The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-21
sai4 1dr. Hill:

tnx the city of Nara in 5apan. It is the religious city Of that great empire, Tor ik is a great empire of SO, ,0oo. .0oe people I visited their Buddhist temple. There were two statues. one was the statue of Buddlaa sitting in calm contemplation It stands SO or 50 feet high It is of hnun&e or copper. I do not 1rnnw which, Right along efEze af if is wooden sta tue 6fs the war god. stationed here to protect the calm. contsm pIative, peaceful Hdddha- The war god is elothed In all the panoply of War-
 -sAround them both is re31tnx and when the Japa- neae come to that great temple 10 say their prayers and to call down upon thHrnseiree tha blessing of thA Almighty, as they view lk, FuAHead of doing as we dp Ns4er hAre thsir prayers printed on little strips of ti1Hue paper,
 Tney roll them up int their mouths as we boys in school used to make spit balls, and they throw them at the War god, believing chat if the paper sticks the. ~af god wtlI intereede with Buddha and their prayers VIII be answered.
 'If the waf1s do not stick and f@ to the ground they accept the situation calmly Some of them try 1t over again and some of them go AwHy.
 Weil. what ce it2 Do you know that ever since | came hack from that trip I haxe been thinking that. zhere was a similarity. a very great similarity among a good many Americans. They take their prayers, their prayers of envy of Jealousy to those who are prosperous in this world and throw them at the prosperous ones, digging down into the muck and muck rakanE in the fifth of slander. Jealousy and envy fin tlae hope that what they throw will stick. that their prayers will be ansW cred / Believing that if they fall to the ground no harm has been done
 What Is the moral of it hare not told you that story for fun The moral of it is right here. I know that it is not a popular thing to say but the moral of 1T is that the people of Connecticut Mith the larg- est industry that we have
 chat is paying us mil Hons and millions in taxes, are mot dealing fairly with the New York. New Haven and Hartford Railread and have not been for the past months and year
 That Is my 5udgnenf and 1 am not afraid to say ft. I am not afraid to say here that every single, ssoli- tary one of the men that have co4stftuted the direc- torafe of that road .s < man we would be sszG to have advise LIE personally in re- gard to our own affairs.
 -I am going to leave that right there I want you to think it over I wish to say one more thing.
 attended a meeting. of the stockholders of the New York. New Haven and Hartford Ralfroad Com pany few weeks ago. The clements were all ready for an explosion. It did not come Why2 From the .apn1ent the gavel struck upon The table and the meeting was called to orr der ex@ry person there knew that Howard Elliott whether he knew how to run and manage and con trol a railroad or not knew how to run manage and control himself And that was great victory
 Hills speech was n Dec 30, at the Hotel But New Haven and il known to him, for an friends was J Henry I lion for Hill was so gl managed a campaign gressman to the Unite
 Mr. Hills affection New Haven is sing paints as vivid a pictul and what he stands for the directors, and who stood for.
 So far the medi agreement that the we 1nrinm nnd if 16ol<s lilxl