Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-10
ISLAND POND. VT. FRIDAY. MAY 10. 1895

Illinois proposes 10 institute a boy
cptt against foreign husbands for our
American girls. The proposition
comes up ia the form of resolution,
lairOluc, to the Legislature OF that
state, entreating the prairie bellies, as
m evidence of their patriotism, not
To give their warm hearts ami lily
white hands, to say nothing of their
dainty feet, in matrimony to any one
VIII Is not native or naturaliZed
citizen Of the Republic. | did not
know that the Illinois girls were in
such demand as the household diyini-
ties of foreigners as TO warrant pro-
tectiye legislation, although one of
the fairest of the flock has Just been
captured by all enterprlsing English
nun in defiance of the Monroe Doc
trlue and annexed by him to Great
Britain. The matri'aonill poaching
ground is, rs 4 rule, in the east. New
York, Newport, Boston, Philadelphia
and Baltimore have been overrun for
years wl'h impecunious dukes, mar
qulses, counts and diminutlve lords
IN pursuit OF American women with
big bank accounts aud their success IN
roboing our dovecotes of beauty has
been enormous.
II may be, however, that foreign
fortune hunters have moved West IN
response To the reports of fabulous
fortunes recently V realized 10y the Beet
Trust, and, If 50, II Is not surprising
that Illinois Is up in arms against the
invasion. The daughters OF the mil
lionaires of the stockyards should not
be bought on the hoof and shipped to
England without solemn and energetic
protest. But will such legislation rs is
proposed by the Illinois legislature be
effective? | think not. Coercion is
never popular with the fair sex, and
| incline to the opinion that the
remedy for the evil complained of
lies rather with the Illinois men than
with tue Illinois Legislature. Ii the
former would pay little more atten-
ton to their bellies and less to their
beef, go more often into the parlor
and less frequently into the slaughter
house, study manners rather than
money, and worship their heiresses
rather than their hogs, they would not
have to resort to legislation to keep
the foreigners out of their families
The Tmmany men in the Depart
ment of Public Works, the Dock De
partment and other branches of the
city government whose heads have
begun to fall into the basket of Official
decapitation cannot complain because
the AK has descended on them. Turn
about is fair play The people last
November declared that all these
sleek, jovinl, wcll-fed fellows should
go, and rs good democrats they should
he glad to obey the popular mandate,
Iammauy has ever and always admin
istered to ITS foes the med cine OF re-
moval. 1t should not now object TO
its own pres ription.
Charles Knox of New York Is dead
That doesn't mean much to most
people, perhaps, but put 1t another
way. "knox, the halter, is dead, and
every one who hears the news will
look up with instant recognition.
The threat that statute law will be
SO enforced as to make small mlsde-
meanors workhouse otfenses is not
wisely made. When common, everyday
people whose minds are not we'll enough
cultivated TO appreciate all the beau
ties of long. suffering and ,forbearlng
courtesy run afoul OF each other in
some way, they are liable to talk loud
about it, to collect crowd and
damage the community several hun
dred dollars for the sake of their two
cent dispute.
This is a misdemeanor. 1t must not
be tolerated. 1t must be punished
But everyone who has made prac-
tical study of such cases by watch
ing them in the police courts knows
that generally they are a result of
mere chiIdishness. The police courts
show every hour they are in session
that though men and women grow up
in some things they remain children
in others, and where no real crime is
committed, where the act is one mere
lv OF impulsive folly, they ought to
be punished with such leniency as is
shown in correcting children on whom
there is no desire to inhict unneces-
sary suffering. When for some trifling
misdemeanor or other man or a
woman is sent to the workhouse, life
is foolishly and needlesslY wrecked.
For it seldom happens that any one
who has been a workhouse convict has
the moral force to recover from the
degradation and become once more a
useful citizen. In administering all
our laws, the wise as we'll as the foolish,
we need saving common sense, but we
specially need it in interpreting the
foolish ones, and the judge who can
not use it is unfit for his place.
Steve Brodie has discovered that he
is an ancestor. Therefore he has given
the Bowery nasty shake and has
gone up to Lexington avenue, taking
his Lares and Penates. He has
bought house and a carriage and
three horses, and has become proud,
arrogant and heightened, all because
he has made hundred thousand dol
lars. He says he is not going to have
a coat of arms on his carriage, which
is his mistake. He must have one.
Steve does not know that coat of
arms represents the achievements of
the founders of the family. He will
have a coat of arms with the Brook
lvn Rridre. stntant and Steve Rrodie-