The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-29
GOVERNOR ROBERTS.
HIS VIEWS ON VARIOUS SUB
 .JECTS.

On ImnlfgratiOn-Need of Manhood and
 WOmanhOOd That are Physically and
 Morally Strong-One of the Great
 Problems Before the Country To-day.
 Connecticut and her work in the progress of the nation is dwelt upon at length by Governor Henry Roberts in an unofficial message to the people of the commonwealth, issued through the Connecticut Magazine. This is the governors first, appearance as a magazine critic and his production is of the same high grade as the maga- zine to which he has contributed.
 In his message the governor says:
 Tt is gratifying to be invited to say few words to my felclow-men of the commonwealth in this publication that so we'll reflects the intellectual quality of our citizenship. It is indeed satisfying to note that the literary standard attained by our state is not lowering in these days of business competition, but that it still sustains it's exalted position in the nobility of letters.
 Connecticut, indeed, has many att tainments of which it may well feel proud. Its history is replete with courageous soldiery, conscientious di- plomacy honorable administration of government, good citizenship and commendable achievement. Great as has been its material prosperity, even greater has been it's love of truth and justice, and to-day it stands more firmly than ever before for that beau- tiful political truism: All men are created free and equal
 "As the birthplace of American democracy and the first written con- Stitution known to the world, the in- strunent upon which the constitution of these United States is founded, it seems to be the chosen land where the seed of humanitarianism has been sown. Political and religious liberty and individual self-development, each working according to its own consci- entious conviction and yet united as one great body in the interests of the whole, is indigenous to this soil. I be- lieve there is much in environment; the great, broad humanity of Thomas Hooker seemed to permeate the at mosphere and nearly every generation since has produced at least one strong leader whose influence extends throughout the nation.
 There has never been serious national issue to which Connecticut has not contributed men of courage and judgment, who have either solved or assisted materially in solving the problem. In the making of the nation Connecticut gave council; in the wars in protection os the nation Copnecti- cut has set it's representatives to the firing line; in the legislative perplexi- ties Connecticut has given profound thinkers; in every progressive move ment this state has been in the fore ranks always, and many times in leadership.
 Since that day two hundred and sixty-nfne years ago when that cour- ageous little company of pioneers came into this new land, driving be- fore them the one hundred and sixty head of cattle, their descendants, joined by the goodly travellers from ali parts of the earth, have peopled Con- necticut until to-day it represents nearly a million sons and daughters.
 'In our midst we have able workers in all honorable life callings; there are skilled artists, talented musicians, sound lawyers and theologians, phi losophers and poets.
 Every profession and trade finds in Connecticut some of it's soundest ex- ponents. In manufacturing the state to-day holds a remarkable pre-emi- hence. It is a hive of industry in which two hundred thousand wage earners are producing the necessities and luxuries for the worlds markets