AMERICAN BOASTING.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright New York, April 28. Mr A, C. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury, at a banquet in Pittsburg, in the course of a remarkable speech, claimed that America aspired to police the entire Western Hemisphere, all countries and islands washed by the Pacific. America must possess the largest mercantile fleet the world had built; American material, American shipyards and labor, and manned by Americans. Whether this was accomplished with Government aid or the energy of financiers was immaterial. Ultimately American energy and wealth, plus control of Hawaii, Philippines, the Isthmian Canal, and the vast' mercantile marine, would transfer the sovereignty of the Pacific from the Union Jack to the Stars and Stripes.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 402, 29 April 1902, Page 2
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