AMERICAN ASPIRATIONS.
A REMARKABLE SPEECH.
THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PACIFIC. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. (Received April £9, 12.15 a.m.) New York, April 28. Mr.. A. C. Shaw, Secretary to the Treasury, at a banquet at Pittsburg, in the course of a remarkable speech claimed that America aspired to police the entire western hemisphere, including , all countries and islands washed by the Pacific. America must possess the largest mercantile fleet in the world, built of American material in American shipyards by American labour, and manned by Americans. Whether this was accomplished with Government aid or by the energy of financiers was immaterial. Ultimately American energy and wealth, plus the control of Hawaii, the Philippines, the Isthmian Canal, and a vast mercantile marine, would transfer the sovereignty of the Pacific from the Union Jack to the Stars and Stripes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11952, 29 April 1902, Page 5
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