The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-21
COLONEL OSBORN DECLINES
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ed defender of the constitution, for cannot understand the imperturbability of those who view, without protest, the gradual absorption by the federal government of the powers reserved for the state in the purpose of the found- CTS. There is need for the elimination of government by clamor and the es- tablishment of government by orderly and tradition-loving means. This is much moreto be desired than the suc- cess of any political party.
 'The greed of the average modern lcommeTcial giant should of course be met and punished, just as the greed of the individual is met and punished; and any political party which claims the right to an existence ought to make its position clear on that point, with | full consideration for existing laws, be- fore clamoring for laws of an experi- mental character. If the modern public Iservice corporation, for example, abuses its powers under it's charter, or persists i in withholding from the community it pretends to serve, adequate considera- tion, or in any other way tramples up- any reason whatever, it, should be first brought before the courts to show cause why it's charter should not be taken from it. If that proves ineffective the state or the town, as the case may be, should itself take over the property, even though in doing so it renders in- ferior service. Nothing is more in- tolerable to a free people than the corporate form of slavery, and nothing is more important for their political education than that they should at all times feel the righteous burden of self government
 "The state of Connecticut needs nothing so much to-day as a courageous and intelligently led party of opposi- ton. The welfare of the common Iwealth is threatened so long as one lparty feels itself assured of continued power. The record of the past ten years, as compared with any previous record covering the same time shows, as nothing else can show, the costliness ! of this partisan exclusiveness, not that the dominant party has been wilfully dishonest, but that it's placid confidence in the weakness of it's natural enemies has made it indifferent to political en- terprises, which should have been un- dertaken, and which, if undertaken, would have saved the state thousands of dollars. It is all nonsense to talk about an economical administration of the peoples affairs, when a policy of annual expenditure is persisted in which ignores established business principles. In almost any other state of the Union the easy come, easy go pol | icy of Connecticut would make it a state of grafters and it is wonder that we are not worse than we are.
 These and other matters which at once suggest themselves in this con- nection 1 should undertake to discuss if it were possible for me to accept the position. The truth is that my position as an editor compels me to serve that mistress exclusively, and to be careful not to permit the kind of partisan ser- vice here called for to attach to my journalistic work the suspicion of its being provoked by other than independ- ent and conscientious conviction. But I, nevertheless, am deeply grateful for the compliment paid me, and l wish for the movement in which you are en- gagged every success.
 Respectfully yours,
 MORRIS c. OSBORN.
 New Haven, July 20, 1906"