 Ever since that time the shipping of the union has increased in almost the same rapid proportion as the number of its inhabitants. The Americans themselves now transport to their own shores nine-tenths of the European produce which they consume. And they...  Life and Public Services of Grover Cleveland - Page 157by Pendleton King - 1884 - 224 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Smart - Free trade - 1906 - 324 pages
...Union has increased almost as rapidly as the number of its inhabitants. . The Americans themselves now transport to their own shores nine-tenths of the...European produce which they consume. And they also bring three-quarters of the exports of the New World to the European consumer. The ships of the United States... | |
 | New York (State). Governor - New York (State) - 1909 - 1178 pages
...bound to rule the seas as the ROmans were to conquer the world. * * * rfhe Americans themselves no^v transport to their own shores nine-tenths of the European...of English and French vessels which are to be seen in New York is comparatively small."* We turn to the actual results reached since these words were... | |
 | Guy Stevens Callender - United States - 1909 - 852 pages
...consume and they also bring three quarters of the exports of the New World to the European consumer. The ships of the United States fill the docks of Havre...Liverpool, whilst the number of English and French vessels at New York is comparatively small. 1 De Tocqueville, Democracy in America [1835], I, 544-546. Thus,... | |
 | Political science - 1915 - 636 pages
...Anglo-American has always displayed a very decided taste towards the sea. The Americans themselves now transport to their own shores nine-tenths of the...three-fourths of the exports of the new world to the European consumer. Thus not only does the American merchant face the competition of his own countrymen, but... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Germany - 1924 - 346 pages
...also the words of De Tocqueville, an acute studeat of American democracy, who wrote, in 1835: a* * * The ships of the United States fill the docks of Havre and Liverpool, whilst the number of English and French vessels at New York is comparatively small. I am... | |
 | William Smith Culbertson - Commercial policy - 1925 - 610 pages
...Noting these same characteristics of American ships and seamen, De Tocqueville wrote in 1835 : 48 . . . The ships of the United States fill the docks of Havre and Liverpool, whilst the number of English and French vessels "See Taussig, FW, State Papers and Speechet... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - History - 2003 - 868 pages
...consume. And they also bring three quarters of the exports of the New World to the European consumer. The ships of the United States fill the docks of Havre...Liverpool, whilst the number of English and French vessels at New York is comparatively small. Thus, not only does the American merchant brave competition on... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Political Science - 2003 - 758 pages
...increased in almost the same rapid proportion as the number of its inhabitants. The Americans themselves now transport to their own shores nine-tenths of the European produce which they consume.1"' And they also bring three-quarters of the exports of the New World to the European consumer.87... | |
 | Engineering - 1897 - 534 pages
...increased in almost the same rapid proportion as the number of its inhabitants. The Americans themselves now transport to their own shores nine-tenths of the...European produce which they consume. And they also bring three-quarters of the exports of the new world to the European consumer. The ships of the United States... | |
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