Connecticut western news., 1911-05-25
GRINDER ELOQUENT
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 masterly, interesting, scholarly and in- structive presentations of economic facts ever given in Canaan, and an oratorical feast.
 The announcement made by Mir. Gillette, on adjourning the session, that MT. Chandler had consented to deliver the Memorial Day oration in the Town Hall, next Tuesday, was greeted with loud and long applause.
 In the course of his address Mir Chandler said. in part:
 We are living in an age of readjust- ment. We are passing through the so- called industrial revolution. That revo. lution began in the latter part of the 18th century with the application of the flying shuttle to the process of weaving, and the use of coal in the process of smelling. It has waxed wonderful in the closing decades of the 10th century and the opening decade of the 20th cen tury. Industry is no longer carried on i'll little shops with one employer, three or four employees and one or two ap- prentices. Transportation is no longer conducted by the stage coach, the OK team and the post-boy. Homes are no longer lighted by tallow candles made by the housewife.
 "Now we have the American Brass Company, with more than $2o,O00.0O0 capital, operating a series of factories up and down the Naugatuck Valley. Now we have the New Haven Railroad, under a single head, furnishing service from New York city to Northern Maine. Now we have our homes lighted by gas or electricity. furnished by some central corporation, or by kerosene oil, furnished by still greater corporation.
 "Then, men lived largely in their own homes in villages or rural communities.
 "This is what is meant by the In dustrial Revolution It is marvellous. It is inspiring. It is grand. There is nothing in it to be frightened at, noth- ing in it to be thrown into panic over, nothing in it to execrate. Our Mellens, our Morgans, our Rockefellers, our Krupps and our Carnegies-these so- called captains of industry-are wilful, commanding, dominant personalities. They are the organizers, the builders. They are imperious and self-willed, as strong men always are. They are re- gardless and impatient of little obstacles and small competitors, as conquerors al- ways are.
 "It is a revolution-that is all. The met result is human progress and human well-being.
 But no conquerer, captain, organizer, or builder can he left to work his own will. It is the province of society, the province of government, the province of legislation to use this consumma te genius, to harness it, to make it serve mankind. P
 And here do we find our supreme and perplexing problem-how to put the new wine into these old bottles how to frame new laws to fit new conditions on old and safe and we'll tried principles.
 "It is not problem to be solved by the demagogue, or the declaimer, or the trucker, or the tool, or the coward. It is to be solved by the bold, upstanding men, not afraid to do justice to corpor- ation at the cost of popular disfavor, and not afraid to do justice to the people at l the cost of corporate disapproval.
 "It is out of this process of putting in the new wine that all sorts of fads and nostrums and isms grow. The socialist, the recaller of judges, the experimenter i'll the initiative and referendum, the single taxer, all these generally honest and ddisinterested enthusiasts have sprung up, as it were, over night in this rich and fruitful soil.
 Be cautious. my friends weigh them : all well don't be stampeded of, your feet by the passing shriek; don't be captivated by alluring generalization {; don't rush off into every new movement that looks good. Remember Burke g maxim that mo difficulty exists in what has never been tried The old princi- ples of representative government, the old principle ot the delegation ot repre- sentative power to administrative boards and commissions. the old principles of the Constitution-theseu up to the present time have been equal to every strain that has been put upon them. They have solved and are solving tn problems ? that arise. The recent decisions of the supreme court, the series of great acts ? for the regulation of corporations that , have been put through congress, the , measures now pending in our own legis. lature-I refer to the creation of a pub ] lio utilities commission and the passage of workmens compensation act-all } these show that our government as it } now exists and as it was set up by the fathers is equal to the problems of the , age. Don't be pessimlsts, don't lose hope, don't give way TO hatred and ! jealousy and fOrebOding. Look rather