Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-17
essex County Aerala.
Island Pond. VT, May Ia
Essex County Again honors5 and
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the weak. tpu" tAnse VINO nave no
need of assistance all kinds of aid and
encouragement are he9ped, bu, from those
who actuaily aeed, this tendency turns
In disgust For the poor aud humble IN
circumstances to have equal influence
with Others is unjust rs some view it.
and to have more than men in more
afflueut and aristccratic conditions is an
enormous injustice" as the burlington
Daily News put. it. Now our little conn
" for instance is one Of the smallest
counties in the State, and so some go
tor It. with keen appetite, 10 matter how
little real influence it may have. II the
oretically or numerically it becomes
equal to others it becomes 4 matter of
regret. II it gets over the line into the
region of excess it creates righteous IN
dignation. In these latter days it has
been called excessively lawleSS because
fish are caught here and game pursued
and slaughtered here in violation OF law,
as it is everywhere else. Rut to cap the
climax of this whole business il is now
attempted to be used as field wherein
to set up men of straw. \ man has an
imaginary evil, and wanting Illustrate
it he comes here to find an example,
probably thinking that other folks know
as little about the geography otthe State
as he does. But fortunately for the ill.,
telligence OF the times men are very rare
who do not know something about the
geography and history OF every locality
in his own State, and especially what
towns are entitled to Representations SO
that very little Injury is done by these
insinuations which are founded i'll lmagl-
nation and which pass away as quickly
as any harmless dream, nightmare or
any other perversion OF the mental condi-
ton of sensationalists. 1t is only rep
etition Of what has almost periodically
occurred ever since the fundamental laws
of the State were established to hear men
talk about how the large and powerful
towns of this State are oppressed by the
little ones through unjust, unequal and
unfair representation. This is done Ill
face of the fact which is well known to
everybody who knows where the real in
fluence for legislation comes from that
the larger towns actually plan, accom-
plish and defeat the legislation OF the
State. Let any project OF legislation be
started which is unlavorable to them
and which would be advantageous to
the smaller towns and in one night they
San go to work and accomplish such an
over night WON it,. when DAYLIGHT
comes the smaller towns would discover
that they were all bundled aud stopped
up and ready to be taken in and thrashed.
We don't care to 90 into discussion OF
this old subject which has been harped
upon so many years at intervals and
about which nothing new probably can
be said; but such a wild and vagarious
tlustrat;on Of Tho q o+.,oI nr,o,.,,,;t,. - A.
present system has come to our attention
that it may not be improper to allude to
it because somebody seems to think that
it is shocking, that great and actua
wrong is being done, and that this
enormity is being perpetrated as usual by
somebody up in Essex County. 1t is as
serted that the little town Of Averil has
exactly 43 inhabitants land possibly {
dog or two thrown in to make up The
count" and that this town has the sams
representation i'll the legislature that
Burlington has, and that each person il
it has four hundred times the weight il
legislation that any Burlington man has
This is the only new argument OF new
illustration that is suggested, The illus
tration is new, and considering that it il
born purely of imagination it is well told
it also we'll illustrates the nature of al
the evils which are alleged against the
present system. 1t is just like the story
which is told of a very solemn and sedatC
man who after listening to a fancitu
anecdote replied 'that's a good story
and Brother \ told it we'll but the
truth i'll it." Now we don't want t.
say word to disappont our friends
up i'll Averill, nor to detract from
the credit which is being given then
Tor their influence in legislation, but tn
tact is that the people of Averill do no
deserve this castigation. They neve
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were intrusive in State matters; the
have always been content to talk
what their more powerful neighbor
have seen fit to give them; they are liv
ing under laws in the enactment of whic
they never had any voice; they are dow
the brook the waters of which are nov
being riled by the wolf; they are fru
gal, industrious people. They did no
even send representative in '92; the
did not send one in '94; they never sen
one of their number as representative t,
the legislature; they never was organ
ICED, and never was entitled to repres enta
ton. They are people who mind the
own puSlhesS anu htNc no VOICE III leSl'
lation and never had any, even in respee
to matters affecting them locally, BIT
have to depend entirely upon the lit
towns which surround them for prote
tion against the encroachments of MOI
powerful locations in the State So Q
the whole, taking as candid view oftl
matter as we gan we believe that all Il
realevil charged against the preesnt sy