Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-16

- of our city's future. Gentlemen, It will be largely what you make 1t.
 The state association is now on its fourth year and embraces the local as- sociations of Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, Waterbury, New London, l AIeriden, New Britain, Bristol, Dan- bury, Torrington. Ansonia, Norwalk and South Manchester. We have a membership representing about 5000 l individual members, and 1 believe the held is ripe to increase the member ship this eyar to 5000.
 In our last legislature our state as- sociation succeeded in having enacted the itinerant vendors law, and now the so-calied fire sales' and bankrupt sales ill which the buyers were vic lifnlzed, and you merchants suffered loss, are becoming thing of the past There are other laws on our statute books which are working serious det- rlment to the business men of Connec- tlcut and should be amended or re, pealed Organize large enough to de- Iuand relief from this source. Have meetlngs as often as may be and at tend them, and let us walk through the world nlied with that generosity of sentiment which expands the so11l
 senator Halls remarks were liber- ally applauded. He was followed bv Mayor kilduff, who spoke briefly, say Ing Tn part: Tn a long and varied experience at public and private gatherings l never have had the pleas ure of looking upon so many happy, handsome and prosperous looking gentlemen (applause). I see all lines or industry and every profession, the medlcal profession especially-I have To Keep my eye on the doctors lately well represented in this grand gath efinS. The lawyers are here, too. 1 Friend CoWell, Carmody and others. Ine plumbers: and by the way, plumbing is the coming profession. if one can judge by the size of their bills (winking his eye at ex-Mayor l BarloWl. They are neck and neck With the doctors, whose smallpox bills ] nave set us all thinking daughter. I I believe meetings of this character do a great deal of good. They put us l on borrowing terms with each other al least and give us a chance to get l together and decide upon the best plan to rid people out of their money. tcheers). The ice men have just fixed up things for themselves. I wonder how long it will be before all other lines of business will follow suit.p The I mayor also talked at. some length upon the growth of Waterbury dur ing the past few years. His honor resumed his seat amid a tremendous shout of applause.
 Father Slocum was then introduced
 He received Q splendid ovation. He acknowledged the compliment and added that he was glad to be present. fish out of water that he might be for two reasons. One was because he was to have the pleasure of hear ing Joseph l.. Barbour, whom he had not heard speak since 1868 when he had listened to him in Hartford. Even then,' said the speaker. q had begun to go wrong, for with all his eloquence he failed to convince me that 1 ought to be republican" This convulsed the audience and evidently
 fearing that anyone might think he was
 starting out to make a political speech.
 he hastened to assure his hearers
 that he was no politician, nor was he
 q mugwump. He had no use for
 mugwumps, although he could respect
 a man who had convictions of his
 
 voice of conscience when the occa-
 sion demanded It He said he had
 no particular subject and on this ac-
 count he didn't think it necessary to
 apologize for referring to things in "a
 sense foreign to the purpose of the
 Business Mems meeting. He ther . talked on the Cuban question and stated that he believed that this gov.
 ernment will yet have to take UT , what 1t has laid down in the Island of Cuba. the reins of government While visiting at Santiago some time ago, a prominent churchman informed , him that the unedIcated and irrespon
 sible element was far in excess of tn, f learned and conservative and that un der these conditions he could not SCI
 how property rights could be respected
 and law and order upheld. He wa, at a loss to understand how the au !, thorities of this country could teacl . that the minority should rule the ma jority at home and the majority gov 2 ern the minority in Cuba. It migh
 be an inconsistency or perhaps tn, ! overstraining of an honest intention . to fulfill promise made to the peo . tple of Cuba, a symbol of American ' honesty and sound business princi : pies characteristic of the ain . of the American people to keeI : their word and give the Cubans 7 chance to see what they can do fo : themselves.
 T Father Slocum referred to tn , trusts. notably those which regulat ' the price of breadstuffs and stated that in ten years he thought tn
 American people would have pro 7, claimed that no man or set of me- : had right to bind the hands of tn . . Almighty by getting corners on wheat
 meat, sugar, ice and other commodi !, ties. The mayor" he said, ssreferre, 7 to our own ice combine. They tel : us the price will be less because the
 will not have employ so many me-
 and carts as formerly, but I'm yer
 much afraid the price will go up be : fore the first of July. don't wan . to judge them before I know them.
 merely throw this out as a conjecture
 Pm afraid when we do away with in . dividual enterprise, we shall not g s ahead with the same sense of securit : as we did when we had q number o " live men in business, each acting o . his own brains and reaping his owl Y profit. It is impossible to keep dow