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Jumps on 81 Clone with Both Feet.
DEAR SITTER SO many of your
readers are 'pitching in" to ISL
Clone" that it seems quite superhous
for me to add "jab" to the number
he is receiving, but, really 1t occurs
to me that in his "stab" at the Fair
of the Battenkill Valley Industrial
Society at Manchester Center, as
published In your columns on the oath
of Sept. (Which has just been shown
me) he has quite overstepped the lin
its of good sense, judgment, fair play,
and l am sorry to say, of honesty.
One would infer from his wholesale
attack that there was not single re-
deeming feature to save the exhibit
ton. Now to the average visitor
there were many things that deserved
special commentator, and were en-.
joyed exceedingly. To belittle an
enterprise like our Fair is to attack
more than a single community it is
an attack on number of communi-
ties. If the exhibition was not all
E that ST Clone desired, let him rather
+ give "piece of his mind" to nons
contributors for the small exhibit ;
. let him rather say at the least one
word in commentator of the pro-
. jectors and supporters Of the Society,
and in fair and manly way mention
}, the reverses they met by loss OF
+ buildings &c during a gale in the
> summer as u possible reason for the
- concessions to what he calls objection.
: able money catching devices. Some
parts of his diatribe are so cbildisl
~ that am surprised that the chief at
traction to him was not the emery
u go-round,' for its pleasures are Ger
tainly about on a level with his senti
) ments. Had he any sectional pride
or desire to see this section of our at
- tractive valley prosper, even durinI
GO the scanty three days period of th
ID Fair, it appears to me he would nc
!. hove unsealed the phial of his rid
:, Guile. An ancient proverb says. "rid
=, icule is the weapon of foo"; th
. truth of it is proven in his article a
lacking the Far. Perhaps compl
mentary season ticket would hay
n changed his views, but he evidentl
was not Gin it, that way.
~ l notice with special feeling of su
= prise his attack on the Daughters {
= the American Revolution and IL
Womans Relief Corps, and pronoun(
his estimate of the ladies occupyin
the "aoats" a--slanderous and vel
omous one.
REVIEW OF 81 CLONE AT THE FAIR
Even though his opinion as to tt
'n' personal appearance of the ladies
&C. accepted, l leave it to your sense
''' fair play my dear SITTER, and to tn
no. of reading public, whether it is
good taste to ridlcule the personnel
two patriotic organizations like the
he ATTACKS? | am constrained
think that ST Clone has no patriot
. sentiments that he has no patriot
tendencies that he has neither pc
sonal record of patriotism, nor a
cestry with such record had he {
Their, he would have left unsaid t
words he used regarding the estim
BILE women as representative OF tV
of the noble patriotic orders,
whom our country, and public sen,
ment owe SO much to day.. In n
opinion the attack is contemplate al
deserves the contempt of patriot
people. He ought to apologize #
his rudeness, but that evidently
not sin him. 81 Clone has broke
bread at the expense of one of Il
Societies he attacks; he was an inv
ted guest, and he accepted the inv
tation, of course, to eat and toll
what an iugratitude he displays
the taunt of Sept. Oath at their "foat
in the parade.
ST Clone was at the Fair; we sa
him for him to say that any perso
is ''plain looking" is, to say the vel
least, case of ''person living In
glass house throwing stones"
does seem passing strange that
will persist in saying the things
does say, and much that he says r
minds one of the criticism of the co