The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-17
TYPOTHEHAE BANQUET.
BRILLIANT CHEERING AT TON
 TINE LAST EVENING,

Dr. Phillips Eloquent - MT. Ellis
 Hopes for Arrangement With Press
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 ,Festooned in the folds of Old Glory, the benevolent features of Benjamin Franklin looked smilingly down on brilliant array of intelligence at the Tontine hotel last evening, It was the eighteenth annual banquet of the Con necticut typothetae, and the oratory, Wit and philosophy of the occasion shone with a splendor and effulgence that always marks these gatherings of the typothetae, and which always leaves an illumination of the mind and heart. The employees sat in happy jux- deposition with the employers, and 1t was remarked that no matter what po- sition a man may occupy in the print ing world, still man is man for all that"
 Governor Rollin s. Woodruff spoke on the dignity and importance of the printers calling; President Flavel S. Luther, of Trinity college, Hartford, remarked fervently upon the impor- tance of industrial education; Isaac M. Blanchard, of New York, discours- ed upon the importance of properly and precisely estimating the price of products; Rev. Dr. Watson L. Phillips, of this city, eloquently illuminated the importance of character-of manhood dn the relations of employer and en- ployed; President George H. Ellis of the National typothetae spoke of the prospects of peace in the printing in- dustry, and John Mcintyre, secretary of the National typothetae, asserted that the typothetae accomplished what it set out to do in the late disagree ment with the typographical union
 The menu was a dainty consumma- tion, devoutly attended to, and relish eG.
 Wilson H, Lee was the toastmaster, and opened the post-prandial exercises by calling upon the assemblage to sing America" And they sang it, too. Sang 1t with vim and sonorousness that is only known to printers when in hap py and jubilant state of mind and the well1in rang with the concordant vibra tions. In introducing Governor Wood ruff, MT. Lee said that his excellenoy was one of the first friends he had made when he came to New Haven, and that friendship had been continu- ed until the present time. He said that he had found Governor Woodruff sincere. honest, upright and absolutely square in his dealings with all men. This remark was received with tumul- tuous applause.
 Governor Woodruff, after indulging in several button-b button witticisms, said:
 have been governor only a week, and discover that one of the duties of my office not prescribed by the consti- tuition is to be an after-dinner speaker for Connecticut.
 It seems that am expected not only to attend all the dinners, eat all the dinners, and drink all the wines, S51rAsto make speeches on every sub- 1ect under the sun,
 This continual round of feasting, drinking and oratory looks to me like a put up job to make me an ex-gov- ernor as soon as possible-but I want to tell you that the ex-goVernors of Connecticut are hardy lot, and not easily put under the ground-or under the table. Daughter and applause.)
 Your business is one that all must recognize, because it enters into the very heart of civilization, and nothing can be accomplished without the print CT.
 The printer puts dress suit on our stationary, our catalogue and our pros pectus. We attract attention to our business by aid of the printing art. If we want to talk to 100000 people in one day we write one letter, and the printer makes the rest possible.
 The art which preserves all arts is the one to which humanity is indebted for freedom, and advancement. The printing press ran ahead of the states man and the soldier, and made the sentiment that made this republic. Benjamin Franklin and his craft, did me educational work of the Revolu- ton.
 Printing is so closely woven into our civilization that if we lost 1t, the whole fabric of our modern economy would fall to pieces.
 This association of master printers, or the employers of printers, is, un- derstand, 8 union of employers for the interchange of views on matters of printing and for mutual protection and prosperity You employ labor. What your plans are in relation to labor and the hours of labor, do not know; nor am I invited to discuss any question of labor and capital, more than to say that I believe the success of one means the success of the other, and that true harmony results from square deal on each side. Labor is a great prob lem, and no one man. nor any body of men can adjust it with perfect jus tice and satisfaction, without the intel ligent, honest cooperation of the em- ployer and the employed.
 Two people pulling in contrary direc- tions will never help each other. Nei- ther can any house, nor any industry stand that is divided against itself.
 A spirit of antagonism can only work for evil, and whenever that spir- 1t shows itself, either on the side of capital, or on the side of labor, it should be condemned.
 Labor and capital will probably never perfectly agree, any more than two partners can perfectly agree, yet la bor and capital can meet each other half way, as two sensible partners meet and come to a fair understanding, each admitting the rights of the other, and respecting the position of each othei.