The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-29


Develop the possibilities Of industrial
education Of both boys and girls.
Teach the dignity of labor in your
public schools Stimulate the ambition
ana zeal of our mechanics by just such
work, as is being done by your honored
director the president of the Worcester
county Mechanics Association, in its
saturday evening lectures.
The skill, the enterprise, and the
oraIns of our workers will do more for
our city than free rents and freedom
from taxes.
Unite with this q public sentiment
that is above petty criticism and priv
ate greed, that is ever alert and enthu-
siastic for the public good, and Wor-
cestsr's place among the cities of this
great country VIII be secure.
At the close of his remarks he intro
duced John NJ. Russell, treasurer of the
Cronpton Knowles Loom Works, the
postmaster of the occasion, as a mem
Der of the board who was Just from
the Philippines. Mr. Russell was
greeted with applause and said that he
thought that the president had been
elected for his great veracity. He said
that he feared his education would
have been seriously neglected had it
not been for the recent war for he
could not have told previous to that
time the exact location of the islands
he thought that the history of boards
OF trade was contemporaneous with
the history of the world He thought
that its origin must have been in the
Garden Of Eden, at the time when Ad-
am traded one of his ribs for a woman
and took her TO board with him, thus
forming the first board of trade He
said that the board was met rs a fam
lily gathering at Thanksgiving about the
common board. 1t was an Opportunity
for the mutual interchange Of good fell
lowship and he was glad to say that
the board Of trade of Worcester stood
for something.
The original articles of organization
stated that 1t was for the purpose OF
promoting the business interests OF
Worcester and vicinity and to cultivate
more intimate acquaintance among
business men of the city. We must
not forget the benefits we have received
from the outside business world as
well. The secret of Worcesters pheno-
menal growth and success has been due
to strict adherence to the principles
of honesty and fidelity. ant
| to the rigid adherence tC
NAA' PANSCbt9 VI 4llGlL4de5 CIltLN. ne Kill
nounced that the board was non-politi
cal. non-sectarian and non partisan
and that the utmost freedom Of speech
would be allowed the gentlemen wht
We're TO be asked to speak during the
evening.
The administration of the affairs OF
a great city is a business of no NEAR
importance, and he introduced as the
first speaker of the evening His Honor
MgVnr R1Ifl1s
ceived tremendous reception. II
| opening, Mayor Dodge said that it ap,
peared from the program that he was
TO be the first course and that he was
| TO be speedily consumed. He expressed
/ his gratitude in meeting so many o
| The representative business men of the
/ city, and especially the members o.
the Board of Trade He thought tina
outside of the city government tina
! there was no body or organization tina
received more adverse criticism 70,
their deeds than the Board of Trade
for if it did not get every large bushes,
that looked this way they We're sub
jected to the most severe criticism.
+ When the first citizens Of Worceste
got together they had six objects il
view, the security from their enemies
| conVeniences for the worship of God
the better education of their children
men, and the better help to civility O
citizenship and convenience and he'll
/ in case of sickness. In the main thes
aims have been adhered to, and the
are the things that have developed tn
great city Of today.
The time has come. however, whe
we must consider seriously the ques
ton of relief from heavy taxation
which is becoming more marked yea
nv He n11ntai fip1IcpG Ghpu-i n
the growth in expenditures for publ
improvement during the years 1875
1888, and 1SSS-1S9S. During the frs
decade the increase in population wa
"a per cent, and in the other "a pc
cent In the first period the increas
in valuation was SO per cent, and in tn
second IS per cent. To better illustrat
this increase, he took the four depart
ments of the city, police, street light
ing. fire department, and schools an
showed by statistics the relatiS
growth of the expenditures with tn
increase in population He said ths
the question that naturally presente
itself after this consideration was no
long this increase in the eXpenditul
of money is to go ahead of the increas
in valuation, and the increase in popu
jlation. The people of the city deman
all OF these public advantages, an
they have TO come and have to be PAL
for out of the public moneys.
| He thought that thoughtful me
should study this question before It ha
gone too far He said that no city
Massachusetts would ever be oblige
, to go into bankruptcy, for they cou1
all of them pay their debts ten time
! over. The trend of the times anon
! manufacturers and business men wa
toward locations where the taxation
lowest. He asked the members Of IL