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been one that has imipressed itself very much upon me. In 

 a city government like ours, which is founded upon ideas of 

 democracy, the responsibility, private responsibility of every 

 man for his share of public opinion, is almost overwhelm- 

 ing. Public opinion is a good deal stronger than the law. 

 You cannot enforce the law successfully very long unless it 

 is acceptable to public opinion. It is at the very bottom of 

 it. If every one in the city of Hartford decides to break the 

 law, the law will be broken, and the jury will prevent any 

 prosecutor from getting a conviction under the law. You 

 cannot indict a population if public opinion does not support 

 law. You cannot implant a high standard of conduct or 

 morals by legislation. If we could, our troubles would be 

 easy of solution, because all we would have to do would be 

 to get the General Assembly to pass a general enactment and 

 the millenium would be attained. It will not come that way. 

 It will come in the old-fashioned way of each man appre- 

 ciating his individual responsibility and working out the sal- 

 vation of himself and his community at one and the same 

 time. 



Now I did not come here to preach. Air. Chairman. Dr. 

 Luther is a preacher. But I could not discuss fruit and 

 there did not seem anything else for me to say. I came here 

 to represent the city of Hartford, and to tell you what I have 

 told you in the name of the city, and to express the deep in- 

 terest of Hartford in the work which you are doing. In 

 closing, therefore, let me express once more the pleasure, 

 not only of myself as representing the cit}', but I know of 

 a great many of our citizens at the honor of your visit, and 

 to further express to you a very, very cordial welcome with- 

 in the city gates of Hartford. 



I thank you. (Applause.) 



The Toastmaster : The state of New York is a large 

 state, and adjoins the state of Connecticut. Whether we ad- 

 mit it or not, it is a great state, the Empire State. It also 

 has some prominent men. It has some newspaper men, and 

 we of Connecticut give credit for the size of these newspa- 



