The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-04

CORRECTION. MI. dOWe was Inhue W
predict, cat the next session of the leg
islature, the liveliest time on the liquor
question ever seen there" Would
Mr.. Howe be member He didn't
know about that, he remarked, sand
sat for some time in deep thought"
The correspondent accounted Mr..
Howe "a conspicuous and dignified
victim of law that cannot be en-
forced" When the law reaches linen
who stand 80 high in the community"
it was averred that the inquiry is raised
eff the time has not come for Vermont
to come down from her high stool and
give each town the right to decide as to
the local sale of liquor" "The whole
state would be in an uproar" if law
breakers of such high standing in the
community "were to be taken up"
All this is portentous-very. But the
"uproar" will end in "lively times" for
law-breakers of the Howe class, who
"stand 80 high in the community" No
backward step in temperance reform
will be taken at the bidding of the in
huences behind them. If, as the Her.
AIDS correspondence indicates, Rutland
is a sink.hole of intemperance and law
breaking, there is in this state of things
no stronger reason for repeating the
laws her people habitually disregard,
than that the state of New York should
repeal or modify her laws to adapt them
to the vicious propensities of the law
less element in the city of New York.
Really, the allied Heralds are contrib
uting to strengthen the determination
of the people of Vermont to maintain
and enforce her laws, which may yet
triumph in wicked Rutland, as other
laws "thst could not be enforced" have
recently triumphed in wicked New
York.
REVIEWING the plight of the dem
ocratic party in some of it's former
strongholds, the New York Tribune
remarks that "the party is not dead,
but so disorganized and debauched by
its own crimes against the public well
fare and against common honesty that
its wisest men expect, and its best men
desire, it's defeat" The Tribune con-
cludes with this scorching, but entirely
truthful, arraignment of the party: "But
the local difficulties, however deep they
go in this state or that, are, after all,
not the worst. The party has, for more
than thirty years, been nothing more
than an organized race-track swindle
on national scale. 1t has continually
pretended to have principles which it
despises, and beliefs which it never
held. II has robbed the people of their
right of suffrage at the South con-
stantly, and in every state whenever
it could. 1t has debased the moral
sense of it's own best men 80 far that
they have defended it's crimes, and con-
sented to pocket the profits by them.
1t has lied about it's purposes and be-
liefs SO long that large share of it's
voters have accepted as gospel the
falsehoods it has told to catch votes.
At last this great national swindle has
been exposed by the costly process of
intrusting it with power. The people
have had to pay $4,000, 100000 or 3d.
100000, 900 for the fun of enjoying a
democratic government. The millions
it has deluded are hungry to destroy it.
The honest voters it has defrauded for
many years are ripe for vengeance. If
democrat can see hope in the pros
pect, he is only cheating himself, as he
has helped for thirty years to cheat
Others"
OUR too credulous contemporary, the
Argus and Patriot, seems to have been
all too willingly misled by the sensa-
tional report the Boston Herald's cor
respondent sent to that paper of the
uuIcblIlClcu Shlc VI 'DttT III tut re-
cent muster at Fairlee. In booth,
"directly opposite the main entrance
to the camp" "within a stones throw
of the governors tent" it was alleged,
"beer was dispensed from Monday I'M
til Thursday" The allegation of the
illegal selling of "beer' is exploited and
intensified in varied form and phrase
to considerable length, and mo at
tempt was made TO arrest' the keep
ers of "the improvised saloon" AL
this, also, has the peculiar twang of the
Rutland Herald office. But our up
street contemporary puts the worst
construction on the correspondents
screed and accepts it all as gospel
truth. The correspondent does not
say whether it was spruce beer, OF
birch beer, or ginger ale, that was "dis.
pensed" at this "improvised saloon,'
and of which wagon loads "passed