The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-21
How Double Machine Government FaWns On Monopoly And Destroys
 Equality Of Citizens Before Law

Equality Of Citizens Before Law l--4---------~~-----~~~~~
 That is a fine example of legal injustice which is about to be perpetrated against large number of owners
 Certain streets have been ordered paved with Ier1na nent pavement. doing this work Mayor Clifford B. Wilson will immediately to be expended ALL of the $20oOO0 serial issue which has been authorized by the General Assembly in special law the queer history of which has been told in every Bridgeport
 There will be immediately collected from prop erty above referred to the of $1OOO0O in special assessments which is crying injustice for these streets being paved for the of all the traffic of the United States from whatsoever that enters into Bridgeport through highway.
 But the hundred thousand dollars which will be col- lected from these few citizens Is not all of the injustice which the law permits to be perpetrated against them
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 Taxpayers will please note that this is an ORDER
 The property owner is ordered to do something. He
 If it isn't done then the city will do the work and the expense will be lien upon his property.
 Assuming the obligation is something the property ought to assneandl legallyi is, though morally it is provision that the city may do the work necessary N
 It is almost the only way in which single stubborn obdurate citizen could be prevented from holding
 The rule is general in relation to many burdens, which may be placed upon the citizen Each for instance
 
 the city will do it, and charge the expense to him.
 There two kinds of citizens in Bridgeport broadly speaking There the human citizen and the artificial citizen, corporation Under such rules the above the artificial citizen is supposed to be treated the the human citizen He must do his work, the city will dolit for him and make him pay.
 The Connecticut Company is an artificial citizen It received enormously valuable rights the Bridgeport It has the sole right the streets for the transportation of persons by rail- in trolley It has monopoly which returns princely
 In return for this of the streets the legislature has required that this artificial person shall pave certain fhnc the city uses if the city requires it to be done.
 To prevent this artificial person from delaying pub lie Improvement exactly the remedy has been given against other humber citizens, of the human kind
 The law provides-and the very statute has been re- peatedy quoted The the city may the trolley monopoly to do it's share of the work and if the work is not done given date, may the work and charge the expense to the company.
 This the rule that the law applies to other peri human and artificial and the rule is made for the very same reason
 make order that Fairfield must be paved by Sept and then do the whole work and charge the prop share of the to the artificial person called tic Connecticut Company
 Everybody knows it did not. Fairfield avenue re- maned in chaos for months. At last the city paved portion of the street. and when the Connecticut Company got ready to do so, 1t paved its portion.
 Here was ordering by lofty city officials no doing of the work and charging of the expense the de- quent artificial person. Everything in the style of Gaston and Alphonse Hats were off. Reviewing was the only order of the day.
 Much read of the vast hurry to pave Knowl- ton street. Kiefer street Whiting street. Crescent one of them of ANYTHING LIKE THE IMPORTANCE of Fairfield thoroughfare,
 Here orders in plenty to the human persons who unfortunate enough to little property any of these highways Do the work. Do it by Sept. l. If it isn't done then the city will do it. make the of it a mortgage against your property"