Excerpt from The New England Tobacco Grower, Vol. 4: September, 1903 Resolved, That the larger part of American commerce ought rightfully to be carried by American ships. The American people must have prosperous shipyards and a great merchant fleet, asa bulwark of their trade and the indispensable reserve of their fighting navy. Ship building and navigation, bringing a fair gain to capital and labor, are. As vital to the nation's de tense as armor-clads and guns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.