The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-04-12
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that there will be granted to them that
full measure of protection and Of right
thaat is to be naturally and properly
expected from a great nation whose
Foundation stone stands for liberty and
for Justice
TO no part of our people is the wise
determination and settlement OF these
questions of more Importance than to-
that part that represents trade and
commerce. Not that all the people Of
the country are not also interested, be-
cause that which results in an injury or
benefit to trade or commerce, affects
also, to greater or lesser degree, as the
case may be, every industry that goes
to make up the material prosperity of
the country.
A wise, broad liberal, statesmanlike
policy cannot help but inure to the great
good of our commercial interests, while
n policy drawn solely upon eXpediency
rather than the common welfare, must
result in a condition of affairs that will
lose for us these great benefits as well
. as make go for naught all the treasure
that was spent and all the blood that
was spilled in freeing Cuba and in MAX
ing the PHILIPPINES and Puerto Rico
ours. In the settlement of these great
questions politics should fbe allowed to
play no part. Craftsmanship and only
that which is best for the general well
fare, should actuate and govern our law
making and governing bodies.
This chamber is already on record in
THE matter of Puerto Rico. We have
vet to find the explanation that will
cause us to change our views as thus
expressed. Nothing has occurred, so far
as have been able to see, that has
changed the situation from what it was
when President Mckinley wrote to con-
gress his message about "our plain
duty" to the people of Puerto Rico and
s'give her products free access to our
markets. surely it is none the less our
plain duty now. A moral obligation
cannot be abrogated by an act of con-
gress, nor can it be compromised. Hon
esty Is as essential in the affairs of ma
tions as it is in the affairs of individu-
als. Every consideration of that which
lis just and right requires that we do
Justice to people whose trade we de-
Etroyed, and who but ask that they be
given, If not equal political rights with
the rest Of our territories, at least equal
commercial opportunities.
With our advent into the Pacific, with
Cuba free and under our protection, and
with Puerto Rico ours, the United
States has suddenly expanded into a
world power, and there looms up before
us the prospect in the near future, of a
period Of commercial and material pros
Derity for the United States such as it |
has never before witnessed great even |
as is that prosperity to-day. That is, |
Gentlemen, if wisdom is permitted to |
reign in congress. Let us hope, there
fore, that it will prevail and, if it
should, can we not safely prophecy that
with wise modification of our naviga-
ton and of our shipping laws, the day
is not far distant when our country will
once more be the commercial mistress
Of the seas, and the products from our
farms and from our mills will find their
way into every port over all the civil
1ized globe, thus giving steady employ
ment to our people and giving to us an
Industrial supremacy that will easily
make us chief among the nations of the
world.
NEW ENTERPRISES.
Perhaps no committee Of the chamber
has worked harder or devoted more
time to it's work than the committee on
new enterprises. During the past year
this committee has met number of
gentlemen apparently DESTROYS of locat-
ing new enterprises in our city, some
of which would be large employers of
labor and be benefit to the commu
nifty In most cases the industries
sought to be established were new ones
recurring more or less local capital to
their organization When all
other conditions have been fulfilled and
all else found satisfactory to those de-
string to locate here, your committee
found it's work generally gone for
naught either because of an ultra-con
Eervatsm which in the past has caused {
the city to miss many opportunities of ;
great value to it, only to realize when s
too late what it has lost, or for other
the necessary local capital
could not be found for such industries
and the prospective manufacturer went t
elsewhere to a more favorable and APP
preciative field. A number of enter I
prises were investigated by your COM {
mlttee and fully endorsed as industries {
that would be of great benefit to the t
and, in its opinion, of profit {
10 the investors.
While in this respect your committee t
1nds itself somewhat handicapped in its /
Efforts to promote the material welfare /
If the city, yet New Havens natural i
advantages as a manufacturing center 6
ire so great, with its excellent tide c
water and railroad facilities, it's skilled t
mechanics and all the necessary incl t
Tents that favorably bear upon manu- e
acturing industries. that feel assured h
,ur community will in the end be the t
yainer by its efforts. n
rHE NJ SEWARD g. SON COMPANY. t
And while upon this topic I desire to e
'ay a word about the M. Seward & Son f
1t is to be regretted that the v
courts of this state should have found S
t necessary to declare the industry of o
his company, as conducted by them, a il
Nuisance, and to be obliged to issue an C
rider that will practically drive them Il
rom their business in the location p
where they have been situated for more f,
han forty years. New Haven is essen a
tally a manufacturing town and the V
inhabitants thereof, in most instances, n
xpect to be obliged to put up with some Ct
f the Inconvenience that necessarily c.