Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-23
LESLIE N. SHAW
URGES SUBSIDY OF
MERCHANT MARINE
Former Cabinet Member Ex-
plains Need TO Washing
ton Association.
Especial to the Newark star.l

tAAuAlt Ilhi iit vas liz RAfhNAPo' ~
of the address of Leslie M. Shaw, for
mer secretary of the treasury, before
the Washington Association of New
Jersey at its annual meeting held in
the Lafayette rooms here. Mr.. Shaw
was most emphatic in his declarations
regarding the necessity of American
built ships, and his address made a
profound impression upon the three
hundred members and guests.
Mr.. Shaw traced the evolution of the
country from the Revolutionary War,
through the Civil War, the Spanish
American conflict down to the present
day. He showed how Congress- by SUBJ
sidy, had first built a highway to the
Ohio river, followed by the subsidy
of the Chesapeake canal and the CIV
ing of exclusive rights to American
vessels In the coastwise trade. Large
sums have been spent for the dredg-
ing of streams and harbors for the
encouragement of someone to engage in
commerce, he said, and the govern
ment is now practically substituting the
magazines in handling them at the
present postal rates through the mails.
Agriculture, too, had been subsidized
by the establishment of experiment
btdt1OnS ana u"lSlT1DuIlOI OIL SeeuS. WlIlle
the irrigation of arid lands has been
undertaken.
The country is now substituting the
commerce of the world, said Mr.. Shaw,
by building the Panama canal, all the
countries of the world being permitted
to use the canal on the same terms as
it will be used by America. He touched
upon the tariff in the assertion that
this country has taken care of pro-
ducers and has something to show for
it, quoting facts and figures illustrate
ing the bulk of manufactures of the
country.
w ave taken care of everything
but our merchant marine was the as
ssrtion of the former secretary. Gin
OR politics we are wonderfully selfish,
n the man that rises to statesman
ship at the polls is the exception rather
tran the rule, for we are always think
ing of our W interests. We can max
the Pacific Ocean an American sea IL
we have the courage. .fortitude and
merchant marine to possess it,"
The wonderful records of the marks
men of the United States navy vera
told by Mr.. Shaw, a navy which he
said cost SLAP per capita, but which
he considered worth $1.42 to him to
talk about. "As long as the world
knows we nave that kind of a navy
we need no navy" was his assertion,
but we have no transports, golfers
or merchant marine to support our
battleships."
When the fleet went around the
world, Nhe speaker said. II. was accom-
panied by sixteen Golfers carrying other
flags. and one hostile shot from the
%nleanest country in the world upon
that feet and these vessels would have
deserted the battleships and left them
without coal, their countries having no
wish to engage in an embroglio. Japan
has 800 ships on the sea and 100 more
on the ways, and Is ready to quit the
peaceful life of commerce and transport
troops. Tie asserted that Japan in
thirty days could LAND 900, 900 men in
Hawaii, while 1t would take the United
tates two years to get 100, 900 men there
to meet the invaders.
Japan declared the former cabinet
member, proposes to dominate the
Pacific or make it run red. There is
race hatred between the countries. You
go to japan to live, n you live where
you arc told to live. The Japanese come
here and van to live where they please.
You can't buy land there for any
amount of money, but the Japanese
want to buy land everywhere. Your
children can't go to school there, but
the Japanese man would go to school,
In this country with your little girls
For the first time In twenty-five years
Jonathan Roberts, the venerable presi-
dent of the association, was unable to
be present. DR.. Stephen Pierson pre-
sided and he, spoke of Mr.. Roberts's
absence n also of the death of the
first vice president of the association,
Albert II, Vernam. A message OF greet
ing from the association was dispatched
to Mr.. Roberts by the old style of
post-boy, a lad IN horseback bearing
the message in an old Continental belt.
A cablegram of congratulations to the
association was read from William ".
v. Lidgerwood, of London. Voss's or
chestra played during the gathering,
and the singing of patriotic songs was
led by Angelo /. A. Bennell. Previous
TO the meeting the Rev. Franklin 3.
Dwight said grace over an elaborate
buffet lunch served by Day.
Z Among those who attended the meet
ing were Justice Charles w. Parker,
former ice-Chancellor Henry c.. Pit
ney. Chancellor Mahlon Pitney, State
Treasurer Daniel 8. Voorhees,. John H.
Capstick. Thomas II. Hoagland, Assem-
blyman John ]. Matthews. DR.. Britton
d. Evans. Senator Edward K. Mills,
the Rev. William M. Hughes. Alfred
Mills, the Rev. Barrett p. Tyler, Judge
Alfred Elmer Mills, the Rev. Ralph
b. Urmy. George V. Muchmore, the
Rev. William Russell Bennett, Vice
Chancellor James f. Howell. John
Howe. the Rev Burt Chandler. Francis
G. Woodman, the Rev. Philemon F.
Sturges. Edward NJ. Soaring. William
II. Thompson. Ransom II. Thompson,
Willard w. Cutler, Charles d. NJ. Cole,
Samuel $. Childs. the Rev. Alexander
MacColl, Grinne,l Willis, the Rev
Thomas 3. Ironside. John McMasters.
John r. Brinley, Frank r. Woodruff,
Or. II. A. Henriques. Colonel woodruff,
Edward L. Dobbins. Frank e. Suits.
Henry C. Pitney. jr., George Sickle.
George Squier. Edward O. Keasbey,
Fuaeie S. Burke and Joseph Van
Doren. &
Among the Newarkers present we're:
Dr, Joseph c. Young. Edward SC.
Young. the Rev. Joseph F. Folsom.
William Morton, James A. Coe. Harry
KINGSLEY. Charles F. Kilbourn, John
Poylan, Charles Hooker Baldwin, Harry
Ward, BENJAMIN Williamson Keen.