The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-06-14

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government to people of the several |
States, and would it be republican |
form of government when minority |
of only one hundred voters could die |
tate to the five hundred, outvoting the
other four hundred voters who might |
not want to come into the city?
Again, why it is that this matter is |
hurried to a vote on Tuesday, June Is, |
when not over one voter in ten has |
seen the complete copy of the act of |
consolation, and no two men out of a
hundred voters on an average could tell
you the same story If they should at |
tempt to explain the proposition? 1t |
looks very much as if the prime NOV.
ers in this whole matter were afraid to
let even the daylight of forty-eight |
hours publicity on the affair, If such |
IS the case it would be pretty good |
plan to smash the whole thing by vot-
ing No. 1t might be so that in later |
time when proposition of this kind |
comes up the people most interested
would be given an opportunity to learn
what was to be done and express their
minds upon the matter, Davy Crock !
EFT said: BE sure you are right then
so ahead" Railroads in their instruc-
tons to the trainmen put that maxim
in little different form, though it
means the same. They say: In all
cases Of doubt as to signals move very
| slow and with extreme caution, or halt
and await orders" 1t would be well
for voters of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth
and Fifteenth wards to adopt this rule
| in voting next Tuesday, and just halt
! till they know what is in it and what
is not.
The advocates of the measure can
only say (and 1t is their sole argument),
we want to get rid of this dual govern
ment and two sets of office expendi-
ture With this desire ] am certainly
in sympathy, but can any sane man
show how this annexation of itself
is going to do 1t? So long as we have
those citizens that cannot take care of
| themselves we must have a Spring
side" but the control of that with its
expense is simply transfer from town
| to city. No saving of expense there
simply paid out of another pocket. And,
by the way, if the outlying wards are
exempted from city expense, how can
! they claim any place for their unfor-
tunates in the city institution? So long
as we have outside poor they must be
helped, if not by the town, then by the
city. And will the city care for the
| outside poor of the Thirteenth, Four
| tenth and Fifteenth wards when those
! districts are exempt from city taxes?
/ Now. be reasonable, gentlemen. Will
| they?
So long as we have highways they
must be maintained, either by the city
or town. win the city be apt to spend
any money on the roads in these outly-
ing wards if these wards are exempt
from city taxation? Yet those very
highways are used, worn and Destroy
ed in part by a traffic that has wholly
to deal with the city and does not leave
one dollar in the hands of the citizens
of these interested wards Take, for
instance, Middletown avenue. East of
| the present city line 1t is nearly two
| miles long, and does not bring a dol
| lar to these wards. Scarcely half a
dozen houses of the whole distance for
| 1t is mostly over a salt marsh covered
more or less by the tide in its ebbing
and flowing. Will the city maintain
this road or will it want the wards to
do it? So long as voters have to be
made, and our state constitution is I'M
changed, we have got to have select
men, and they will be paid for what
work they actually do.
l believe it is all right to transfer the
various departments before mentioned
from city to town management and
thereby minimize the duties of the Sc
lectmen to their constitutional prerog-
alive of making voters, but in order to
| accomplish that 1t is not necessary to
| accept the alternative of voting Yes
on the proposition which comes up next
| Tuesday.
No, gentlemen voters, there is a good
sized mouse in the meal" Put into
plain unvarnished Anglo-S Saxon" it
simply means that the crowd in the city
that is instigating this whole thing is
getting matters into such shape that a
little later, when the people of these
wards in question come to need some
things done that have heretofore been
cared for by the town, the city mag
mates can say, Now, gentlemen, we
have got you where we want you. If
you want any OF those Things done you
can come into the city and pay city
taxes or do them yourselves, the four
mill tax provision to the contrary not
withstanding." And the voters of these
wards will then suddenly awaken to
the fact that they have been the will
ing and consenting victims to the big
gest "bunco" game known to be sue
cessfully played in many years, if in
fact it has ever been equalled
Then vote No and afterwards take
time to consider. Smash this deal. and
the next time you will be invited in
when propositions are being made. 1t
will pay to wait in a matter which may
entail so many disastrous consequences.
A FOURTEENTH WARD MAN.