The Washington herald., 1914-11-25
Base Ingratitude.

Nellie the beautiful cloak model should SPUN th,
hero and throw herself into the of the villain
she would not be bit inconsistent than seem:
her spinster sister, New England, at this moment
Here are all the rest of doing our darnedest tc
save New England from the tyranny, the thraldom
of the New Haven road and condignly to punish
the tyrants and the thrallers, and, apparently the
venerable hoyden does not care to be saved. We
have called to the bar of justice the several villains
near villains and villagers who sought her undoing
and the jade brazenly pleads for their release.
In most places, except New England, this par.
/ ticuIar kind of salvation for New England is a
large moral issue. II stirred all the latent virtue
in the United States Senate and spread to the
hustings where political gentlemen, one hand in
the black Prince Albert, the other clinched, vowed
before the affairs of their country that New Haven
should be unscrambled and New England un-
shackled the scramblers and the shacklers sent to
the chain gang. Right in the cradle of the old free
dom birth of freedom was promised. Free
institutions were painted and papered. The track
was cleared to all points in New England for the
run of the Special New Freedom. Voters voted
with new conscience and for the saviors of New
England.
1t is pretty picture to SPOIL beautiful thought
to unthin but the fact is all of u.s. except the New
Englanders, largely in the position of the foolish
peacemaker who stepped between quarreling husband
and wife. They have ungratefully turned upon us.
q think, also, that the indictment" says Gov Bald
win, of the unregenerate State of Connecticut, "of
more than twenty of the New York. New Haven and
Hartford Companys directors and the labelling as
conspirators of good many highly esteemed citizens
of Connecticut who in their graves had an TN
favorable effect upon the Democratic prospects"
Gov. Baldwin ought to know; he's Democrat.
The Boston Transcript is dsinclined to go as
far as Gov Baldwin but it says: we doubt wheth-
er the governors strength would have been suf-
fcient to pull him through had that bolt not been
launched but manifesty it added the finishing
touches"
Behold" says the Hartford Courant, the di-
rectors indicted for bringing about many of the
conditions that the administration has given its of
fetal sanction to-" And again." says the same
paper, the cheap and futile attempt to gain popu-
larity by indicting two men of high character and
casting slurs upon dead men equally beloved and
respected is not the only thing to criticise in the
governments attitude toward the New Haven road"
Up speaks the New Haven Union to say: AT
torney General Gregory says the proposed cotton pool
can be formed without violating the Sherman act
or the Clayton act Now suppose the pool is formed
and few years hence another attorney general de-
clares that the pool was unlawful and indcts those
spirators those who are dead If history repeats
itself that way, it will not be without precedent-the
directors of the New Haven road the precedents"
Speaking of the dissolution of the New Haven
system, the New Haven Register says: I'VE have
the separation now by wisdom Of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, but if it proves other than
a damage to Connecticut and New England, it will
be by virtue of other wisdom than the commissions"
The somewhat radical Boston Post finds it diff
cult to understand why of the directors of the
New Haven were not indicted: Among these gentle
men are Theodore N VAIL Edward MilEgan, of Hart
ford and Francis T. Maxwell of Rockville. Mr..
Vail, particularly showed broad public spirit in |
ievoting his energies to the railroad rescue work.
wen 10 the impairment of his health. Yet, while |
hese men for unexplanable are made |
others, who were notoriously active in
he old and reckless management escape Indictment.
t is very curious ard apparently inequitable sit
ration
Speaking again. the New Haven Union says:
Does anybody that is without prejudice believe that
hese twenty-one directors and those who we're once
heir associates and whose graves have been des-
Grated by those who have apparently cared nothing
or the feelings of the living or the memory of the
lead, imagined or had any reason to imagine that
hey doing anything morally or legally wrong"
Says the Boston Globe: John l. Billiard is go. /
ng TO plead immunity in the New Haven criminal
ase the ground of the testimony that he gave
efore the Interstate Commerce Commission Was
he testimony worth it? All people remember
# it is that he swore he burned his books"
Rises the respected Charles Francis Adams to
av nevertheless and notwithstanding that New Eng
ands transportation system is going to pot and
eeds untold millions which will not be forthcoming
'he all the rest of regulating New England.
he old economic problems which formed the basis
nd purpose Of the original plan to unity the sys-
I'm under New Haven leadership have again made
heir presence felt and-there you are.
More in than in anger The Herald realizes
nat New England has only ingratitude for all of
ur efforts in her behalf, and it regretfuy releases
S grip on that particular part of the uplift The
ear old thing go to the devil in her own sweet
ay Il
A Reasonable 0ouhf