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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-20
DID IT PAY TO CORRUPT CONNECTICUT?
 ASK THE OWNERS OF RAILROAD STOCK

" PON THIS PAGE are printed portions of o article from the pen of Lincoln J. Steffens, which, though more philosophically presented than most such studies, is character lstic of the view of New England commonly en- tertained by students of government in this country.
 The discussion by Mr. Steffens is part of series of articles written by r.Steffens, for the Metropolitan magazine, and the portions quoted in The Farmer are from the advance sheets of the article which appears in the April number.
 What Mr. Steffens says about New England is hard reading; all the harder because tits true
 Vote buying is common in New England and it is especially common in Connecticut.
 New England DOES regard it's own govern ment with complacency, and feels little dissat isfaction with condition which Is representa- tive not of the frst but almost of the last stages of political decay.
 So far as Connecticut is concerned, her evils may largely be traced to thezstruggles of it's great railway monopoly to obtain political favors and keep itself in power
 These endeavors were originally exerted for the assumed benefit of the investors in the monopoly, but soon reached stage where not the investors, nor the state, nor the in |terest of the railway system itself were much vantage of the few men who from time to time were entrusted with sthe management Of the system
 From corruption of state no good can t0OSG cause It. con- Gition of the New Haven system is sufficient proof of this claim.
 The New Haven established it's control over the government many years ago. It made the government of Connecticut government by lobbyists, for the railroad. Thus exempted from the normal which sound government would have exercised over it's affairs, the rail road sank into condition of corruption not less than that to which it had brought Connecticut, and stagnant in the filth of it's own mismanage- ment became unable to pay a dividend upon it's stock, although enjoying monopoly of trans portation business in the most densely settled portions of the United States.
 Still New England is complacent Still Connecticut is unconscious of hereshame. New England business men plead for fsnercy' for the railroad. They ask no punishment for those who lootedit s
 Railroad lobbyists shaneIessly Haunt them selves in the face of the public, and shameless Iy speak of their intentions regarding the p0- IificaI organizations dominated by them. ls Of course the railroad has been aided by 1 other privileges such gas, and water and electric light and telephone monopolies. The insurance organizations have also maintained a powerful lobby. But the end of these things is It is 1 darkest just before dawn The dawn is in Con- necticut exhibited in the restlessness of the plain people, and in their growing determina- ton to throw off the oligarehy of railroads and shame which has put Connecticut at the bot l tom of the United States
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-20
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-20

With whole libraries of spring poems, a ancy prices. of vershers omance found hogs.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-20
THE FIRST SUPPLEMENT.
THE FIRST ENGLISH settlement in

DHE FIRST ENGLISH settlement in Con
 1 necticut was established as the result of a real estate deal made 283 years ago to-day known as Connecticut Colony was assigned by the Earl of Warwick to Lord Say and Seal, Lord Brooke, John Hampden, John Pym and others. The previous year the council of Plymouth had granted the tract to the Earl of Warwick, and King Charles l., confirmed the grant by a patent. Connecticut was first explored by al Dutch navigator, Adrian Block who sailed up fIe Connecticut river far the site of Hart ford in 1914, just three centuries ago this year. Under the grant from the Plymouth council Connecticut included all that part of New Eng land west from the Narragansett River, 12Os miles on the coast, 'sand thence in latitude and breadth aforesaid to the Pacific ocean!" In 1633 William Holmes, of Plymouth, prepared the frame of house, placed it on vessel and. sailed for tic Connecticut River. He passed e small fort just built by the Dutch and called the House of Good Hope,'' at Hartford, and. landing on the west bank, erected the first Eng fish house in Connecticut. In 1885 Fort Say brook named in honor of Lords Say and Brook was built at the mouth of the river.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-20
FACTS OF PAST
 AND PRESENT

having been educated at Washington College, Pa., and the Protestant Epfs- copaI Seminary at Gambler, O. He was rector of churches at Clarksburg, w. Va. Covington, ky. and Provt- dence. R. l., before going to New York in 1888 to occupy the pulpit of St. Bartholomew's church.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08
Supervisors Are Working
Over the Jail Problem

