The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-28

world, has boasted that within It's walls there were approximately eighty thousand citizens and more than five-hundred-thousands of slaves. Eventually the serenity of the Romans was disturbed. While they feasted and sang and scoffed at the idea of an uprising, their empire walls crumbled, their wealth was dissipated, their patric- ians were led into bondage. Slavery was dead.
 Turn to another page of history The freed man, now possessing his own soul, now able in one sense to rent his own labor, found himself in the predicament of being unable to own his own home. These were the days of feudalism. A few princes, dukes, and earls practical ly possessing the entirety of Eu- rope. held the laboring class in serfdom. There was a long and bit- ter struggle. But eventually feudal- ism passed and the dawnlight of agrarian liberty rose in all its re- splendence.
 Soon there developed the third otA oS6aV III tAC hl5tOky VI tAlC AhbOk class. This time we find 1t rais- ing its head in the period of the French Revolution. It manifested it. self in the Reform Bills written upon the pages of British History It matured in all its grandeur and beauty under the leadership of George Washington. These were the days when men fought for and won the right to political liberty.
 The present generation is not without its problem. Those who care to feast and dance and drown out with their gay music the thous- ands of voices wailing under the lash of our present economic mis- cry may be ignorant of the turmoil, the unrest, the desparation, which is beginning to rumble outside their own circle. But just as surely as there was struggle to gain either physical or agrarian, or political liberty, we are confronted with the problem of industrial freedom which We must settle without bloodshed or else the end of the world is upon us as far as our civilization Is concerned.
 Indeed this generation shall not pass away until It's children will be reasonably satisfied that their live- lihood will not be dependent on the uncertain, uncontrolled and un- scrupulous use of mass production, and the unjust wage which Is too often bestowed upon its operators. It Is the problem of our genera ton to solve. Unless we accomplish 1t efhcicently and quickly and con- additionally; unless we read and in- terpret the signs that are every where about us, our name shall be written in history, not among the heroes of our country, but among the infamous litany of Roman em- perors.
 Never before in the history of civilization have we been confront ed with the straightforward prac- tical question of American democ- racy as we are today. Is this coun- try for the people or for the fav- ored few? Never before has any generation been confronted by the basis principle of Christianity as has this generation. Is my fellow citizen my brother? Must love him as myself? Soft words and idle promises must give way to direct action and Christian principles. This is moment when each citi- zen must lend his every effort. Let the labor leaders put aside all their passion and bitterness. Let the em- ployers realize that upon them do we rely for the soundness of their judgement.
 Keep American money for Amer ican people. It was made by the sweat of American brows. If it must be exported to help wage an industrial war against our own laborers, place an export tax upon it.
 In referring to American democ- racy, my mind reverently goes hack to the memory of one of the most outstanding men which our country has produced-A man who taught us the possibility of national devel- opment. refer to Theodore Roose- welt. If the sand dunes and cactus deserts of Arizona have been trans formed into Americas Garden o1 Eden, the credit is due to this mighty patriot who was conscien- tious enough to expend his whole thought and his whole soul upon the development of his fatherland rather than waste 1t upon the poetic ideals of figmentary interna. tionalism. The spirit of this noble American shall not perish. Some day soon our unpopulated stateI shall bloom forth in prosperity nnt