The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-20


 cratic. Of those protecting members of labor organizations, thirteen are re- publican and two democratic Of the states protecting the union label, twen- ty-sevesn are republican and eleven democratic. It is notorious that the states which have done the least in be- half of. labor, organized or morgan ized,, are those which are considered safely democratic.
 SMASHING THE TRUSTS"
 How to deal with the trust question without doing harm toA those corpora tions large and small,s that obey the laws is a difficult and perplexing pro- blem. It requires in the man who di- rects the prosecutions judgment of the highest order and balance that will not be shaken by impatient public clamor. If this work should be undertaken by an executive lacking in these rare qualities vast harm would be done to our entire individual and business structure, and the greatest sufferers from the disastrous consequences would be the wage earners and the tradesmen of small means. There could be no surer way of throwing the coun- try into a panic than. by an indiscrin- mate assault upon corporations, good and bad, and the American voter should look to 1t carefully that such | powers of prosecution are not put in , the hands of men who promise head long plunge into thettbusiness or smashing the trustsf'gs M@
 PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS.
 Seeing nowhere vital issues upon which to claim the serious attention ol the voters, the leaders of the Connect1- cit democracy have charged in 1yeci that the state is under the ominna- ton of corporations, and that the ar fairs of the commonwealth are man. aged without due regard to- wisdom and economy They mean, of course the public service corporations for the manufacturing and other Industrial corporations are composed of the bes' of our citizenship, are the very life | blood of our existence, and are respon' sible for the high rank we have main tained, the small in territory. among the state of the union.
 I hold no brief for the public ser vice companies; am not even remote ly concerned in their success, except al it may contribute to the general vel fare. But 1t Is the simple truth to sax that Connecticut gets more out of tn corporations than almost any othe1 state in proportion to the road mileag | of three and one-half million dollar for the last fiscal year, no less thai s1, 100000 came from the coffers of tn steam railway companies. Nearly $40 OOO was paid into the treasury b, the street railways, This showing | creditable indeed to the men who il the past framed our laws so that th big corporations might be made to pa, their legitimate share of the expense of conducting the state government The insurance companies last yea contributed nearly one-half million dollars.
 RAILROAD TAXATION.
 Not only is the tax upon the publi service corporations of Connection
 large in actual amount, 1t Is also re
 latively large, and 1t Is cause for sat isfaction to every taxpayer who want to see Justice done in this respect Il the figures given out last year by tn Census Bureau at Washington con corning the commercial value of tn
 railroad properties in the Unite States, 1t was shown that the percent age of tax valuations compared witt the commercial value of the railway fin the New England states Is as fol lows: Connecticut 114.4; Maine, Mas sachusetts and New Hampshire, 26S Rhode Island 61,54, and Vermont, 739 In other words, Connecticut received relatively four times as much a Maine, Massachusetts and New Hamp shire; nearly twice as much as Rhod
 Island and more than one and one half times as much as Vermont. So that it Is not true that the corpo rations dominate in the administrator of Connecticut affairs and when any one intimates that they are allowed [
 escape their just proportion of tn taxes. or are receiving favors in thi respect he either deliberately mis epresents the facts or does not knot his subject The incontrovertible fac is that almost all of the money collect ed to run our state affairs iss collecte from the wealthy corporations and in
 dividuals and that not dollar Is lex
 fed upon the taxpayers at large fc
 those expenses.
 STATE EXPENDITURES. , And now, is it true that the none
 we collect for state purposes is not ex pended wisely. The report of the com troller shows where every dollar of tn legislative appropriations of 1905 Men For the cause of education there wa , appropriated $s2O,s4759 That is t say. nearly one-fourth of the entir revenue collected went to our publ ' schools and state colleges. For char 1 ties and humane institutions there wa ' voted SSSs, ,O39. .s1; for our judicial an , court machinery, s443,75a.Ss; for stat