The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-26

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 We bring three brethren in journalism to the judg
 rth the ribaId some of the too common methods b; which one newspaper occasionally gets into unten able position, and other newspapers follow it ik sheep out of cussednes and from being too lazy think a little that day.
 The complaint lies against the Hartford Courant th New Haven Journal Courier and the Bridgeport Post Hartford has water works.
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 erss aa @ sF s5r s s znsiaaa un' Couran It in the editorial in which the Gourant For the Courant stands ready to the city sell out it's SPLENDID water works "
 There is dispute between the Courant and some others those others being actually charge the works to how they should So Courant is wiling to sen or was, on Monday.
 Then the Bridgeport Post with a few gentle opinions municipal ownership Hartford Bridge port, entitled, '.sickens of Municipal Ownership
 And on Tuesday morning comes the Journal Courier "A Failure in Governmenf.' For one the Courant stands ready to the city sell out it's splendid
 So the Courant among it's leading citizens advocate the sale of tour splendid water works''
 There went up chorus of mays ' that reached into the innermos sanctum They intelligent those Hart ford citizens Almost to they said If there's pol- tics weed ou but don't sell splendid water
 And on Tuesday, the Courant having somewhat re covered frem Mondays peevisne and havi heard per haps from vox popu' and other readers began to slide out of it's embarrassing position
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 Bu oh those terrible politics! They in the schools They in the fire department They in the street de partment. All those things in private hands They TAKEN from private hands, water works
 The test of institution how it works, compar- with another institution To say that politics is n institution exactly nothing at aH Politics is everything that has ten in it, and nowhere than in the great private corporations.
 Some think much better there should be politics public utility publicly owned, than that public utilities privately owned should be in politics. /f|
 So far know the governor of Massachusetts hasn't found 1t necessary to denounce the Panama canal Rhode Island ism complaining either The attorney gen of the United States to be perfectly satisfied with four splendid water works. -
 All the publicly utilities haven t made the people of the United States oneha the trouble that single railroad system privately owned makes them All the publicly owned utilities in the United States haven't done it.
 One would think that in this day when the corrupt condition of great private business is visible every side, and the being investigated, indicted and of the best known in the land facing uries for plain private business graftng that the Al mighty would give our contemporaries little sense in that field.
 This is bad time to compare the public methods of States with the private methods of big public service industrial and other corporations to boost the latter.
 Which kind of politics would contemporaries rather have the kind that is in -four splendid water works in Hartford the kind that is in splendid railroad monopolyg
 Do have a little sense, brethren. If you must dis parage the American people, do it intelligently
 Don't proclaim "a squabble in the board, and make that the basis for proclamation We for stand ready to sell our SPLENDID water works.''
 Any doubt about what the writer of that paragraph really thought about Hartfords waterwors, his pique?
 He couldn't keep the thought in his mind from ng to the top They splendid water works. They splendid Hartford them. They worth mil ions And Hartford has saved millions more, in lower water rates than her sister cities of Bridgeport and New Haven have.
 True New Haven filters of it's water. They put