Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-09-23
Feeling Very Very Bad.

At least one western paper fails to see
anything to rejoice over in the Republican
victory in Vermont; in fact it takes occa-
sion to say several hard and wicked things
about Vermont and Vermonters This
paper is the Montgomery, H., News. We
reproduce what it has to say so that Yer
monters may see themselves as others see
them.
1.-The little blue-bellied state of Vermont
went Republican last Tuesday by an IN
creased majority, and the poor deluded
victims of the three-hal party around here
are nearly tickled to death. They punch
the silver men in the ribs, and run around
them with one wing down, like roost, RS in
a barn-yard. Does anyone suppose for an
instant that the silvermen expected any
thing else? The only wonder to us is that
Vt did not go unanimous We are sur
prised that the silver cause has any friends
a. all in that narrow, contracted and God
fol saken site. It's inhabitants are lot of
ho' k-nosed money grabbers who have
managed to get rich by preying on the rest
of the United States. Every man with a
mind as thick as piece OF tissue paper
leaves the sterile hills and rock-ridden
farms of Vermont as soon as he is old
enough to travel, and if he comes west and
lives here long enough, may acquire enough
saving grace to keep him from going to
everlasting perdition, but even. then it is a
constant struggle with him. The people
there do not engage in agriculture, for the
land there is so cursed poor that it won't
raise even disturbance. Every time they
bury man in Vermont they dump load
OF manure in the grave, so he will rise res
direction day. Its inhabitants are COM
posed of old maids and avaricious shad-
bellied money lenders and corporation
sharks. Their principal occupation is
forming corporations and drawing divi-
dends. They are too internal stingy to
eat tub meal, and consequently all are
hungry Nobody ever saw fat man ir
Vermont. They are too grasping, toe
stlngy, too penurious to ever get fat. Some
of them come west and take on little
flesh, but on their native heath they ar,
like Cassius, they have lean and hungry
3 look.
They all have noses like vultures, an,
eyes deep-set, cold, grey and greedy
) which are set in their heads so close to
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e hole with both eyes at once. They ar
: constantly looking around for some one t.
beat. They are restless and uneasy,
condition they have acquired lying awak
i nights and listening to their notes draw in
n terest and their corporation stock pile u
dividends. Religiously they are divide
into two classes-the very religious an
the unbelicvers. The religious sing psalm
through their noses on Sunday and lay i
s wait tor their fellow men on week days.
a Those classed as unbelievers get drum
\ on New England rum every afternoon, an
make fun of sacred things when not to
g drunk. A pious Vermonter ticks his DO
d halt to death if he catches him whistling o
O Sunday, but commends him if he cheats
;. companion ont of his eye teeth.
- Some OF the early settlers of Vernon
;. used to try to farm, but they have quit lon
r. ago, and rich manufacturing or gold blu
d barons own large tracts of land which the
C keep for game preserves.
: If Vermont had gone Democratic la
% Tuesday, or increased its Democratic vot,
it would have alienated large number
81 yer men out west who have long sine
learned to vote right opposite to what the
u do in that state. We are glad the gol
bugs increased their majority. 1t insure
big increase in the silver vote all over th
west.