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North Shore Breeze 
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Vol. X. December 20, 1912, No. 51. 
Less DENUNCIATION ; MorE Co-OpEr- 
ATION. 
It seems to be the popular thing 
to do at present to make all sorts of 
insinuations against public and quasi- 
public corporations, to accuse them of 
bluffing and hoodwinking the public, 
and a host of other things that do 
not reflect with credit the sources 
from which they come. The latest 
target of public opinion and of the 
press is President Mellen of the New 
Haven and Boston & Maine Railroad. 
His recent petition to electrify the B. 
& M. from Boston to Beverly has been 
termed a bluff of his road to play a 
strong card against the Boston & 
Eastern. And the latter road is also 
the object of various and _ insidious 
charges simply because it wishes to 
change the location of one of its Bev- 
erly stations. 
If some of the criticisers of Mr. 
Mellen and others would only act in 
a spirit of fair play, and think over 
the railroad situation of Massachu- 
setts, they would find that the head 
of the New Haven and B. & M. sys- 
tems has always kept his promises to 
the public. His application to the last 
Legislature to electrify the system to 
Beverly is nothing new; the same per- 
mission was requested two years ago 
by Mr. Mellen and was not granted. 
G. E. WILLMONTON 
Attorney and 
Counselor at Law 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
This action was the first announcement 
that he made when he took charge 
of the Boston & Maine system. And 
his criticisers claim that it is a move 
to play against the Boston & Eastern. 
The vision of some people is also 
warped by the delays in the construct- 
ion of the Boston & Eastern. The 
proposed change of this road’s loca- 
tion in Beverly is thought by some to 
be another counter move on the part 
of the officials of the road to obtain 
another delay to give them time to 
raise additional funds. But this does 
not seem to be so. With the public 
literally howling for better facilities 
for travel in this state, it would seem 
that the progress of the roads in this 
direction would be followed with a 
better feeling of friendship and co- 
operation, instead of viewing each 
move with prejudice 
The trade organizations of New 
England and of Massachusetts parti- 
cularly ran after what proved to be 
a gold brick in the shape of the Grand 
Trunk and offered it privileges and 
concessions that they would not think 
of giving to a home industry. Our 
legislatures are quite ready to grant to 
foreigners privileges that our trade 
organizations are not awarded, and 
when the people are buncoed by such 
corporations as the Grand Trunk they 
come back on the local roads and quar- 
rel about the deliverey of a package 
of goods which did not reach its des- 
tination as soon as they thought it 
should. They want better service, 
both passenger and freight, but in ca- 
tering to the Grand Trunk they were 
unwittingly spoiling their chances of 
getting that which they sought. 
Mr. Mellen had no trouble in New 
York in getting permission to electrify 
his road for many miles, and why 
should permission be refused his road. 
here? Simply because there is no 
concerted loyalty to our own industries 
and our own section; we would ap- 
parently prefer to have a foreign road 
come in here without any guarantees. 
If we want better service on our 
railroads let us grant them as good 
facilities as possible; then if the pri- 
vate individuals cannot “make good” 
let us take charge of the road oursel- 
ves. But we need more encourage- 
ment and less denunciation, more of 
a spirit of co-operation and not of 
bigoted prejudice, if we wish to see 
materialize the improvements we de- 
sire. 
WILLMONTON’S AGENCY 
Real Estate and Insurance of All Kinds 
School and Union St’s, Manchester :-: Old South Bldg., Boston 
-Winson’s Task. 
The first Democratic President-elect 
in twenty years has returned from his 
trip to Bermuda and faces one of 
the hardest experiences in his whole — 
career, namely the conferences with 
the various party leaders. The usual 
squabbles over appointments of office- 
seekers will take much of his time 
and more of his judgment, and in this 
matter he will have a chance to dem- 
onstrate his tact and executive ability, 
for each of the Congressional leaders — 
will be after him tooth and nail to 
further their desires and political as- 
pirations. 
With the generally disorganized 
state of politics of the country at pres- 
ent, Woodrow Wilson’s policy and all 
of his actions must have a stamp of 
originality in them, for the practices 
which have put the Republican party © 
into disrepute for the last twenty years 
will hardly tend to make good Mr. 
Wilson in his term. 
The task of making things in Wash- 
ington agree which have not shown ~ 
that tendency for years is Mr. Wil- 
son’s. Even the Democratic organiza- 
tion must be rebuilt by him in order 
to weather the storms of Congress; 
and this rebuilding is apt to be ex- 
pensive. 
President-elect Wilson must look 
out for the “old-timers.” If the New 
York capitalists who supported him in ~ 
his campaign are allowed to get pos- 
session of him and therefore outline 
his banking policies for him there 
is sure to be trouble coming to him 
from that quarter. He will probably 
have to resist similar overtures in re- 
gard to the tariff. 
It is to be hoped that Mr. Wilson 
will prove a new type of leader. Bet- 
ter legislation and cleaner methods 
in politics demand such a man, and he 
must be able to withstand the demands 
of the ultra-radical pols and at the 
same time be not too full of conserva-. 
tism. He must keep his own indivi- 
duality and exert his own personal 
leadership if he will make good in 
Washington. 
Brverty’s New Mayor. 
In Heranm A, MacDonald, the suc- 
cessful candidate for Mayor of the 
Garden City, the voters of Beverly 
believe they have obtained a panacea 
for the petty ills which have seemed 
to hover over the affairs of City hall 
for some time past. The citizens see 
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