The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-11-16

trolley poles to the trees while the cars
are in motion.
i live in Cornwall-on-Hud a
place famous as the home of four great
men, two dead and two living. The
dead are Nathaniel P. Willis and E. P.
Roe, and the living are Rev. DR.. Lyman
Abbott and myself.
Il want to call your attention to the
men who have made great places in
this country. The sweetest martyr
since the heart of Bethlehem broke up
on the cross-that was Lincoln. And
then there is our great martyred pfesi-
dent Mckinley. And then came Roose-
welt (applause), the child of the gym
nasium. His critics said he would
plunge us into war, and yet, instead of
that, he has brought two, great nations
to peace.
'The doughtiest Dutchman of his race,
With just a touch of Irish grace
This youth--for he is only a kid yet
doing absolutely as he pleases wher-
ever he likes, has made revolution in
the character of our public men. Think
what has happened to Depew. Poor
old Chauncey! The people of all politi-
cal faiths are calling out for character
in public men. ri. &..%
1.-THE responsibility. that rests upon
this government to-day is greater than
ever before. We must govern ourselves.
Everything which exists to-day may be
done away with, except the principles
which outlive men. Man and nature
have been the same through the great
,1rS4 e,k I.aA
game through the future. The obituary
of genius is the history of the world"
General E. E. Bradley, chairman of
the defenders monument committee,
told the history of the movement and
it's present status, and made an appeal
for cooperation of the business men in
the raising of the $4,000 needed for its
erection.
Rev. ARENAS j. Haynes was then
introduced to speak upon the theme of
1.-THE New Mutualisrn." He said in
part:
THE time will come when there will
come an evolution in our industrial, po-
1itical and social life, when we will look
back with loathing upon the industrial,
political and financial practices of the
pESSGIlL ct1lu WO1uSI IlOW tllOy SOuld
have been. The future will pass judg-
ment on the present, as the present has
on the past. cannot believe that the
present order Of things is unalterable.
The most damning hypocrisy of the
present is Judging the past and, under
the cover of optimism, refusing to open
our eyes to the evils of the present.
There is a proverb that we should
always look on the bright side of things.
We should do no such thing. We are
here to look on both sides of things.
1T am of those who believe that new
social, political and industrial order of
things is coming on the earth I don't
know how it is coming, I admit. It is
not coming in a day or by any revolu-
tionary method, at least not in America.
ut is not coming in spite of the old Or
der, but through the old order. We are
evolutionists.
81 do not believe with those who hold
that we have failed and must tear
down the present civilization and begin
anew. We have not lived for 1000 years
under the tuition of the Man of Naza-
reth for nothing. We have made some
great gains. ~
II am among those who believe in
parties, in party leaders-yes, in bosses,
though perhaps not party bosses. There.
has been an old mutualism in politics
whose smotto has been, TO the victor
belongs the spoils.' Unquestionably
the old mutualism of a few men was
based, and is to-day, on community of
interest. That interest has too often
been the interest of the few as opposed
to the many.
1.-THE new mutualism bases itself
souarely upon the need of the people as
a. whole-the people above the party.
The time is coming when it will be i'm
possible for party leaders to trade with
one another.
"The day of the independent man in