The Mena weekly star., 1906-09-27
GREAT POLITICAL
 SPEAKER
fios. Leslie N. Shaw Made Many Friends in Mena and Entertained Them WelI--Banquet in His
 Honor.

non. LeSl1e M. OudW, ScCfCtdi of the United States treasury, who arrived in Mena yesterday afternoon and was rendered an informal reception at the Elk parlors, and with the other mem bers of his party, Hon. George Titles, Republican candidate tor congress Gin whose interest MT. Shaw is speaking), Hon. H. l.. Remmel and Hon. Harry Myers of Little Rock aud James Brizzo- lara of Fort Smith were taken for drive oyer the city, spoke at the Davis opera house last night to splendid audience.
 Senator George Legate opened the meeting by introducing Hon. George Tiles as ''the next and first Republican congressmar from this district"
 After speaking briefly of his aspirations, and promising Mena government building if he was elected to congress. Mir. Tiles turned to the life of Secretary Shaw referring to the fact that in 1896 MT. Bryan spoke in a little town up in Iowa and in an effort to find man to reply to the disting uished Democratic orator the people called on man who had in early life been suc- cessful school teacher and was then a successful lawyer in their town. This man was Leslie M. Shaw, and his speech created a sensat ton. He was called for other towns, won a state-w reputation, was. elected governor of Iowa and during this time called upon by President Roose- welt to his present. position. MT. Shaw was then introduced and given tremendous applause as he came before the audience.
 He is man of fine presence and possessed of wonderful amount of humor. Realizing that he faced an audience of which the vast majority held contrary political views Mir. Shaw opened his remarks and started the laughter by asking if those present were there to hear politi- cal issues or out of curiosity 10 see a real live member of the Presidents cabinet.
 Becoming serious he urged up. on the people the necessity of making a study of states-crafi- the study of questions which had held the attention of Jefferson and Jackson. That if our county is to continue to progress apward we must give some stndy to states craft. In referring to the defer ence between the two great political parties MT. Shaw lead up to tse tariff question which received his attention a greater portion of the evening. He stat ed that the Democratic party promised cheap markets in which to buy and the Republicans promised high markets in which to sell. He stated that we conld not have both and pointed out the advantage of the latter con dition when prices were high and everybody busy, against the dis. advantage of the former condition under free trade as during Cleve lands administration.
 Turning his attention to the government ownership Mir. Shaw opposed 1t because of the vast army of government clerks it would create, and made the rather surprising statement that it was DO trouble to control the railroads.
 Returning again to the tariff he referred to the pearl button industry, and numerous others which had been started in this country because .ariff had been placed on foreign made buttons and stated that $l00, ,000 worth of this product had been takec out of Arkansas rivers. He quoted Lincoln as saying that "if we buy ton of steel rails abroad we get the rails and the foreigners get our money. If we buy the rails at home we get the rails and the money too"
 Bringing up the charge made by the Democratic leaders that American made products could be purchased abroad cheaper than at home Mir. Shaw admitted that this was true to some extent but