The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-21
NEW RAVENS BUSINESS MEN
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standards of intellectual and CIVIL duty
 and to be of more service to God and
 the country"
 David A. Boody. ex-mayor of Brook
 lyn, N. r.. was next introduced. MT aBoody has long been man of much
 note and influence in Greater New
 York. Besides being eX-mayor of Brooklyn he is president of the Brook
 lyn Public Library. president of the Berkeley Institute for Young Women of
 that city. president of the National
 bank of Brooklyn vice president of the Peoples Trust company of that city and
 is member of the committee for the
 distribution of s1,600000 given by An drew Carnegie for libraries in Brooklyn ! He in 1867 formed the firm of Boody,
 Mcclellan 6 Go. of New York which has a branch in New Haven, and he is one Of the oldest New York stock ex- change men in Wall street, having join ed the exchange in 1865. MT. Boody in
 opening referred very happily to Con- necticut, it's institutions it's spirit of progress, it's historic fame, He ex- cited much merriment by the happy hit: 'sTo- day when the question is asked
 sWhen was the world created?', the fol- 3 lowing words are added to the usual answer: But it was reorganized by J. P Morgan & Co., It should be added
 that every one is permitted to share in this reorganization by paying 20 per
 cent. upon his present interest" The sGpeaker then dwelt briefly upon this age ae an age of reconstruction, consolida-
 lion and Concentration of power. Yet
 these were not new ideas. Patrick
 Henry proclaimed this idea in Limited i've stands divided we fall" So did John
 Otis when he said "If we do not hang fDgether we shall hang separately. !" Back of every forward step humanity
 takes are education and discipline Z aAmerica's first great problem was when Sit freed Itself from oppression. And the sbfeastwork of brains in the colonies was 5ffie prevailing force in the struggle for liberty The speaker eloquently en-
 forced the thought that knowledge is ! nower always and everywhere in tHe
 Pollution of problems and that the crea- lion of Knowledge was the starting
 point in our national progress and has 2 preceded all our achievements. This
 Thought the speaker illustrated by the x1ominating influence o. the common
 schools established in New England in
 pl1rsuance of the idea that knowledge 3S5 3S5Sppwer. Proceeding the speaker said;
 sAs nation our progress has been
 more wonderful than prophet ever x dared to, predict We have solved the
 problem of national independence, of
 Civil and religious liberty, of an inde-
 strifctable union, of assimilating mil Hons and millions of foreign born cltl- 8ens, of Interstate commerce, represent < Ing invested capital of nearly ten bll- lions of dollars, and we shall continue ] to solve the problems that will come With every generation, if we do not for
 4et to keep burning the lights which lthe fathers lighted.
 Municipal problems are comparative
 1y new because there have been in the
 p1st no such municipalities as exist to- Nday. During the past century there has
 been A wonderful increase in the popu-
 iation of the most enlightened and
 progressive nations of the world. The
 United States has grown from five mil
 tt tto seventy-five millions, the Eng If8h speaking British empire from fif- sfeen millions to fifty-fve millions, Ger
 many from twenty millions to fifty-hve < millions, France from twenty-five mil $ Hons to forty millions, Russia from for sty millions to one hundred and thirty
 fixe millions In the light of these sta ffstics do we realize what this country $ ff3 ttD become in the near future? But
 fFe most suggestive point in this con-
 fiection Is the fact that the population sof our great cities is increasing much more rapidly than the population out eide of them. Greater New York has a < 5p0pulation to-day greater than the whole country when we became na- $ afion It's wealth is greater, it's expenses X xare greater. it's business interests are
 greater.
 The city budget for 1902 has just been Conpleted by the board of estimate ana
 sapportionment. It calls for an expen-
 flIture os $97974.000. A large percen- < tzge Of this is for salaries, fixed by law < and controlled absolutely by provisions of the civil service laws Among the { Items, $i9,O00,O00 for the public schools, { S41i.0000 900 for the police service, S5,Ooo,- < 600 for the fire department, S5,O0o, ,ooo Tor ssstreet cleaning, $1.oO000o. for the health s department, etc., etc.
 x g SIt is true that such domestic prob < 1atns of government as confront us to-
 flay are centered in our cities Munich
 nal government to-day is a matter of \ Yf1iIch greater concern to the average sS citizen than national or state govern zraent. Our great cities represent the E heart of the nation. Every current < event of importance is instantly re-
 fected there There the extremes of lire meet, poverty and wealth crime and virtue. There is the stage on x which is displayed the drama of real fife. it's farces and it's tragedies. There
 is seen as nowhere else the struggles 2 of individual life, the defeats and it's
 Victories
 { If it be true that poverty and sin
 abound. 1t is also true that the rarest intellects and the most consecrated { lives are also found there. Upon this e Iife thus constituted the success of our institutions and the welfare of mankind sadepend
 How then shall our cities be gov
 erned? What agencies shall we most
 depend uaon in the solution ot this < nrOblern? Let us not however forget
 that government is not a new science
 The wisest of all ages have studied 1t. < The best or all ages have given to It
 thought, time, and sacrifice, and am