The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26
Secretary of Treasury Advances
 Some Novel Ideas
SUPPORTS II WITH FACTS
Shows How Trans-continental RaIL road, the Panama Canal and Other Great Problems Were Solved By
 Non-Partisan statesmanshlp.

Wayne, Neb.. October % = The Hon. Leslie Nj. Shaw, secretary of the treas- ury. spoke here tonight. He said in part:
 T wish we might solve all the great problems non-partisanly We have solved some and among them very im- portant question. Both parties joined in substituting the first trans-continentaf line of railroad and both parties contin- ued to give government aid until after years of struggle and expansion, when sufficient commerce was created to sap- port the roads. Non-partisanly we have protected our coastwise trade and given Americans monopoly of this important branch of commerce. partisanly we have prohibited any vessel built in a for eien shinyard flying flying foreign nag from engaging in coastwise trade or registry.
 -partIsanly we have planned 5o build an isthmian canal We have thus arranged to subsidize the commerce oi the world. While we retain absolute con trol-fortify, if you wish-we prefer to construct 1t at our own expense and make it accessible to the commerce Of all the world on equal terms. believing the advantage to American commerce will justify the very large expenditure of public money.
 Could Try for Commerce.
 T wish we might try non-partisanly to secure a larger proportion of the com merce of South America and the adja- cent islands. If we have exports for those countries now we must send to n, d nation. and we must send them in foreign bottoms. But if we ever get more, it viii be necessary to grant subsidy, not nec- gssarily to transatlantic steamships bus to lines of steamers extending into those countries, whose markets we so much fneed. But all the cotton states. whose | very commercial life is dependent upon foreign markets. stand ready to cast a solid vote against any provision that will give them lines of steamships going to countries where the people wear little less than cotton, and northern democrats of course vote with the soli south. I cannot understand but I live in hopes that the time will come when the brain or the south will unite with the brain of the north to legislate for our common country and make available additional markets and make possible yet grander achievements.
 To Deal With Trusts.
 'I wish we could start non-partisaniy to deal with the trusts. But here again seem to hope against hope. The great orator who has twice led the opposition in national campaigns and declared in favor of an amendment to the constitu- ton giving congress authority to deal with the trusts. But just before the question came to a vote in the house of representatives the democratic leader made a speech in which he explained that if they joined with the republicans in support of the amendment they would eliminate the trust question from politics, and he counseled against 1t; and when t- vote was taken one lone democrat voted in harmony with the advice of MT. Bryan and all the others obeyed the crack of the party whip and recorded their votes against 1t. The same party in all probability. will oppose any meas ure the majority may propose. An act requiring corporations to disclose their operations would not only reveal the cash capital employed, the wages paid, the expenses incurred and profits real ized, but it ought to reveal the character of the material consumed and the actuas relations, if any, existing between the concern and others similarly engaged Thus evidence of the most vital charac- ter would be made public, competition in- vited and unworthy goods exposed, until the trademark of reputable houses would be of inestimable value and goods of un- known origin be rendered unmercnanr- able.''