The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-26
DoNovAN's GALLANT FIGHT.
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(1artfOrd Times
CONGRESSMAN Donovan did not sue
coed in securing for Connecticut the
rivers and harborS appropriation to
which he deemed the state entitled,
but in his gallant fight for it he told
the taxpayers of the state not to say
anything about the politicians, a few
things the most of them do no tknow
and which even now will escape their
attention unless they will take pains
to peruSe that. part of Jerry 81
speech in the House, in which he re-
ferred to the predicament of Con-
necticut as being like that of the
younger brother in the nursery
rhyme:
Who used to share in what was mine,
Or take it all did he incline,
Cause I was eight and he was nine
My Brother.
BY brute strength" as Mr.. Dono-
van made it appear, Connecticut has
suffered and lost, for the benefit of
other states, contributing large sums
to the national till, but receiving COM
paratively little in return-contribut-
ing, for instance, $4,175,00 in 1913,
and receiving in return only $3.50. 900.
But 1t is better to get it as Mr.. Dono-
van himself tells it:
We received in 1912, $215, 900, and
IN 1910. $5O4, 900. i am going to
show you, Mr.. Chairman, what two
other states about the same in popu-
1ation and the same in wealth, or
practically the same, the great state
of washington and the great state
of Oregon. receive. Together they
amount to about one and a half as
compared with Connecticut. Just
think of this! This report is fur
nished to me by the chief of the
treasury department, covering a Pc
Rod of the three years mentioned.
They received for the fiscal year 1913,
$685. 900. Poor little Connecticut
received $3s0,OOO. For the fiscal
year 1912 these two northwestern
the first year of the Democratic con
troll of the lower House in sixteen
| years Poor Connecticut had toss
ed into her lap $255, 600. In 1911
washington and Oregon received $4.-
600 But they did give Connec-
ticut that year $500, 900, while giving
those two states more than nine times
as much as Connecticut for that
| year.
The battle which .Uncle Jeremiah
put up for Connecticut is not half
indicated in the above paragraph.
| For twenty minutes, the time allow
ance placed upon him, he withstood
| the sharpshooting of rapid-fire
tongues, replying to some, ignoring
others and denying them all, and all
the time sticking valiant1y to his text
and the cause of his state. And
/ If that cause has ever been more earn
estly and determined1y pleaded in the
/ past-with all due Difference to the
| oratorical and statistical long-winded-
ness of his Republican predecessor
! from the Fourth district-the little
that 1t actually awaited is revealed in
/ the cold figures given by Mr.. Donovan
and his nine-to-one, ten-to-one and
twenty -to-one ratios-differences that
/ are made even more widely divergent
when it is further considered what
was taken out of Connecticut.
One Of the noticeable features OF
the Donovan address is the fact thai
in no partisan sense was it political
It is not revealed in any account. al
hand that he made any personal ref
erence to his predecessor and te-be-
successor in Office. He left the po-
1ftical devastating for others to do
and the pity Of it is those who dc
it must do it too late to be of use te
themselves or to the state.