Identifier: newenglandmagaziv37bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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United States Senator Morgan G. Bulkeley, of Hartford casting their dominant influence. againstGovernor Woodruffs honest and reasonableeffort to insure honesty in the financing ofnew trolley-lines. The Legislature, underthe pressure of this domination, repeatedlychartered new trolley companies, over theGovernors veto, without closing the doorsagainst over-capitalization, as he advised.The philosophy of the railroad is that atrolley-line is a traffic-feeder; that, once built, it will carry passengers; that if inrfcent investors in its watered stock lose th<fsavings — as they very often do — thfalone are to blame. The new ideal conce(,tion of the government as the inevitatregulator of rates, prices, and capitalizatigains ground slowly in Connecticut. \saw all these groups, and their most pow<uful public journals, like the Hartford Ccrant for example, moved to angry alarm whl WHATS THE MATTER WITH CONNECTICUT? 269
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United States Senator Frank Brandagee, of New London the Connecticut Senate proposed to refer tothe vote of all the people a $6,000,000 bondissue for certain public improvements. Verydangerous precedent is that, too — danger-ftlous to allow the Connecticut people to get ent;1 jthe idea that they have a right to any directal voice in the spending of their own money.They must be content with the old system.Anything new, however well tested in other ^t States and however meritorious the tests tarn may have proved it, must be regarded withgrave suspicion in Connecticut. The Stateschief pride, politically, is in its inability tomove forward. The senators were roundlylectured by able journals. They were in-formed that they had brought shame uponthemselves. They had almost disgraced theState! Luckily, they were told, the Houseof Representatives could be relied upon todefend the old order. The House was not 270 NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE

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