Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-06-23

De used simply as a stepping stone to .
something else. The mechanic spends /
his time indulging in visions II untold /
wealth reached through some invention /
MANY se-k agricultural pursuits simply |
Ia he taken from the mids, 81 honest
solid men mp TO high political positions.
No iuconsilerthe numbers instead oi
learning the business through = c.,lk
ship or gradual experience dash into an
establishment of their own, run in debt,
and take all kinds of chances II they
strike the wave right they come out with
gains and if not they plunge into bank
ruptcy, and their debts are not only
washed as white as snow but absolutely
all washed away and they are ready to
90 into another honest adventure. There
is another class less pretentiouS and more
frank and open, who steal the funds of .
bank and run away with them. The
bench was a place that men formerly
went up TO through laborious processes
and, like priests of holy order, by Sc
clusion, devotion and severe discipline
commanded the most profound respect,
reverence and obedience which is even
now maintained. But those precincts
are not entirely exempt from the COM
mon discomfort. Men sometimes get in
them through the windows On wave
political or otherwise, and then look out
of the windows to see what is passing.
If they don't "hum an old love tune
they may think of some lIohson and sigh
for Merrimack to sink or some other
opportunity to create sensation Bat
if the band wagon ever does stop at the
windows of the court house and one of
its inmates is permitted to get out and
ride it must be on condition that he
condemns the established order and sys-
TEN on which society rests, that he ahro-
gate the fundamental laws of the country
and visits judicial condemnation on all
who do not cheerfully run in the dust of
the wagon and to the music Of the band.
Things are being moved out of their
order and system, The people are get
ting FESTIVE under legal restraints The
men most interested and officous in
maintaining the republic are proceeding
in total disregard of it's fundamental
laws and condemning discontinued la
borers who are only imbibing the spirit
of the times and initiating their example.
Is it possible that men are getting tired
of all the ways and means by which our
happy country has been preserved for
hundred years and which have brought
it to such prosperity and abundance ?
They seem to be. An mmistakable
contempt for the very foundation and
essence of the past seems to have sud
denly grown up. Men seem to I've grow
ing tired of listening to sentiments which
were formerly cherished at least one day
in the week even if they are now out
ragged and ignored the other six. What
a cordial welcome to Ingersoll There
seems to be an impulse moving both
leaders and laymen to lay aside old
things for the new and fanciful things
which will create more pleasant sensa-
tions. The implication from the tend
ency of the times is that even the bible
was good enough for the times for which
it was made, but that new conditions
and wants which We're not anticipated in
old times require the wisdom and saga
city of the leading living minds in the
most intelligent age and country that
ever was. The great living progressive
minds of today are better than those old
formulas which were good enough for
Moses and the prophets, and even the
apostles, but which are entirely out of
place when the spirit of progress and
civilization is forging ahead with such
velocity that the cause of humanity can
not afford to have it trammeled by any
biblical, moral or constitutional re-
straints.