New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-27

SECRETARY SHAW AND CONGRESSMAN
LITTLEFIELD SPEAK.

Pit,sburg April u5-The sixteenth annual dinner
OF the Americas Republican Club OF this city, In
CONNIE noration OF the birthday OF General Ulysses
5. Grant was held the Hotel Henry tonight and
was one the brilliant OF the many banquets
given by this organization. p. c. Knox, Attorney
General OF United States. ofticiated as toast
master. and seated about him L. NJ. Shaw
Secretary Of the Treasury; II. C Payne. Postmas-
fer General CONGRESSMAN Charles Z. Lttlefield. of
Maine; John P. Elkin Attorney General of Penn
sylvania John l. Shaw. president Of the club;
Robert Pitcairn assistant TO the president OF the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad. and others.
Among the guests were many OF Pittsourgs fore
most business men Covers were laid for six hun
dred and. when the guests sat down. all the chairs
were occupied. The distinguished guests arrived
this morning after breakfast visited the Home
stead Steel Works and industries about Pitts
burg Upon their return luncheon served. and at
s o'clock in the evening a general reception was
held In Darlors of the hotel
The banquet scheduled FOR o'clock. but
owing 10 the large number of citizens who wished
to greet the distinguished guests at the reception
II was after o'clock before the diners were seated
Then dinner served in the new banquet hall
OF the Hotel Henry.
SHAW ON GOVERNMENT GROWTH.
Secretary Shaw first traced the development OF
the country from scattered colonies. each indie
pendent OF the other. and not infrequently antag-
onistic 10 its present commanding position as a
unified ssterhood OF States. He noted the dangers
TO all the colonies which resulted in the
Continental Congress and a Joint enterprise of re-
sstance to Great Britain followed by the Declare
ton Of Independence then articles OF confedera-
ton. and finally a constitution. He continued:
The trend of thought has been ever toward
and antaPonistic schools of political thought that
during seventy years of the national existence
struggled for supremacy. The one taught State
words Of Webster. Liberty and union, now and
forever one and inseparable" While not tustifying
the attempt the part of the eleven States TO
establish confederacy: 1t had not then been de-
bd3sw at pleasure uI was By Ho means Certain
that the Supreme Court of the United States would
Rebellion, had the question been properly brought
before it, that state might not secede Thomas
United States in the plural number, but the court
pomattox that the United States Is. not one
and nseparable.
TRANSCRIPTS STATE SOVEREIGNTY.
There is now pending in the United States Court
a suit begun by representative of the executive
department. of this, country to enjoin great cor
from 6Mnn Ron 'a and @n q the ap
stock and controlling the policy of certain trans
country. Without expressing an opinion as 70
complain not OF this action. and utted Other
ear is Note the demand for national reguation
of railways Of express companies. Of telegraph
mand for uniformity in labor laws divorce laws,
and 6 trend OK thoght Seem o be m f6 toward
stronger and more centralized government
IsTHMIAN CANAL URGED.
AS after the Civil War ;he nation entered upon
extensive policy of internal improvements, sub
sidZing long necessary transcontinental
lines of railway and perman ently continuing the
substituting of rivers and harbors after this
later war, appear be entering upon equal
~ progressive policy of external Improvement. Not
the crow flies. but ships sail, II is nearer
from Liverpool TO San Francisco by way of Cape
Horn than from New-York the port by
the same southern extremity. Start ships of
coast, one through the Suez Canal and the other
by Cape Horn, and two vessels of the speed
from New-York. one going westward and the other
eastward, and both English vessels will reach their
destination before either of Cut the fsthmian
canal and II is nearer from New-York to Hong
Kong by way OF Nicaragua than from Liverpool TO
the same port by way of the Suez.
feet kissed by ocean breezes, and these
riers OF international commerce must be built Of
American ma tertal in American yards by American
labor They to be manned by American sailors,
fired by American coal. or probably oil. and
they to float the Stars and Stripes. Whether
this Will be accomplished through government aid
by American patriotism and American capital
and American energy: cannot say. Whether this
consumma ton shall be contributed TO by states
pared with the Importance OF the thing itself.
American wealth. American energy Plus Hawaii,
which is ours, plus the Philippine Islands. which
ours; plus the isthmian canal. which will
surely construct; plus merchant marine, which
will surely build transfers the sovereignty of
the Pacific Ocean from the Union Jack the stars
ard Stripes.
LITTLEFIELD'S EULOGIUM