The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-20

and the fullest confidence of the Ameri- can people. The record of that session is one of accomplishment never equal led in like space of time. We may challenge successful contradiction of the assertion that no session ever dealt aff1rmatively and constructively with as many matters of vital public concern.
 RECORD OF CONGRESS,
 A pure food law extending the power- full protection of the federal govern- ment into the home of every Ameri- can citizen was enacted, and the people are henceforth assured that no grasp ing and conscienceless dealer of food stuffs, doing an inter-s state business, shall be permitted by chemical adulera- tion or substitution to endanger the health of our people.
 The meat packing industry has been brought under more rigid federal con- trol and Approximation the 'hoof to the can" Both of these measures re- ceived the hearty support and the vote of every member of the Connecticut delegation in both houses of congress.
 A law has been past removing the immunity privilege as a refuge for trust and railroad violators of the law, and all such offenders can now be pun isn't individually for crimes they com nit as members of corporate body.
 The power of the Interstate Com merce Commission to regulate railroad rates and to abolish extortion and the injustices that grow out of discrimina- tions and rebates has been strengt- hened, and the government now has complete control of the great railroad lines so far as is necessary to see that the smallest has all the rights of the greatest shipper, and that no struggling business concern or growing municipal ity can be blighted by the mercenary colusion of powerful railroad with powerful trusts for their selfish mutual advantage.
 Despite the opposition of the greatest American trust, the Standard oil com pany, with it's manifold agencies for att tempting to arrest legislation inln1ieal to it's purpose, a measure has been en- acted freeing from prohibitive internal revenue taxes alcohol for use in man. ufactures and the arts and as a source of energy for heating, lighting and mo- tor purposes-a provision which it Is predicted will be, of greater importance in mechanics and domestic economy than any other single statute past in 1 generations.
 | A national employers liability act for the protection of railroad employees is not the least important of the measures past, in it's widespread and benefcent effect upon many thousands of Ameri- can wokingmen.
 MIR. LILIEY'S ADDRESS.
 Gentlemen of the Convention:
 THE NATIONS PROSPERITY.
 Standing in this place two years ago Senator Platt spoke of our then pros perity as marvellous; as having surpast all expectations; as having challenged the attention and admiration of the world, And yet, brief as in the time that has since elapsed the country has taken strides forward that even that great Connecticut statesman did not seem to anticipate.
 Our greatest danger now is that we will forget the continued need of wise legislation and permit ourselves tc drift luxuriously on the crest of the wave; that we will take for granted this national success and desert the watch towers.
 Make no mistake. We have gone or breaking all previous records because we have gone on striving, and partic. ularly because we have adhered to wise laws and continued to choose wist rulers. Remember, if you are tempted Iby the spacious argument of the so. called tariff reformer, Lincoln's simple but lucid exposition of the protective tariff principle: If we buy at home we have both the goods and the mon. ey; If we buy our goods abroad wt have the goods and they have our mon ey."
 What is this amazing prosperity O which we speak? From 1900 to 19Oj the capital invested in our manufac turing industries increast from $5, ,150, 000,O00 to S54O0, ,OOO,00O q give the fig ures in round numbers). The nmber O wage earners increast from 2,SOO,O0O tt S300,000; the salaries and wages O clerks and wage earners increast iron $1400,0OO,O0O to $19OO,0 ,0O0, 900; the cost O materials used from $4.00O0. .0OO, 900 tt $5,2OO, 100000; and the value of our pro duets grew from S6,SOO, O0O, 900 to 5000, 100000. Mark that this concrete evi dence of our stupendous leap forwart is only in manufacturers. The story O our farms and their products. and o
 the mortgages paid of, and of tn homes built, and of the public institu tions multiplied and enlarged woul tell similar story.
 PROSPEROUS CONNECTICUT.
 We do not need to go away iron home for evidence of this prosperity Take the manufacturers of Connecti cut. The increase in the value of ou manufactured products during tn same period, 19oo-1sO5, was s44,OOO, ,eOo-