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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1911
Page
7
Editorial argues Taft should apply jail terms to monopoly offenders as a counterpart to bankers’ penalties. It urges treating the Sherman Act as a criminal statute akin to banking laws, citing Morse and Walsh cases and calling for jail sentences for crooked monopolists to align with those for bankers.
District Attorney Whitman releases a 1919 crime report showing 2794 total convictions with 1699 native born. Foreign born crime rates align with their city population proportions, with Italians contributing 264 and Russians 222 offenders, challenging claims that immigrants are disproportionately criminal.
Senator McNeil pushes through the Senate a municipal women’s suffrage bill while a partial suffrage measure sits on a Senate table. Connecticut papers fear societal upheaval, yet six states already enfranchise women who perform existing duties. Skeptics cite no clear danger, urging reasoned debate over hysteria.
The article argues that legislatures may delegate rate making to chosen bodies for utilities and street railways. It notes long-standing practice in American cities and supports court confirmations of such commissions. Bridgeport’s charter is cited as an example granting common councils rate authority for hackmen and express services.
Lawyers alarmed by proposed state regulation of public service rates defend the legislature’s authority to delegate rate making to independent bodies. They argue the legislature already delegates powers, including eminent domain, and that established practice across English speaking peoples supports continued rate control to enforce lawful conduct by monopolies.
The Connecticut judiciary committee’s stance on public service regulation shows a bias toward railroad power, favoring two commissions or weakly reformist measures. The piece urges a single, broad general law to cover all public service corporations, warns against entrenched special interests, and favors adopting the original commission’s findings for real protection from political influence and natural monopoly.
The passage argues that neither the legislature nor the corporations are treating the issue with dignity. It cautions that while some people can be fooled at times, no group can fool all the people forever, and concludes that the matter rests as is.
Patrick H. Connolley the state labor commissioner says lasting industrial harmony rests on a fair contract accepted by both sides. He denounces strikes and lockouts as improper and likens blacklisting to boycotting, urging arbitration to settle disputes. He cites the 1909 Danbury hatters case where agreement arrived after five months without a hat label, emphasizes mutual benefit of peaceful labor relations, and notes local conditions in Hartford and Bridgeport as he begins inspections of free public employment bureaus.
In house flags 5 x 8 feet and best bunting in sizes from 2 x 3 to 12 x 18 feet. Printed muslin flags 11 x 18 inches 30 cents a dozen. Yacht ensigns 12 x 18 inches 85 cents. Burgees and club pennants made to order at short notice in any designs. Flag Section, lower floor. 10 cents.
Advertises India gauze shirts with short sleeves for warm weather and regular and stout men’s drawers at five cents per garment. Mercerized shirts and drawers promise look like silk, feel as good, and wear as long, in pure white at fifty cents per shirt or drawers.
A regional supplier advertises flags in many forms from 1c to 6.00. Maslin and Bunting mounted on staffs are available along with Cotton and Wool Bunting for poles and house flags. Silk flags and naval flags for boats, plus flag poles and brackets are offered.
The passage notes a timeline through New Haven on Wednesday and then Hartford Waterbury and Norwich with high likelihood of subsequent changes after these stops. It suggests a flexible schedule and potential adjustments by the team or official.
Miss Clara Barton former head of the National Red Cross Society will be the principal speaker at the memorial exercises of the local G A R post tomorrow. Members of Merriam Post Meriden are expected to come in a body to Terryville on May 27.
Civil war veterans visit public schools across Connecticut as Memorial Day holidays extend until Wednesday. Posts plan grave decorations and parades, with Hartford hosting an athletic meet by Trojan A C and Wright brothers aviation displays at Charter Oak Park. Nels Nelson and H G Marshall named speakers in events anticipated in multiple cities.
Hartford May 27 Genius a five ton figure crowns the Connecticut Capitol dome. Workmen spent five days riveting the statue in place atop the capitol. In Lincoln hall Hagan and Fitzsimmons were set for a boxing match but police blocked the event for lacking a permit. A lion at the Masonic Temple in Omaha scattered 50 Shriners before the animal was caged.
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