The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-03
IoONoOLASTIC.

These be merry times and times that
 are somewhat ominous also. Here we
 have Connecticut legislators, men from
 the land of Israel Putnam, making light of the ideal story of Putnam and
 the wolf, a story woven into the fabric
 of the States history and dear to the
 hearts of all loyal sons of the State
 story that has helped all these years
 to throw glamour of patriotic and
 historical interest over the pages which tell of those heroic days of old. The
 boys of Connecticut have been for gen
 erations melted to daring deeds and ex- ploits by the remembrance of Putnam's
 daring and headlong bravery as told in
 the school histories. Now in the State
 capitol itself legislators have the pre-
 sumption and hardihood to doubt the
 splendor of the wolf's den exploit and
 to throw tinge of doubt over the his
 toric tale. Then, too, our legislators, in
 burst of patriotic fervor shot off
 string of fiery patriotic resolutions
 over the Corinto affair, summoning as
 with bugle blast all patriots to stand
 shoulder to shoulder without distinction
 of party, In denunciation of the unpat-
 riotic and un-American action, or lack
 of action, of the democratic administra-
 ,n 4na aFo o,k
 be taken to compel John Bulls ships
 to retire from Corinto or suffer the pen atty of being shot to pieces or sunk by an American fleet. This patriotic outburst was right in principle and would have been all well enough had 1t not been so absurdly tinctured with buncombe and punctuated with fiery and blood curdling speeches by some of the advocates of the measure who seem to have just come to the forum from reading Rider Haggard's "She," and other books of that ilk. Then came in- to play MT. Gum with his oratory and merry making and with his willy de- mand for callingoutt the Horse and Foot guard of the State at once for de- scent upon the presumptuous and clustering Britons at Corinto. But the Woodmont episode was yet to come to add to the number of star performances and MT. Gum and his merry makers seem to have drawn around the license question in the town Of Milford the aw- full circle of the constitution of the state and thus influenced the unsus- pectlng brethren of the general assem- bly, to decide that the cottagers at | from the invasion of the dramseller | nor have their quiet and pretty village | by the sea free from the liquor sa- oon and it's inevitable attendant in- 1uences and surroundings The Short Beach cottagers were only few lays ago in the same boat with those at Woodmont. They, too, sought for legal authority to ex- dude the saloon from their delightful md Arcadian summer abiding place, which, like that at Woodmont, had been hitherto undeflled by brawling, drink ng places. They applied to the legis- ature and were successful. Yet the wo cases in question are alike in prin- iple, both Branford and Milford being lcense towns. But there seems to be ret hope for Woodmont provided the avs can be fixed so that the lcensing power can be transferred to pecial licensing boards appointed by he judges of the superior courts, which } measure now receiving considerable ttention and approval throughout the tate. Mr.Gunn's insinuation that many # theWoodmontco cottagers took private ipsout utofhomes pplies at theircottages