Deutschland (New York to Naples) 7 16 44 Hamburg-America. Speed Progress of Steamships from 1856 to 1911. Atlantic Transport.. Tri-color bars, red, white and blue, with ... stars Holland-America... Two green bars, with white bar in centre, on which appears in black letters "N. A. S. M.". Hamburg-American Blue key and anchor crossed in centre of wreath on white flag.. North German Lloyd Black anchor and golden shield in centre of blue and white flag; shield having letters "H. A. P. A. G.". Date. Aug. 29, 1909 1900 Sept. 5, 1903 Jan. 28, 1904 Sept. 20, 1909 Sept. 12, 1999 Time. .Gd. 10h. 6d. 1h. 55m. .5d. 16h. 31m. 4d. 22h. 50m. .4d. 10h. 41m. Funnel marks. Red, black rings, black; express service, buff. Black, with wide red band. COASTWISE AND SOUTH AMERICAN LINES. Lamport & Holt Line-Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo, Buenos Ayres, Rosario, Barbados and Trinidad. Office-Produce Exchange Building, Bowling Green. Pier No. 9 East River, Brooklyn. Office No. 17 Battery Booth Line-Para, Manaos, Iquitos and Barbados, Place. Pier No. 5 East River, Brooklyn. The exports of the Argentine Republic increased from $29,162,000 in 1870 to $259,584,000 in 1910. Ward Line-Havana, Nassau and Vera Cruz. Office and pier at Pier No. 14 East River, Manhattan. Porto Rico Line-San Juan. Dock, Brooklyn. Office No. 11 Broadway. Pier No. 35 Atlantic Red D Line-San Juan, P. R.; La Guayra, Curacao, Maracaibo and Puerto Cabello. Office No. 82 Wall street. Pier No. 11 East River, Brooklyn. United Fruit Line-Jamaica, Colon and Colombia. Office No. 17 Battery Place. Pier No. 16 East River, Manhattan. Royal Dutch West India Mail Line-Barbados, Demerara, Paramaribo and Trinidad. Office No. 17 State street. Pier-South Brooklyn. Royal Mail Steam Packet Company-Cuba, Jamaica, Colon, Trinidad, Barbados, Bermuda and Southampton, England. Office No. 22 State street. Pier No. 42 North River. Hamburg-American (Atlas Line)-Jamaica, Port Limon, Colon, Hayti and Colombia. Office No. 45 Broadway. Pier No. 65 North River. Quebec Line-Bermuda, St. Thomas, St. Kitts and Barbados. Office No. 29 Broadway. Pier No. 47 North River. Panama Line-Cristobal and Isthmus of Panama. Office No. 21 State street. Pier No. 67 North River. Old Dominion Line-Norfolk. Office and pier at Pier No. 25 North River. Savannah Line-Savannah. Office and pier at Pier No. 35 North River. Clyde Line-Charleston and Jacksonville. Office-No. 290 Broadway. Pier No. 36 North River. Mallory Line-Galveston, Key West, Tampa and Mobile. Office-No. 290 Broadway. Pier No. 38 North River. Southern Pacific Steamship Line-Galveston and New Orleans. Office No. 366 Broadway. Piers. No. 48 to 52 North River. COMMERCIAL FAILURES IN THE U. S., 1910-'11. [Reported by The Mercantile Agency, R. G. Dun & Co.] The total length of railroads in Germany in 1909 was 36,129 miles, 34,142 miles belonging to the government. NATIONAL PARTY CONVENTIONS. PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES, 1908. WILLIAM H. TAFT, of Ohio. | JAMES S. SHERMAN, of New York. Democratic-July 7-10. | JOHN W. KERN, of Indiana. Socialist-May 14-15. BENJAMIN HANFORD, of New York. Prohibitionist-July 15-16. EUGENE V. DEBS, of Indiana. | AARON S. WATKINS, of Ohio. Populist-April 3. | SAMUEL W. WILLIAMS, of Indiana. Socialist Labor-July 5. MARTIN R. PRESTON, of Nevada. | DONALD L. MUNRO, of Virginia. Independence-July 27-29. THOMAS L. HISGEN, of Massachusetts. | JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, of Georgia. REPUBLICAN. Nine hunThe Republican National Convention was held in Chicago, June 16-19. dred and eighty delegates were admitted under the terms of the National Committee's call. Julius C. Burrows, of Michigan, was chosen temporary chairman on June 16, On June and Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, permanent chairman on June 17. 17 a report from the committee on rules was adopted, which allotted representation in the next convention to the territories and dependencies as follows: Arizona, 6 delegates; Hawaii, 6; New Mexico, 6; Alaska, 2; the District of Columbia .2; Porto Rico, 2; the Philippines, 2. A minority resolution, offered by Representative Burke, of Pennsylvania, sought to establish an entirely new basis of representation. It provided that each state should hereafter be entitled to four delegates-at-large and one additional delegate for every ten thousand Republican votes polled, or majority fraction thereof, for Republican electors at the last preceding Presidential election. It gave four delegates apiece to Arizona, Hawaii and New Mexico and two apiece to Alaska, the District of Columbia, Porto Rico and the Philippines. This minority resolution was defeated by 506 votes to 471, three delegates not voting. The platform, published in full below, was adopted without division on June 18. after a minority report, offered by Representative Cooper, of Wisconsin, had been rejected. Separate votes were taken on three planks in the minority report. That recommending the passage by Congress of a law requiring national committees to make public campaign contributions