. Factory and industrial management . The reader will doubtless have perceived by this time that I amlaying the foundation of an argument to the effect that ship-building,more than any other industry in this or any other country, is in-tegral to the national welfare, prestige, and even political independ-ence, and hence must always be, in the best and most patriotic sense,the/^vAVf of the government. This I maintain strenuously, and Ineed only to call attention to the manifest results of the experience ofother maritime nations to prove the truth of my premises and thesoundness of my conclusion
. Factory and industrial management . The reader will doubtless have perceived by this time that I amlaying the foundation of an argument to the effect that ship-building,more than any other industry in this or any other country, is in-tegral to the national welfare, prestige, and even political independ-ence, and hence must always be, in the best and most patriotic sense,the/^vAVf of the government. This I maintain strenuously, and Ineed only to call attention to the manifest results of the experience ofother maritime nations to prove the truth of my premises and thesoundness of my conclusions. The government pursued its policy steadily ; not indeed liberally,as compared with other great maritime powers, but still steadily andconsecutively. What was the result ? By the time the third batch of ships was authorized, it appearedthat American ship-building, with its contributory industries, whichhad groped in the dark in 1883, had by 1889 already outgrown thedemand that created it. Never in the history of ship-building any-. U. S. CRUISER BALTIMORE, 4600 TONS DISPLACEMENT. Length ft., beam , draft 2x6. Built by \Vm. Cramp & Sons, Phila., Pa. Copyright 1893. by J. S. Johnston, N. Y.
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