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Show SECRETARY SHAW'S DREAM. The dream In which becrctary Hhaw Indulges urn) not bo much of a clieam after all after the might) progress that has hem male of lite )ears 111 words, spoken at the banquet In Washington Wash-ington to the representative of foreign lommerclul bodies who mine to New lork to attend the dedication or the New ork ( hambei of Commerce are I ma) he dreaming when 1 suggest that some time peril ip not fai off, lcerhnp neaier than we think the price cunc-nr of the world will be written In a common language and In uniform measuies of quantity nnd denominations de-nominations of money, but If so my exeuso for the vision shall he tint moie than one dream of )estcrdii) Is pajlng dividend todn) ' Hut with the advancement made lu u uniform system sys-tem of weight and measuies, we may expect the metric sjsteni to he iied throughout the commercial worll on-fore on-fore mum jears, und with the eon quest made by the rr,llsh language which I now piactlenll) the language of commerce ior tvvo-lhlrda of the trade transactions In the world, the dr am of Ihe Secretary I far on Ihe w iv in realization alretd) It is nut at ill a wild flight of fancy lu wbl h he in dulses. |