The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-14
YOUNG AND SHAWL SPEAK
 Z- Banquet < Honor of Fey$?,n Visitors. Fop R SPEAKS ON ARMY ReSents Criticisms of Troops
 in Philippines. Says Much of the Comment on the Conduct, of the Soldiers Has Des-
 cended to Absolute
 villifcation.
FOB $R SPEAKS ON ARMY

Washington, Nov. 13.-A banquet was given at the Arlington Hotel tonight in eign commercial bodies who came to America to attend the dedication of the
 New York Chamber of Commerce. In
 addition to the foreigners. there were
 present Secretary Shaw and Postmaster General Payne of President Roosevelts s Cabinet, Admiral Dewey. Generals Cor bin, Young and Wood. members of the diplomatic corps and local business men. A. Barton Hepburn, the chairman of the Committee on Reception of the New York Chamher of Commerce, sat at the head of the table with Ambassador Cambon or
 France on his right and Ambassador Her. bert of Great Britain on his left while to rish. and left of the Ambassadors were seated respectively the Prince of Pless and Count Quadt of the German embas- sy. Mr. Hepburn introduced the speakers, among whom were Secretary Shaw and
 Major General Young.
 MT. Shaw spoke in part as follows: MT. Shaw Speaks.
 "Speaking for that Department which is supposed more than any other to rep resent the business interests of the nation take great and peculiar pleasure in | bidding welcome to the capital of the greatest American republic. representa- | lives of so many of the leading commer- cial nations of the world. Such gath ering as this would have been impossible
 century ago.
 | Tn the creation of sentiment render | ing this event both natural and agree
 able and in the evolution of conditions
 making international banquets possible, commerce has played most important l part. s.-
 'The spread of intelligence and the | prudence of commerce." he added, were
 making for international peace" and
 continuing, he said:
 l The consent of rulers to engage in wars involving the expenditure of well nigh limitless blood and treasure has not | always been difficult to obtain. Statesmen | have not always trembled as they have | declared war and made appropriations | for its maintenance. But commerce trem- | bles. It counts the cost. Commerce is | not wanting in ambition but it Is never | ambitious to sQuander the accumulations | of centuries in rebuking the injury of a | day. And 80 gentlemen, l felicitate you | all and thank God that the day has come when nations shall no longer war without cause, when great navies are no longer | looked upon as threatening the peace of | the world, and when armaments and for- l tifcations have lost much of their ter. TOT.
 Consumptive Power Increased. "The people represented by our hosts | this evening were admittedly never as prosperous as now. And naturally their consumptive capacity has increased with
 their ability to supply not only their needs but also their desires And so 1t
 is that the United States was a larger | consumer of foreign products during the ! l2st fiscal year than ever EI its history. | The universal recognition of the great | truth that the good fortune of any | one class of individuals evor rebounds to | the advantage of all and the prosperity | of the people of any one country ever | benefits all nations would be of inestim- abls advantage to the world. But if this ! principle shall be universally recognized
 commerce must be the schoolmaster, and
 chambers. )f commerce kindergartens of | instruction.
 | q have met within the last few days | distinguished repres entativs3 of foreign | chambers and listened to eloquent speech
 es from theic lips in the current language | of this country. In some instances this was not their mother tongue, but they | found it to their commercial advantage
 to educate themselves therein. do not | know that the miracle of Babel wall ever
 be reverse&, but if it shall be. the con-
 venience of commerce. and not the fea : | of floods will be the occasion.
 The Metric System.
 "I do not know that the world will ever | adopt uniform standards of weight and
 measure, but am convinced that such a
 course would be to the advantage of
 commerce and if this shall ever be ac-
 complshed. the metric system for which
 we acknowledge indebtedness to nations | represented here tonight will of necessity l afford the solution. It is evident that all values will soon be measured in gold. In | fact this is already done interna ationally | and governments that provide anything | else than the gold standard for local use | impose a tax upon every international
 transaction sufficient to bar their people | from\ competition in the worlds com
 merce. I do not know that the world will ever adopt universal denominations
 of money. but If it shall I am satisfied | the unit of value will be divided into | tenths and hundredths and thie would be | for the convenience of commerce. l may | be dreaming when 1 suggest that some
 time. perhaps far off. and possibly
 nearer than we think. the prices current
 of the world will be written in a com
 mon language and in uniform measures
 of quantity and denominations of money.
 but if so my excuse then for the vision
 shall be that more than one dream of | yesterday is paying dividends today.
 The Commercial Struggle.
 The commercial struggle in the years
 that shall follow must not be for com
 mercial supremacy. s lpremacy must not l be sought for supremacys sake. A sent
 lment more worthy of world peoples q
 prefer this term to world powers) would
 be the recognition of the debtorship to
 the world. A friend of mine found him.
 self without the means to pay his car
 fare and a stranger came to his relief.
 When thanked for his courtesy he re-
 piled: Pass it on: some time you will
 And another similarly in need Paul ] said: I am debtor both to the Greek and
 to the Barbarian He had received from