Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-23

now as it was when the tower of Si- Ioam fell upon all who were under it, that good fortune does not come only to the just, nor bad fortune to the un- just When the weather is good for crops it is also good for weeds, more oyer, not only do the wicked flourish when the times are such that most men flourish, but what is worse, the spirit of envy and jealousy and hatred springs up in the breasts of those who, though they may be doing fairly we'll themselves, yet see others, who are no more deserving. doing far better
 ssWise laws and fearless and upright administration of the laws can give the opportunity for such prosperity as that we see about us. But this is all that they can do. When the conditions have been created which make pros perity possible then each individual man must achieve it for himself by his own thrift, intelligence, energy, in dustry and resolute purpose. If when people wax fat they kick, as they have been prone to do since the days of Jerhurum, they will speedily de stroy their own prosperity. If they go into wild speculation and lose their heads, they have lost that which no legislation can supply and the busi- ness world will suffer in consequence. If in spirit of sullen envy they per- Sist in pulling down those who have profted most by the years of fatness. they will bury themselves in the crash of the common disaster. It is diff cult to make our material condition better by the best laws, but it is easy h lxz 7x,-
 whole nation into an abyss of misery.
 Now, the upshot of all this is that it is peculiarly incumbent upon us in time of such material well being, both collectively as a nation and in- dividually, each on his own account to show that We possess the qualities of prudence, self knowledge and self re- straint. In our government we need above all things stability, fixity of economic policy, while remem bering that this fxity must not be fossiliza ton, that there must not be inability to shape our course anew to meet the shifting needs of the people as these aeeds arise. There are real and great evils in our social and economic life and these evils stand out with ugly badness during good times, for the W1cKeQ WHO pTOSpeT are never a pleas ing sight. There is every need o1 striving in all possible ways individ ually and collectively by combination , among ourselves in private life anG through the recognized organs of gov ernment, for the cutting out of thest evils Only let US be sure that W, do not use the knife with an ignoran zeal which would make it more dan gerous to the patient than to the dis ease.
 s.One of the features of the tremen dous industrial growth of the last gen eration has been the very great increas in large private, and especially in larg corporate fortunes. We may lik this or not. just as we please but is a fact, nevertheless, and as far a we can see it is an inevitable result 0 the working of various causes, prom inent among which has been the i'm mense importance steam and electric ity have assumed in modern life. UT ban population has grown in this coun try,eas in all civilized countries, mucl faster than the population as wllo1 during the last century, and wher men are gathered together in grea masses it inevitably results that the must work far more largely by mean of combinations among theInselve than when they live isolated from on another Now, suppose that mos ms us prefer on many accounts the oil