The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-11
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Hartford T1mes.)
\. sToCK-JoBBING RAID.

In each issue of MT. Munsey's New York newspa per for a week or more the second column of the editorial page has been devoted to a repetitfOuS onslaught on the New York, New Ha- ven & Hartford Railroad company and it's present managers.
 The fact is significant of the char acter of the grand raid, organized for the purpose of depressing the stock of the company and driving which is now being conducted with so much activity in New York, in New Haven, in Providence, in Boston and in Concord, N. H. stock spectators in four states have united in this tremendous onslaught on New England's greatest single @ bus us. against the railroad company any where has been brought out and "set agoing'' in the newspapers which are open to the conspirators. It must be admitted they are a formidable bunch
 We are glad to see that the business men of New England are waking up to the seriousness of this campaign of venom and vituperation directed against their property and their most important interests. LucluS Futile, contributes notable interview to the Boston papers in which he calls at tention to the fact that for six years there has been a earetully t d1rectea tfa
 
 New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad having for it's object to pre- vent the consolidation of the railway lines of New England into a single interviews and inspired articles and otherwise. stories already famil- jar here from frequent repetition about the alleged inadequate railroad facilities of New England and the al- r1 <,FA F1- al not the opponents of the railroad really injuring the manufacturing and other business interests of New Eng land even more than they are injur- ing the railroad or MT. Me1len?
 While other great cities and manu- facturing centers are advertising to the world the great advantages of their respective localities, while they are att tempting to take away from New Eng lands industries the trade which we have had for so many years, which we desire and have the ability to re- tain, which our railroad is bending ev- cry effort to build up. New England g detra ctors are doing their best to turn this business away from New England to other parts Of the country. They may not mean to do so. but this must necessarily be the result. Has not the time arrived when our busi- ness men should cry a halt to this persistent attack upon New England? :? ] The Hartford Times has viewed this whole business from the first in the light in which MT. Futile here pre- sents it. The only reply to the dem ons tration of the wicked character Of the Bosto on and Providence campaign against this great property which this paper has furnished Is that, being published near the headquarters Of the New York, New Haven & Hart ford Railroad fl takes it's cue from MT Mellen's offices, charge for which there is not the slightest foun- dation that we know of. The edi- tor of this paper has had the pleasure of meeting MT Mel1en only once, and lowing his taking charge of the prop erty at a private dinner given by Sem ator Bulkeley in the presidents hon or. No suggestion of any kind rela- tive to what should be said about his company or it's affairs has ever come from MT. Mellen. any one in his employ so far as our knowledge goes