Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-09
BOARD OF TRADE BANQUETS
Annual Event Held Wauressn House Monday Evening Capt Charles L Poor Tells of Unpreparedness of United States.

committee takes it up and votes for or against it. 1t is then reported to the house and after the chairman of the co1nmittee states the facts as he sees them the bill is open to discussion. At the discussion considerable range is allowed, but woe to the man who tries to get away with something that isn't true.
 Some Characters in the Legislature.
 NTr. Healy discussed the legislature, hardly introduced before the orator holds sway and. like Tennyson's brook, he starts at the beginning and goes on forever. Then we have chap who in the bat of an eyelash can look around the house and vote with the majority.
 Then we have the fellow who has nothing to say, and is always saying it. He's got to get his name in the papers somehow. We call him MT. Publicity.
 Then we have the enthusiastic chap out what Is going to happen, and he wants the credit for 1t when it does happen.
 And then we have the man who goes up to Hartford with political ambitions in his noodle, and he is running around all the time, inquiring: How do you want me to vote on this question?
 These are some of the characters that pass across the stage in Hartford, but of course they are only freaks. The A1Cn yOu S6nQ to are men well qualified in their views. They un- deTstand the true relation of the gov- ernment to the public. Every man must work ort his own salvation.
 In the Connecticut general assembly there are blows to take and blows to give, and men sometimes find them selves in a position where it is hard to do public duty.
 Who are the men on the finance com mittee? I went over Connecticut with a fine tooth comb to get men to serve on that committee. For the first time in ten years Connecticut is not only Taying it's running expenses but it ex- poets to reduce its debt this year by two millions. Connecticut will get 100 cents fer every dollar she expends.
 A Tribute to Our Representatives.
 Referring to the fight the citizens of Norwich put up in their successful ef- fort to preTsnt the separation of the town, MT. Healy paid tribute to Rep resentatives Albert J. Bailey and Jo- sepb Henderson, whom he styled as nome missionaries.% If the people of the country had the patriotism Hen derson and Bailey showed in their love for their home city, said MT. Healy, our friend here (Capt. Charles L. Poor) | would not have to speak on prepared ness.
 take some pride in the laws in | which I was instrumental in getting | passed, such as the worizmen's compen- 1 sation act, etc, but I get the greatest satisfaction from the thought that in a small measure I have been a link be- | tween what Connecticut has been in the past and what Connecticut is go- ing 10 be in the future.
 Tho men who represent you in the l legislature have the spirit of the fa- thers. (Applause,)
 | SOME OF OUR OPPORTUNITIES l Ae fhA T7a--% %o, 1 introduced Rev. William A. Keefe ot 1 Plainheld
 It seems to me my dear friends. said | Father Keefe, on an oecast6n of this sort, assembled under the auspices ot | the Norwich Board of Trade, 1t would of the opportunities to which MT l HealY has referred,
 Just think of tho wonderful oppor.
 tuntties in this great country of ours
 Eais great republic has grown bJ
 leaps and bounds until today 1t giori.
 fles in three millions of soiare mile. 1 with population of 0 hundred mil. | lions. Think too of the maryeiouG | wealth of our various industries, Jus
 recall some of the statistics on cer.
 calls. Here Father Keefe quoted sta, l tistics showing that our annual cerea l crop Is worth six and a half billions
 and that we produce e6 per cent of tn,
 petroleum used or found in the world | 60 per cent of the copper 40 per cen
 of tho coal and iron. S2 per cent of thu
 lead and zinc. Minnesota gives to tn,
 millions of barrels of wheat flour, sai,
 Father Keefe He spoke of the grea
 wealth of our forests sending out thei
 one and quarter billions of dollar
 worth of lumber to the needs of tn
 world. These my friends are a fev
 dry statistics taken ct random con
 corning the opportunities of our ceun
 try.
 Organizations like yours, said Fath
 CT Keefe, are the organizations tha
 have developed these industries an,
 opportunities. Recall the industr,
 and thrift of the pioneers of New Eng
 land and the pioneers of the great an
 golden west. These ideals. thes ! achievements ought to appeal to tn great businessmen of the world, We have too sentimental Ideals 6
 glorious patriotic ideals of this eeun
 try, the wonderful patriotism tha
 burned in the hearts of the pioneer of this. our state. the best state in tn best country in the world.
 conneetieut's Reply to the Gall. When the Star Spangled Banne needed support 1t was son of Nor wich, Governor Buckingham, who sen
 back the reply that "ConneetIcut send ! was accustomed to call son of Leb , anon Brother Johnathan, Joianatha Trumbuu. We find that sons of Nor wich followed Isreal Putnam in tn } fullf11ment of his obligations, When the president of the, Unite States, if hA needs volunteers to de fend this great and glorious countr!
 calls for volunteers, he can turn agai ? to the state of Connecticut and Wood row Wilson will find that volunteer from the democratic. republican an the progressive parties and the answe l | will go back to the White Hous 3 Where our country goes, there we ge where our flag goes there we go also, Father Keefe then went on 70 veil { some of the many products of induE tries in this state. and in his reciti ] he enumerated products that are use constantly in the daily life of the a1 craze citizen, and everyone of the pro : ducts manufactured right in Connet [ ticut.
 After enu1nerating the various prC ducts that a person has need for fro the time he gets out of bed in tl morning until he has passed beyor the line Father Keefe said his epitaE | ia TUFikfaT7 oFa rFaS1i4A fI,FS11 TVaa4apl