The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-27
LTTCHFIELD.
The Matter of Better Connection With
 Outside World.

Outside World.
 Litchfield, Oct. 22, 1898. To the Editor of the Journal and Courier:
 Now that the season is virtually over, Litchfield can look back on the last six months with benign pride and com fortable satisfaction. The season opened in May, reached high-water mark early in June and kept up it's full flood until late In September. People are still lingering, reluctant to leave. houses been so full. Never before have shops been so busy Never before has the Litchfield spirit been so dominant. Never before have so many people gone back to their winter homes with enthu- siastic determination to return next summer, with settled convictions that in comparison with Litchfeld no other village is worth mentioning. The envi- ous and the stubborn may question, poohpooh and sheer. But there are the facts. How do you account for 1t that hundreds, yes thousands, of out siders each year become enthusiastic Litchtield adorers, and ever afterwards consider summers lost that are passed away from Litchfield? The subtle, charming something may not be weighed or measured, but it's effect is evident in the uninterrupted growth and prosperity of this wonderful vil- lage. Indigenous Litchfielders are again congratulating themselves that they have once more successfully fought off trolley connection with neighboring upstart towns and that Litchfeld has been kept pure and sweet ment.
 There has been but one little cloud on the social horizon, and that so small and so insignificant that it would not be remembered day were it not for the magnificent display of Litchfield el- oquence it provoked.
 What it was all about no outsider may know or could understand The workings of the inner wheels of Litch- field society are only clear to those of remote Litchfield ancestry; could only be explained to those who for genera tions have been part and parcel of Litchfield history. Besides, no expla- | nations are necessary to the enjoyment of true eloquence. It speaks for itself. When the orator is carrying all before him, enjoyment should not be fettered by logical criticism. Nor should he be interrupted by stupid questions. There | is time for inquiring into facts, but | not when you are being whirled through mental space by inspired sen- tences. It is proper at times to inquire into the right or wrong of people and | things. But the time has never been, never will be, when it was, or will be, | proper for an outsider to inquire into the right or wrong of Litchfield ethics | or of Litchfield aesthetics.
 
 Every outsider who was present on l that memorable occasion, just a week | ago. will carry vivid remembrance of ] it to the end of his days. Would that | all the nascent orators who propose tickling patriotic ears from political platforms could have been there to see, | listen and learnl That so much brain power and soul power. so much forensic dexterity and wit, so much pathos and passion, so much skill at repartee; so much keen, incisive sarcasm, should have been so long stored up unused and unknown in old Litchfield was an awe inspiring revelation.
 The debate opened, as all debates