The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-07

gettlng It. MT. Ford wanted reIorm to the old scheme that he might enjoy his victuals better afer speaking
 Carlyle had neighbor who had a squeaking peacock which squeaked only once day. He objected because he was always dreading that one squeak Similarly I have been, in a way, exhausted as have been walt ing here for my chance to squeak.
 T had friend who came to ho- tel and leaned over the bar (laughter) -I mean desk, and learned that the rates for clergymen were a dollar a day extra, because they did not pat ronize the bar. Similarly you can i'm agine how much harder 1t is for me without the bar privilege to sit here and await my turn to speak.
 T have taken for my subject How to Get Out of Ruts,' not into ruts. The thing that suggested this to me was drive last summer on Cape Cod. There l found signs saying Don't Drive in the Ruts." The horse and the wheels naturally seek the ruts. The thought came to me: Here Is a lesson in clti- zenship.' The driver there thought, Why should I put myself to lncon- venience for the sake of the roads of the community But isn't that just the principle of government. this go- ing to self-sacrifice that the welfare of the community may be conserved? T was keenly interested in Mayor Henny's talk about the municipal schemes of the day. Didn't Prof. Emery say before this association not long ago that the need of the hour was The Golden Man
 We don't need to go to the Bible to show the need of getting out of ruts in society and in everything 1 think the democrats ought to have a chance one in fifty years at least. | (Laughter). We did not turn out the old administration primarily because it was bad, but because even a good custom may be improved upon. The thing that we have to-day is made out of the thing of yesterday, and 1t is | the thing out of which the thing of to- | morrow will be built
 T want to enter a protest against | the idea of change, all the time l change The peter thing of to-mor- row is to be made out of the imper- | feet thing of to-day. Endeavor in l government to get out of ruts. l say. Endeavor the same in your business, | ] add. We are going through many changes. We were never caught in things ecclesiastical as we are to-day, but 1t is the same in every line of ac- tivity. Don't talk of this country hay ing exhausted our resources. believe l there are resources as yet un- scratched.
 T believe President Roosevelt is 1 doing the one great service that has l been done since Abraham Lincoln stood in his place--Lifting the busi- ness of the country to higher level. "
 MT. Haynes read clipping from what President Eliit of Harvard had said of President Roosevelt eulogizing | him. It ran:
 l Theodore Roosevelts name will live long when we and all of this gener- ation have passed In dust and oblivion. he said. He is one of the great presi- dents. Already he towers high among the men who have occupied that chair from Washington down.
 "A great man and so recognized in his own time, how may his fame grow as we read from the day of his achievements He has done and Is doing a great work Both the work and the doer will be remembered and appreciated in the years to come.'
 T think he said, that no body of business men should get together this way without endorsing Mir. Roosevelt's activities.
 There is one word that would al ways speak to such a company as this | Is. II Is 'strenuousness. The gospel of hard work Is never the final, the best gospel. Remember 1t Is always more haste, less speed When we were children we sometimes tried to hurry and undertook loads that were too large. We stumbled and fell under the weight. It took us longer than If we had gone at it in sensible way. tell you, gentlemen, go to men for this and that in my church and am met with the universal answer, ! am too busy A man who loads himselr up with business so he has no tune for his home. wife, boys, the finer cap acitles of mind and intellect. to say nothing of church, is making the great tragic mistake of life. The most Inn portant thing is that man should dc his utmost but the next Is that he should never go beyond that
 Tt rests with you. I ask this asso- clatlon to appoint it's representatives to appear before this commission at the public hearing to be held soon and to make their demands known. It IS the question paramount in my mind in the next two years of Connecticut lire Connecticut has the right men. She grows them still. Gentlemen, let there be concert of action upon this public question. Now Is the time and now Is the hour Let that commission be ap- i pointed and let it he supported. Let not apathy reign between the sessions of the assembly. To, knock at the doors of the assembly and walk not down again till you have accomplished your mission Nave your wants known now when 1t is right for considera- ton.
 "lf it goes by now, if means more than a quarter of a century before you will have the same opportunity again Impress your views for good upon tho legislature that formulates the laws under which you live.
 The banquet committee, designated in the menu. as "The Real Toilers" wal as follows:
 Edward | Atwater, chairman for th' thirteenth time: Louis A. Mansfield Frank J. Linsley, Samuel H Kirby Halsey w. Kelley, John B. kenned! and George D. Post.
 A part of the menu will be of genera