The problem of a county Jail is
again claiming the attention of the
board of supervisors. That the jail
Row being used is inadequate in every
respect to accommodate the numbe.
OF prisoners incarcerated is frankly ad
mitted by the board, but the construc
tion of commodious Jail building
hinges upon minor points that are be
ing threshed out by the board. NJ
decision will be reached at once, but
the demand is becoming more press
ing with each postponement and the
supervisors are preparing to take def
mite and immediate action.
That the board as a whole is in fa-
vor of a new jail was the almost
unanimous verdict when the super
visors this morning discussed the va
rious phases of the question. Ina
bility to agree on the site is prov
ing to be the most perplexing part OF
the solution, due to a wide diversity
CT opinion existing among members
of the board.
'I've been in favor of new Jail
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08

At 2:2O this afternoon the direc-
tors Of the Irrigation District, after
. cont erance fam early morning,
PASSED by unanimous vote a motion
naming Charles r. lockwood general
manager and chief engineer of the
district. For the present his pay is
to be $25 day for such time as he
is actually engaged in district work,
and when the board shall decide that
his entire time is required he is to
draw salary of $3.50 a month.
While President Hamilton was alb
sent from town, it was known to
members of the board that Mr.. Rock
wood was acceptable to him, and the
four members present-Messrs. Pound,
Ferguson, Mcbride and Brockman, the
latter presiding-all voted in the af-
firmative on the motion.
The board had a number of other
matters under advisement this after
noon, all tending to a consummation
Of the purchase of the irrigation sys-
tenn and the obtaining of the appro-
rriation from Congress for the pro
tective work.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08

The conference held in Los Angeles
yesterday resulted in bringing about
entire harmony among the delegates
to 90 to Washington to work for an
appropriation, it being agreed that
the delegates shall work for an APP
rropriation of 100000 for rebuilding
the Volcano Lake levee this winter,
and that so soon as treaty can be
made with a recognized government
in Mexico efforts will be made to Sc
cure the closure of the Bee river
break and the building of a levee
along the river to the gulf. But un-
til such treaty is made, neither the
Irrigation District nor the represen-
tatives of the Los Angeles Chamber
of Commerce will use their influence
for the river levee.
/ Engineer Isadore Dockweiler and
ex-President Booth of the Los An
CeIeS CnamDef OF commerce VIII
leave for Washington Friday evening
with the valley delegates, MessrS
Holt. Conkling and Best, Mr.. Hamil
ton now being in Washington
Messrs. Holt and Conkhng, who re
turned this morning from Los Ange'
les, both are emphatic in saying that
the delegates from Los Angeles VIII
work for the plan outlined by the
district.
Ex Senator Flint will not now &C
to Washington, but promises to &c
at any time he may be summoned by
the other delegates.
1t is not known whether Colonel
Holabird will go or not, but if he doe,
il will not be as an accredited rep
resentative of the Los Angeles Cham
ber of Commerce.
1t has been reported that w. X
! Bowker of the C.-M. Company is ii
Washington. Whether this is true OF
not is not known, but it is eviden
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08

all the time and I'll tell you further
I'm going down and inspect the oil
Jail myself today" said Supervisor w.
F. Beal this morning. This seems
to be the attitude of the board as
whole, but their failure to agree on
what shall be the site of the building
is the hitch that is delaying immedi-
ate construction.
With a plea that the county aid
FL Centre in the erection of city
Jail, Chief of Police Egerer appeared
before the board, requesting assurance
that the aid of the county be forth
coming should the city construct
Jail building. The sentiment that the
city employ the proposed county Jail
building for the imprisonment of city
offenders met with approval among
the supervisors, who suggested that a
temporary building erected by the city
would serve the purpose Of a city jail
pending the completion Of the new
county building. A definite agreement
is expected to be reached in the near
future.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08
President Outlines
Pending Legislation

