Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-04

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 punished dismissed. cashiered or inn prisoned? Under what management was this historic incident smothered, the ruins of the armory adroltly re moved and costly fortress erected ln it's place, to be occasionally used as the playground of children and for the exhibition Of politicians? What full report of the terrible catastrophe ever appeared as caution in the use or armories? Men are living who have seen the metropolis of America under
 the power of traitors and murderous local nlobs of rioters. who had killed hundreds of innocent negroes and whose outrages were quelled only after patriotic volunteer troops had arrived from the front and had under martial law, shot down 1,200 lawbreakers in the streets of New York.
 Politicians secretly combine with contractors in pushing the matter of approprfa tions for some public build ings, street widenings, etc. just as small part of the directors of a very few reputable financial institutions
 pursue the absurd, dangerous practice of unduly enriching some officers at the additional expense of the uncon- suited and uniformed shareholders. They rob Peters to distribute among
 ''Pauls:" and executive officers vote themselves and assistants double their salaries as annual gifts, or rewards for services already paid for, some
 what similar to the late methods of the Equitable Assurance society, and the course of Presidents Roosevelt and Taft in increasing the salaries Of per sons while in office.
 Expert accountants esta blish and re- port the fact that only a small per centage of municipal and public cor porati0ns are conducted as correctly, economically and honestly as are the best private ones. The populace is in- duced to clanor for various kinds of personal objects. without any regard to the sources of the necessary funds. When it is discovered that the sources are bond issues increased taxes and, as in the case of the United States government, the tariff the greater masses don't care about taxes, for they are paid mostly upon real estate and corporations: hence bankers be- come afraid Of city bonds, and make smaller subscriptions at higher rates of interest. The eiamor is then in
 creased against even 8 reasonable tar if on many classes of imports; the dema gogues iIlogicalIy stating that the tariff itself is .the chief cause of high prices of food and other necessaries, and at the same time the explanation of widespread extravagance and culgar waste" Were the people to maintain the proper equilibrium in their tocali- ties there would be neither high taxes, high tariff, nor high prices. One equal, right, uniform tax on practically all property. real and personal, would regulate appropriations and prove so light that it would be felt by none.
 Native born citizens, like green i'm
 migrants. are led to believe that gold drops from the sky, and grows in the streets. When the confscation of pri- vate property for county highways. streets and sidewalks is followed by ifo or,t f1a0 1nrif fs,r ,af- tradesman, business and professional men are coolly informed by surface political thinkers, and calculating high waymen promoters that unless we granted universal, illiterate. suffrage, we could not possess many turnpikeS or railroads Their statement begs the question. Experience shows that we did have enough good roads without such assistance, and were equally well,
 if not better off, in other respects. Though the population was smaller and good roads were fewer, all improve ments were gradual, and therefore bet ter.
 It is matter of fact, within the knowledge of many, that in proportion
 to the population of men, women and
 children there existed, relatively equal, if not superior provisions for instruct i've reading, sound essential education, comfortable judiciouS travel, satisfac tory, remunerative transportation of domestic supplies, and for agreeable, inviting social intercourse, forty years ago, to those we enjoy now.
 Benefits can be distributed fairly and eauipoise maintained Even the great intelligent republican party in Con- necticut was lately, in part, seduced and deliberately handed over bodily to the untutored, turtuOuS, unsettled democracy, wholly unnecessarily, in the delusive hope of finding there a remedy for temporary errors; where
 as, history and logic prove that the only possible, incidental good the lat ter partys present doctrines could ever tariff on a few articles, without, how ever, it's offering any relief, or solid substitute, or method, for raising enough revenue to carry on even an inexpensive, decent government. Such vain remedy" will, of course, fail. The real cleavage lies between good and bad-wise and principles (not always, necessarily, between na- tional political parties); and then it consists in selecting the men on the uppernnost issues involved, and elect ing those only who will most certain ly carry those principles into effect. Merely going and voting, as individ uals, temporarily, or en masse, from one party to another, won't accomplish anything. harmonious, we'll balanc- ed party can easily fix the paramount issue, and hold its own principles
 A conspicuous Connecticut iIiustra- ton Of the prevailing rampant folly and weak. disturbed financial mental ity in this country, at this day, is when q great university like Yale lapses into a confused democracy" since it was IVY U-jS |a {oJ