Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-18
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Prophetic Utterance of Sec
rotary Shaw.
ADDRESS AT NEW YORK
ANNUAL DINNER OF THE CHAM
Der OF COMMERCE.
President Roosevelt Sends Letter
Bishop Doane and Senator
Allison Speak.

In it's report of the 135th annual dinner of
| the New York chamber of commerce. held
| last night at Demonico's, the Tribune says:
| Leslie NJ Shaw, Secretary of the Treas
| ury, made a strong appeal for a merchant
marine, critcsing the "supine Indifference"
| which had resulted in the lack of GOLFERS
| and transports in of war. and suffi-
! Gle nt freight vessels in peace times.
The nation was suffering from lack Of
ships to widen its commercial relations
| with South American countries, he de-
| clared and he indicated fully his approval
| of the stand the United States taking
| In regard to the Panama canal
| He longed for the day when the first
! skoveIful of earth would be taken out BY
| this canal the United States would gain in
| fnitely in commercial relations, and not the
| United States alone but all nations.
| This country would protect the canal and
police it for the commerce of the world
Secretary Shaw declared that he did not
| advocate ship subsidies if any more feasible
| course could be devised, but a merchant
| marine should be obtained. by any means.
Greeted by Cheers.
Cheers and prolonged applause greeted
| the telling reference to the Panama canal
and when the Secretary declared that the
| means or other. this applause was renewed.
Equally favorable was the reception ac-
| corded to Bishop Doanes speech on Cap
| ital and Labor" in which he declared that
capital as 1t was commonly understood,
was only the result of the hardest kind of
| labor while the ability to labor was IN
| itself readily available form of capital.
| The conjunction always used in the
! phrase. he said, had only recently as
sumed its proper meaning: it had formerly
Ennr fhn tuvn VI n
stead of coordinate
| There were only two classes of men in the
| world. laborers and idlers, whether the
idlers were found in clubs or corner gro
ceries. OF the laborers, the brainworkers
were by far the harder worked class. and
| their work was for the advancement of the
race, whether in morals or manners or COM
merce.
Speeches Unusually Good
| The speeches unusually good. The
list of speakers was fully up to the usual
high standard of the chamber of commerce
Secretary Shaw, Senator Allison, Bishop
Doane. the Rev. Donald Sage Mackay. Ad-
miral Rogers and Thomas Barclay, eX-
president of the British chamber Of COM
merce in Paris.
The large dining hall at Delmonico's was
filled with tables, ranged at right angles to
the Presidents table, at which sat Leslie
NJ Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury;
ator William B. Allison. Senator Chauncey
NJ. Depew, Lieutenant General Samuel B.
NJ Young, U. S. A; Major General Henry
c. Corbin, U. S. A; Rear Admiral Fred
erck Rodgers, u. S. N; Governor Odell,
Chief Judge Alton B. Parker, Carl Schurz
and Whitelaw Reid, honorary member of
the chamber of commerce; President Nor
ris x. Jesup ex-Presidents Charles S.
Smith. Alexander E. Orr and Thomas
Barclay, Bishop Potter, Bishop Doane, the
Rev. DR.. Donald Sage Mackay, Albert Bal
lin, Charles r. Miller John Foord, William
Dodsworth ST. Clair McKelway Samuel S.
Fontane and Chauncey s. S. Miller.
President Roosevelt's Letter.
The following letter from President
Roosevelt was read:
WHITE HOUSE, October 16, 1903.
"Gentlemen:-lt is with sincere regret
that 1 find myself unable to accept your
| invitation. If 1 could leave Washington
for any such purpose it would be to at
tend your banquet But Congress meets
in special session on November 0, and it
will then be out of the question for me
to get away
The chamber of commerce of the state
of New York occupies a unique position
1t Is distinguished not only by its long
history and by the vast importance of
the business interests which it repre-
sents, but also for the high type of pub
sents. l pay you no idle compliment.
The record of the men you have chosen
as presidents; the record of the causes
With which the chamber of commerce has
from time to time been identified, and,
above all. the standard of business integ-
rity which the chamber of commerce has
consistently represented and which it has
demanded among those for whom it has
in any way stood sponsor, shows the
truth of what / say.
1T is surely unnecessary to add that no
body of men can render a greater serv-
ice, not only to the American business
world, but to the American body polite
than has thus been rendered by the
chamber of commerce. The true ideal of
this country is that hand in hand with
its material development there shall go
high and line sense of responsibility to
the public on the part of those whose
power and ability enable them to take
the lead in this material development
1T is the good fortune not only of the
state of New York, but of all our people
that we can conscientiously say of the
chamber of commerce that among its
members we have found to an unusually
high degree this combination of great
business ability with the spirit which
practices and demands integrity in pub
lie and private affairs alike
Il congratulate you upon this banouet
on the one hundred and thirty-fifth ami
versary of the chambers foundation, and
l profoundly regret my inability to be
present with you.
Sincerely yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
secretary Shaw, when introduced spoke
as follows:
Secretary Shaw's Address.
THE only unprotected American indus
try is it's merchant marine An act of Con-
gress. approved by George Washington, and
never repealed, though frequently assailed,
gives the American shipbuilder, the Ameri-
can shipwright, the American shipowner
and the American flag a monopoly in our
coastwIse trade, and we have not only the
most efficient service, but the cheapest
coastwise rates in the world.
by acts of Congress, non-part isanly
passed, transcontinental railways have been
granted liberal subsidies of moneys and
lands until we have the best railway sys-
tenn in existence, and the cheapest rates en-
jOyed by any people not excepting coun-
tries where the roads are owned by the
government
Through government encouragement and
protection our factories turn out more mar
ufactured products than any other Two
countries on the map by more than three
thousand millions per annum. BY reserv-