Following are extracts from the
message read to Congress today by
President Wilson:
Gentlemen Of the Congress: The ses-
sion upon which you are now enter
ing will be the closing session of the
Sixty third Congress, a congress, |
venture to say, which will long be
remembered for the great body of
thoughtful and constructive work
which it has done, in loyal response
to the thought and needs of the coun-
try. | should like in this address to
review the notable record and try ia
make adequate assessment of it; but
no doubt we stand too near the work.
that has been done and are ourselves
too much part of it to play the part
Of historians toward it.
Moreover, our thoughts are now
more of the future than of the past.
While we have worked at our tasks
Of peace the circumstances of the
whole age have been altered by war.
What we have done for our own land
and our own people we did with the
best that was in use, whether of char
acter or of intelligence, with sober
enthusiasm and a confidence in the
principles upon which we were acting
which sustained us at every step of
the difficult undertaking; but it ;s
done. 1t has passed from our hands.
1t is now an established part of the
legislation of the country. It's use
fulness, its effects, will disclose them
selves in experience. What chiefly
strikes US now, as we look about US
during these closing days of year
which will be forever memorable IN
the history Of the world, is that we
face new tasks, have been facing
them these six months, must face
them in the months to come-face
them without partisan feeling, like
men who have forgotten everything
lut common duty and the fact that
We are DlcStilJtJlNcS Ol 4 great DeO-
pie whose thought is not of US. but
Of what America owes to herself and
to all mankind in such circumstances
as these upon which we look amazed
and anxious.
War has interrupted the means of
trade not only. but also the processes
of production. In Europe it is de
stroying men and resources wholesale
and upon a scale unprecedented and
appalling.
To speak plainly, we have grossly
erred in the way in which we have
stunted and hindered the development
Of our merchant marine, and now
when we need ships we have not got
them. We have year after year de.
lated without end or conclusion the
best policy to pursue with regard to
the use Of the ores and forests ani
water powers Of our national domain
in the rich states Of the West, when
we should have acted; and they are
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08

still locked up. The key is still turned
upon them, the door shut fast at
which thousands of vigorous men, full
Of initiative, knock clamorously for
admittance. The water power Of our
navlgable streams outside the national
domain also, even in the Eastern
states, where we have worked and
planned for generations, is still MOI
used as it might be, because we will
and We won't; because the laws we
have made do not intelligenty bal
ance encouragement against restraint.
We withhold by regulation.
! have come to ask you to remedy
and correct these mistakes and omis
sions, even at this short session of a
Congress which would certainly seem
to have done all the work that could
reasonably be expected of it. The
time and the circumstances are extra
ordinary and so must our efforts be
also.
Fortunately two great measures.
finely conceived, the one to unlock.
with proper safeguards, the resour-
ces Of the national domain, the other
to encourage the use Of the navigabla
waters outside that domain for the
generation of power, have already
passed the House Of Representatives
and are ready for immediate consid-
Grafton and action by the Senate.
With the deepest earnestness | urge
their prompt passage. In them both
we turn our backs upon hesitation
and makeshift and formulate genu-
ire policy of use and conservation, in
the best sense Of those words. We
owe the one measure not only to the
people of that great western country
for whose free and systematic devel-
opment, as it seems to me, our legis
lation has done so little, but also to
the people of the nation as whole
and we as clearly owe the other in
fulfillment of our repeated promises
that the water power of the country
should in fact as well as in name be
put at the disposal of great industries
which can make economical and profit
able use of it, the rights of the pub
lie being adequately guarded the while
and monopoly in the use prevented.
To have begun such measures and not
completed them would indeed mar the
record of this great congress very Sc
riously. ! hope and confidently be-
lieve that they will be completed.
And there is another great piece
Of legislation which awaits and should
receive the sanction of the Senate.
mean the bill which gives larger
measure Of self government to the
people Of the Philippines. How bet
ter, in this time of anxious question.
ing and perpleXed policy, could we
show our confidence in the principles
of liberty, as the source as well as
the expression of life; how bette
could we demonstrate our own self
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08
William ROckhiIl Dies.

