The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-21

the quality of the goods you sell to the people, you will be opening up new fields of investment and profit that will be more of an Incentive for you to serve the public and hope for better days for yourselves, Don't loose sight of the fact that the more money that Ia kept circulating amongst Your peo- pie at home the more they have to spend and the more they will buy, Con slder then for a moment the millions that are being taken away yearly rom the eastern states to enrich the farm CTS and cattle rascrs ot the south and west, large proportion of which ou2ht to be kept amongst our own peo- pie and would be so kept If we could ! be brought to a realization of the fact that where there Is a will there Ia way,
 One way to bring about this result Is for you gentlemen to educate the peo- pei Into calling for homemade pro- duets and home-raised produce, that Ia used on the family table
 1 Is It not fact that the most success ful buelness men among you are those who have the name of handling high grade goods This being true does 1t mot follow that If your customers call for high grade goods UT one kind they will also ,all for another fl they know you have it, The remedy then, gentle men, rests with yourselves, but only by united action can you hope to obtain the relief you seek.
 l Don't be slaves to single thought with Juet as good brains, brawn and muscle as that of any other clasI of men on earth. but did He not intend that you should use 1t to just as good advantages? Tho business world seems to have but little sympathy for the men who whimper but great admira- ton for the ones who in spite of all difficulties finds the way to success. 1 There ls one thing certain the world cannot do without you; you are the medium through which a large propor- ltlon of tho manufactured and farm 1 products arc distributed to the con- sumers; you are the men who pay such large proportion of the taxes that helps to keep tho town. city and state governments supplied with the funde that protects and educates the people and you are the ones that so often listen to the knock of sweet char lily at your doors and go willingly sup ply the needs of the poor.
 have cndeaVored in the few re- marks have made to call your atten- tlon to a few important suggestions that trust will be of some value to you in framing Issues that will he of benefit to youi line of business as well as tu others.
 But permit me to warn you that you can make as many Issues as possible; you may talk about what ought to and could be done but there Is one thing certain and that Is that you can ac- complsh nothing without a strong or- ganlzatlon supported by every member. working in complete harmony for the best interests of tho trade And as this seems to be an age when all lines of business rests upon the organized force back Of lt, working in accord with
 
 must your association in order to hope for success stand by the men upon whom you place the responsibility of bringing about tho reforms you may, as an association ask for. Let us re- member then. gentlemen. in our delib- erations this afternoon, that we arc living in ono of the finest states of our great country; that the average intel- ligenco of her men and women stands
 second to none; that upon her rugged
 hills and fertile valleys, rests the precious mother earth, where is still , an opportunity for her people to be re- , leased from trust bondage and thelr
 independence assured.
 , After tho meeting l., C. Pfaff of thii
 city invited the members to inspect thu Connecticut Fat Rendering plant or . Derby avenue.