The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-16

people have dreamed of an isthmian
 canal By universal political consent
 and approval we have now paid $50,- OOO,0O0 for the privilege of digging such
 canal. We propose to pay the fur
 ther sum of $200.00O,000, or. whatever other sum may be necessary, in the
 construction of the canal, other mil
 lions in its maintenance, and no end
 of millions, if need be, in its defense;
 and we are under contract to grant the
 use of this interoceanic waterway,
 when completeds to all peoples upon
 the same terms as our own. It is now
 about the same distance from Liver
 pool to San Francisco via the south
 ern extremity, and tits about the same
 distance from the principal ports of
 Europe to San Francisco via the sSuez
 canal as from New York to San Fran
 cisco via the Straits of Magellan. When
 the Isthmian canal shall have been
 completed 1t will be about as near from
 New York to Hong Kong via Pana as
 from Liverpool to Hong Kong via Suez.
 The Isthmian canal will transfer the
 line of equal distance from the east
 ern to the western shore of the Pa
 cific, and will throw upon the United States additional, responsibility in the
 commercial and political affairs of the countries washed by the Pacific. .
 l have said that the United States has encouraged every industry except shipping. Forty. years ago we had only one-fourth as many tons of inter- national freight to carry as we have now, but we actually carried in Amer jean ships, three {ltimeff as many tons forty years ago as we carry now. p The American merchant marine Is a thing of the past, but, let is hope also, a thing of the future. 8Itt4s not my prov ince to discuss means. SbuM I am con- Vineed that in some way, and that quite speedily, provision will be made for the restoration of this important arm of colnlheree.e we occupy the most important position or,. the map Our farms produce more tlfat the farms of any other country; our mines yield gold literally by the carload and silver .by the train load and our coastwise ships unload upon the shores %of a single state more iron ore than any otller country produces. We cut from our forests a hundred million feet'of ilim- Der for every day in the calendar year, and our factories produce more than all the shops and all the factories of Great Britain and Germany combined by more than three hundred millions. The international commerce of the world aggreates ten billion dollars, one-sev-' enth of which originates with us and one-ninth finds It's way to our shores for ultimate consumption. But while the eighty commercial countries of the world are selling to each other ten bil- lion dollars, we sell to each other two and one-haf times that inconceivable sum. We put this riatchless product upon our railroads and transport it to the sea at one-third what the same service costs elsewhere. We then load it into better and faster and more con- venient cOastwise ships than can be found in other, seas, and carry 1t from port to port at better rates than any These facilities, plus the Hawaiian is- lands, which are ours, plus the Philip pine islarrds, which are ours; plus the lSthiuidh cdilal, WEIGH we are pledged to complete; plus merchant marine. which it is our bounded duty to provide, will give to- American enterprise it's share of the carving trade of the world, and our matchless products will be taken across all seas. under all skies, and into all ports and the United States will become the actual as she is the natural mistress of the largest of all seas and her benign Influence for peace and Christian civil lzation will be extended to the remotest bounds of earth.
 Secretary Shaw was the guest at din- ner at the New Haven house before the address. After the address he was en. tertained at the Union league.