The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-13

fortunes and their sacred honors for indie
pendence, as being old fogies, by your hon.
estly stating your own ideas that IL does not
dl,odys scork aoeN to let the people vote.
Then you say these men, by q combination
with misery taxpayers, combine with the
arabs of society. Who do you call the
Arabs of society? The dulest laborer in
the village understands you to mean it is
the honest laborcr and no one else. You
also accuse us of UNFOLDING rowdyism and
general lawlessness ETC., etc. and so con-
tinue your disgraceful attacks about col
umn and half, and they, with the men
that felt that the meeting was called at two
o'clock, In order to dcbar them from the
privilege of being presents unless they lost
their afternoons labor. But they left
| their work with a full determination that
they would vote no tax at all at that meet
ing. and they did not, with the help of
yourself
Now who has dsgraced this beautiful
village Readers, it is the editor of the
HeraM and his followers. Perhaps can
explain little. The editor of the Herdld
was one of the trustees last year, and IA
vorcd an expenditure of about $4,000 on a
worthless sewer built in the months of De
cember, January and February, and also an
expenditure of over $4,000 on our high.
way, an excess above the tax of Ovei
$4,000, and admitted in their report that
they had exceeded the receipts or appro
priation only about 5000.
Is it strange he should want a large tax
Who is the right minded citizen ? he who
watches the interest of the village, ant
wants the money raised properly AM
economically expended or is it those tina
. 90 on heedlessly without regard to instruc
. tons, and virtually squander our money
| think it is the former.
t The editor, who would like to he Diets
c tor, says he was much amused at the al
r tempt, which undertook, to instruct m
+ followers, as | supposed, how to vote.
V will here Just inform the little up-stal
Il that ! claim no influence over any on
|. never asked man how he was going
V vote, have always and do now consider Thu
# every man has an inalienabe right to vol
e lust as he pleascs, without fear or fave
IS of any man on the face of the earth.
- Mr. Editor of the He,uld, the position
s. the leadership of the honest yeomanry (
a this village is assumed by you, and new
n was accepted by me. | claim no SUE
to authority. | claim the freemen are cap
q. bic of Judging for themselves and actin
&c and | further claim that although | pi
IN only poll tax in the village of Rutlan
th and have not paid that vet, that l have
a., interest to look after the affairs of II
~ family. whose Grand List is nearly as lar
as the two largest tax payers in the vilag
-. and they pay about one seventeenth part
:. all the village taxes And here is anotl
statement that ], at the annual mectr
81 proposed tax of scvcnty-fivc cents on
dollar. That is another lie from the C
~ torial prodigy. | never made any sli
T motion. ] did make motion for fl
cents on dollar, which was amended
scventy-iive cents, and voted down, ant
- was amended again, | think, by siXty-t
- or seventy cents on dollar, and
90 make motion if the sXty-tive or sever
'0 cents was valid, that fifty cents of
NY should be appropriated to pay off the
m debtedness, and the balance for the OF
VS. nary expenses of the village.
ut NJ. HiLLiARp