Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-05

ferests of humanity. The wisdom ana energy of all the nations are none too great for the worlds work. The sue cess of art, science, industry ana .h- vention is an international asset ana common glory
 After all, how near one to the other is every part of the world. Modern inventions have brought into close rela- tions widely separated peoples ana made them better acquainted. Geo graphical and political divisions VIII continue to exist, but distances have been effaced. Swift ships and fast trains are becoming cosmopolitan. They invade fields which few years ago were impenetrable. The worlds products are exchanged as never be fore, and with increasing transpOfta- ton facilities come increasing knowl- edge and larger trade. Prices are fixed with mathematical precision Dy supply and demand. The worlds sell ing prices are regulated by market and crop reports. We travel greater dis tances in a shorter space of time and with more ease than was ever dreamed Of by the fathers. Isolation is no longer possible or desirable. The same important news is read, though in diff ferent languages, the same day i'll all Christendom. The telegraph keeps us advised of what is occurring every where and the press foreshadowS, with more or less accuracy. the plans and purposes of the nations. Market prices of products and of securities are hourly known in every commercial mart. and the investments of the peo- pie extend beyond their own national boundaries into the remotest parts of the earth. Vast transactions are con- ducted and intentional exchanges are made by the tick of the cable. Every event of interest Is immediately bull letined. The quick gathering and transmission of news, like rapid tran- sit. are of recent origin and are only made possible by the genius of the in- yentor and the courage of the investor. It took q special messenger of the gov ernment, with every facility known at the time for rapid travel. nineteen days to go from the city of Washington to New Orleans with message to Gen eral Jackson that the war with Eng land had ceased and that a treaty of peace had been signed. How different now.
 We reached General Miles in Porto Rico by cable and be was able, through the military telegraph, to stop his army on the firing line with the mes sage that the United States and Spain had signed protocol suspending hos tilitieS. We knew almost instantly of the first shots fired at Santiago; and the subsequent surrender of the Span iSh forces was known at Washington within less than an hour of it's con- summation The first ship of Ger vera's fleet had hardly emerged from that historic harbor when the fact was flashed to our capital and the swift destruction that followed was announced immediately through the wonderful medium of telegraphy. So accustomed are we to safe and easy communication with distant lands that it's temporary interruption even in or dinary times results in loss and incon- venience. We shall never forget the days of anxiety waiting and awful suspense when no information was permitted to be sent from Pekin, and the diplomatic representatives of the nations in China, cut off from all com munication, inside and outside of the walled capital were surrounded by an angry and misguided mob that threat ened their lives; nor the joy that thrilled the world when a single mes sage from the government of the Unit ed States brought through our minis ter the first news of the safety of the besieged diplomats.
 At the beginning of the nineteenth century there was not a mile of steam railroad on the globe. Now there are enough miles to make it's circuit many times. Then there was not a line of electric telegraph; now we have vast mileage traversing all lands and all seas. God and man have linked the nations together.
 No nation can any longer be indlf- ferent to any other. And as we are brought more and more in touch with each other less occasion is there for misunderstanding and the stronger the disposition, when we have differ ences, to adjust them in the court of arbitration which is the noblest form for the settlement of international dis putes.
 My fellow citizens: Trade statistics indicate that this country is in state of unexampled prosperity. The fig- ures are almost appalling. They show that we are utilizing our fields and for ests and mines and that we are fur nishing profitable employment to the millions of workingmen throughout the United States. bringing comfort and happiness to their homes and making it possible to lay by savings for old age and disability. That all the people are participating in this great prosperity is seen in every American community and shown by the enormous and unprecedented de- posits in our savings banks. Our duty is the care and security of these de- posits, and their safe investment de- mands the highest integrity and the best business capacity of those in charge of these Repositories of the peo- ple's earnings.
 We have a vast and intricate busi- ness, built up through years of toll and struggle, in which every part of the country has its stake, which will not permit of either neglect, or of un- due selishness. No narrow, sordid policy will subserve it. The greatest skill and wisdom on the part of manu- lecturers and producers will be re- quired to hold and increase it. Our industrial enterprises, which have grown to such great proportions, af- feet the homes and occupations of the people and the welfare of the country Our capacity to produce has developed so enormously and our products have so multiplied that the problem of more markets requires our urgent and inn mediate attention Only a broad and enlightened policy will keep what we have No other policy will get more. Tn these ffruag Of marvellous huefnpca