It's the price we've got to pay for not having built up a merchant marine.

And we haven't built up a merchant marine because we've had no foreign consciousness.

While our Irishmen have been leading us to twist the Lion's tail, we've been depending almost wholly on English ships--and, in late years, on German ships.

You can't cross the ocean yet in a decent American ship.

You see, we've declared our independence; and, so far as individual development goes, we've worked it out.