The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-07-19

that form should be this commission
is not prepared, by any investigation
or any study it has made, to suggest.
Finally, we who stand in OPPOSITION
to municipal ownership, speaking. We
believe, for all individualists, arraign
the arrogance of many of its advocates
in assuming that they exclusively oe-
cupy the field Of reform in dealing
with the problems concerned, and that
they are the sole promoters of meas
ures of economic improvement in mum
icipal affairs. We asert that the op-
ponents of municipal ownership and
operation, firm and consistent support
ers of justice, are the class seeking the
public welfare intelligently and in ac-
cordance with American principles. On
this point we do not yield to any body
of men. We seek, as a first principle
to insure to every man his own. In do
ing so, and in endeavoring to protect
the public against oppression and err
70, we find it our duty to demonstrate
the errors in the schemes of municipal
izers and Socialists and to warn
against the oppression that they
threaten. We are resisting efforts to
put burdens on the backs of the Amer-
lean people. We cannot and will not
remain silent while the attempt is
made to thrust costly and impractical
BILE projects upon customers of public
service corporations and upon the pub
lie at large. We know the truth will
out. We are confident that ultimately
the American people must appreciate
at their value the unsoundness of the
arguments of the municipal socialists.
We shall aid in fastening the day
when our fellow citizens will known
through discussion what the public of
London have been taught by bitter ex-
perience, London has awakened to
the perils of municipalization, as is
evidenced by its verdict in the recent
borough and county elections. In that
great city the municipalities have led
their fellow citizens astray land their
dupes, finding it out, have administer
ed to their false guides as overwheln-
ing rebuke.
I'VE individuals are not seeking to
lead the people in strange paths; our
aim is to keep them in the paths they
have heretofore trod; paths well
known, along which the American peo-
pie have marched to heights of pros
perlty ana civic development not
known heretofore to the civilized
world. Along these paths have been
stumbling blocks. Our opponents are
endeavoring to persuade us the sole
responsibility for these stumbling
blocks rests upon our public service
system, to be remedied only by a
change of system. This we deny. We
are patiently studying the ways OF
Justice; municipalities advocate en-
perimenting, at enormous cost. with
public funds, with the principles OF
liberty and with the institutions Of our
country. In this We stoutlv refuse to
take part. We are conservatives in
believing that it is better to adhere to
old and tried methods based on our ac-
cepted national principles; but radi-
Gals in the determination to discover
and to sternly rebuke and rectify any
injustice which may have been devei-
oped by the present system. AS it has
always been the function and duty 81
government to insure that individuals
shall deal justly with their fellows, il
is now the function and duty OF gov.
eminent to protect the governed
against injustice on the part Of these
associations OF individuals working un.
der the name Of public service corpor-
ations. ANY government that is toe
feeble or corrupt to control with jus.
tice the conduct of a public service cor.
poratlon, has little prospect of belng
able itself to supply such public service
| with efficiency and justice Our duty
is to elect to Office men who have "A.
intelligence and integrity to Cover
efficiently, honestly AM justly; mef
who can and will curb The unjust az
| gressiveness of the Individual, or O
the individual. or o. Tic voluntary as
ISOLATION of individuals AID who car
and will compel each 70 bear It's shar,
of the burdens of E)vernmcnt, ant
give in price, service. Or otherwise
| proper consideration FOR special privi
leges enjoyed. Our nation Is wha
she is industrially AMI commercial,
and in world politics because Of iii,
American character developed by tn,
most absolute indiyidualism, and be
cause of the American character de
veloped by the most absolute individu
alism, and because Of the American
corporation, developed under a gov
eminent that governed but did no
trade. Our duty is to conserve tn
human agencies that have made on
country what it is-the adventurou
Individual and voluntary association
but not to let them be our masters
This is the confession of faith of tn
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS anti-socialist,