Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-06-29
THE FOURTH or mr.

A HINT ABOUT THE NIGHT OF THE BIRD. WHICH
THE PUBLIC DEMAND THAT THE AUTHORITIES
SHALL HE'D
Last year. as on several previous years
the operations of the boys on the night be.
fore the Fourth of July we're worse than dis.
graceful aud outrageous. Well people were
made sick and the sick were made worse by
their heathenish racket while strangers in
town were scandali2ed at the behavior Of
what they thought a genuine hoodlum ele
ment. In our issue following the Fourth We
published the following protest as an expires.
sion OF universal sentiment, and we now TO-
publish the paragraph by repeated requests.
1t is gospel truth, every word of it, and We
commend it to the serious attention of tue
village authorities. Fill the Lookup full of
boys next Tuesday night, if necessary, and
for once, if there is any sand" in our off.
cials, let us have quiet night up to at least
O'Clock on the morning of the Fourth.
from The Phoenix of July 7, lss2.l
AN AFTER-HowL-(BY UNIVERSAL REoUEsr)
We are arm believer in the rights ofboys. We
oeleNe IN their right to enjoy life and hayea ll.l
'ine on all proper occasions and in all proper ways
A'N'1'ee9 interference from their elders. we
believe that one Of these proper occasions is tue
Fourth Of July and believe that one Of their ina
lenaole rights is to make noise and celebrate" the
day to their hearts content But we do not believe in
'uer right to make the whole night before the Fourth
utterly miserable, horrible and uncomfortable as was
the case this year. and has been the case regularly
LOT years past Nor do believe in the right Of the
village authorities to allow this to be done 1t is
asllhg disgrace to this any other town TO allow It
TO De turned into perfect pandemonium by an army
Oh lhclpeht roughs, nine-tenths Of whom could not
zen TO save themselves from going to Jail what tue
fourih OF July signifies. We do moi believe the au-
thorues have any moral right to issue virtual per.
mt Tor the boys to make night hideous after twelve
O'Clock midnight. Four O'Clock in the morning is
early enough for any boy who has been taught tue
hrsI principles Of decency to begin his racket and
the boys parents have not taught him this the officers
OF the law should take him in hand. Moreover it
the sheerest nonsense-speaking mildly-for the au-
thorites to issue pretended regulations appoint q
squau oil special police to enforce ~ them and then
iet inc upFoar and outrage 60 on from dark to day
hgn' without let or hndraqce 1t is useless Ior tls
oheers 70 say that 1t never would answer" to NEEDLE
with the boys fun since they would be sure TO have
'uer revenge IN some way. On the night of the next
'nird OF July let them arrest dozen or 20, or so,
OF the ringeaders no matter whose bows they are aud
the revenge will come in the shape OF proper quiet
in the streets during the hours when iuyalds and
working people, II no others, need rest ami sleep.
last year Greenfield Mass, awoke to a souse Of the
disgrace which it mourning by allowing such out
rageous performances in its streets Oh the night before
me Fourth and this year proper quiet was observed
Next year we hope that such sense Of the propr
e'y OF things may be manifested at point 40 mis1
farther up the river,