These are the people who suffer in cases of snagging and collision, &c.

These hardy sons of toil, migrating with their families, are all but penniless, and therefore, despite all vaunt of equality, they are friendless.

Had every deck-passenger that has perished in the agony of a crushing and drowning death been a Member of Senate or Congress, the Government would have interfered long ere this; but these miserable wretches perish in their agony, and there is no one to re-echo that cry in the halls of Congress.

They are chiefly poor emigrants, and plenty more will come to fill their places.
If the Government took any such steps as those above recommended, the fear of losing insurance by neglecting them would tend greatly to make them respected.

Companies would insure at a lower rate, and all parties would be gainers in the long run; for, if the Government obtained no pecuniary profit, it would gain in national character by the removal of a reproach such as no other commercial country at the present day labours under.
There is, moreover, a moral point of view to be taken of this question--viz., "the recklessness of human life engendered by things as they are." The anecdotes which one hears are of themselves sufficient to leave little doubt on this point.