Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-19
ISLAND POND. VT. FRIDAY. JULY 10. 1895

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Sunday afternoon in the well-to-do
districts. Most persons in those dis
tricts are kindly considerate of their
servants. They have midday din
ner on Sunday and dismiss the ser
wants when 1t is over for little
outing. For their evening meal they
rely upon the salads, cold meats and
dainties of the delicatessen shops. To
close these shops is to inhict sore dis
comfort upon many worthy people.
But their discomfort is not greater
/ than that suffered by much larger
class from the closing of the beer
saloons on Sunday, and the law as
peremptorily forbids the opening
of delicatessen shop after 10 a. m.
as 1t does the sale of beer. The police
contend that they have no right or
authority to consider questions of
public convenience, hut it must en-
force whatever laws they find on the
statute books. If they forbid the
poor man to buy a pitcher of beer for
his Sunday dinner because an absurd
law SO prescrlbes, they should also
forbid the comfortable citizen to buy
the cake, the salad or tue cold crabs
that he wants for his Sunday supper,
because that also is law.
/ But Is this the law? Is it unlawful
to sell either beer or table delicacies
on Sunday? The Penal Cod, section
263, forblds all labor on Sun
day excepting the works of necessity
or charity. " But it adds: In works
of necessity or charity is included
J whatever is needful during the day
for the good order, health or comfort
of the community. Now is not the
dinner beer "needful'' to the comfort
and perhaps the health of those
persons with whom beer is the
usual dinner beverage? Is it not
rs necessary as ice or milk for
the coffee of those who prefer that
/ beverage? The plain truth is that our
/ Sunday laws are iumble OF inconsls-
+ tencies. The reason is that all laws
/ prescribing the observance of ''holy
I time" in purely secular state founded
upon the idea of absolute religious
+ liberty are Inconsistent with the funda-
mental idea of the commonwealth
/ and its constitution.
1t is proper for the law to make
Sunday legal holiday precisely as it
does with 4th Of July, the lst of Janu.
arv and the 30th of May, because the
( people want it So. Bat all Sunday
laws beyond that, all laws based upon
/ the idea that it is the business of the
( state to prescribe and enforce religious
/ observance, are tiagrtntly vIoiative OF
/ our system ami ought to he repealed,
! Mayor Schieren is in the old and
/ honorable bu >iness OF buying hides
! and reseIhng them in the manufact-
ured form of leather in all its indus
+ trious ramltications, including betting
/ for trolley machinery, which is an i'm.
/ portant branch of the trade. A- a
/ hide buyer and leather manufacturer
of trolley betting Mr.. Shiereu is an
/ eminent success. He has made ont Of
/ it very handsome fortune which
/ puts him in the milliouare class or
very near it, He is to he congratu-
/ lated on his success.
4 During the last two years he has
been engaged in political venture rs
a reformer which has been disastrous
/ failure, not to hIm, but to the people
who houored him with their sutirages.
| The trolley leather betting business
went on ali right, but the people have
not drawn any dividends on their re-.
form investment. Schieren 5000 Jed
in the whole "pot." He captured
everything in sight-the profits OF
trolley leather-b betting and OF reform
combined.
Following the notice of dissolu-
ton of partnership between the
thrifty Schieren and the reformers
comes the announcement from him
and his friends that the price of hides
has advanced, that there is a short
crop of them" and that the mayor
has a corner III the market. He eX-
poets to make hundreds of thousands
OI uOlldls Oul VI (ht ppSlhtloll, ahu
he "wants to go to Europe" " He had
better engage his passage at once.
While he may, it is said, have saved
hundreds of thousands of hides that
have certain commercial value, as he
has lost his own political hide.
Sheriff Tamsen has done well in dis.
missing the Warden and two keepers
of Ludlow street Jail. But when is
Sheriff Tamsen to be dismissed? He
is the chief offender. 1t is he who
suffered the government of the Jail to
become an opera bouffo affair, shame
full to the community and very dan
gerous to law and order. His selec-
ton for the place he holds was blum
der. His administration has been farci-
cal and humiliating. Now that his
incapacity has led to the easy and jeer-
ing defiance of law by notorious Grim
inals, apparently with the assistance
of his subordinates, it is high time for
the governor to call for his resigna-
ton, with removal as the alternative.
He cannot excuse himself by the re,
moval of his subordinates, for whose
conduct he is directly responsible.
If all the City Magistrates would
follow the example of Justice Mot
street. cleaning would be a simpler and
less costly work. The driver of q
contractors wagon Uttered the street
and Justice Mott fined him double the
usual amount 'It costs the city 81,
900, 900 to clean the Streets" he said,
"and I do not propose to have then