (3) Navigation restrictions; (4) Foreign facilities for cheap ships; David A. Wells, Reform Club Series...
Free Trade and Tariff Reform...
...Competition is injurious under the contract system of prison labor. - (a) To the convict. - (1) Exploitation not reform sought. - (2) Work conflicts with discipline. - (8) Contractor's interest is to keep skilled workmen in prison. - (b) To the free laborer; Missouri Bureau of Labor Statistics 1881, p. 228; Ohio Bureau of Labor Statistics 1879, p. 191. (1) Undue concentration of trades, - N. Jersey Report 1882, statistics of trades of convicts committee. - (2) Competition with cheap labor, - system of letting contracts gives a contractor once established a monopoly of prison labor, - Princeton Review, 1880, pp. 239, 241. - (c) To the outside...
...Competition is excessively injurious under the lease system of prison labor. - (a) To the convict. - (1) Morals, all are herded together. - (2) All pretense of reform is given up. - (b) To outside competitors. - (1) Odium of system makes labor cheap. - (2) Nature of labor concentrates it on certain occupations, e.g., mining. - Tennessee troubles. - (c) To the peace of the State. - Ibid...