The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-06
CHANDLER WOULD
 SHAVE OFF DAY OF
 PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
Legislature, Rocky Hill Man Tells Busi. ness Men Is Not Dishonest, It Only Acts That Way.

Once more the business men of
 that if they expect good government | they must put their shoulders to the
 wheel and push hard individually. Also if they want the proper laws
 placed on the statute books and nec- essary reforms brought about they
 must see to it that the right men are sent to the legislature, that they must know their representatives thorough ly before sending them to the general assembly instead of trying to influ- ence the actions of the members of that body after the organization has
 together with synopsis of the pro- posed Chandler Whiting Public Utili-
 ties bill, comprised the speech of Rep-
 resentative George B. Chandler of
 Rocky Hfll before the Bridgeport Bus mess Men's association at the Strat- field last evening. There was not as large an attendance as at former
 meetings when the utilities commits sion bill was under discussion
 Speaking of the legislature he said:
 '1The legislature is not a dishonest
 body. Don't think it is. It is not. Do not think that the men the people of Connecticut send to the legislature to represent them are dishonest for they are not. They are most of them men who want to do the right thing. Of course they do not all do right. As in
 any profession as among doctors or lawyers, or among business men you will find black sheep. Furthermore if you knew the struggles which many
 men go through in the general assem- ply you would not blame them so se- verely. They go there full of high ideals and moral courage. They want
 to be influential and want to be rec ognized. They see that the leaders of the assembly remember their their enemies. The result is that they finally go with the leaders or align themselves with some corporate inter est to which they must remain loyal or be ''quftter'' after they have been raised to a place of influence by that must be on the ground floor to be a factor. If you want to control the general assembly begin before hand Put the men on record before the votes controlled when it is organized and nothing can be done after this organ ization takes place."
 After all it. is an individual prob lem. Organizations are valuable but in the last analysis it all depends on business association. It is a simple matter for an association to outline schemes but in the last analysis it is what the individual does that counts < Representative Chandler referred to the unequal representation in the leg islature and said that he did not be- lieve that better legislature could be got by cutting down the number of representatives in the smaller towns and giving a larger representation to the large cities. His reason was that if the latter scheme was to be adopt ed the representatives would not be chosen at large but would be selected from wards of the city with the re- suit that the representatives would be less capable. He said in boards of elected at large he had found the type of member much higher than where they had been chosen from wards of the cities.
 The speaker complimented the local business men for their aggressiveness and said that they had fought harder for the success of the utilities bill and that the press of Bridgeport had done more for such a measure than had been done in any other city in the state. He denied the allegation that the agitators for a utilities commis- sion were radicals. On the contrary, he said they were conservatives for they realized that the time was fast approaching when it would be either public ownership or public regulation ed a utilities bill believed that the public institutions or corporations should be conserved that they wanted state regulation of them. Public own ership, he said, was not within keep ing with New England business ideals
 The corporation, he said, was ne cessity and of all the inventions of man none had been more bene1cent than corporations. A vote of thanks was extended him at the close of his address.
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