The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-11
THE TWO BARNUMS' NEW HAVEN EDITOR
 EXPRESSES VIEWS
fNew Haven Union,


 (NSew Haven Union.)
 Tomorrow the lower branch of the General Assembly of Connecticut will prob4bly vote upon the Barnum util- 1ty measure, the humbug legislative product that has sttrred up the indig-
 Right here let us mako this point. That prince of circus entertainers, the hate E. F. Barnum. never hesitated to declare that the moro you humbugged the people the better they seemed to
 Can 1t be that his namesake was in Qulgfng in a similar thought when he bumped upon the Connecticut Legisla- lure that hilf which heers his name?
 Tho HArnum Of the glorioua old cir- GUS deyu passed up some delightful humbuES all right in the entertaining hi1ls 6f fare that he presented to his gathered meath the tents and watched the ring work There was no decep- ton there. If the people were hum bug1od they knew it and they laughed at it, E. T. himself having the broad
 But the Barnum of today, the man who has given us the one piece of leg ielatton that has aroused the opposi- State. is .serious in. his efforts to hum bug the people of Connecticut. There ia no grin with him. He is dead in learnest in supportfng his humbug. And he can rest assured that the peo- ple of the state, the people. who believe in honext, straightforward legislation will not forget the statesman who tried to humbug them in the interest s5 ss. % HTssa at of over the latter day attempt at hum bugging as it Is in recollection of the good old days when IF. T. served up entertainment for the State of Con- TT<,<7 I<sT e
 And by the way. while we are on this subject of the Barnum bill, let us make this suggestion to Speaker Banks or whoever presides over the House of
 CLEAR THE HALL or THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE OF EyDRY IcBByIsT OR EvERT BEFORE THW VOTE IS TAKEN.
 The men who disgraced the State last Thursday are generally known and they ought to be barred from the cap. Legislature to do this is to resent their presence by consistently and constant ly voting against all measures they are sent to Hartford to support. or ent than even that wooden nutmeg Barnurn bill or the hiton-Chandler measure, or any public utilities com mission is the removal Of the stigma
  throughout this country because of the perufcious presence of railroad ana other kinds of Lobbyists in the corri- dors and on the assembly halls of our
 TS,e rress fhrouehout the country Is very generally asking whether Furltan New England has become cortnpt' whether the State of steady habits has hocorne corruption-ridden. Take such ,, conseryative paper as the New York Post for instance. 1t says editorial ly: ssThe legislative session has already been unprecedently protracted py tne lively fight over sh,y masssl state @ of Connecticut the notion of adequate corporate regulation seems to nave found wide popular support Ana ssNo doubt many people wonder at times why the New England states should be so completely dominated py railroad and other corporate interests States in Congress are 70 uniformly suppIiant to the wishes or the large interests. The reason is that there IS no minority party worth counting n are Republicans from force of habit, and that the Republican organizationA l are absolutely controlled, and have been for years. by the railroad and Senators. Representatives. Legislatures and Goyernors What these States need is an effective minority party:
 we do not care to discuss at this time either of the propositions as to whether New England needs strong minority party or whether corporate regulation has found strong popular support in this State. They strike US as being almost self-evfdent asser- fions of fact But how about the in- tination of corruption, and of our State being corporation-ridden con- l tained in these editorials? Is there nothing here for the State legislators to couture with. The first duty of | our Legislature after what happenedl last Thursday is to rebuke the brazen | lobby that holds forth on Capitol Hill, | Hartford. This can best be done by | it's vote of last week and | passing the Chandier-Whiton meas