The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-12
NEW HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL AND COURIER TUESDAY, NOVEMBER F. 9O7

with the sweat of his brow.
 I think we should not entrust the currency question to politicians and parties to settle, but should be a ques- tion to be entrusted to experts like MT. Shaw himself to be studied out
 You cannot pick up paper in New York without reading that the present trouble is not due to increase of in- terest or lack of gold, but is because man down in Washington has come out and simply announced that the man who is not honest to his trust must suffer the same as the miserable man who picks your pocket.
 The press has become, in part, an adjunct of that kind of business man whomSI am not afraid to cry down as dishonest.
 In New York, if we are to read the columns of the Sun and papers of it's class, we are to believe the present crisis is due to the brave and courag- eous fight of Roosevelt against dishon- .esty and our duty is to follow the old French doctrine of laisser faire and let them alone.
 If the good and bad have got to go down together it is better that they should in order that the cancer of dis honesty may go down at any rate. If that be treason, make the best of 1t. |And if it be, it is the treason of 90 per cent of the people to-day
 The honesty of the business man Is Nthe same as the honesty of the parson or the doctor.
 I would not have you think I think that the country is going to the dogs, or that the mass of our business men are worse than those of any other country, for I think they are fully as honest in the main as those of any other country, and it is my desire, as a common, ordinary voter, to see that they remain so.
 I believe these are but the growing pains of nation, working out not only its only problems, but those of world.
 Rev. Dr. Mckenzie Speaks.
 The concluding speech of the even- ing was from the Rev. Dr. Douglas Mckenzie, of Hartford, who spoke thus:
 Every great national matter in this country must be settled by the people as a whole What has MT. Shaw been discussing? Not the method of an expert presenting a subject, but he has been presenting a way that the whole people may use to settle very | technical point in its technical and in- creasingly intricate business affairs.
 One of the great facts about a de- mocracy is that the whole democracy Is educating itself, and as long as there is life at it's fountainhead de- mocracy will never consent to relegate its affairs to any exclusive class of ex- perts to settle
 Business is business, and there is a point in it where you can only allow sentiment to mingle in. it to its ruin.
 This principle means that if a man goes on employing men in his business who are incompetent, out of senti- ment 1t will be to his ruin. If a cor poration allows any man to do bust. ness except upon the mathematical and physical principles, it will be tc Its injury.
 A man must set out in business with the determination to master these principles. If sentiment, kind. Illness and the graees are to be intro. duced at all, It is our place in ths world to see how we can safely intro. duce them in harmony with these principles. And I believe that in { democracy this can best be done.
 The first instlnctive thought appeal ing to the thinking mind of demo cratic people is the question of jus tice.
 The first question people ask abou another mans action throughout the land is, "1s it just?" Injustice is tn, first thing the people will not stand People in this country want justice and want it in favor Of the man they had previously condemned when hi, turn comes. They want justice to b, known as the whole basis of our com mercial life.
 Is justice to be measured by anothe, mans necessity Does the principle o Justice in business come in here Right here, I think, is where we neet enlightenment. This will only b, solved by long years, and, I fear, lonl generations of study into the face O the sordld facts to see how we cal put soul into the mathematics of bust ness. And 1t is in just such countr, as this that 1t can best be solved, be cause it Is a matter that concerns tn whole people.
 And, then, many time comes tn question, What is 1t all worth? Ther are two places a man can find tha answer-by being sure of the socia worth of what he is doing and by ask ing himself what is the use of the wir Inings of the gains?
 I have found everywhere in m travels that all college men every where are asking themselves, T ar going to be what? It must be some thing of use" And this is an eneour aging fact.
 And wherever you find man ask ing that second question you can al ways put your hand on the shoulde of man whose head is always abov his business.
 The values of life are not all esti mated on those hard physical fact that underlie its present conditions. At the conclusion of the regula speeches Postmaster Warren calle Admiral Foote, who made few re marks, but on account of the latenes of the hour declined to many any eS tended speech.