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Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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rs favorable to the rail-road interests in any emergency, and the in-vestigation was voted down, with no defenceoffered for the railroad in the debate uponthe measure, nor denial of the charge of tax-dodging. Mr. James M. Sullivan, a young lawyerof -New Haven, is reported to have said thathe inet Lincoln Steffens recently and askedhim why he did not write on the evils ofpolitics in his own State, Connecticut. Mr.Steffens is reported to have replied: The conscience of the people has be-come so deadened that I could not get anyresults. I do not think that badly of any State.The people are patient, some of them aredishonest, but in the long run the silentpressure of honest public opinion gets ex-pressed in progressive legislation. For aState so deeply sunk in political slavery asConnecticut, the enactment of a law pro-viding for trial by jury is a good yearswork. All that Connecticut needs to do is toexert in her political affairs the first-rateability that she displays in her industrial
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WHAT S THE MATTER WITH CONNECTICUT? affairs. In order to do this she must modern-ize and simplify her governmental machin-ery, in accord with the spirit of the age, pre-cisely as she has modernized and simplifiedher industrial machinery. How to Get AdministrativeEfficiencyA governing commission of five membersshould be substituted for the Legislatureand the host of special commissions nowmanaging, or at least now drawing pay formanaging, divers items of the States work.Five men, chosen by the whole State, insession the year through, could get a prac-tical working knowledge of the States busi-ness. The Legislature of 290 members istoo large. It falls over its own feet, like allother Legislatures. Nine tenths of the mem-bers come up to the State-house strangersto each other and to the work before them.Each may have special knowledge of someone item among the hundreds of bills thatwill be offered for consideration during a ses-sion; but on nearly everything else the mem-bers must necessa

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