The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-16
TURN WATER
 INTO BLOOD SAYS WILSON
Democratic Candidate For Rep resentative Describes Great Railroad Merger Calls it Most Gigantic Act of Frenzied Finance in History of United States
Steam Road Becomes Trolley and Holding Company With Old Name as Disguise
The Merger is Accompanied by the Creation of $I52. .OO0, 900 of New Securities

the Creation of $152. .OOO, GOO
 of New Securities
 Lynn W. Wilson, in an address to Twelfth District voters last night ac- cused the New Haven railroad of ere ating $125, 100000 in inflated eecurit- ies, so that the price of it's stock drop ped with q thud
 He charged that the steam road by legislative magic transformed itself in- to a trolley road and holding mon opoly, keeping the old steam road name to deceive the public.
 He said that there was a close con- the Steam road properties, and steam road and trolley road accidents.
 He referred to inc wreck Of the Springfield Express and the wreck of the Boston express as the Devil g miracle of turning water into blood, ;
 He denounced the lobby and made suggestion for the destruction of rail- road dorninat tion in Connecticut.
 Mr. Wilson said: Some ten or twelve years ago I chanced to be present at a banquet in New Haven. The then president of the New Haven road was there, at the head of the table. He was surrounded by some ot the men best known in that day III the business and politics of the state
 One of these men, a leader in poll itics had occasion to respond to a toast. He had political ambitions and, the desire for promotion, as re- member. It struck me, that his re- marks were highly adulatory of the Road. and I reflected upon the maxim that Gratitude is a lively sense of faVors to come-
 But the matter am going to tell you about. as the text of this little talk, is this: As the speaker was about concluding his speech he turE- ed to the president of the road and said, They say that you are the real governor of Connecticut, and,= by Heavens, I think they're right"
 ttI remember that the sentiment somewhat vexed me at the time- It seemed a islander upon free govern ment. and against the state that ten constitution.
 '-But knew then, and l have learn ed since. that The Road, if not the real government of Connecticut, was and had for many years been what it is now the fashion to call the t'in- visible governments
 '.I learned that while the president of the road was not invariably the governor Of Connecticut, he yet did more real governing than any actual governor under our system had been able to do in many years
 And so my friends, from this text we come to our subject, which is: Railroad Domination in Connecticut, and How to be Rid of It
 I think, my friends, that no ord1n- ary observer of society and institu- tions in Connecticut, will have the dominated by the New Haven road
 The men who have served them most faithfully in legislatures. and in political careers elsewhere, are those most frequently picked for the big offices, and some of the most mo- torious of them have gone to the gov ernor's chair and thence to the Unit ed States Senate.
 Our laws are largely framed to meet the roads ideas of economies.
 Grimes against them and their property are made more serious than similar crimes against the property of other people.
 Denied Jury Trial.
 For years we were denied the ber- efts of trial by jury.
 For years the maxim un sum that could be recovered for a. death was $5,000. and few and far between were the verdicts rendered for even this amount.
 Long ago the abIest lawyers began to take their cases into Massachusetts or into New York state, or into the Federal courts, where justice operated beyond the shadow of The Road
 TT speak of these facts of fa- n1iliar things, of which you are 10 take-zas the lawyers say-judie iaI no- tice. They are phenomena that have described to you on other plat forms and in other years, as I have pleaded for rebellion against the ty- c111AS O1 l I1C IhOciOs d4iO AOA JASl11C in the state
 Tonight my time is limited. and shall but refer to important facts which I shall take up separately and in more detail at another time.
 With another set of phenomena you are also familiar, those which re- late to the bondage of cities.
 Tn Bridgeport we are not masters of our own streets, nor of our own harbor.
 For a decade or more the city has T f7 a barrier that stands as mark of our servitude. Shame of shannes. we are com pe1led to pay $400,000 for the symbol of our own utter humiliation
 Our laws do not permit us to pre- scribe good serviceeto the Reads troi- ley monopoly, to which we have con tributed hundreds of thousands in profits: we cannot prevent ovefcrowd- ing of cars, nor the tearing up of our streets, nor the Roads interference in our municipal government, to its own benefit and our hurt.
 There is Fairfield avenue, which has been for many months all but 
 My friends, wherever you look in city, or in state, in this city, or an- other, you find the signs of railroad domination.
 The Invisible Government
 You are forced to conclude that the real government of Connecticut the invisible government-is in the yellow building in New Haven
 The Road Se1zes our harbOr. and turns it into valuable private proper ty.
 ''The Road seizes the municipal governm ent and makes that govern rnent the advocate of a great bonded debt, a large portion of which is to build bridges which The Road needs in it's business.
 You see a state legislature appro- priate a million dollars to build .vharves in remote Connecticut city, to improve that city as rail- road terminal.
 Promotion For Lobbyists.
 You see the notorious lobbyists of l he road in places of public and pri- i