Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-02

/ ployer or employee. without weakening
! and cramping the Industrial development
of the country Is a problem fraught with
the a highest importance to solve on lines
of sanity and farsighted common sense as
well as of devotion to the right. This is
i an era of federation and combination.
Exactly as business men find they must
often work through corporations, and as
lions to l grow larger, SO It is often neces-
/ sary for laboring men to work in fedora
/ lions, and these have become important
factors of modern industrial life. Both
/ kinds of federation, capitalistic and labor,
can Dc much good and as al necessary Sn
/ ton to each kind of organization should
| take the form of opposition to whatever is
/ ton or union, not of attacks upon cor
/ porations as such nor upon unions as
such, for some of the most farreaching
benefcent work for our people has been
/ accomplished through both corporations
and unions. Each must refrain from ar
| bitrary or tyrannous interference with
| the rights of others. Organized capital
and organized labor alike should remem-
| each must be brought into harmony with
| the interest of the general public, and the
| fundamental rules of obedience to the
4 law, of individual freedom and of justice
remember that in addition to power it
| must. strive after the realization of
aeathy lofty ana IDEALS ps
| guaranteed his liberty and his right to do
| as he likes with his property or his labor
! rights of others. / It is of the highest i'm
| portance that employer and employee
the viewpoint Of. the other and the sure
| disaster that will come upon both in the
long run if either grows to take as habit
| trust toward the other. Few people de-
serve better Of the country than those rep
| and there are many such-who work con-
tinually to bring about good understand
| upon broad and kindly sympathy between
| employers and employed Above all, we
luminosity in the political world is, If pos
| Sible, even more wicked, even more de-
| structive to national welfare, than sec
| tional, race or religious an!rnosity. We
can get good government only upon condi-
| ton that we keep true to the principles
| upon which this nation was founded and
| judge each man not as part of a class,
| but upon his individual merits. All that
| we have a right to ask of any man, rich
| ton, his birthplace or his residence, is
| that he shall act well and honorably by
his neighbor and by his country. We are
| neither for the rich man as such nor for
the poor man as such; we are for the up
constitutional powers of the national gov
eminent touch these matters of general
shonId be Exercised in ' nonfor rtv with
the principles above set forth.
1t is earnestly hoped that secretary of
commerce may be created, with a seat In
the cabinet The rapid multiplication of
questions affecting labor and capital, the
lions through which both labor and capt.
tai now find expression, the steady tend
sncy toward the employment of capital in
strides of this country toward leadership
in the international business world justify
such a position: substantially all the
leading commercial bodies in this country
have united in requesting it's creation 1t
is desirable that some such measure as
that which has already passed the senate
be enacted into law The creation of such
vance toward dealing with and exercising
supervision over the whole subject of the
great corporations doing interstate
business and with this end in view the
congress should endow. the department
with large powers, which could be in
needs
I hope soon to submit to the senate a
reciprocity treaty with Cuba. On May 20
last the United States kept its promise to
the island by formally vacating Cuban soil
and turning Cuba over to those whom her
own people had chosen as the first officials
of the new republic.
Cuba lies at our doors, and whatever af-
fects her for good or for ill affects us also.
So much have people felt this that in
the Platt amendment we definitely took
the ground that Cuba must hereafter have
closer political relations with us than with
any other power. Thus in a sense Cuba
p noi system This 81 MALES apF It esry
that in return she should be given some of
the benefits of becoming part of our eco
point, a shortsighted and mischieyous pol
Icy to fail to recognize this need. More
erous nation. itself the greatest and most
successful republic in history to refuse to
stretch out a helping hand to a young and
| weak sister republic just entering upon
its career of independence. We should al
ways fearlessly insist upon our rights in
the face of the strong, and we should with
| ungrudging hand do our generous duty
by the weak. I urge the adoption of reel
| procity with Cuba not only because it is
| eminently for our own interests to control
| the Cuban market.and by every means to
| foster our supremacy in the tropical lands
! we of the giant republic of the north
should make all our sister nations of the
| they will permit it we desire to show our
selves disinterestedly and effectively their
| A convention with Great Britain has
| been concluded, which will be at once laid
ing for reciprocal trade arrangements be
| tween the United States and Newfound-
land On substantlallx the dnes q ne con
! tary of state, Mr.. Blaine. believe recip-
roca1 trade relations will be greatly to the
| AS civilization grows warfare becomes
I.less and less the normal condition of for
eign relations. The last century has
seen marked diminution of wars be-
i tween civilized powers Wars with un-
| civilized powers are largely mere matters
/ the welfare Of the world. Wherever pos
sible arbitration or some similar method
4
/ difficulties between civilized nations, all
| though as yet the world has not pro-
/ crossed sufficiently to render it possible
! or necessarily desirable to invoke arbtra-
i ton in every case. The formation of the
/ international tribunal which sits at Tho
/ Hague is an event of good omen from
/ which great consequences for the welfare
i of all mankind may flow. 1t Is far better
! where possible to invoke such perma-
nent tribunal than to create special arbi-
/ ira tors for q given purpose.
! 1t Is matter of sincere #cOngratulatfOzi
! to our country that the United States and
i Mexico should have been the first to use
4 the good Offices of The Hague court. This
! was done last summer with most salts
4 factory results in the case of claim at
issue between us and our sister republic
j case will serve as q precedent for Others
j in which not only the United States but
1 foreign nations may take advantage Of
i the machinery already in existence at
i The Hague
\ commend to the favorable considera-
/ ton of the congress the Hawaiian fire
j claims, which We're the subject Of careful
/ investigation during the last session.
The congress has wisely provided that
| If possible at Panama. The attorney gem
1 era1 reports that we can undoubtedly ac-
| quire good title fam the french Panama
1 canal company. Negotiations are now
/ pending with Colombia to secure her as
sent to our building the canal. This canal
! will be one of the greatest engineering
/ feats OF the twentieth century, a greater
| engineering feat than has yet been ac-
i complished during the history of mankind.
| tinuing policy without regard to change
4 80 fnf efyo fiou and II should ha hacIID