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WELLS, David A Reform Club of New York. Decay of our Ocean Mercantile Marine
Reform Club of New York, 1889,
WELLS, David A. The Decay of our Ocean Mercantile Marine : Its cause and its cure: will subsidizing ships bring back our foreign commerce, and afford markets for the surplus products of our manufacturing industries?: An address delivered before the Reform Club of New York October 18, 1889. New York: The Reform Club, 1889. Pp 48. Small 8vo, printed wraps. Reform Club Series-VI. "The decline in American ship-building, and in the American caryying trade upon the ocean, did not, as is often asserted and somewhat widely believed, commence with the war, and was not occasioned by the depredations of the Confederate cruisers. These agencies simply helped on a decadence that had previously commenced; the primary cause of which was the substitution of steam in the place of wind as an agent for ship propulsion, and of iron in the place of wood for ship construction." Front cover nearly detached, small horizontal tear to front cover, slightly rubbed, else vg. 80.00
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WELLS, David A Our Merchant Marine
Putnams, 1883,
WELLS, David A. Our Merchant Marine : How it Rose, Increased, Became Great,Declined and Decayed, with an Inquiry into the Conditions Essential to its Resuscitation and Future Prosperity. NY: Putnams, 1883. Pp 219, 1 leaf pla te. Small 8vo, printed cloth. Contents include: "The Period of Development and Prosperity"; "The Period of Decadence"; "The Causes of the Decadence ofthe American Merchant Marine"; "Our Navigation Laws, and How they Originat ed"; "The Provisions of our Navigation Laws"; "How and Why Great Britain Repealed Her Navigation Laws, and the Results of Repeal"; "The Discussion of Remedies"; "Objections to the Repeal of our Navigation Laws Stated and Considered"; "Obstacles in the Way of the Restoration of the Merchant Marine ofthe United States, other than our Navigation Laws"; "The Fundamental Cause of the Decay, and the Present Main Obstacle in the Way of the Resuscitatio n of the Merchant Marine of the United States". Rubbed with slight wear to spine ends and front corners, cloth soiled, else vg. 120.00
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