Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-12-28


ing in new conditions and thus
no distinct system would ever be
permitted a satisfactory test.
So also of
The School Law.
3 The effort was not TO disturb
the general system. Some re-
garded the discussion of the bill
for the abolition of incorporated
districts and the one to permit
towns to resume the old district
system as a great misfortune
as tending to create dissatlstac-
ton with the town system; but
let it be remembered that in
Vermont an earnest, intelligent
and even heated discussion of
any subject before the legislature
does not tend to create dissatis-
faction, but to enlighten the peo-
pie and drive away all suspicion
that there is anything about it
that they don't perfectly under
stand. Nothing could be better
calculated to clear the atmos-
phere than the storms which the
bill relating to incorporated dis
tricts, or to the old district svS-
tenn, created. They were calcu-
lated to give the people a better
idea of the nature and workings
of the state normal schools, the
Incorporated districts, the little
remnants of school districts sind
the town system, and their Tela-
tionS to each other and the ST ate
They were discussions in which
each participant taxed himself to
find and produce every possible
fact or condition bearing on the
subject. The more discussion
and the more earnest it is, the
better will be the results of it
provided there is conservative.
ness enough in the body to for
mulate proper results from those
discussions. We predict that the
people will be very much better
satisfied with the present system
than they would have been if tn,
objections to it had not been SC
earnestly presented and urged
; 1t is well known that the fault:
, charged to
The Liquor Law
do not grow out Of its provi
! sions, but almost entirely out o
the manner in which it is execu
ted, or rather not executed; ant
so it seemed wise for the legisla
ture not to undertake to make i
more effectual by adding nor
= drastic features to it so as t
make it more obnoxious to tn
common sentiment of the people
! but rather to make q few pro
visions tending to prevent op
i portunities for individuals t.
evade the law whenever it wa
y attempted to be faithfully ant
honestly executed. So far as i
I was destructive of moieties, O
> discouraged premiums for or
preston or gain, or prevented
respondent from pleading guilt
so that witnesses need not CON
Il NIT themselves in primary hear
> ings and then be forgotten whe
u the real trial came; and so ia
as it made the owner of built
ings responsible for the bushes
" carried on in 'hem it seemed t
= be we'll. This is the substance {
' all the legislature did in respec
y to this law.
The Appropriations
|, may at first view seem large, blu
u when the results of some of thes
i appropriations are looked a
. they will not appear SO larg'
+, Take for instance the appropr
u alton of $15O,000 for the con
u pletion of the state insane asyluI
" at Waterbury. When we COZ
} slider that a like institution b,
II longing to individuals had II
g ceived gifts from the state
y which gifts gave the state n
i vested rights in the institution
n and that under these condition
= =, those engaged in the enterpri:
i, had grown rich, and had decline
~ to take and care for those insar
70 which the state had no means
caring for, and the state ha
n been compelled to build for i
n self an asylum, and when