Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-08-11
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The PouItney House.
PoTrTTNry VT Aug 9

foULTNEY, VT, Aug. %.
noticed in the Rutland Iladependent
OF last week, one of the characteristic per-
sonal filings of that sheet, at our neighbor
d. B. Bartlett of the Poultney House. It
seems the editors have received choice
compliment from Mr.. Bartlett towards
them, for speaking out on the rum ques-
ton"
Nobody has any reason to complain of
the Lndependent for taking decided
stand in favor of temperance; the public
good requires that of every man, whether
he conducts newspaper, q grocery, or
saw mill but there is wide difference
between firm. decided, bold and out
spoken position on that subject, and low
groveling, and impudent personalities,
dealt out every now and then, which
serve only TO irritate rather than accom-
plish any good.
If Mr. Bartlett made use of the
language impaired to him by the IradepeH-
dent, am not the one 20 offer anything
as justification, neither shall l attempt
to justify the, not bold, but cowardly filings
at him, which have come through that
paper from time to time. One piece of
impudence is very apt to beget another.
There is no better hotel in the State of
Vermont than the Poultney House, no
disorder or drunkenness has ever been
seen there
1t is said that Bartlett keeps liquors.
What hotel is there in Vermont that does
not2 But it is against the law for a
hotel to sell or furnish. If any citizen
sees fit to enter complaint, shall find no
fault, for the law, though but little re-
spected any where, ought TO be. If Mr.
Bartlett sells liquor he renders himself
subject to the same liabilities as
the keepers of the Bates, the Bard
well, the Central Houses, or of
the other fJrty or fifty houses where
liquor is sold under the nose of the Inde-
pendent. 1t is not prosecution that I
complain of; serve Bartlett as you would
others under like circumstances. 1t may
be that the Independezst thinks that the
people in this vicinity are like curs, The
moro 1T otHo them, the better they will
like it. 1 should Judge it might SO reason
as to the people of Middletown. 1t the
inception of the Middletown Springs en-
terprise, both the Rutland HERALD and
the Poultney Bulletin, were active in pro-
noting that interest, while the IIGdepend-
eHt contained only slurs and sneers. AT
one time it published communication
from the "Bald Mountain Elk Associa-
tion," Ia corporation which we believe ex-
lists only in imsgination,) the point in
which was to ridicule the Middletown
Springs. Many of the people there and
especially, the then proprietors of the
Springs were boiling over with "wrath
and cabbage" and yet the Independsst is
constantly begging the people to sub
ao-;he for their sheet by falsifying refer
ence to the Poultney Bulletin and Rut-
land HERALD.
The Middletown Springs are now a
| 'hxed institution" real estate has doubled
there, hundred Thousand dollars is in
vested in hotel spring houses, fixtures etc.
and all things going. "swimmingly on"
and If the people then choose to give their
patronage to paper which would pull
them down and Gull them humbugs
which ikened their springs to "water
found in a post-hole under Bald Rsun.
tains from which the Elk drank your
correspondent will not complain.
Yours truly,