as received during a national campaign was rejected by 880 votes to 94. That favoring a physical valuation of the railroads by the Interstate Commerce Commission was rejected by 917 votes to 63. That approving the popular election of Senators was rejected by 866 votes to 114. On June 18 William H. Taft, of Ohio, was nominated for President on the first ballot. He received 702 votes, to 68 for Philander C. Knox, of Pennsylvania; 67 for Charles E. Hughes, of New York; 58 for Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois; 40 for Charles W. Fairbanks, of Indiana; 25 for Robert M. La Follette, of Wisconsin; 16 for Joseph B. Foraker, of Ohio, and 3 for Theodore Roosevelt, of New York. One delegate from South Carolina did not vote. The vote by states was: Fair La | RooseTaft. Hughes. Cannon. banks. Knox. Follette. Foraker velt. 22 States. Alabama Arkansas 18 The railroads of Germany employed in 1909 691,087 persons, or one to every 92 inhabitants of the empire. On June 19 James S. Sherman, of New York. was rominated for Vice-President, receiving 816 votes on the first ballot, to 77 for Franklin Murphy. of New Jersey: 75 for Curtis Guild, jr., of Massachusetts: 10 for George L. Sheldon. of Nebraska, and 1 for Charles W. Fairbanks, of Indiana. The Platform. The platform, adopted on June 18, was as follows: Once more the Republican party, in national convention assembled, submits its cause to the people. This great historic organization, that destroyed slavery, preserved the Unior, restored credit, expanded the national domain, established a sound financial system, developed the industries and resources of the country and gave to the nation her seat of honor in the councils of the world, now meets the new problems of government with the same courage and capacity with which it solved the old. In this the great era of American advancement the Republican party has reached Its highest service under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt. His administration is Republicanism Under Roosevelt. an epoch in American history. In no other period since national sovereignty was won under Washington, or preserved under Lincoln, has there been such mighty progress in those ideals of government which make for justice, equality and fair dealing among men. The highest aspirations of the American people have found a voice. Their most exalted servant represents the best aims and worthiest purposes of all his countrymen. American manhood has been lifted to a nobler sense of duty and obligation. Conscience and courage in public station and higher standards of right and wrong in private life have become cardinal principles of political faith: capital and labor have been brought into closer relations of confidence and interdependence, and the abuse of wealth, the tyranny of power and all the evils of privilege and favoritism have been put to scorn by the simple, manly virtues of justice and fair play. The great accomplishments of President Roosevelt have been, first and foremost. a brave and impartial enforcement of the law, the prosecution of illegal trusts and monopolies, the exposure and punishment of evildoers in the public service, the more effective regulation of the rates and service of the great transportation ines, the complete overthrow of preferences, rebates and discriminations, the arbitration of labor disputes, the amelioration of the condition of wageworkers everywhere, the conservation of the natural resources of the country, the forward step in the improvement of the Inland waterways, and always the earnest support and defence of every wholesome safeguard which has made more secure the guarantees of life, liberty and property. The immigrants into Canada in the fiscal year ending March 31, 1911, numbered 311,084, of whom 121,451 were from the United States. These are the achievements that will make for Theodore Roosevelt his place in history, but more than all else the great things he has done will be an inspiration to those who have yet greater things to do. We declare our unfaltering adherence to the policies thus inaugurated and pledge their continuance under a Republican administration of the government. Under the guidance of Republican principles the American people have become the richest nation in the world. Our wealth to-day exceeds that of England and all her colonies, and that of France and Germany combined. When the ReEquality of publican party was born the total wealth of the country was $16,000,Opportunity. 