The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-31
BALDWIN WITH
 LAB0RINC MEN
Quotes From Writings Showing Attitude in Sympathy With
 Their Struggles
TRADE UNIONS NATURAL
Declares Himself for Everything That Tends to the Uplift of Hu-
 manity.

position as a candidate for Governor will permit, Judge Simeon E. Baldwin has made public a letter written to
 George J. Stanley, secretary of the i Hartford convention of organized la
 bor. The letter contains several ex | tracts from Judge Ba1dwin's published 1 books which he puts forth as the best
 evidences of his attitude on the ques- ] tions involved. The letter in the main l folIows:
 MT. George J. Stanley, secretary of the 1 Hartford Convention of Organized 1 Dear Sir-Your circular letter of Oct | IT is received, containing questions ad- dressed to candidates for seats in Con SreSS or the General Assembly, and also requesting candidates for State offices, the exercise of the functions of
 which does not lie in casting votes, to say how far tfOrganized Labor may depend on them for sympathy and CO., operation in it's labor of love" and it's
 'effort for the uplift of struggling hu- manity.''
 It is my opinion that one nominated for the office of Governor of a sover- eign State should, if elected enter on it's duties unpledged, both as to such appointments to office as may be with m his gift and as to what may be his official action as to any matter of de- tail in proposed legislation
 As have said in a recent letter on a similar subject, addressed to the State Business Mems Association, a Governor is the servant of the whole people, charged with the duty of act ing on every piece of legislation, after due deliberation, according to his best Judgment at the time he acts, formed after full and impartial considera- ton of all the interests involved. He should, in a word, be man, not an automaton. His business is to see that equal and exact justice is done to every man and every interest, and he must keep his hand free to do it in what, when he does it. he believes to be the best and fairest way
 My views on the general subject of I your request, however, have been pub l1cly expressed in my published books, | and remain unchanged. I quote a few passages from them:
 we must answer, first, that modern l government does not concern itself on l ly with the material welI-being of the | It's measure than is the DecaIogue the 1 measure of Christianity. The right to | personal security, to property, to trial | by ones peers, to tax ones self-to | establish these was the ultimate end | of ancient government. Modern gov ernlnent retains them all, but adds: | and in the law; the duty in civil mat l ters to ignore distinctions of religion; l the duty of spreading education, in- forrlation, intelligence at public cost; l the right of labor to protection, at the | expense of capital, and in the interest | of humanity.
 ''The precedents of the English com | mon law allowed no compensation to | be recovered from one who had either | w1lfully or negligent1y, been the cause | of another's death. For this-so con- trary to the dictates of comm non-sense, and to the maxims of most other civ ilized and uncivi1ized nations-the only reason to be given was that human life was beyond price, and could not be losses of life by railway and steamboat accidents early led to statutes, both in England and America, giving a right to compensation, in favor of the fam fly of the deceased. The corporations most interested could not prevent the passage of such acts. but they did of recovery to $5,000. In most of our States, therefore, 1t has been cheaper to kill man outright than merely to maim him. A Massachusetts, physician, whose professional prospects were ruined by a railway accident, which left him a paralytic, recovered $39, ,OO0 Had he died from the shock, I pre- sume they would have escaped with s5, 900. The Constitution of Pennsy1- vania forbids any law fixing the limit of compensation in actions for any injury.
 '"The same forces which led England to repeal her laws against combina lions of workin gmen in 1927, led France and Germany to repeal theirs, forty years later. The right of temporary association has gained in several coun-
  the East, a constitutional sanction.
 The demand for this came mainly from the 1aiboring classes, but the as- sociative spirit had taken possession of the whole community. The legal of it was the result of the same social conditions already men toned The workmen found 1t neces- sary to unite in self-defense. They : must accumulate a capital to support their claims to req asonab1e wages and proper treatment: The employer did not oppose them in this. He could not with any degree of consistency, or any prospect of success. The 9 modern l , trades unions and fraterna1 societies are as much the fruit of steam and electricity as the factories where their work.
 And what is the influence of the ] on the men whom it em- plbysH - It is' a hard master. It can always take the tone of a trustee. It their money. It has no right to give ( away; none to retain the sick and fee | ole in its employment at their old t wages, unless it can be made to appear i that this is, on the whole, for the pe- t cun1ary advantage of the concern. z Against the incorporated employer | I aas, therefore risen up the incorporated employees. One of the great forces of ] modern society and modern politics is org,anized labor It has been a nat That brings large bodies to workmen 1 together under one roof. and subjects ' them to one rule'' z
 Everything that tends to the upIift i o9+hV Of every honest man, and has (
 Yours very truly (
 SIMEON B. BALDWIN. Y CAPT. BOGARDUs AGAIN