The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-12
Compare What It Cost to Build the Pan- ana With New Haven's Expenditures
 for Few Steamboats and TroIIeyLines

Our esteemed and admirable friend The Courant, is a prosperous newspaper It does large business joys income and it's stockholders have curity which reliable the property itself Let us suppose, that some fine morning. there should be change and that the trustees for the stockholders should add to their business of printing newspaper divers other enterprises, and that the sec ities of the company should be largely increased and that suddenly those securities should deprecate half in value, and those who relied upon the stock for dividend should find their income decreased twenty-five cent, although the business of the newspaper and it's profits
 Let us further suppose that examination should be made of the books of the company which prints The Courant it should found that the accounts intrieately involved, and not understandable
 Surposet were reported that in of those outside transactions 5OOOOO had disappeared into thin air, trustees of the property had been juggling with the stock of the corporations that they had received naey than quarter of million dollars for which they could not account except by saying that had been expended in illegal and utterly improper ways such itemization of expenditures.
 Suppose that there many transactions such as that in which SIS 5OOOOO disappeared into thin air.
 Suppose committee of inquiry, having reported these facts should nd The Courant continues to be published it is sold at the old price Would there still be joy in the office of The Courant and would it's had become of the missing property and why there had been such fearful waste?
 We fancy there is but to this question If trustee has squandered property, taken it, it is hard Iy justification to that the property is not yet in solvent2
 Yet after reading report the Inter State Commission, with respect to the Boston Maine and the New Haven The Couran takes the position that all is we because there is railroad because it does nue to run, and because the companies not nsol 
 We will leave it to contemporary if the analogy which has been made to it's business, not fair statement of the conditions which the Inter State Commerce Commission has applied to these rail road companies.
 The Boston and Maine thriving system. Its is cut in the middle it's service is bad and it's dvi dends have disappeared.
 The New Haven is still thriving system, but it's cut in the middle it's dividends have been diminished by third and travel upon it's lines is exceed ingly dangerous
 outside of it's railroad 100000 have been expended9
 What is there to show for those great sums?
 A few steamboats. few miles of trolley line, with equipment. Almost nothing
 To build the Panama canal, the greatest work cviiz- $3OOOO00OO.
 Here is railroad system parting with $2OO 900 900 lightly small boy parts with the of bad ple spending almost much for few tiny properties the nation has expended to undo the work of nature unite oceans bring the occident and the orient thous ands of miles nearer together.
 The Courant's views upon the New Haven situation tenabe They belong to that portion of the do main of which anarchy rules The best interest of newspaper making and justice opposed to the spreading of vewspon such matter in the of such overwhelming evidence and judgment declared
 What the New Haven needs is wise admonition and counsel to lead upright and honest corporate life The it is encouraged in it's present by the subser of powerful portion of the Connecticut press the longer will it persist in wrong doing.