The sun., 1902-04-27
SHAW WTELLSOFOUR NEWEPOCH
SffRET4RI or THE TREASG RI
SPEtkS At PITTSBT re.
Our Expansion as = Result of the War Win
pain--So'ereignty OF the Pacific to
he Ours Tie Philippines The Trend
TO a strong Central Government.

TO strong Central Government.
PIrrsBURo April 2e.-Leslie NJ. Sha W,
Secretary of the Treasury. was the chief
speaker at the Grant Day dinner Of the
Americus Club here this evening.
secretary Shaw hastily and in few words
traced the development of the country
from scattered colonies, each independent
OF the other, and not infrequently antag-
ohlstlc, TO its present commanding position
as a unified ssterhood of States. He
noted the dangers common 10 all the Colo
MES, which resulted in Continental Con-
gress and a joint enterprise Of resistance
to Great Britain, followed by a Declaration
OF Independence, then Articles OF Con-
federation, and finally a Constitution.
The trend of thought" he said. -ha d
been ever toward central government.
He referred TO the contending and an
tagonistic schools Of political thought
that during seventy years of the national
existence struggled for supremacy. The
one taught State sovereignty; the other
found voice in the immortal words Of
Webster: Liberty and union, now and
forever, one and inseparable"
He did not intimate a justification Of
to establish a Confederacy, but mentioned
as he passed that it had not then been de-
termined that State did not possess the
right to Withdraw at pleasure He said it
was by no means certain that the Supreme
Court of the United States would have
unanimously held, prior TO the War of the
Rebellion, had the question been properly
brought before it, that State might not
secede. Thomas jefferson usually, il not
always, referred TO the United States in
the plural number
But" said he, the court Of last resort
rendered its eternal decree at Appomattox
that the United States is, not are. one and
inseparable
He then went on 10 show that following
this war came the period of internal i'm
provcment. The nation aided in the con-
struCtion OF railroads; the nation dredged
rivers; the nation built harbors; the nation
protected its commerce; the nation fostered
its manufactures; the nation gave it's lands
in support Of public schools and endowed
with its public domain colleges of agri.
culture and OF mechanical arts
During all this time the trend Of thought
and the trend Of events were toward n
stronger central government. and in one
generation, following the great war. we
achieved commercial independence and
became at once the greatest, the richest,
the wisest, the best housed. the best fed.
the best clothed and the most contented
people on the earth.
Then occurred events which mark a new
epoch. just across our border Spain for
a hundred years had heaped cruelties upon
weak and defenceless people Without
pleading a personal grievance the United
States 10y the unanimous vote of both
houses of Congress, voluntarily interviewed
in behalf of the oppressed.
Why did we not do this 100 years before?"
asked Secretary Shaw. The corpuscles
Of American blood we're always red. and the
Anglo-Saxons and their Teutonic kinfolk
were always humane. Our altruism had
been appealed TO again and again. but il
had been appealed TO In vain. Disguise
i, a. we will, deny II as we may. the element
Of self-nterest was factor In the equation
II 1898
We were masters Of our own markets
and were reaching out for new ones Yea
II YOU please. had touched
US and so n was that our sclf-intcrest
a. we'll a. our unSplfishness was appaalcd
We proposed to police the street on which
We lived and we challenged him who
doub,ed our right to step into the open"
The Secretary then pronounced a euogy
upon the little army Of 260 900 men. aided
by matChlcs~ navy, which IN a hundred
DAYS brought Spain suppliant for peace
He then showed that a. a result OF the war
whether wisely solved or not he would
not stop to discuss, bat az a result of the
war the United States had become the
-. De-
Philippine archipelago, and the voluntary
guardian Of Cuba
The trend Of thought and Of events
had been toward a stronger central govern
men, he went on. IF th" door ~ aiar
In the spring Of lsgs byih upanim1us
sWiug- vide on it, hinge, the nitad states |
will polC. not only the street Oh which A
lives, bui the entire N"Irrn Hrmi-phprp.
and with II all countries and all stands !
washed by th" Pacific.
give not audieuc' TO the thought with |
ont nisgiyiugs, aud ! mention Il only a. |
lh" logical sequence ui the trend Of our |
national Development
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thina, mentioning the fact that dctach- |
fn.ni pf the United States Army. and A |
limited fleet from 10" United state Navy |
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