Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-06
COMMUNICATIONS.
The Same ola State House.


 othe Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 A New Haven paper says 1t is to be de- stroyed. What is it? Wait a minute. It is the same thing which a large popular vote many months ago voted by great majority for the city to accept as gift and to repair it creditably to the extent of $65, ,OO0 and present it to the city again as monumental
 historic memorial. It was a we'll considered suggestion and should be we'll carried out;
 and it might well be added that If more money were needful for the best of material and the perfect restoration of it's fine old original design, citizens might have the priv
 ilege of a voluntary and free contribution. Multitudes of our citizens would rejoice in @ suitable restoration of this historic memorial,
 unrivalled in our city for it's classical excel fence, including it's roomy halls of great util- ity and value. There would be eome sense in such memorial, and well done 1t would
 be "a thing of beauty and joy" Let it be well done. Is it too late nows Who is the stood against the project kicking in the dark so long). Can we explains Who may be supposed to have an interest so hostile to New Haven as to be willing to cut off from It's sight so many ancient elms, so many of New Haven's June and summer living lights and shadows, to quench them forever and to substitute for their beauty and their life line of snoring dormitories. And is this all of the same offenders offences for New Ha- ven to complain off See we not who are med itating to show us how other lines of sleep CTS are coming to the fronts That very front and further on; if so be there shall be found fools enough in New Haven willing to sell their birthright. And what is the conside- ration:
 Tips and tpsineSs, and rah rah, rahS
 Stupid starers and their loud huzzahs.
 Is this the coin of suitable exchange for the -J1 0izLz IL IT, ] roofs and columns and all their stately halls, and their historic reminders of our fathers, "their altars and their fires, and all the green graves of our sires and of our native land" o friends and foes Gf foes there bel let the reform be carried out and the building per fected to stand. Stand firmly, like the mountains which surround us-stand forever if it may. But let no recreant New Haven hand be upon it, except it be to strengthen, to adorn and protect our only grand, archi- tectura1, historic memorial. Reverse all this, would we do it, and soon behold yet another line of sleepers advance yet further to the front upon New Haven's central Green (which once was, and then the college campus). Do we not hear them think; "we | will have it yet" There are James and Jamtres already gibbering for it, as if to say | men may come and men may go, but Yale and yell live on forever. But citizens, are we not city and just clear right to ! corporation life as college hssa Yes, citi | zens, and as city, have we not some right \ to memorials of our own. We plead for our | own memorial to-day. It may not be \ thought much in the programme of fac- \ tion, which may educate itself to pull down | our symbols and leave very little more than ! an uncertain scamp-us of an outline to tell
 us where we were. We tell you, citizens, beware of the programme which is being prepared. Don't you see what they wants
 It is not so much the building that they care
 about as the place where 1t stands. We care for the building and that, in this case, holds
 the land in spite of sophistry. They (natur-
 ally enougb) as they pass the building utter their "ugh. ugh" They see the case plain
 enough. They destroyed their own park
 that they may make reasons for claiming ours, and they are coming for it. Will they get ita If so, then protect the grand old building. OBSERVER