The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-03-31


, be remembered We have to pay for our
! own Shortcomings in such matters If
we do not, in addition, have to make
good for the shortcomings of others.
I'VE have something like thirty-ive
thousand officials and employees upon
our payrolls; and one of them may
make a mistake at any moment; many
of them are discovered in mistakes fire.
duentlv. II every man in our employ
! did his full duty, ] think we could cas-
iIv dispense with twenty per cent, Of
our force: so many are required to cor
rect the mistakes Of the inefficient and
careless; because we have those who do
not do as they should, as they are
ordered, is that a good reason why we
should neglect TO secure reasonable
rules for the conduct of our business
with the public and limit our losses
| there? -.,=..s ., --5e.
There has lately been survey
across this state made at the instance
of a foreign corporation for the pur-s
pose announced Of connecting up its.
lines. The line surveyed touches no
commercial centers, serves no particu-
lar territory susceptible of develop
nnent, and so far as this state is, con-
eerned, is of no useful purpose, for set.
Element here is no new thing and new
towns and cities are not, to, be built up
as in the west by furnishing a side
| track at convenient intervals, giving it
a name and encouraging settlers to
come and establish their homes.
why do you suppose such a survey.
was made? 1t is many years since
anything of the kind occurred before
Do you think it was the possibility Of
the large local traffic of the territory
such a. line would serve, or was 1t to In
fiuence the disposition Of certain pro-
perty acquired by our company recent
4 IL that had the effect of putting coal
from the mouth of the mines into the
doors of the furnaces of our factories
without the interposition of any other
authority than that held by the officials
OF your home road?s DO you think It to
the advantage of this state that such
authority should rest where it now
does? Is the price of TIE enormous
amount of coal consumed here of any
interest to you? Is 1t wise your laws
should be of such a character that
when one wants to build trolley he
must come here and prove his case be-
fore being permitted the authority, but
when he wants to damage the largest
, interest in your state for his own sci,
fish purposes, he shall have a free
J hand? ;,
Rather, would urge you to protect,
foster and promote the largest factor
in the development of your state, your
largest taxpayer, that in which your
/ citizens have so large financial inter-
est-hold it to a strict account Of its
stewardship, and when, for Interior
purposes, another seeks to attack it, he
, should be obliged to come before you
} and prove his case and you determine
what, if any, advantage would accrue
, in compensation for the damage pro-
posed to be DONE
Should your laws be of such char
acter to protect the trolley from its RI
J val and leave your larger interest, the
steam line, at the mercy OF those who
! seek to enforce against 1t their WIFI
{ You have the unquestioned right &c
regulate and control the child of your
/ own creation, II inisbehavior, inetti-
cience or incompetence. provoke YOU
! the remedy is in your own hands. Bet.
ter service should be given by mono
/ poly in railroads than can be possible
otherwise. A railroad Is natural mo.
, ilopoly; it has, like all public utilities
many of the powers of the state. II
levies taxes. it performs a public ser
. vice. You should protect 1t as il Il
were in truth owned by the state and
; require OF 1t the strictest accountable
ity.
r II am not one of those who believe ir
J the vested rights secured by contract
r Of a railroad with dts creator, the state
, Railroads are permitted to live thai
I they may serve purpose better posi-.
bly, than the state could directly. The
I. power which created them may regu.
, late them, control them, even kill them
always oompensating fairly those wflt
! have invested their money in them.
1T will be necessary that you con
, slider seriously whether you should not
give more freedom of action to tht
steam railroad than its charter now
permits In these days of large tran
sactions the limitations upon its capita
are of q character to restrict its opera.
ton in many ways. j should not care
to be called upon to handle many tran
sactions of the magnitude of our New
York, Ontario and Western purchase
without more latitude than the present
terms of it's charter permit, and II 1t is
to maintain its independence, as it cas-
lily may, you should give it by amend
ment all the freedom of action to dc
with others what others have power tic
do with 1t.
"One word with you generally upon
I. the subject of corporations and partic-
. ularly railroads and the prejudice ex.
listing against them,
"They are the children of the state
the most efficient agency of modern
times for doing the work that is toe
large for individual undertakings, anG
much too dangerous to be wholly in
:. trusted to political control.
They are piece of machinery o.
: modern civilization, artificial beings tc
q he neither loved, feared, nor hated
when they are out Of order, do not dt
9 their work properly, 1t is simply foolish
= to rail at them, punish them and inter.
fere with their efficiency and useful
ness; rather, like any other piece o.
Il