The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-24
MIR. BUCKLAND'S LETTER
(New Haven Union. )


 In an open letter to the press, Ed ward G. Buckland, vice president of the New York, New Haven & Hart ford Railroad Company, confirms sub- stantially the report of his address to the alumni of the Yale Law school on Monday afternoon, printed in The Un- ion It is not usual for a newspaper to obtain so complete confirmation of it's report of a speech not taken
 down stenographically from the speak CT, himself, as that with which MT. Buckland has favored us.
 To quote in part from MT. Buck l lands letter:
 Humanity is much the same | through all the years. One hundred and twenty years ago in France we had a situation similar to what we find in the United States today. The arrogant noblesse of the old regime find their counterpart in overbearing and intolerable exactions of certain aggregations of capital today. Dan- ton, Robespierre and Marat have their analogy in group of Western Sena- tors. L'audace, toujours Paudace' of the Triumvirate is echoed by the smuckraker' and the cheap magazine. The Girondist and the Mountain of 1791 find their counterpart in the 'standpatter' and the progressive of today It is for men learned in the law to deliver this country from eitfl- CT extreme and to maintain such d standard of fair dealing as will con tinue the success of our free institu- tions''
 The balance of MT. Buckland's let ter is a plea that our present day problems be solved with courage by men who will maintain an. unyielding position for that fair dealing which is the basis of our national success. nnyr in e need of praise, for its decisions in the recent Standard Oil and Tobacco trust cases, and is held up as model of clear thinking and courageousness to be emulated. The presence of the bal lot box as a factor in the solution of our problems, a weapon the French people of 1789 did not have, is charac- terized as the safety valve in our own present situation. The budding at torneys at law are warned against passing legislation the effect of which would be to repeal the laws of trade, and they are cautioned to steer a safe middle course between extreme con- servatism on one side and ultra-rad- realism on the other.
 We trust that we have made above
 a fair summary of MT. Buckland' g position. We can assure him that at
 no time have we intended to do oth- erwise The comments of Yale Law School Alumni printed in The Union
 were not our own. They were mere ly comments quite naturally provoked by what MT. Buckland said. AS far
 as The Union is concerned we have no quarrel with MT. Buckland over his address although to say the least,
 we were a bit surprised to hear the able and talented vice-president of the New Haven road pronounce the simile that he has confirmed and repeated in the letter from which we have already quoted. Likening some of the western United States senators to Danton, Robespierre and Marat was not half as startling or unexpected, coming from MT. Buckland as that other statement about "the arrogant nOblesse of the old French regime finding their coun- terpart in overbearing and intolerable eXactions of certain aggregations of capital to-day" Surely in that latter sentiment Vice-President Buckland could not have had in mind that gi- gantic and dominating aggregation of capital in Connecticut with which his Be that as it may be there is much to MT. Buckland's analogy between present and ante-French Revolution ary conditions to give to the careful student of history deep concern
 Might we also add that we would have more faith in the ballot box as a safety valve, if We had not had so many evidences recently of the man. ner in which the peoples mandates registered there are nullified in part at Hartford by representatives of the corporation in which MT. Buckland holds so high a position