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" The commerce of America sails in foreign u bottoms " and ob servant seafarers allege, with reason, that " the flag that once floated over the fastest ships and shielded the best sailors in the world will, in a few years, be a stranger on the ocean. " " Why, bless my heart, " cried a waggish English captain when, not long since he spoke the stars and stripes on the South Pacific course, "that must be a Yankee ship. I remem ber seeing that flag when I was a boy. The poor fellow must have drifte...d off the coast and got lost. Hadn t yer better chalk the reckoning on the head of a barrel, Mr. Buntline, and give it to him and tell him to get home as fast as he can ? " And if the character of the sailors, as a class, is low so too has that of the captains deteriorated. Mr. Jewell, formerly United States Consul at Singapore, is authority for the state ment that " not one sea captain in ten is a just and conscien tious man. He is low in origin, low in education, low in im pulse. " Spite of the protections thrown about seamen by the FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, 299 American shipping laws the tyranny of the quarter-deck is still unmitigated and absolute.
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" The commerce of America sails in foreign u bottoms " and ob servant seafarers allege, with reason, that " the flag that once floated over the fastest ships and shielded the best sailors in the world will, in a few years, be a stranger on the ocean. " " Why, bless my heart, " cried a waggish English captain when, not long since he spoke the stars and stripes on the South Pacific course, "that must be a Yankee ship. I remem ber seeing that flag when I was a boy. The poor fellow must have drifte...d off the coast and got lost. Hadn t yer better chalk the reckoning on the head of a barrel, Mr. Buntline, and give it to him and tell him to get home as fast as he can ? " And if the character of the sailors, as a class, is low so too has that of the captains deteriorated. Mr. Jewell, formerly United States Consul at Singapore, is authority for the state ment that " not one sea captain in ten is a just and conscien tious man. He is low in origin, low in education, low in im pulse. " Spite of the protections thrown about seamen by the FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, 299 American shipping laws the tyranny of the quarter-deck is still unmitigated and absolute.
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