Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-12
SHAW ON ROOSEVELT
SECRETARY OF TREASURES AD-,
DRESS AT NEW YORK.
Says President Meets Grave RESPONSE.
bilities Of Office Fearlessly
and Wisely.

Secretary Of the Treasury Shaw responded
| to the toast THE President" at the thirty
first annual dinner of the Silk Association
Of America at Delmonico's, New York, last
| night
He dealt with the responsibilities of the
chief executive Of the nation, his power and
the dependence of the nations free nstitu-
tons on the President.
Besides Secretary Shaw the guests Of
honor included Governor Chamberlain Of
Connecticut. the Persian minister to the
United States Gen. Isaac Khan: the Italian
consul. Giovanni Branchi: the Chinese con-
sui. Using Chang Kwong, and Surveyor
C1arkson.
There were nearly 500 members of the
Silk Association and guests present Other
toasts responded to were: Our Country"
the Rev. Frank Landon Humphreys of Nor
ristown. N. j.; THE Component States Of
the union," Governor Chamberlain Of Con-
necticut; THE Industrial Development Of
Our Sister Southern States" D. A Temp.
kins Of Charlotte, N. c., and THE Future
Of the City of New York in the Trade and
Commerce of the World" Park Commits
sioner Young of Brooklyn. Ambassador
Mayor des Planches Of Italy, who to
have responded to the toast Our Friends,
the Representatives of Foreign Nations"
was unable to attend the dinner.
Secretary Shaw was received with hearty
and long-contfnued cheering. He said, in
part:
Secretary Shaw's Address.
1.-THE President, while properly a most
potent influence in the realm Of legislation,
is the executive. No sovereign has greater
authority, and few as extensive. No SOW
ereign has greater responsibilities, and
few equal. Think what the President has
done in the last six years I speak Of the
Office and not Of the incumbent.
1.-The President called into exist
ence, differed 1t, clothed 1t, armed 1t,
equipped IT.; collected a navy; then, as CON-
mander-in chief of both, successfully prose-
cuted a war with results perhaps as impor-
tant and far-reaching as any ever waged
on the globe. Then the President, through
his Secretary Of War, took possession of
Cuba, pacified It's people, stood guard and
protected from outside Interference and
from internal contention, while a govern
ment, authorized by Congress, was created,
a constitution adopted an insular congress
elected. and then the President, through his
Secretary of War, said: Are you ready?
And as the answer came Aye, aye, SIR the
President replied. Hoist away and new
flag, fresh from the womb Of liberty, sprung
forth.
1.-The President, through his Secretary of
War, took control of the Philippine archi-
pelago, and with such consummate wisdom
and patience have the affairs of those is
both weep and petition at the report that
the present representative Of the President
is likely to return to the states"
In closing Mr.. Shaw said:
Lauds Roosevelt.
"Do you charge me with having said
nothing Of the present incumbent Of that
office, which we Americans believe to be
the highest ever filled by man? Then I
answer All that 1 have said tallies with
the conception, the aspirations and the
earnest endeavor of him who with unselfsh
devotion is giving eighteen hours a day as
the chief servant of eighty million people.
IT have only sought to exalt somewhat
our ideals, and then to add that the require
mems Of the times, the demands of the
hour, the responsibilities of the present, are
being as fearlessly, as conscientiously and
as wisely met by Theodore Roosevelt, the
President, as have similar requirements,
demands and responsibilities Of other times
been fulfilled by any Of that galaxy of great
men who have preceded him and by aid Of
whose wisdom, counsel and devotion we
have inspired, evolved and grown to what
we are"