The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-01
BOYCOTTING BRIDGEPORT

NT ORGAN B. BARNARD of Hartford trustee of of the Con- M nectcut Company which is ward of the Federal courts says later date trolley service will De Bridgeport unless the people of Bridgeport no Wa9s drive the jitneys off the highways of the city
 statement in country where the people were con scious of rights familiar with the laws, would speed v cause Mr. Banard removed from his position as trs tee which he certainly ought not longer to hold
 The Connecticut Company, through chain o antece- not be considered has the duty to supply trolley has received and enjoys mono poly of that rich privilege
 By one process and another trolley business of Con- necticut has decade much mismanaged The de- this maladmination have been described Tn de- during many years this The facts are req sonably familiar to most persons
 being to wt the automobile and the truck by which and goods can be moved faster through city they be moved in trolley cars
 Modern invention has ntervened in the field of uRban transport it has in other fields.
 roIleys been properly managed in the past had they conservavey capitalized had they been free from waste and graft they could even now compete with the ne
 In fact, Bridgeport basng investigation made by the so-caed Lashar commission believes that the roleys could be spite of the past and their niqutes if they would adopt certain rational means which have been investigated, approved and suggested.
 The Connecticut Company, neither repenng of it's sins desiring to reform has tried to survive by that amounts to social blackmai.
 With boserous and insolent carriage it has entered the General Assembly, which holds it's charter demanding privilege being freed from it's taxes, and of the duty of keeping bridges and of the duty of paving be- it's tracks.
 fought and nail to repress the jiney compe- ton by legislation.
 knows apparently higher it overwhelming becomes the competition which ii seeks to destroy
 The suggestions Bridgeport Commission are clear The company man cars to give five and frequent service.
 Ungratefu favor that have been howered upor if bv complaisant General Assembly, everee with the pride which rebellion against authority this umultuous naughty stiff necked ant monopoly addresses great city, great sate ane indeed itself in terms which self respecting c zenship admire .
 If the Company lays down it's charter, If abandons performance of the duties which its leges rest the representatives of the people may proceed he ample remedies which the law allows.
 They may and should seek a recevership of the enr be operated under judicial authority an they should for the judicial declaration of forfeitur the Connecticut Company should it abandon the ser vice, will have justly incurred.
 As for the of the Connecticut company ant it's subsidiaries good in guarding their right which in the pasthey will do thel hest h see that Mr. nsolent threat is expressed in action.
 If these stockholders scrutnize the past they will SC that in every luled to inactivity upo the theory only the public to suffer they themseve have been despoied.
 Every improvement will in progressive society, be we comed and supported States countries, empires societies of all klads whlc improvements thrive Their people are prosperou and happy Those communities III which progress Is o"e \upon miserable
 m who mobbed the first steam eI Zines not misguided than the Brainards of liar would kill automobile transport not by egltma competition better and cheaper and swifter service but ! legal assassination.
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