MODERN IMPROVEMENTS

...The modern Buccaneer—the Captain Kidd of Industry—sits in the cabin of his Dreadnaught and telephones his orders to his crew...

...But worst of all, the navy of the people, the courts and judges, seem powerless to cope with these freebooters, for after years of battle, they have hardly made a hole in their rascally submerged defences, and it now appears that Congress will practically do nothing to reduce the thickness and efficiency of their tariff armor plating...

...he commands an Ironclad whose top, sides, freeboard and bulwarks are covered with a tariff armor plate and special privileges impervious to all our legal shot and shell, and out of sight, between the water line, with rebates, drawbacks and gentlemen agreements and other iniquities...

...But now all this is changed...

...In this monstrous craft he rides the raging main of commerce and levies tribute on ninety millions of people, raking in more plunder and making more men walk the plank to the depths below in one year than the old Captain Kidd did in his whole infamous lifetime, and now some of these monsters want the whole ocean to themselves and if a rival shows himself they start at once to run him down and sink him or make him join their fleet and divvy plunder with them...

...Modern Improvements By WILLIAM S. BUFFHAM THERE is nothing in the improvements of modern times which shows greater advance over the methods of two hundred years ago than the craft equipments and methods of the present day Buccaneer, He does not sail a slow old Brigantine with ita armament of six to twelve pounds, its ports covered.with a piece of old sail cloth, and tackle his prey on the open sea, standing on his quarter deck exposed to the shot and shell of his antagonist who has something of an equal chance to either fight or run...