The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-02-19
"If Massachusetts Must Choose Between Socialism and Commercial Slavery There Will Be No Ques- tion of Result.''
It Is Idle to Rehearse Law Defying Acts of New Ha- ven Road, Continues For ner Governor Guild.
and Mellen Pro- claimed Kind of Men Who Produce Anarchy and So- cial Revolution-Jibe for "Little Fellows" Who Betrayed People.
Special from United Press.).

Boston. Feb. 19.-"It was time to hit Morgan We have been berating the New Haven road long enough for it's aggressions in Massachusetts. I thought it my place to strike straight at the man who is responsible.''
 This is the statement of Former Governor Curtis J. Guild of Massa- chusetts. in explanation of scorch- ing editorial attack on J. Pierpont Morgan which appears today in the Commercial bulletin of Boston and in which the description of Morgan as a ''beefy, red-faced, thick-necked finan- cial bully, drunk with wealth and pow er,' has stirred Boston political and and financial circles as they have not been stirred in years.
 Referring to a statement in his edi- torial that Eff MT. Morgan forces Mas sachusetts to choose between Socialism and industrial slavery there will be no question of the result Former titude on the financier was in fact part of the insurgent movement now extending throughout the nation and intfmated strongly that while that movement was at present unorganized he had no doubt that it would in d propa ganda of national scope which when the people had been sufficiently goaded by the capitalists, would solve the problem of their activities once and for a1.
 Asked if he did not believe that his expressions on the New Haven Roads alleged defiance of the Massachusetts law would be likely to have political result, MT. Guild said he doubted not that it would. That the Democrats of the state might make a flat stand at the next election with his war cry as their slogan, he was prepared to admit it but he would not discuss what such a move might be.
 CT do not wish to discuss politics in connection with this ma atter,'' he said. Ut is bigger than the fortunes of politics. It is a national question. If something is not soon done to curb the aggressions of vast capital in this country such aggressions will be fol- lowed by the gravest results. It is idle to rehearse the law-defying ac- tions of the New Haven Road, to take that considera tion only as an instance. Everyone in Massachusetts knows of them. And it is only one of many such. Something must be done to in- calculate these corporations respect for the law and for the rights of the many. And it cannot be done too soon.''
 Representative Norman H. White. than whom no Massachusetts legis- lator has more persistently fought encroachments of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad in Mas sachusetts, today stiffly backs up For mer Governor Guilds denunciation of Morgan and his attitude. He said.
 "Has Massachusetts given herself up to New York control? Yes. Gov ernor Guilds statement comes from a xxy11n xr1n in Ma sachusetts and who is not afraid 10 speak 1t. Hundreds of other citizens elso appreciate that every word of it is true but their mouths are gagged by the New York power, which now throttles all transportation competi- tion in New England and controls our press to marked degree. It is time that men should realize that great financial strength and power shall not be the power of government, and that government must be based upon law, not the breaking of it.
 Governor Guilds statement is that of man who is looking far into the future and who deplores the shame that rests upon the history of a great state whose laws have been torn asun- der and whose policy has given way to men who are alien to MassE chusetss conditions and her laws. If men like Morgan, Mellen and others persist in defying the United States laws, and the laws of the states themselves, let them remember that it has been in ti~ces past ~en of their kind who have caused Anarchy and Social revolution among nations.
 Let Massachusetts, whose proud history has never before been sIllirched, realize that she is now delivered over to the hands of the moneyed power, which has relentlessly and unceasingly crushed out competition within her borders and defied her statutes, and now sits blandly in control with the little fellows who did it looking on and wondering why it was they should hnNe delivered m nllr nennla ,,