Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-03-23
Men ana Things In middlebury.
sHAwK EYE" ONCE MORE

himself the unwholesome and nauseating
defence of Ellis, and as he calls it, his
every respectable saloon" Well he is
welcome to all the honor and profit he can
get out of it The complaint of "Ob.," il
not that Hawk Eye did not tell the truth,
but that as the Irishman said when the
Judge told him to be consoled as justice
would most certainly be done to him. He
Immediately, in great horror exclaimed,
"And PLACE yer honor, that is what I'm
afraid OFF, The writer Of Hawk Eye
merely intended to communicate little
news that was aaoat, but 10! the slum or
quagmire was riled from the bottom
Throwing up upon the surface all kinds
of animals and creeping things. With
the quick instincts that warns the lower
grades of animals when their lives are in
danger, these panderers who were noticed
in the article seemed to comprehend their
danger. They were as wild and venom
GUS as nest of snakes when the stony
covering under which they had made their
abode and coiled themselves up had sud-
denly been removed, and the direct rays
of public opinion was let in upon the
dark recesses of the den. The light
showed that this livery respectable
saloon was visited and patronized by
men in all grades and conditions of life,
and all classes in our community are COM
PEELED to contribute to its Golfers. Here
the young clerks and apprentice boys
learn to use more money than they can
honestly obtain Here older young men
who heretofore have borne good charac-
ter, are led to take their first downward
steps to ruin. From this, their course is
rapid until they stop not at drinking,
gambling, perjury and other heinous and
kindred vices.
Here the young student who starts cut
from home in some of our rural towns,
as pure in character as the waters that
gush out from the sides of his own native
hills, is first attracted into the road to
ruin, by the glaring lights and GORGEOUS
display of fast-horse pictures, aud other
snowy paraphanalia calculated to attract
the unsuspecting. While, perhaps, the
honored father and tender mother are at
their distant home eating the bread of
carefulness, and denying and 2epriving
themselves of many of the necessaries. to
say nothing of the luxuries of life, that
their darling son may obtain an educa-
ton to fit him to take an honorable stand
among men, he is decoyed into one of
these places and is ruined This is no
fancy picture, but lamentable truth
Sooner or later the people will awake and
open their eyes to this glaring and mon
strous evil. No one knows better than
OBJ, that the above statement is true.
This retained correspondent of Ellis
says that Hawk Eye and his friends
pounces down upon this "innocent brood
below" without giving them notice that
they are coming! I am glad, for one,
that am permitted to watch ".from my
elevated sphere" the injured innocents
"below," until the right moment comes,
in which to strike effectual blows at the
cnrse and pests of our community am
aware that any attempt to destroy or
hamper these shiny, oold-hearted loath-
some, selfish creatures, is attended with
more or less danger of becoming tainted
with the foul odor, and one naturally re-
volts from their touch. But O sense OF
duty and self-protection, drives the COM
muuity to rise up in an attempt to Grip
pie, if not destroy this growing evil.
OBJ, says this falcon tribe is known.
And with great horror pictures out
"blood-stained claws" and terrible beak,
and says that Hawk Eye is "not satifed
to use Ellis as a first victim, but must
dive after the veracity of his neighbor."
This statement he knows to be utterly
false, and only makes this pettifogging
because he has nothing better
to say.
The truth is, as long az prosecutions
and fines, and Jail committals were con-
fined to the Woodworking Irishmen, the
more snowy rumsellers all cried with one
voice "put 'em through !" Now 1 happen
to think that the poor Irishman has just
as good right to sell rum and break the
law, and make money, as Yankees who
make more show and larger pretenuons,
and sport massive gold chains, defyipg
heir creditors whom they have duped and
'windled. But finally the tide turned
and some of the higher grade were
brought to grief. Their Joy was turned
INTO mourning, and all the thieves, pick
pockets and rum guzzlers cried with one
goicc-too bad too bad !!
In closing, 1 would "simply say" to
DID,, that unless he is a little more spar
ng with his epithets such as "hypocricy,"
pest of good society,"" etc, we shall set
lim for a portrait, which when taken,
will show a most remarkable and brilliant
career, and promises well for the future,
lnless he has pull-baok.
HAWK EYE.