Rocky Ford enterprise., 1902-05-02
TO GENERALIZATION
EVOLUTION OF GOVERNMENT.
Speech Of Secretary Shaw at the Pitts.
burg Banquet in commemorstion
Of General Grants Birthday.

Piitsburs. April :s.-Th. siNi.enth
annual dinner of III. American lt-pnb-
iiean club of this city. in eOInIn-InoTa-
li0n 0f Iii- birthday II 'isn-Tal Ulysses
\. Grant. Nas held last night. AMI b-'
eans- of the many bright oFatorisal
STARS pr-s-ni. WAS 0nr az th- most
brilliant 0f the many isinln.t- given
by this well known organization. re,
Knox, attorney general, oiiiriairi hs
iSastnnsi-t ani among th"s- seated
about him wen. L. ~. shaw. secretary
Of the treasury; II. q, Payne. losinlhs,
ter general: Congressman i.itti"iisid of
Maine nBd John T.. Eikin. attorney
general OF i'-nnsy syiyanis.
Mr. KBos. after thanking ih- mem
b-r. OF the club ani their guests for
their cordial pc-ption. said lie was the
bar-r Of message from President
Roosevelt r-sr-ttins his Inability to L.,
prv-srGt. AZ the t0astninsi-r's stiss'-s-
tion q standing toast was drunk Z" tile
h-nith Of the President ot the United
States. which was followed hy silent
toas, to the .r-at general Ia coinin-iii-
moratian Of whose birth the c,i.hra.
ton was held.
Congressman I.i,ii-h-id responded To
th- toast. ''srunt."
Mr. Iliii-ii-ii's -uiosy was received
with Fapt attention. nnd nj l's conciu.
sion Mr.. Knox Introduced l.. ~. shaw,
secretary Of the treasury. who's. r.
~psns- to the toast. THE Government
Evolution" was greeted with applause.
Secretary Shaw traced the develop
m.nt Of the country from colonial days
down to the present time. io shaw. ~
he said. that ''th- trend OF thought has
been ever toward central soNc'n'
ul.'nt" lie continued:
There !. now Ts'niins In the United
States Supreme Court n suit begun 10y
representative Of the executive de-
pnrtmcnt Of this country To cnJoin n
great corporation. organized under the
laws Of n certain state. from owning.
holding and votin. the capital stock
and controlling the policy of certain
transportation companies In distant
portion OF the country. Without cS-
pressing an opinion ns To probable rc-
suits. II is Interesting To note that the
most pronounced disciples OF state SOW
crrIsniy complain not of this action.
nnd utter no other criticism than that
II should have been commenced ear
iicr.
Note the demand for national rccu-
iation OF railways. Of cSpr,-s compn-
nics. OF telegraph companies. OF insur-
nncr and OF trusts. Note the demand
for uniformity In labor laws. divorce
laws. interest and taxation laws. Thc
trend OF events AMI the trend OF
| thought seems to lie siill toward n
greater and more centralized govern.
| mcnt.
AS after the Civil war the nation
entered upon an extensive policy OF In
crnntionnl improvements, subsidizing
NJ long ms necessary transconilncptal
lines OF railways and permanently con
tinuing the subsidizing OF rivers nnd
harbors, SO after this later war we ap-
pear to bc entering upon an equally
progressive policy OF external Improve
mcnt. Not as the crow flies. but rs
ships sail. II IL nearer from Liverpool
10 San Francisco via Cape Horn than
from New York to the same port via
the same southern extremity. Start
two ships OF equal speed from Liver
pool going to our Pacific coast. onc
through the Sucz canal and the other
by Cape Horn. and two vessels OF the
same speed from New York. one going
westward and the other eastward, and
both English vessels will reach their
destination before either OF ours. Cut
the Isthmian canal. and 1t Is nearer
from New York to Hong Kong via Mic
aragua than from Liverpool to the
same point via the Sucz.
"Gentlemen. we must have the
largest merchant fleet ever kissed by
ocean breczcs. and these carriers of in
tcrnational commerce must he built by
American material. in American yards.
by American labor. They are to be
manned by American sailors, fired by
American coal, or more probably oil.
and they are TO float the Stars Hnu
Stripes. Whether this will be accom-
plishcd through direct aid. or by ell
crgy. cannot say. Whether this con-
summation will be contributed to by
statesmen or achieved by innnclers Is
immaterial compared with the import-
ancc of the thing itself.
"American wealth. American energy,
plus Hawaii. which Is ours, plus the
Philippine Islands. which are ours.
plus the Isthmian canal, which we Will
surely construct. plus n merchant ma
rinc, which we will surely build, VIII
transfer the sovereignty of the Pacific
ocean from the Union Jack to the Stars
and Stripes