Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-02-13
HARLAN WARNS RICH.
Justices Son at Lincoln Dinner
 Predicts Revolt of People.
GOVERNOR HUGHES CHEERED
Empire State Executive Serves Notice on Reaetionaries That They Will Be Impotent to Stop Correction of Abuses Bequn by American Citizens.

on Reactionariss That They Will Be
 Impotent to Stop Correction of Abuses
 Begun by American Citizens.
 New York, Feb. 13.-John Maynard Harlan of Chicago, son of Justice Harlan of the United States supreme court, startled his hearers at the Lin coin day dinner of the Republican club at the Waldorf by sounding a warning to the rich men of the nation in be- half of the weak and the oppressed.
 Mir. Harlan's speech came after an address by Governor Hughes, with the career of Abraham Lincoln as text, fin which the governor himself said some sharp things about the unscrup- ulOus rich
 MT. Harlan's speech, however, was more revolutionary in i.; character and, coming from the son of justice of the United States supreme court and confirmed self restrained re- former himself, created mild sensa- tion.
 If dishonest wealth shall not cease to exploit the ignorant and the weak" said he, "the inevitable result, sooner or later, must be that the ignorant and the weak by sheer force of num- bers will take the law into their own hands and with results which. we may well shrink from contemplating"
 Fair Play For All.
 This suggestion of socialistic up rising met with an ominous silence from the 800 guests assembled in the large ballroom of the hotel. The si- lence was not disapproval of the speak CTS prediction, but silence of refec- i tion. The speaker continued:
 ''The strong should not be held down to the level of the weak. The weak cannot be lifted up to the level of the strong. But each should have the full est opportunity under the law to de- velop to his uttermost, for the strong to exploit the weak is an injustice. To l give rein to socialism and allow the | weak to exploit the strong by limiting , his achievements would not only be injustice, but would stunt and para lyze the race and put an end to human progress.
 "It Is not unnatural that criticism and complaint should be expressed by i those who may suffer financially or in 1 a business way as the result of the regeneration of our business methods that is now going on, nor can sympa- thy be withheld from those who have 1 suffered for doing that which was the common practice of business men and what the public opinion of yesterday applauded them for doing, but the mor- al progress of the race no less than its material progress must find its ulti- mate expression regardless of individ. ual suffering"
 Lauds Roosevelt.
 "The real issue of the impending | contest is the supremacy of law. Let us realize this as clearly as our fathers realized it in 1861, when armed rebel lion threatened the fundamental law of the Union. Let us realize that the greatest menace today to the suprem- acy of law is that subtle anarchy of selfishness by the strong and crafty, sometimes secretly violating the law, at other times observing the forms of < law, would, in fact, subvert law and justice"
 Speaking of the coming campaign, MT. Harlan said:
 You may have your choice: another may have his; may have mine. Yet what matters 1t whose choice the man | is if he be the right choice? But let us realize before it is too late that no choice can be the right choice unless he is a man of whom we shall know without his saying so that he will carry out the principles of his party as faithfully as Theodore Roosevelt has done and unless he be a man who by his public and private record stands out as q militant believer in the propo. sition that the law is for all men-for the poor no less than for the rich, for the strong as we'll as the weak-and that each of us under all circumstances and in every walk of life is entitled as of right to equal opportunity with every other mar under the law"
 Views Indorsed by His Hearers.
 The name of Theodore Roosevelt was warmly applauded, as was the speak. CT when he finished. The guests had recovered from the reflection into which MT. Harlan's speech had plung. ed them and indorsed his utterances Governor Augustus E. wilIson, the first Republican governor of Kentucky since the civil war. and Congressman Morris sheppard. also spoke. Charles H Young. president of the Republican club, acted as toastmaster. and toast to President Roosevelt was drunk be. fore Governor Hughes was introduced The governor was cheered for over q minute before he began his address.
 Among the guests were Chauncey M Depew. General Horace Porter. Robert c. Ogden, Louis Stern. Herbert Far sons, Justice James A. Blanchard Rev. Percy Stickney Grant. William l. Ward. Mortimer C. AddOms. General Henry E. Tremain. Cephas Brsinerd and Timothy L. Woodruff.
 Governor Hughes warned the 'reac tionaries" and served notice on them that they will be impOtent to stop ths correction of abuses begun by ths