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Maintain the Flag on the Pacific
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There Are Today Only
5 AMERICAN
SHIPS
Regularly in the Trans-
pacific Trade
The American Steamers
“Mongolia,” “Korea,”
"Manchuria,” ”Siberia,
and "China
Operated by the
Pacific Mail
Steamship Co.
On the
Sunshine Belt to the
Orient
These Steamers Receive
Not One Dollar Subsidy
or Other
Government Aid
This is the competition
they are compelled
to meet :
Toyo Kisen Kaisha
(S. S. Co.)
Subsidized by Japanese
Government $1,340,000
Gold Per Year
Osaka Shosen Kaisha
(S. S. Co.)
Subsidized by Japanese
Government $605,000
. Gold Per Year
Nippon Yusen Kaisha
(S. S. Co.)
Subsidized by Japanese
Government $238,000
Gold Per Year
Canadian Pacific
Subsidized by British and
Canadian Governments
$218,000 Gold Per Year
Cans. S. British ents
Keep the Flag Flying But a few years ago and it blazed
through the smoke above the guns of
our cruisers as they scorched the spirit of the Monroe doctrine into the heart of the
Pacific seas and we planted in the Philippines a gage of battle that yet may be the issue
of a world-wide war, in which the Ruling Race shall be swept from history or rise to
its final supremacy.
Watch the Flag Flying Today that Flaş, flying from the
masthead of five of our free merchant-
men, is flaring its challenge to the subsidized ships of another power and beating them
in the fight for trade and empire because the men who walk the quarterdecks of those
big steam galleons of ours are better men, in the large, elemental way, than the suave
masters of the rival boats.
From Frisco to the chattering bay at
Oahu, from Oahu to Manila harbor,
from Manila to the tossing Yokohama waters; all through the China seas and back
home again, our Flag, the flag of the widest liberty the world has ever known, goes
as the safeguard and the high emblem of the five steam-powered merchantmen of our
people which our people have builded and floated and sent into the business of deep
waters that our pride should not suffer nor our honor pale.
Sing for the Flag Flying And when you think of that
gallant fleet of five steamed-gal-
leons, with their commodore on the wave-defying Siberia and the Korea following
after like a stately lady, think well, also, of these men of your own country who have
gone upon this venture, for they have made a path across the waters--and their captains
know it well-that one day we may have to follow with our troopships and our dread-
noughts, and in that day we will be proud and I
thankful for the men who blazed the trail.
- Reprinted by permission of The Denver Post.
Back:
6S POSTAGE
POSTE CÁRDERE
am
FLAG O' MINE !
(The Flag on the Pacific Mail Steamers)
By Doc Waddell, Columbus, Ohio, U. S. A.
!f I were starving on Unknown Precipice,
I know what there would bring Sweet Bliss,
FLAG O' MINE! FLAG O' MINE!
If I were shut in Deepest, Unused Mine,
I know what there would make the Dark Sublime,
FLAG O' MINE! FLAG O' MINE !
If I were wrecked on Mad, Death-dealing Sea,
I know what there would cheer and Comfort Me,
FLAG O' MINE! FLAG O' MINE !
If I were shot and dying in Battle Trench,
I know what there would fire my Every Sense,
FLAG O' MINE! FLAG O' MINE !
And so in boundless, widening walks,
From Lowest Depths to Highest Rocks,
And at the End of Life and All,
Next to Almighty God and Home,
To Blessed Christ and Mother Dear,
FLAG O' MINE!
FLAG O' MINE I
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