The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-14
OH YOU 'BRUSTER=GREEN'
The Reason for that Name (Ain't It a Shame) Is Now
 Plain to Be Seen
Destiny May Wait for You
 Round Corners of This Town, But Meyer Surely
 Thought He Knew, After Reading "Buster Brown

Alderman Eugene I. Meyer today ad- dressed the following ironical reply to NJ. E. Brewster-Greene.s secretary pro tenn of the Taxpayers League:
 Dear Sir-I gather from your open letter of Dec. 11th that your employers have repudiated the views which you earlier uttered with respect to making g the Taxpayers' League '-destiny'' in my case. Apparently they have re- quired you to shoulder the responsibil- ity, else why do you confess that you have kidnapped correspondence with which you. as an individual. could have no concern whatever. since you are neither a taxpayer. nor a voter, in Bridgeport?
 Upon any theory other than that your employers have abandoned you your position is one of such presump- ton and impertinence as few men would care to occupy
 Do you habitually halt correspond ence addressed to the Taxpayers League, by an Alderman of the city, and reply to it without authority? When you declared in your first letter 'I am secretary p-o-tem of the Tax payers League. but I aIR not even a1 taxpayer in Bridgeport. did you not mean all to believe that you spoke in your capacity as secretary of the league. Not being a taxpayer, how could you, as an individual. speak for the taxpayers. answering letter with
 
 I certainly have not sought your opinion as to how the government of Bridgeport should be conducted. and never entered into discussion with you upon this. or any other subject Your statement that you will enter into no further discussion with me is therefore a little surprising, and only equalled in the quality of its hu- nor by the delicious impotence of the man who robbed letter box and then i'm arr ad n advertisement read ''No attention viii be paid to core spondents who fail to enclose postage stamp for reply"
 If. as you have said. you are not taxpayer in Bridgeport. nor a voter, would it not be well to become one before you attempt to instruct the peo- pie of Bridgeport as to their duty in respect of their servants. of whom am one?
 In addition to your unfortunate habit of annexing the duty of replying to the letters addressed to others. you seem also to have an obssession which has reached the proportions of an epi- den1ic disease in the neighborhood of the League. You appear to believe that MT. Lynn W. Wilson is the copy right proprietor of the English lan- guage. with a mania for correspond ence equal to your own
 I shall once more insult your in telligence" by demanding the right to be held responsible for my own views.
 It was indeed unfortunate that the envelope from which you so ruthlessly snatched my communication to the Taxpayers League. did not bear your name as secretary spelled as you pre- fer to see it spelled I assure you that were I really guilty of not know ing the precise spelling you affect I should be ashamed.
 If you will scrutinize the address on the envelope more carefully you will see that it reads '-M. E. Buster Greene" I had just been looking over a comic supplement in which were re- lated some of the experiences of Bus ter" Brown. the famous boy detective His splendid egotism was fresh in my mind By an act of unconscious cere- bration. instead of writing your name as you prefer to see it written. I wrote M. F. Buster-Green''. Thank Heaven. I remembered to put the hyphen in-
 The methods of the sleuth are well enough in their place. my dear MT. Greene but remember that the deduc- tive method is not infallible and some times lands the detective where he hoped to place his quarry.
 And so. sir. leave you finally to the practice of meditation and recom- | mend to your consideration the life | and philosophy of the late lamented Nick Carter.
 Very truly yours.
 EUGENE l. MEYER