Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-02

otatU 0uu " VIII AlW0yb 0uJOy AS WuAio
 MT Sperry and men of his views are
 being sent to congress.
 Talking about trusts, MT Wallace
 said: "'Put hides on the free list
 and I'll take dollsr of every pair
 of shoes made In my factories and
 double the wages of my employees,
 said Governor Douglas of Massachu-
 setts, but MT Sperry and MT Lilley
 could not be induced to turn away
 from the corporations whose divi-
 dends would be greatly reduced by
 such action. When you buy a ton of
 coal you contribute $s to the miners
 for which you receive absolutely
 nothing. When a barrel of flour is
 delivered at your home you pay the
 trust $1 for which you receive not
 one cents worth. The price of lum-
 Der, beef and everything that enters
 into the cost of living Is not regu-
 lated by the law of supply and de-
 mand, but by the amount of divi-
 dends the stockholders in those great
 combinations decide to make on the
 money invested. When you count
 up all these things which you are
 taxed for you will see that you spend one month out of the twelve working
 as white slave. With this condi-
 tion existing, where is a working man
 and his family going to get of? I
 don't think God ever intended to dangle the good things of this earth
 before some and say you must not taste or touch because all these deli cacies belong to few. Every man who tolls Is entitled to fair re- muneration for his labor, but 1t Is out of the question for him to get this so long as the corporation that employs him wants to draw from 20 to 40 per cent dividends out of its investment"
 The speaker closed with strong appeal for the election of Charles J. Donahue as congressman-at-large. He was given a great ovation.
 Chairman ThOms said he should be very much pleased to hear de- bate between MT Wallace and MT Sperry and 1t would be a great pleas ure to him to hear Charles J. Dona- hue and George L. Lilley talk on na- tional issues, but more than all would he have been delighted to witness the discussion that took place between MT Lilley and c. P. Hayes of the Wa terbury Democrat one morning dur ing the present week. This was the hit of the evening and 1t was some time before order was restored.
 Herbert Casson of New York, a prominent magazine writer, was the last speaker. and to say that he pleased the audience would be put ting 1t mildly.
 Labor Is in politics" said MT Cas- son, "and 1t always has been, just as the dog is in the sausage. Every once in so often the politicians hold a barbecue with labor as the OK. They put flags upon 1t and put 1t on parade. but when they reach a certain point then 1t is all up with the OK" Mir Casson suspected that labor was about to turn over new page, and remarked that he hoped this would be different page to the Paige (meaning the Bridgeport troll ley magnate) to the one they now have. He believed that there are too many men in Connecticut who think their votes go with their jobs; they have two and half feet of tape run ming down their backs instead of too many here who ought to be in Russia, because they are as much afraid of their employers as are the hack drivers in St Peters burg. Mir Casson was not SO much about some who are coming In. but he would like to see many who are here go out, and thought nothing but the undertaken could cure lot of them.
 The speaker enumerated some of the vest pocket states in the Union and said that Connecticut has been In that list too long. He would have t ruled by the cities instead of dom- hated over by the small towns that have long since been practically wiped oR the map geographically, but still retain all their former political prestige. A hamlet with a dozen families has the same representation h the state legislature as Waterbury, Hartford, New Haven or Bridgeport. He attended the constitutional con- retnion held fin this state and was tc see men who would start Q run If they saw trolley car in the majority in that body; some of them wouldn't know a file from a bicycle, md If they got inside one of the big l factories in Waterbury 1t would take half a dozen guides with a. map to | get them out. He wanted to know if | [ was not time that the bright, intel- igent mechanics of the cities got fred of that sort of rule. He talked | bout the condition of the poor man md the miserable pittance which he | 'eceives in return for his labor, not | that the corporation | awyers come around now and then | md proclaim that we are a prosper Jus people. Such fellows, he said, are alking for themselves and the peo- | ,le sitting behind them on the plat orm; they don't represent the bulk | ,f the people who come to hear them. There Is nothing about a vacation at | he seashore or a trip to Europe in | he lives of the working people. With | hem it Is like the bee. keeping piling | ID the honey and never mind who | ,ets it. He drew a very nice picture | 'f people en route to work clinging | in the running boards of trolley cars md the millionaire in his auto car, with the machine throwing Its ''im- ,udent dust" in the eyes of the pas 'assengers. but on election day there | Ire eighty or ninents votes in a troll | ey car while there is but one in the . automobile. It is the same way with | he palace wherein dvells a man and