Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-01-02


The Chester Liquor Prosecutions.
EDITOR TIMES IF you are pleased to
lend your columns to Occasional" "a
Subscriber" &c, for the purpose of VEN
tilating opinion, have the goodness to
tolerate your regular correspondent, who
will take that impartial stand point,
which is one Of the essential quali6ca-
tions of correspondent of a level
headed news paper. Your occasional"
correspondent, in your issue two weeks
ago, allowed his generous nature to in
terpret his heart By what Bill Shaks.
peare would say, the figure of his speech.
lie presented true picture in that he
stated that Cole had made lavish ex-
penditure in identifying his hotel that
petition praying for leniency in remit
ting his fine, was endorsed by over 200
legal voters of the town (snd they were
the leading citizens of the town but
wherein lies the especial personal ami
mostly which dictated the "raid !"
against Cole, your moderately consery-
alive scribe fails to discover, for all
known places of illegal selling were
walked up to the captains Office, not
treated alike to be sure, but perhaps &C
cording to their respective merits, if a
law so subject to unjust determinations
in its executions can indicate fair play.
Now let me ask question. Whose
pleasure is it to discount $500 on fine
imposed upon violator of law convicted
on square-toed evidence? and / ask the
question, not in spirit of malignity, for
| am glad the option of States Attor-
ney, superior court, or both, made the
application in Coles case, but it is right
here that / use " A subscribers" phrase,
/" God save the people" if statute law
has such elasticity. For myself, / must
take my poll tax out of the state if such
uCcpOblSlu snail JIG dltOWCds nACLDtI I'LL
portuned by one or a million legal vot-
ers. On the whole, the spirit of your
F" occasional correspondent was that of
a high toned man in sympathy with a
brother in misfortune, and the argument
used was good so far as it revealed the
fact that Cole keeps well ordered house
and is public spirited progressive man,
but | contend that no appeal to clearly
defined law should afford him special
clemency, and what damns the proceed
ing all the more is that, what we may
consider our popular society ell
ement, should have any effect upon the
Woodstock pulse. What business has
little country town delegation to ask an
eclipse of Judgment because two thou
sand dollars has been invested in the
adornment of piece of real estate? Do
you keep country toy shop at Wood
stock? Now for that other side, GA
subscriber and | hope he pays you, Mr..
Editor, in advance and that his real es-
tate is not altogether bounded by his
finger nails. For an honestly jealous
man | entertain respect, but
the man who uses reform to assassinate
a neighbor, or whose radicalism is the
of diseased liver, I pray
that his ear may be ANONYMOUSLY pulled.
" A subscriber " is evidently more filled
with personal malice than Christian love
and charity. His spleen crops out in the
words, rot gut" How does he know
the brand so well2 Why, confound you,
Don't you know pure spring watee irotaI
rot-gut? What we undisguised, honest
men would have Cole suffer for, is the
weakness of bis transgression. He adul-
serates his sin SO much that it lanes
mans elbow to make change. No more
'oolish sympathy or personal spite gen.
,lemen. A. A. DEMING.