The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-31
NEK ENa1ANp,s FurURE.

before a Stratford audience in the old | Congregational church upon the sub ject of the industrial future of New England. It should be read with care not alone by the manufacturers of the State of Connecticut but by the men who are from time to time called to act for the people in their capacity as legislators. Under the new order of things industrial prosperity is no long CT entrusted to the hands of those whose money is invested. The govern ment seeks to take a share in the re- sponsibility, with what success the next few years will tell us. We are un- dergoing revolution and the outcome of revolutions is very rarely under stood or seen-in advance.
 Congressman Hill traces with care the drift of manufacturing enterprises to the bases of manufacturing sup plies. Tn a few years he predicts that the center of manufacturing will be in eastern Indiana, where but seven years ago it was located in central Ohio The fact that the middle west is al- ready nearest to the sources of supply of raw material and the domestic mar ket provokes the liveliest interest in the future of this section of the coun- try. We do not understand MT. Hill to be in any way pessimist with re- gard to New England's future but as practical man he marshals before l him the dangers which are sure to present themselves if We rely egotis- tically upon our superior intelligence and our intimacy with divine Prov idence. It is not going to be an easy task to hold to that which should be ours, but it is to be a task of achievement if the love of the battle overtakes us and holds us. It was not an easy task for former genera tions of strong and confident men to show the world the wizardry of their outlook. They builded and they never wearied in the task of building, de- pending more and more upon the stimulant which is best found in well directed self interest. They Won vic-
 tories and then clung to the legitimate spells of the outcome It is to these
 qualities of mind, if we understand
 MT. Hill aright he makes his appeals
 while the industrial stage of action shifts its scenery from the old to the new centers.
 Congressman Hill is frank to con-
 fess that when the proposal was first made to increase the powers of the interstate commerce commission he
 voted against it. At the second at-
 tempt of a strenuous administration
 to impose it's enthusiastic views upon
 Congress he voted with it, not because
 he believed it saw more clearly into
 the economic future but because the
 enactment of the law sought would
 the sooner bring it to the attention of
 the Supreme court, which would de-
 eide for all time the power of Con-
 gress "to regulate commerce among
 the States" MT. Hill says he no more
 believes in the power of Congress to
 regulate the rates a railroad may
 charge than 1t has to regulate the
 price of the commodities transported
 He still relies upon the simple doc
 trines which have united to make this
 the greatest producing nation in the world, the simple doctrines which left
 to the \ individual, either working
 alone or working in common with his fellows, the development of his invest
 ment. We would say in a familiar phrase that the congressman from ths . Fourth district is a believer, as The
 Journal and Courier is, in the gospe
 If enlightened selfishness." Nor does
 he omit to remind the administration that in it's legal undertaking to con. trol the national banking system i has never yet undertaken to fix the , rates at which notes should be dis
 counted or exchange sold though sucl
 rates vary from two to twenty pel
 cent. in different parts of the coun try. While he dissents from the atti 3 ltude of the administration in its de |, termination to increase the powers 0 the federal machinery over men an( things, he is not frightened for Nev 3 England if New England prepares it 9 self Changes will be inevitably intro . duced, if the right of the governmen 9 to interfere is sustained by the high - est court in the land, but they cal S be met and turned to good accoun . if New England seeks its opportunit 3 and makes the most of it.
 e We have not the space to conside . the four sources of the prosperit b which await us if the new order o 5 things is approved by the expounder O of the constitution. One is, however - impressive on account of the attitud 2 of the administration at present to s lr,.nrds tla,,a narnnalu the railrnads an