The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-11
A Y4LU4RLE RUMP US,

4 YALUARLE RUMPUS.
 The complaint is made in some quar- ters that the stirring of the legislative animals at Hartford is bad thing for ali concerned that it Is bad for the State, bad for the public service corr porations and bad for the individuals whose names are being bandied about; that it is always better to move quietly and decently, sunpressing this burst of i'll temper and sugaring that note of discomfort. This is view to which we would gladly assent if human nature was put up on different plan, and especially if the human nature with which we have to deal in a country of free institutions was more trustworthy as a check upon impulse. In the ab- sence of that desirable assurance, we must enter a respectful and more or less deprecatory dissent.
 Far more serious than the otherwise deplorable misunderstanding and mis- Interpretation of personal and cor porate motives in the market place Is the misunderstanding and misinterpre- tation which would surely follow in the wake of the policy of silence when the clouds gather. What individuals may do in their personal relations, and do 1t with perfect safety perhaps, gov- ernments and the parties dependent upon the favor of government cannot do. The only protection such gov- ernment as we have here has lies in the maximum of publicity, not in it's minimum. It makes a disagreeable impression upon society to have the periodical washings attended by such personal abuse and suggestive susplc- ion, but so it makes disagreeable im- pression upon society to have repre- sentative of one of the professional classes go wrong, but it at the same times tones up the particular profess eional class attacked Temporarily 1t has cost the business of insurance thousands and thousands of dollars, and taken from many who were for- merly insured their source of protec- fion for their families, but we are not on that account prepared to accept the theory that the revelations of greed and graft should have been tucked. We have had occasion to question the method employed by President Roosevelt to teach the inter state railroads of the country their place among the agencies of our na- tional life, but it has never been pos sible to question the fact that the rail- roads made some sort of determined opposition and legislation necessary by their arbitrary conduct.
 We are not yet sure what has been going on at Hartford, though reputa- ble men testify in support of the mis- chief alleged and reputable men testify in denial JAS we have already said in the columns of The Journal and Cour- fer, where there is so much smoke there must be a corresponding amount of fire, but it may not necessarily be the fire it Is charged with being. But whether after a winter made more or less memorable by a marked absence of lobbyists, the springtime has been used to revive them and their prao- tiees. or whether, as appears to us more likely, the New Haven railroad is reaping the whirlwind grown from seeds planted years ago, we look for more good than harm resulting from the present rumpus. The agitation of the general assembly, the agitation of tha public service corporations and the agitation of the public in connection herewith can have only one perma-