Honolulu, Dec. 8-William w. Rock
hill, famous diplomat, one time Unit
ed States ambassador to Turkey and
Russia, and minister to Pekin and
Athens, died here today. His death
resulted from a cold contracted dur
ing the voyage from San Francisco on
the liner Chiyo Maru, which developed
cardiac trouble.e He will be buried
in Honolulu.
Rockhill was en- route to China to
fill the appointment as diplomatic ad
wiser to President Yuan Shi Kai of
China, who knew him when he served
the American government in China.
His illness forced him to leave the
Loaf here.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08
G, r. lockwood Named
Districts Chief Engineer

tkorities. They are full of German
wounded
The chief German surgeon in charge
of the Red Cross work at Lille told a
French doctor that the Germans lost
over 100000 men on the banks of the
User.
The story of Arras is different. The
daily number of shells poured upon
the town is now reduced to an aver
age of 200 The hours of lombard
ment are always the same-from 1918
to midday and from 2 to 6 p. M
During the night marmite, as it is
called, is dropped at hourly intervals
to mark time and replace the clocks
which have been destroyed.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08

possession ana SteadfaStneSS IN the
courses of Justice and disinterested =
ness than by thus going calmly for
ward to fulfill our promises to a de,
pendent people, who will now look
more anXiously than ever to see
whether we have indeed the liberality,
the unselfishness, the courage, the
faith we have boasted and professed.
| cannot believe that the Senate will
let this great measure Of constructive
justice await the action of another
Congress. It's passage would nobly
icrown the record of these two years
Of memorable labor.
But | think that you will agree
with me that this does not complete
the toll Of our duty. How are we to
carry our goods to the empty mar
kets of which Y have spoken if we
have not the ships? How are we to
build up a great trade if we have not
the certain and constant means of
transportation upon which all profit
able and useful commerce depends :?
And how are we to get the ships if
we wait for the trade to develop
without them? To correct the many
mistakes by which we have discour-
aged and all but destroyed the mer~
chant marine Of the country; to re-
trace the steps by which we have, it
seems, almost deliberately withdrawn
cur flag from the seas, except where,
here and there, a ship of war is bid
den carry it or some wandering yacht
displays it, would take a long time
and involve many detailed items Of leg =
.islation, and the trade which we ought
Immediately to handle would disap-
pear or find other channels while we
debated the items.
The case is not unlike that which
confronted us when our own continent
was to be opened up to settlement
and industry and we needed long lines
of railway, extended means of trans
portation prepared beforehand, if de-
development was not to lag intoler-
ably and wait interminably. We Law
ishly subsidized the building of trans
continental railroads. We look back
upon that with regret now, because
the subsidies led to many scandals
Of which we are ashamed; but we
know that the railroads had to be
uilt and if we had it to do over again
we should Of course build them, but
in another way. Therefore ] propose
another way of providing the means
Of transportation, which must precede.
not tardily follow, the development of
our trade with our neighbor states
Of America. 1t may seem a reversal
of the natural order of things, but it
is true that the routes of trade must
be actually opened-by many ships
and regular sailings and moderate
charges-before streams of merchan-
disc will flow freely and profitably
through them.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08

that should he be there he can have
no official standing except as repre-
senting the Mexican lands.
1t is understood that Colonel Ran
dolph of the Southern Pacific, who
has been strongly in favor of the
levee along the river, agrees with the
district representatives that it would
rot be wise to undertake that work
until a treaty can be made with re-
sponsble authority in Mexico for the
control of the levee and the distribu
ton of the water
The building of this levee would
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08
Convention Tonight-A Bible School

Convention Tonight-A Bible School
Workers Convention will be held at
the First M. E. church tonight a
7:30. Good music. Dr.. H. A. Dowl-
ihg, general secretary; Mrs. Henriet-
ta M. Bowling, educational director
teen age division, and Mrs. Lucy j.
Bassford, elementary division super
intendent, will speak. There will be "a
discussion led by local superinten-
dents. Everybody invited This is Il
district meeting preparatory to the
county convention to be held at Braw-
ley on Friday
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08
WOtherspOOn Appointed.

