The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-13
ADVICE TO BUSINESS MEN.

ADVICE TO BUSINESS MEN.
 Mayor William F Henney, of Hart ford Rev Artemas J. Haynes, and | Hon. Stiles Judson, of Bridgeport, are | all three of them orators. They made i rousing good speeches at the recent i banquet of the Business Mems Asso- citation, but that was perhaps due less to their ability to talk than to their ability to think They had message to 1 give each had message distinctive of his calling; and any man can be- come more of an orator when he has a real message and when that mes- sage concerns things he knows of m- timately.
 Each of the messages of the three speakers is worthy of emphasis. Mayor Henney urged the only true principle of municipal government as being that in which party politics do not enter. He called for central control In the hands of one man who shall have both the power to act and the responsibility for the results in his respective line and called on his hearers, of whatever party, to give Mayor Martin that pow CT. He ridiculed the idea of police, fire and other hoarda r,ade up half of Re- publicans ai.l halr 1f Democrats, say ing that the members should be chos- en for their particular fitness as busi- ness men for the work In hand not for their allegiance to this or that na- tional party. Never was sounder advice given Mayor Henney asked that the business men come to the aid of their municipality the way the business men do in Glasgow That, he said, could accomplish more wonders than con- stant charter changes, sought at the hands of the legislatures, could ever bring.
 Mir. Haynes naturally and fittingly took the preachers standpoint in rela- ton to the business men Incidentally he gave President Roosevelt a big puff, saving that he thought in years to come he would be placed at the side of Abraham Lincoln as a Presi- dent who had done as much for this country. As Lincoln will be everlast- ingly thanked for his abolition of slav- cry methods, so will Roosevelt be thanked for his abolition of wrong l business methods But MT Haynes especial message was to urge his hear CTS of the business world to get out of ruts," especially the rut of strenu- osity. To he sure, the advice jared a little with his preceding eulogy of the demigod of strenuosity at Wash | ington, but it was sound nevertheless. I "A man" he said who loads him. self up with business cares SD that he l has no time for his home, his wife, his boys. for the improvement of his finer capacities of mind and intellect, to say nothing Of his neglect of his church obligations, is making the most tragic mistake of his life. lt is thing of the greatest importance that man should strive to his utmost but it Is equally as important that he should never try to go beyond that
 The lobby in the legislature last spring, which collided with Governor Woodruff, was the target for MT. Jud- sons winged words and they winged their way straight to the mark, too, so 1 we'll. in fact, that some action on his advice on the part of the association may we'll be looked for. The telephone company, the companies with trans portation franchises that are too broad
 Ono names had to be mentioned) and the corporations which make fictitious reports of their bond issues, came ir
 for their knocks" when the prosecut. ing attorney of Fairfield county arose to speak He said the public utilities
 commission had only reluctantly beer created by the legislature after an un.
 heard-of threat on the part of the gov. ernor to call special session, if il
 were not appointed Even when ere.
 ated ii was not expected that it woulC
 be other than a fgure-head commis,
 sion. That is because the lobby and
 the professional politicians say: No
 NIT. Judson urged the business men
 association to send representatives |,
 the public hearings that this commis
 sion will be compelled to give, there f,
 give voice to a mighty tide of protest in company with other business men
 associations about the State. agains
 the wretched condition that Connecti
 cut finds herself the cradle of liberty
 in regard to public utilities and cor poration franchise-granting.
 II win be interesting to see just ho7