Norwich bulletin., 1912-02-20
PRESIDENT JOSEPH D. HAvn4AND

PRESIDENT JOSEPH d. HAVTLAND
chosen to manage its business, its
finances, care for its streets, its parks,
its poor If, perchance, incompetent
or dishonest men are nominated and
elected-WhOse fault is it?
Gentlemen, it is the fault of the
fault of the criminally careless, stay
crfminally careless stay at homes,
who do not want to be mix
ed up in politics. Cities are as the
electors of that city make them. If the
city government is not as it should be,
if politics are unclean, then come out,
you that are afraid of being contain
mated, come out AID help TO make
them clean. Show your hand one way
or another, but above all things don't
sit on the fence and kick. / believe
it would be hard to say which is the
worst, being dishonest or being a
knocker.
You ask what I mean by being a
knocker?
mean man who is forever croak-
ing against the town he lives in, say
ing that no good thing can be done
there; blocking the road Of those who
are trying to make the town better.
and at the same time not advancing
any ideas Of their own. Glad we are
that we have but few living here. The
events Of the past month show that
the Rose is putting on new life and
bids fair to bring forth fairer, more
beautiful bloom than ever before.
Gentlemen, I am proud today to be
citizen of Norwich. Things have
transpired during the last month
enough to start the seemingly dead.
We have been living in a sort of com
atose, cold storage existence AS [ once
told an Englishman who asked me how
I liked Ems land: beautiful grand
country to live in. bat you are too self
satisfied. contented with the way your
fathers lived" We, too, living in one
Of the beauty spots Of the east, sur
rounded by hills and valleys. noun
talns streams and noble riVers-all
that an All Wise Father could give to
make the setting a thing of beauty,
with air as sweet as the combination
Of sea nd land breszes blowing over
the hiiltops and through the valleys
can make; with natural advantages
frr factories to manufacture, 10 bring
In and ship abroad BY both land and
water, itssping TO the minimum the
cost OF handling both raw and finished
pFadaets; closely connected with ocean
iiasrs which viii soon be loading at
The million dollar whaFves Of New
feadan, Living is like eating, too
many good things make us lazy, The
tifHe for sleeping has passed, the wills
| lies are blowing; up, laggaFds, work
has begun, Time was that the bells
veFe tsiied only after q man was
dead, New yea can have them Fung
by piaakiHg down $3.50. Men have
dsHe so, they have listened to the
music Of the bells and heard the in
quiry .'YFhe is it?'
/ teid Eau one year age that was
proud ta' be president of SO large a
body of Ren, who were never asked
how you vote or where yeu went te
church, but hoped that you did both. -
j ana inches mere proud tonight of
being the president of body Of men
| loyal to their country, their state and
| their City; paen willing to lay aside
business with its profits, alse personal
Measure joining hand to hand sheul-
| der to shoulder, to further the inter-
ests Of their home city. putting their
hands in their pockets and giving free
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