The Newtown bee., 1903-12-04
LITCHFIELD COUNTY.
WOODBURx.

FAIR PLAY AN D HONEST DEAL.
 Saturday afternoon, November 20, nearly all of the legal voters in HOtch- kissville met in Woodbury Town hall and asked the town to furnish them chemical engine to protect the factory and the 'Ville, with the promise to save any other building in town that was not destroyed before they got there. The moderator showed par tiality in favor of Hotchkisyille and objected to my saying some things l thought was appropriate to defend the town. Therefore would like space sufficient in THE BEE to prove that it was a great mistake and fearful blunder to ask town heavily in debt to protect private property, especially when those that ask for protection are abundantly able to protect themselves and better protected than those they have asked to protect them.
 Woodbury village protects itself and the rest of the town has no protection. Then is it not unjust and showing par tiality to ask the town to protect a part and not the whole? If it is right to furnish an engine for HOtchkiSs- vile then the town should furnish an engine for the WoOlen mills in Pom perang, and if the town protects Pom peraug then it should protect Weekee- peemee, Flanders, Nonewaug and Mi nortown. Or inlother words ii itis right for the town to protect a part then the whole should be protected, and if he town undertakes to furnish en- zines to protect the whole town we shall be in worse condition than we are in trying to get all of the schools under one roof. It does seem IS if the taxes had been increased and partiality had been shown Sufficiently under town management of schools | without increasing the taxes and showing partiality in protecting pr- vAte property. The question was ask e1 in the Town hall: "What would become of Hotchkisssville without the factory, and I wanted to ask what | would become of HotchkiSSville or WOodbury without the farms?" HOtchkis,ville can and did exist with out the factory, but Hotchkissville or WOodbury never has or never can exist without the till,r of the earth. Knives, shears or anything made by machinery will not nOuriSh and sus- tain human life, but bread and butter will keep body and soul together The factory and all the tenant-hous- es are insured and if they are damaged by fire the insurance company repairs all damages, free of charge, and if should be burned to ashes there is large insurance and income from the factory and rent from tenant houses besides thousands of dollars invested in different places to rebuild with Besides they acknowledged in the Town hall that they had fire extin- yuishers that would put out fire in the woods and extinguish fire iu the factory where they could not gel the hose near enough to reach the lire Now with a fre-proof Of1;e and ire proof roofs and a protection that farm CTS haven't got, where is there any honesty or justice in asking a town | heavily in debt to protect those whoare
 sbundantly able to protect themselves | md better protected than those they
 nave asked to protect them? And when they talk of saving buildings three or four miles distant (especially ,n windy day) with an engine pro- pelled by hand or with horse they
 night as well talk of extinguishing the coal mines in Pennsylvania or of putting out fire up in Mars or Jupi- ter. I have nothing against Hotch-
 zissville or any of the people and I am in sympathy with and admire those union services and the faithful ones who sustained them and 1 sincerely nope that no clubroom, formed under license law, or any other organization will ever counteract the good that has been done there by Miss Lord and Oth- erS but have been and am at pre- sent working tor the town, not for viii liges, but for every man, woman and child and especially for the poor and unfortunate ones and, before God, this is the reason why use my tongue and pen on the unpopular side. I believe in equal rights and privilege and I ab- hnr and deteSt partialty in educating the rising generation, or in protecting property. If partiality is shown at all 1t should be in favor of mortgage pound farmers instead of bond and stock holders.
 On! that God would send d Moses,
 With some kind of a rod,
 That would do justice to the poor,
 Before a holy God.
 Just look at a petition,
 With names upon it found,
 | Asking the poor taxpayers
 | To help the rich in town.
 Just look at all their tenant homes, | Their factory and bonds,
 Then look at all their bank stock,' And then at their coupons.
 Then look and see the poor, poor men, Way back upon the hills
 That must have their taxes increased,