New Britain herald., 1916-06-02

! and it remains for us to see that
 they are thus developed with the high l est efficiency and in nationalized fash
 ion for the good of ous all.
 Must Encourage Industry.
 We must in every way encourage l industry. We must recognize in the l fullest and frankest manner the great 1 services of those exceptionally able
 men without whose leadership there
 is no progress in industry. At the
 same time we must recognize that to-
 gether with the exceptional rewards
 rightly due for exceptional service
 there must be a sincere and com
 nonsense attempt to secure the l passing around of the prosperity, a l reasonably just division of the re- | wards of prosperity. Upon our suc-
 cess in these two lines of endeavor de-
 bends the real greatness of our in
 dustrial and therefore of our national | future. |.
 Tt is for the great leaders of in | dustry and for the men of the type
 who have organized this extraordin- ary exposition to see that our course in these matters is shaped with such l good-humored sanity and at the same | time such appreciation of high ideals 1 and such perseverance, in following i them that we shall avoid the twin gulfs of disaster. We must steer be- tween them toward the realization of the hope of those who when they made this republic, made it with the expectation that it's citizens should be prosperous men and women who did justice to others and demanded justice for themselves.''
 The whole structure of the national welfare, Colonel Roosevelt said, rests on the men who do the work of industry and the men who do the work of agriculture.'
 "Of recent years," he continued, i've have grown more and more to realize that, as mere business popu- lation, while the welfare of each is primarily his own concern, yet it must be to a large extent the concern of all of us
 'As regards farming, for instance, if the soil is exhausted, then the people who draw their living from the soil will become impoverished and then the whole social structure will tOpple. It is the business of the whole community to see that the soil that has been titled for fifty years is more productive and not less produc- tive at the end of that time It is our rusiness to help the men who dwell in the open country in such fashion that not only shall their work be more productive but their lives, and especially the lives of their women and children, be led in full and satis- factory fashion,
 ''The same thing applies here in industry It is essential that indus try shall be in the highest degree productive, that is, that there shall be great efficiency, and as a necessary corollary, the ample rewards for great leadership without which such efficiency cannot be achieved. It is no less essential that justice shall go hand in hand with the efficiency; and that the great rewards paid to the captains shall be paid, not at the eX- pense of those who work under them or of the public which they serve, but as just recognition of the fact that their activities have been to the bene- fit of the public, and that the reward of these activities has been, with a measurable approximation to justice, shared with and among the people | who work for them.
 Must Consider Both Sides.
 Unfortunately there are many of 1 our people who have refused to con- | slider more than one side of this prob | lem. It can never be rightly ap- preached or satisfactorily solved un- less full consideration is given both 1 sides, unless there is a real attempt | to combine comon sense with a love 1 of fair play.
 There are some men who talk and | act as if all that is necessary Is that kind of efficiency which produces an Rot xa prosperity for the few without re- gard to the fact that it creates among many others a ranking sense of injustice which is bound in the future to work harm. On the other hand there are any number of vision aries, and of demagogues who take advantage of viSionaries; and both l these classes often talk and act as if l men who did not receive their fair | share of prosperity could somehow be benefited by having the prosperity destroyed so that they would receive no share at all.
 Both types, the type of prosper GUS man who gains his prosperity by exploiting his fellows, and the type Of unprosperous man who seeks to gratify his anger by wrecking the prosperity Of others are equally un- deSlraDle rom the StandpOlnt or the 1 republic as a whole. Moreover, nor | mally they are really of the same l type. Each denounces the views of 1 the other; and yet his own view is | merely that others, changed in form but identical in essence. The arro- l gance of the rich man who exploits 1 and expresses his fellow who is less well-off and the malignant envy and hatred with which a certain type of cgitator regards the man who is bet