Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-07
take that little community by the knap of

.ake that little community by the knap of ] he neck and pull it in, without their con- ] sent, because you say they are not paying l great city of Chicago attempted to pull in all l of their outlying districts, the legislature of Illinois said you shall not force people un- l der 8 government not of their own closing, 1 and the attempt to consolidate was killed as it should have been. These people you seek | to coerce may not in one sense be paying their portion of the taxes perhaps, but tell you it is greatly for the eity's interest to for the people coming to this city, whether they come from East Haven or Brauford or Woodbridge or Orange, 1t matters not. The town ins my judgment are doing right to fares as will invite the people from these out lying districts to come to us to do businsss; and the sslectmen have done right in build- ing out these avenues, and as they have built them out, the towns have come out and built up to them and given you paved agress and ingress In and out of the city over beau tiful roads, which never would have been done had 1t not been for the board of see lectmen studying the example of other the expenses which are laid out in the sub- urban districts are too great in comparison with the taxes of the city. Do not look at it through small eyes, my friends; look at 1t in large way. What they are doing out there, is as much for our interest as It is for them in proportion. We de not compel the peo- pie of Hamden and Orange, Woodbridge and Bethany to pay taxes here in the city of New Haven, but all the same they are town gov ernments and they have their roads and bridges and we ride over them; they come here and do their trading with us and use our roads and enjoy cur beautiful city as well. The state is community of towns and interests. And when I hear people talk about tho expense out in Westville. or the expense over on the other side of the river. in connection with the great and general it is picayune in my judgment, and we ought not to think of it for moment. tell you, gentlemen, 1t is one thing to talk; it is an- other thing to be honest not only with our selves, but with these little outlying com- munities. Do not stop to ask the town gov ernmsnt whether this man is taxed 30 much, or that man taxed so much; are we not the people of one timei Is it not for the general goods You cannot have equality, as I have said; it is impossible. Inequalities will come | and exist. We must have good avenues leading to the city. The great cities of the continent of Europe, some of them at least, think so much of their great roads and ayen'
 ues that instead of keeping their prisoners | locked within the walls, they are out build.
 ing these public thoroughfares, and they dc | not stop to aek whether they are building
 them in the suburbs or whether they art
 building them through the principal portion
 of the city. It is the smallest kind of tall
 in my judgment for us a great city to dis, cuss drawing in these outlying districts against their wishes. I believe, my friend
 as we are situated, there are no great cryinl
 evils which demand that this oity should at
 tempt to overturn the government whiol
 exists to. day. A leap into consolidation is
 leap in the dark, leap of injustice-no ont
 can foresee the end or the effect. hav
 seen enough of it within the last five years 0
 my life. The history of our town and wha
 have recorded in my own memory is sol
 enn protest against the position which som
 are about to take in relations to eonsolida
 tion. My friends, as said before, lot wei
 enough alone. But should you desire on
 government, to the town you must look fo
 that government, for town cannot be des
 troyed.