The New England magazine . His Excellency, Rollin O. Woodruff, Governor of Connecticut New England Magazine Vol. XXXVII NOVEMBER, 1907 Number 3 WHATS THE MATTER WITHNEW ENGLAND? CONNECTICUT V THE STATE RULED BY ITS UNINHABITEDCOUNTRY TOWNS By FRANK PUTNAM. ONNECTICUT illus-trates the tendency ofcapital, centralized in pri-vate control, to assumecontrol also of govern-ment. In its story thistendency is the mostboticeable feature. The dominant factorsmere in politics as in business are the Con-solidated Railway (the New York, NewHaven & Hartford and its constituent steamand trolley lines), the b
The New England magazine . His Excellency, Rollin O. Woodruff, Governor of Connecticut New England Magazine Vol. XXXVII NOVEMBER, 1907 Number 3 WHATS THE MATTER WITHNEW ENGLAND? CONNECTICUT V THE STATE RULED BY ITS UNINHABITEDCOUNTRY TOWNS By FRANK PUTNAM. ONNECTICUT illus-trates the tendency ofcapital, centralized in pri-vate control, to assumecontrol also of govern-ment. In its story thistendency is the mostboticeable feature. The dominant factorsmere in politics as in business are the Con-solidated Railway (the New York, NewHaven & Hartford and its constituent steamand trolley lines), the big insurance com-panies, the banks and trust companies, andhe larger of the manufacturing of these corporations rests in a veryImall number of hands, and their politicalInfluence, as compared with the politicalInfluence of an equal number of citizens en-gaged, say, in farming or in working forIvages, is grotesquely disproportionate. TheIpeory of the equality of men, or even of theiright to an equality of opportunity, in eithermsiness or politics, has been made to theist degree ridiculous in Connecticut. It3 here painfully plain that he who eitherpherits or acquires control of large indus-trial or financial power possesses with
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