The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-04-30
CHANCE FOR AMERICA
TO DOMINATE
Declares Leslie M. Shaw, Former Secre-
tary of the Treasury, in Address
Before Commercial Club
of Omaha.

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Omaha. Neb., April 3O.-With interna
tional commerce suddenly thrown wide
open, the opportunity is at hand for
America to dominate it, said Leslie NJ.
Shaw, former secretary of the treasury,
| in an address before the Commercial club
of Omaha here to-day, during which he
urged encouragement of business.
Mr.. Shaw introduced his address with
an interesting glance backward to the
construction era which followed the Civil
war. The people of the United States
then possessed matchless resources I'M
developed and matchless resourcefulness
undetermined with governmental pol
icy of encouragement of business. The
motto of that policy he believed could be
expressed as this: IF any man SAYS
he can do something, tell him to be quick
about it and the government will CO.
operate" IL had been applied when Gen.
Dodge proposed to build railroad to
the Pacific ocean, again when the silk
industry was founded in this country. as
two instances which he pointed out
"What have we to show for these 40
years of encouragement to business" he
asked, and answered:
Our farms produce more than the
farms of any othee country on the map;
our mines yield gold annually by the
trainload; silver more abundant still
and there is unloaded from railroads |
and cosstwise ships on the shores of |
Ohio alone more iron ore than any other |
in the world produces. We cut |
from our forests l00,0oo.o00 feet of mm-
Der every day of the calendar year; our
domestic commerce is two and a half
times the combined international COM
merce of all nations; while our shops
and factories turn out more finished
products than all the ships and fac
tories OF Great Britain and Germany
and France combined plus 5.0000O0 every
IL months. and We pay out as much in
wages as all the rest of the world.
But capital. successful beyond its
dreams even, became arrogant, self-as-
,ertive. domineering and monopolistic II
,ecame necessary therefore to resort 10
discipline and some OF the big boys were
punished in the presence of the infant
lass This caused all the little fellows
o clap their hands in glee until grad
Ially il has become a pastime 20 get aft
II the fellow higher up" u
'The people Of the United States have q
hown a wonderful aptitude and attained \
,reat proficiency in two distinct fields ,
~ seball and business. During the pros. {
'erous periods of these two great ma
ionai games the rules of the games re- ,
pectivcly were made bv experts in the 4
amos. Admittedly business has suffered \
ecsuse Of modern policies. and baseball r
III suffer equally should the same pol
" b. pursued and should the commit !,
ee 10 prescribe the rules Of baseball =
? selected under direct primary sys-
nm. from among those who never play
he game and seldom see IL played. upon
platform pledging that strenuous play.
lg must cease and that the score AZ the
nd OF the game must BE- equal regard.
Sc Of errors.
Again the people Of the United
tates occupy unique position. In.
commerce = suddenly thrown
ide open and the most Serile people .,
they act wisely. viii hereafter domi.
lte il. VI is for ms TO determine and
determine soon whether We viii ADOPT
,lcies and grant encoursgements sum
cnt TO enable capital and enterprise
take and maintain an international
'sitfpn a. far in advance OF ANYTHING
retofore cnioycd by any government or
" people a. or national growth. de- Z,
lopments and com merce transcends =
ything in history. The opportunity i
r.. II We continue the policy Of chsrg Il
z every man who proposes 20 DO some J.
inc with beinc = consrirator and every 4
~ who has donr ANYTHING with bring
thief. NC have probably reached our
,nimum. n. on the contrary. ~ as
me- that csritai has learned the ned (.
lesson and without spolscizinu for l
iat has been done. ~ lsr the rod 4
~ the do0r 4 NAV ~ vel % Dot R'
} handle stick ont far euaurh 80 that tf
can b. seen and hereafter make no -
rrencs 20 rast unpleasa ~ uesses. TIRE -
Iure ~ this rnafrhless rsoepie j. b. -,
"a the dream 81 thr most optimis -
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