New York, Dec. 8.-Major General
Wotherspoon, who retired as chief o.
staff of the United States army, No
vember 16, was selected today by Gov
ernor- elect Whitman to be state SUI
rerintendent of public works for New
York.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08
Stock Exchange Failures.

+ New York, Dec. 8.-The stock ex-
change firm of A. H. Combs & Co.
failed today after an existence of
"a years. This is the second failure
in two days.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08
Cotton Bill Defeated.

Washington, Dec. 8.-By vote of
237 to 90 the House today defeated
the Henry cotton loan amendment pro
posing to place in Southern banks
$250,000,000 of government funds to
be loaned on cotton and tobacco ware
house receipts.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08
Heavy Frost Predicted.

Los Angeles, Dec. S.-Following is
the forecast for Southern California;
Fair tonight and Wednesday,; heavy
frost Wednesday morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08
miro Released

Umpire Released - Considerable
feeling has been engendered among
Ell Centre fans, who believe injustice
has been done in dismissing Umpire
Phyle, who had won the disapproval
of some of the Brawley and Calexico
players by his rulings.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08
Steamer Burned.

London, Dec. S.-A dispatch from
Barrow states that the oil steamer
Vedra, from Port Arthur, Tex, to
Barrow, was burned to the waters
edge near Walney island and "a of the
crew were burned to death or drowned.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08
Destroyed by Earthquake.

Lima, Peru, Dec. Sword was re
ceived today that the mountain towr
of Coracora, 300 miles southeast OF
Lima, was destroyed by an earthquake
Sunday, with several casualties.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08
Sentence Gamblers-Three

victims of Marshal McFadden's drag
net for gamblers were disposed of
this morning, when City Recorder
Iasigi imposed on each of the men Il
fine of 500 or an alternative SEN
tence of fifty days in the county Jail.
They are E. l.. Boyd, Henry Johnson
and B. j. Hall. All are colored.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08

confirming the fall of Lodz.
London, Dec. 8.-British troops have
recaptured Passchendaele, in Elan
ders, says a new agency dispatch from
Amsterdam. If the report is true 1t
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08
Lille and Arras.
(By Patrick De Bathe)

Wy dlllCh iIc DlJHcJ
Northern France, Dec. 5.-With the
exception of Lille-Fives, a suburb of
Lille, that city has been spared by
the Germans. Arras, on the other
hand, has suffered terribly.
A correspondent who left Lille
November 20 states that the inhab-
itants have not suffered from any
unusual exactions. The Germans have
satisfied themselves with levying up
on actual necessaries of life. They
have even undertaken to see to the
importations of eggs, butter and milk.
The cafes are open and the tram
ways are running between Lille, Rou-
baix and Tourcoing. All the workshops
and factories have been left intact.
M. Delasalle, the mayor, is compared
to the redoubtable Max of Brussels.
He seems to exercise a wonderful in
fluence over the German authorities
and fights with the greatest tenacity
for the rights of his fellow citizens.
Typhoid, contrary to reports, has
rot broken out in Lille. Several cases
have been reported from the German
army, any one of which, if it devel-
ops in the town, is removed to the
reighborhood of Lomme.
All of the hospitals in Lille have
been taken over by the German au'
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-08
Collins Sold.

Philadelphia, Dec. 8.-Connie Macl:,
manager of the Athletics, today au
nounced that he had sold Edward l
Collins, second baseman Of the Ath-
letics, to the Chicago White SoX fot
money consideration.
According to those on the inside
Collins becomes manager Of the White
Sox, and James Callahan, the present
manager of the Sox, will become vice
president. President Charles Comisky
Of the club is anxious to retire and
the presidency of the club will viz
tually devolve upon Callahan in the
future.