Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-02
NORTH EAsroN
(Which is in the State uy Ma~Sychoo-I
-it~). March II. 1873.

NNNIN EAelON
(Which is in the State uv Ma~-ychoo-{
-it~), March If. 1913.
The Credit Mobilcr biznis So excited me
that | coodcut stay in the quiet and classic
shades uv the corners. while it WAS going
on. '' " here the carrion Is there will the
buzzard- be also" In this Credit M0hilcr
-met carri1u-to whom allood a- 90 huz-
zaId IL is not necessary to specify. went
to Washington.
The state NV things at the Capital sur
rri-cd me. ! sposcd that should find
-uthin thet | Good turn to account in as
-iStin and kiyorin up this Swindle the same
cz used to in the good old days nv Bookan-
an. but | wuz disappointed. The Eepuhli-
ken members reloo-ed any concealment and
insisted on committees and -ich. When the
plague wuz raging in London tie dead carts
wood draw up aiore the houses and the
driver wood howl. ." bring ont Yer dead.
When Credit Mohilcr ragged in Washington,
the people yelled 10 Congress, '' bring ont
Yer dead. Had it ben Il Dimocratic Con
sre~~, We wood have gone to the door and
Sworc that We had no dead but not 80 with
the present one. a. Bring out Yer dead ="
shouted the people. Here are the corp~cs,
sed Congress, cheeriully, and these WIZ then
laid out on coolin boards and ready to be
sent home Tor burial.
Ii wuz most unprecedented proccedin.
In the old times if a Democrat devoted to
Sunday Skools and temperance, had bin in
nocently led 10y plottIn -kccmer 70 accept
stock in a Credit Mohilicr the ~kcemer car
ryinr the stock till the dividends -hood pay
for it. and 50 on-and charges he'd hin hrot
agin him, wat wood hey happened lie
would hey riz, and pmtin calmly To his Sun
day SkoolS and temperance, wood hey in
diguantly asked if life devoted to Sunday
>kools and temperance wuz TO be blasted on
the mere assertion ny plottin skecmer who
had not devoted his life to Sunday Skools
and temperance? And the Democratic
House wood hey voted him clear and hcy ex-
PEELED the accuScr, and each member would
hey trirped gaily to draw the dividends on
the stock which he held.
he'd curiosity to sec how the constit-
oocnt- nv the great Ames wood receive him,
and he'd an opportunity to crafty that
curiosity. Mr.. Ames sejested to me that
shood 90, and he slipped suthing into my
hand. fell into his trap the same es the
placid Colfax did. and sed | would 90.
" Ef my people insist on giving me Il
reSepshun." :" said he, " see to it that it is
spontaneous. hey a conservatory which
it NAV be worth your while to see-ef they
N
enuG Speeches will be necessary, and we
must hcy EN-, but see that You select men
who will do it spontaneously. Were | a
hard man Good make it uncomfortable for
the honest freemen in North Easton who
shood refuse TO cheer at the proper time.
| butt will say no more. My family doctor
makes a good speech, and the school teach
| er Is poet. | heaye heard that he hez he'd
an idea NV writin 4 poem in which am to
/ be crowned with laurels. and the ages do
homage to me, and possibly he mite hey it
| done to read at this resepshin-but Nv course
| it amt for me to say. My factory will turn
out strong, NV course. But 90 and visit
| North Easton."
did 50. Mr.. Ames hez factory at
North Easton which makes shoyels. The
physician doctors sick shovel makers, aud
insists on bringing into the world embryo
shovel makers the stOre-keeper sells goods
to shovel. makers the teacher teaches Young
shovel-makers the shoemaker and tailor
labor for shovel makers, and the preacher
breaches to shovel akers-he Is the sun Nv
this SYSTEM Ell he had busted inlthis Cred-
it Mobilier, the factory would hev bin closed,
North Easton would hey vanished into thin
air, and few years hence all that the curl
Gus traveller wood find wood be the last
shoyel-maker-a gray haired man, sittin on
the rooins NV the biler-arch, starin about in
a wild, vacant way.
Mr. Ames owns this shovel factory in
North Easton, and North Easton believes
Mr.. Ames to be honest. They reject with
scorn the idea that he ever did anything
wrong, or that he could do anything wrong
So the next day after my arrival,
and after | had interviewed the
leadin citizens, public resepshun was ten
dered Mr.. Ames-a spontaneous resepshun
ON the part NV the people Nv which Mr..
Ames wuz kept in profound ignorance, and
| was requested to direct 1t.
] seiested then that it be held in the skool