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for. years, in season and out of season. It is, however, 

 gratifying to have it formally and in detail affirmed by 

 official authority. 



"The Commission does more than merely to report. 

 It makes recommendations. One of these is that the 

 pouring of foul sewage into streams be absolutely for- 

 bidden by law, and another is that all cities and towns 

 be similarly compelled to purify their sewage, in accord- 

 ance with State rules and to a State standard. Those 

 are both perfectly reasonable and sound, and it is to be 

 hoped they will speedily be enacted into law. Then, we 

 have no doubt, the law will be enforced, as they have a 

 habit of doing in Connecticut, and what is now an abom- 

 inable nuisance will be abated. 



"The same evils exist elsewhere. They are due to the 

 same causes. They ought to be dealt with in the same 

 way. The same law that governs Piper's Brook should 

 be applied to the Passaic River and to every river and 

 brook in the land. There is no more precious gift of 

 nature than pure water. It is abundantly given in this 

 part of the world in springs and streams. It is intol- 

 erable that men should defile and destroy it simply 

 through laziness or shiftlessness or through pecuniary 

 meanness. Every community and every individual es- 

 tablishment should be compelled to dispose of its un- 

 clean refuse in a manner not injurious to its neighbors. 

 Connecticut is proceeding on exactly the right lines. It 

 would be a blessed good thing if every other State in the 

 Union would follow her example." 



The time has come when manufacturers, whether of 

 lumber, paper, coal-oil or other things which are in- 

 jurious to fish, should be required to take care of their 

 refuse. It may cost them something, but that is no con- 

 cern of ours, who believe that the rights of the public 



