The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-05-14
SHAW ENUNC|ATES
PEACE DOCTRINE
Declares for Commerce
Without Discrimination.
TALKS TO RAILROAD MEN
Represents the President at Small
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS As
semblsge.

At d banquet rendered last night by
the permanent commission of the Inter
national Railway Congress 10 the mem
bers OF the American Railway Guild,
Hon. Leslie M Shaw. Secretary of the
Treasury. speaking as the personal rep
resentatiye OF the President OF the
United States. enunciated the doctrine OF
the worlds peace. and worlds COM
merce, without discrimination.
Seated about the banquet board in the
New Willard were about sixty-f1ve dis
tinguished railroad men from the United
States, Great Britain, Germany. and
other countries OF Europe II was the
last function of the adjourned railway
congress, and in every way possible
there was indicated a feeling OF good
will among the delegates
MIR. Shaw's speech could not have been
made at a more propitious time.
Commerce Great Civilizer.
Commerce &c q great civiliZer." said
the Secretary: "a great educator; great
conservatOr of peace. So L am exceed
ingIy glad that 1t has become my
privilege TO pronounce the Government S
benediction TO this great peace confer
ence.
LAS there is no disturber OF commerce
so great as war, SO there is no such
lover of peace as commerce. In proper
ton as a people become Interested in
financial, Industrial and commercial pur-
suits do they dread and abhor the de-
vastation incident 10 martial conflicts.
The United States stands pledged 10
the utmost of its influence to the preser-
walton of the worlds peace.
Our Commercial Policy.
ut may not be out of place in this
connection to define briefly the interna-
tional commercial policy of the United
States, What 1 shall say Ia this regard
relates to the past and the present. and
is in no sense a pledge or prediction as
TO the future. It would be out of place
in this presence either to defend this
policy or to recommend its abandon
rnent I must content myself therefore.
with Its naked announcement
1.-THE United States has heretofore
and now reserves to itself, by means of
protective tariffs, large measure of the
commerce incident to supplying the
needs and wants of its eighty million
people That which 1t yields TO others
1t yields, with few and unimportant ex-
ceptIons. to all on equal terms. and gives
70 preferences 10 any country or to any
people The few carefully guarded ex-
ceptions only emphasize the policy. and
the slight advantages granted the Re
public of Cuba but evidences man s
natural regard for his offspring, and
does not mark the Inauguration of a new
policy
The World on Equal Terms.
THE United States offers the product
o. its soil, OF lis mines, OF Its forests.
o. it's fisheries, and OF its factories, to
ali the world on equal terms 1t grants
no export bounty and imposes no ex-
port duty The Constitution of the
United States insures to all OF earth
the right 10 buy in our markets on
equal terms with ourselves. Whoever
will pay the most gets our products.
As a selling nation the United States
contributes more TO the international
commerce of the world than any other
country on the map. and more than one
eighth of the aggregate.
1.-THE United States consumes of the
product of other countries more than
two and one-half millions per day, and
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