The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-26

ANANHN~Ne' AANN-
another victim. When the wand all
potent was not the Golden Calf, to
which the people kneel from the white
washed governmental official to the
tipped city guardian.
Babies should now be born cold
blooded, conseience-seared and brass
checked to make a success, marked pa
tented. An old time promoter some
thousand of years ago said in his
haste all men are liars!" Had he taken
more time and read our papers, would
he have added, and thieves?' When
shirt-sleeves and a green baize Jacket
indicated an honest, respectable citizen;
when safes were made to keep honest
men honest now only to keep safe from
fires; when law was made to keep just
men Just-noW scare crow that
don't scare if you have the ducats to
buy criminal law-contortioner; when
religion was made to keep good men
good--noW too often used to cloak sly
Satans horns and hoofs from the I'M
wary; When philosophy was the joke of
those IN no need-noW a thorn in the
heart of the needy; when grafters were
called scoundrels, not white washed
and titervated (for political purposes)
into fine art "chef-d aeuvre" of high
finance.
Query-What is the difference be-
tween one who secretes a murderer and
one who 10y his guile Gor money or no
torietW robs justice of her dues and
the criminal goes free. AS our way
backs" did not enjoy these advantages
Of higher culture to them, Ignorance
was truly bliss"
New Haven was chosen on account Of
Its beautiful location and its CONNER
cial advantages. Settled by company
OF London merchants, with their wives
and children, to make this country a
permanent home. They had looked
over the ground and had brought with
them goods and money sufficient to
erect houses and settle down in COM
fort. There may be blots upon the rec
ord of New Haven, but they fade away
when we remember that these people
left good homes and crossed three
thousand miles of wild ocean to have
their own way, to think, act, speak and
live as they liked, So when unlimited
folk came to their home, who would be
likely to create discord, like Anglicans,
Quakers, Papists and others, they ex-
PEELED them, and if they did not stay
expelled they gave them a good whip
ping until they were willing to stay ex-
PEELED for good. So who can blame
them If, in their good old-time wisdom,
they some times forgot the established
forms Of courteous hospitality and al
lowed no other religious lunatios to
slide down on their cellar door"
Some of the settlements hung Their
witches as an economic way of putting
them out of harms way. CThere's Moth
ing like eker-nomlty) But New Haven
only gave them a good strong dose of
old-time Witch hazel and brich. They
may well be called Blues skinned, but
they were not Cold skinned" Their
prayer was, May we not be elated with
prosperity ar cast down with adversi-
ty." The lines of honesty and dlshon-
esty were drawn sd broad that a way
faring man, though a fool, could not err
therein.
The craft and guile of the law-distor-
ter had not contorted and gllded the
line so the law had become a soothing
, stock to the criminal class. They beded
with the curfew. EMBEDDED when the
cock crew. drank rum for the ague and
the stomach's sake at every turn Of the
| tide, and, like John Bunyan, FROSTED
so low they feared no fall
Trade was of mains cunning, but
weights and measures must be honest,
for they came from God, who weighs
us in a balance" Yet with all these
sterling Pagan" qualities they re-
tanned to a degree the guile and. bigotry
of the historic Christian without his
blood-thirstiness. They were not adj
venturers, looking for plunder or wild
younger sons OF families who were glad
to ship them off anywhere so they were
quits for good" but stade, respectable
folk, who had character and honorable
position at home Some Of the slurs
cast by our English kinfolk that the
men were shan-highed and the girls
to some of the southern colonies, but in
no case to any of the settlements Of
New England. The origina! nine
squares took in three rivers, one run
ming where is now the railroad bed to
a pond at the foot of Prospect street
one running from pond that occupied
the lower portion of the green, one run
ming where is now Commerce and Oak
streets to a lagoon at the corner Of
Park and Chapel streets, being naviga-
BILE for fishing smacks that sold their
fish at that place.
On wooded bluff at the mouth Of
this river Benedict Arnold winged a
British officer in duel at daybreak.
Here Aaron Burr was often seen with
book and pencil, maybe drafting out his
| famous Blennerhaset scheme
The lagoon on the green was drained
by a blind ditch" running through
| Court lane to the canal, up which mink
and muskrat came at night to hunt
| crickets and toads upon the green,
where the writer has helped to catch
them. Tradition says the settlers in
their wild enthusiasm imagined they
| had found an overgrown Lost Eden, y
so an over-enthusiastic would be re-
storer of Grandma Ewes posy-patch
| before she was snaked OUT in an eff
fervescent religious epic of that day,
named the Rivers Pison, Gihon and
Hiddekel, after the river of Eden. One
was well named, for later, suspicious
| that the arch enemy of man had put
'A-ger-pison" in the three rivers, they
filled them up with the beautiful wood