The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-20
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Bull Run to get ready and from Bull
Run to Gettysburg to really prepare.
Had the war ended in from three to
six months the cost would have been
inconsiderable, but as it was it increas-
ed the public debt of the United States
more than so, 700, 100000, and added such
enormous interest charges on the coun-
try that that debt contracted by that
war alone laid a burden of approx
mateiy s10O,O00,000 a year up to the
present time. A small portion of this
interest spent in creating an emergen-
cy force and probably training it, say
for forty years before the war; would
have enabled us to have ended the war
within the prognosticated periods of
time. This emergency force would
have saved US 95 per cent. of the in
creased Indebtedness. This debt is
only part of the cost in reckoning the
total cost. The country is now paying
a pension roll from this war to over
100000 persons. Taking the item of the
100000 pensioners, if we had the force to
have ended the war three months or
six months more than 100000 of these
pensioners would never have been on
the rolls. This would have saved us
more than SIP, 100000 annually.
He then went on to show that the
army of pensioners was forty times as
great as the army of service. He said
that our politics and prejudices pre-
vented us from having surplus force
in the regular service over the neces-
sary peace footing and said we must
look to the improvement of the militia
for an emergency force.
The militia cannot be properly equip
ped and trained when We are paying
SAC, 900, 900 for pensions, more than 95
per cent. of which is a penalty for be-
ing unprepared and only 100000
year for the future emergency force or
the militia.
After paying high tribute to the
personnel of the militia, he criticised
their limited training and their equip
ment and claimed that by the expendit-
ure of few millions a year the mill
tia after they were properly organ
lied, equipped and differed, we could
have in few years a fairly good
emergency army of half million men.
Gentlemen, this is a business ques-
ton and thoroughly recommend it as
such.
Following the address of Captain
Smoke, Professor Bernadotte Perrin
addressed the assemblage on THE
Rights of the Taught" He alluded to
the many misconceptions of teachers
and the need of more thorough ortho-
graphical training in our schools and
colleges. He said many New York bus
mess men would not engage Yale grad
yates because with all their learning
they were too thoroughly educated to
use the spelling book. He alluded in
an allegorical fashion to the coal strike
and made quite a hit by comparing
school instructors with the operators,
and the scholars with the miners. At
some future time, he said, kid Mitch
ell might rise up and demand better
light and ventilation, and, not receiving
them, call out all the school children on
strike. Then what calamity would
befall the country!
John C. Gallagher. secretary of the
chamber, spoke as follows concerning
1.-THE Third Party"
At quarter-past four O'Clock in the
morning of Wednesday, August 6, the
conductors and motormen of the Fair
Haven and Westville Railroad company
decided to go on strike. The sun rose
that morning upon a city of departing
elms as silent as the headquarters of
the democratic town committee last
election night.
That same morning about forty bus
mess men met in the Tontine hotel and
anpeintad a committee of five AT 3
o'clock in the afternoon the executive
committee of this chamber and of the
New Haven Business Mems association
each appointed committee of five. At
o'clock on Thursday morning the
members of these committees met in
the hall of the Chamber of Commerce
and organized as joint committee for
the purpose of doing what they could
to put an end to the strike. 1 need not
repeat the labors of the Committee of
Fifteen during the Thursday, Friday
and Saturday following their appoint
ment. I need not recount the inter-
views and the conferences, the resolu-
tons and the arguments, the courteous
treatment of the directors of the COM
pany, or the plain, frank statements of
the chairman of the strikers commit
tee. Two things we shall never forget.
One was President Parmelee's final
message to his employees: 1--WE agree to
what Mr.. Watrous has written-tell the
men they can all go back to work; that
We'll rub off the slate and begin anew"
The other was the cheers that shook
the foundations of Aurora hall when
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