Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-01-18 | Page 12 | Secretary Shaw's Address

SECRETARY SHAWS ADDRESS Tile address made yesterday by Secretary Sec-retary Shaw before tho International Customs Congress composed of the representatives of American Republics Repub-lics was cordial and instructive He treated not on the general principle ol tariff or free trade but on the administration adminis-tration of the customs laws This administration ad-ministration he declared must bo liberal lib-eral toward the Importer there are many difficulties and uncertainties that make this necessary Goods that arc imported oren have no market value that IH they are made exclusively for tho export trade and are not sold In the domestic market And then In any country of Europe goods can be bought cheaper for exportation than for domestic do-mestic consumption These facts favor undervaluations In invoices and the customs olllclals arc often helpless to correct them for the lack of any true standard of comparison The Secretary was glad to sec the States of this hemisphere getting together to-gether In their common Interests and hoped to sec the time when they would be yet more closely bound together in commerce through the mediums of a common language uniform coinage and uniform standards of weights and measures VIle he did not say so the thought In his mind evidently was that English would be that language the coinage would be that of the United States and the weights and measures the metric system The people of this country will most cordially endorse Secretary Shaws aspirations in the directions di-rections indicated