The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-25
YALE COMMENCEMENT WEEK
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 abiding, or at least determined that others shall be so, once become satisfied
 that the law is being used to set the
 guilty free, and irregular methods of
 wreaking vengeance are inevitable. A
 rigorous enforcement of the law is therefore as necessary to the protection of the innocent as to the punishment of the guilty.
 He spoke favorably of government control of natural monopolies, saying that civil service reform overcomes the objection that these monopolies could be used for political purposes. He stat ed that corporate greed was a source Of peril. He is especially vigorous in his denunciation of trusts.
 Another evil and menace is the grow ing tyranny of labor. A possible rem edy was profit sharing.
 Independent thought and free press he thought were the bulWarks and safe guards of our nation.
 It has been given to the nineteenth century to teach the world how a great republic can be founded upon princi- pies of justice and equality; it will be the duty of the twentieth to show how it can be preserved against the insld- ious encroachments of wealth, as well as the assaults of the mob It will be your privilege to demonstrate that great states are as compatible with free ln- stitutions as small ones, and your duty to testify to your wish that this shall be the best as we'll as the greatest gov ernment, by taking an active interest in it's administration and bearing your share of it's burdens. The progress or all civilization has been from the reign of will to reign of law, and as a rule the government is freest whose courts of justice are purest. Freedom and ln- justice are ill-mated companions; and at the basis of every free government is the ability of the citizen to apply to the courts for redress of his grlev- ances and the assurance that he will there receive what justice demands. So long as we can preserve the purity of our courts we need never despair or the republic.
 The meeting of the alumni of the Yale Law school took place in the af- ternoon at the new Law school build ing. Among some of the notables present were Judge Shipman of the United States district court, ex-Judge Loomis, Judge Hobart l.. Hotchkiss Judge Rufus Pickett, William B. Woos- ter. L. E. Munson, H. P. Hubbard of New York, Judge s. D. Baldwin, Charles A. Matthews, Winsted; w R. Austin, Norwich; Edward c. Buckland, Samuel A. York, jr., Burton Mansfield, J. D. Plunkett, Hon. Henry Barnard of Hartford, Harry G. Day, Professor Watrous, James B. Mar | tin, Professor Robinson, Stephen w. | Kellogg of Waterbury Judge Perry of | Stamford, John S. Fowler, assistant | clerk of the superior court; l.. F. Dag | gett, Dwight Futile, Eugene B. Peck | of Bridgeport, Seymour c, Loomis, Ed ward " Reynolds, George A. Kellogg, clerk of the house of representatives; | Professor George F. Beers, Frederick A. | Scott, assistant clerk of the house of | From 1 o'clock until | 2:30 o'clock those present inspected the | and enjoyed social intercourse, | and at 2:30 refreshments were served | after which the meeting of the alumni was opened, Judge Loomis, president of | the Alumni association, presiding. He made a short informal address and then called on others for informal speeches. At 9:3O o'clock those pres ent, including the senior class, marched to Battell chapel and attend the regular law school exercises.