000,000. It has leaped to $110,000,000,000 in a generation, while Great Britain has gathered but $60,000,000,000 in 500 years The United States now owns one-fourth of the world's wealth and makes one-third of all modern manufactured products. In the great necessities of civilization, such as coal, the motive power of all activity; iron, the chief basis of all industry; cotton, the staple foundation of all fabrics; wheat, corn and all the agricultural products that feed mankind, America's supremacy is undisputed. And yet her great natural wealth has been scarcely touched. We have a vast domain of 3,000,000 square miles, literally bursting with latent treasure, still waiting the magic of capital and industry to be converted to the practical uses of mankind; a country rich in soil and climate, in the unharnessed energy of its rivers and in all the varied products of the field, the forest and the factory. With gratitude for God's bounty, with pride in the splendid productiveness of the past and with confidence in the plenty and prosperity of the future the Republican party declares for the principle that in the development and enjoyment of wealth so great and blessings so benign there shall be equal opportunity for all. Nothing so clearly demonstrates the sound basis upon which our commercial, industrial and agricultural interests are founded, and the necessity of promoting The Revival their continued welfare through the operation of Republican policies as the recent safe passage of the American people through a financial disturbance which, if appearing in the midst of Democratic rule or the menace of it, might have equalled the familiar Democratic panics of the past. We congratulate the people upon the renewed evidence of American supremacy, and hail with confidence the signs now manifest of a complete restoration of business prosperity in all lines of trade, commerce and manufacturing. Recent Since the election of William McKinley, in 1896, the people of this country have felt anew the wisdom of intrusting to the Republican party through decisive majorities the control and direction of national legislation. The many wise and progressive measures adopted at recent sessions of Congress have demonstrated the patriotic resolve of Republican leadership in the legislative department to keep step in the forward march toward better government. Notwithstanding the indefensible filibustering of a Democratic minority in the House of Representatives during the last session, many wholesome and progressive laws were enacted, and we especially commend the passage of the emergency currency bill; the appointment of the national monetary commission; the employers' and government liability laws; the measures for the greater efficiency of the army and navy; the widows' pension bill; the child labor law for the District of Columbia; the new statutes for the safety of railroad engineers and firemen, and many other acts conserving the public welfare. The Republican party declares unequivocally for a revision of the tariff by a special session of Congress immediately following the inauguration of the next President, and commends the steps already taken to this end Republican Pledges in the work assigned to the appropriate committees of ConFor Future Tariff. gress, which are now investigating the operation and effect of existing schedules. In all tariff legislation the true principle of protection is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as will equal the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to American industries. We favor the establishment of maximum and minimum rates to be administered by the President under limitations fixed by the law, the maximum to be available to meet discriminations by foreign countries against American goods entering their markets, and the minimum to represent the normal measure of protection at home; the aim and purpose of the Republican policy being not only to preserve, without excessive duties, that security against foreign competition to which American manufacturers, farmers and producers are entitled, but also to maintain the high standard of living of the wage earners of this country, who are the most direct beneficiaries of the protective system. Between the United States and the Philippines we believe in a free interchange of products with such limitations as to sugar and tobacco as will afford adequate protection to domestic interests. We approve the emergency measures adopted by the government during the recent financial disturbance, and especially commend the passage by Congress at the last session of the law designed to protect the country from a Currency. repetition of such stringency. The Republican party is committed to the development of a permanent currency system, responding to our greater needs, and the appointment of the national monetary commission by the pres ent Congress, which will impartially investigate all proposed methods, insures the early realization of this purpose. The present currency laws have fully justified their adoption, but an expanding commerce, a marvellous growth in wealth and population, multiplying the centres of distribution, increasing the demand for the movement of crops in the West and South and entailing periodic changes in monetary conditions, disclose the need of a more elastic and adaptable system. Such a system must meet the requirements of agriculturists, manufacturers, merchants and business men generally, must be automatic in operation, minimizing the fluctuations in interest rates, The immigrants into Canada in the fiscal year ending March 31, 1910, numbered 208,794, of whom 103,798 were from the United States. |