Putnam patriot., 1924-01-25
BUCKLEY OUT FOR WADHAMS Despite Chairman Roraback's Support of Mir. Bing- ham for Republican Nomination for Governor-Tryng to Make Politics Out of Raise in Fare.
 BY
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Special Correspondence to The Putnam Patriot)

ment in 1915 with Marcus H. Holcop,b as the head. The financial condition of the state WIS never so satisfactory as it is today. The bonded indebted ness of the state is $I6.291. 100. This includes the bonds of S2. 2.50O, 900 which were set aside as fund to meet the wants of ex-service men who needed assistance. This large bonded debt can be met without imposing a dollar of additional taxes on the people of the state. The sinking fund is able to take care of the entire debt. More than that, the proceeds of some of the bonds have been invested at profit to the state. In addition the burden of the state tax on towns has been re- duced by $500. .000 and the state has made all the toll bridges free, thereby saving the travelling public nearly Sl50,000 a year in tolls. The enormous increases in the revenue from the tax on savings deposits. and the expected increase from the income tax on cor porations should enable the legislature of 1925 to make further reduction in taxes. The latter statement is. how ever, predieated on the assumption that the two houses will be Republi- can. There is every reason to think that the assumption is warranted. ltI will be realized, however. without the shadow of doubt. if the Republicans compose their factional differences and close their ranks.
 Trolley Fare,
 There is more politics than griev- ance in the cry against the proposed increase in the trolley rates of the Connecticut Company. The increase is less than one cent per fare. That Is too small to constitute a burden on the individual passenger, but 1t is large enough as basis for an cleo ton cry in this year of municipal. state and local politics. The Demo crats are making particular use of 1t and their leaders in candid moments say with Thurlow Weed. the anti-M Ma sonic leader in New York state more than three-quarters of a century ago, "It is q good enough Morgan until after election. The cry Is of course taken up by those who are inspired by spirit of corporation batting. These people are nnmindful of the fact that the industrial prosperity of the state is dependent on the business success of corporations and that t is to that sue cess that wage earners must look for their wages and investors for their dividends. The politicians show a heartless cruelty in making political capital out of the necessity which com pels the Connecticut Company to make this slight increase in their fares. It is expected that there will be an ap- peal to the public utilities commission against the increase. It Is a mighty good thine for the state that there ex ists public utilities commission to ad- just questions that arise in the opera ton of public service corporations. and that t Is made up of level-headed, judicious men who are in the habit of looking at the equities in case, and who are not influenced by clamor. The alternative to increasing the fares is reduction in the trolley service. One may well shudder. particularly those living in centers of population, at the possibility of an inadequate trolley service. IL would mean q hardship that would be intolerable and an in- convenience that would be unbear- able. Those who would suffer most are the wage earners. Their employ CTS would escape the disagreeable ex- perience by usinb automobiles. The politicians who encourage popular dis satisfaction with the trolley company have no personal interest in the wei fare of the people. They care for nothing but their votes, and think of nothing but methods of obtaining them.