The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1900-03-09

Judge IL. M. warner OF PUTNAM, IN an
address at Hartford, the other day, ut
tered some notable truths about the ''old
rounder," over which every thoughtful
man in the state ought to read and pom
der. He said among other things:
Every man votes in this state unless
he is too ignorant or vicious, so you and
l II we are voters are responsible for the
laws we make and the officers we elect.
In every community the strong and we'll
TODD have to support the lame and lazy,
the pauper and the criminal. Our Gus
tom for ages has been to help in such
way as to encourage vice. We take I've
children from father who has been a
habitual drunkard and a mother who lie
no better and we send those children to
the county home; and leave the parents
free to roam the country and swell the
AlSb VA SAlAlh@Ls' j" o hSSSPbp soy @C1ooo
from certain men for the privilege of
selling Intoxicating liquor and then the
citizens pay those men, say from So, 900
to 800, 900, in way Of business with no
advantage to the citizens and the great
est loss and waste. Yet we call our
aa1uaa noo5 oDoart h,S;1ous voor ou5 vno
let the saloon keeper have more to say
about our pc ltics than anyone else.
The schools of the state cost about
three million dollars and according to
the last report of our board of education,
for every hundred children of school age
we have only eighty longer or shorter
APPEARANCES and ffty-eightl in daily at
tendance. The secretary says there may
be schools so utterly Inefficient as to be
positively mischievous. There have been
schools in which the length of the
schooling has been measused by increas.
Ing dullness of countenance, by graded
decadence of natural mental activity and
by sitting of child-like emotions.
Do you mind your own business by
seeing to 1t that your roads are well
built, smooth and dustless in summer
and reasonably passable in winter?
know the liquor ira ffic Ia tender subject.
The fact OF it is, for one reason or anoth.
er, good many people like to drink.
The Ipresent agitation in.Ithe state of
Connecticut in regard to the ''roundel"
or revolver" as the English call him,
regard as a move In the right direction.
What is the record of our state In this
particular? From the best evidence 1
can get by correspondence and personal
knowledge, there are on an average more
than 1000 DRINKS a month in the whole
state. There is CHASTITY procession OF
2, 900 human beings, your brothers and
mine; 1000 voters selling their birth.
right; 1000 immortal souls bound TO GER
tain perdition, unless something is done
to save them. This dreadful crowd en-.
ters each month the doors Of the 1854
licensed saloons in this state, leaves most
OF the money they have earned OF stolen;
to the police court, putrefies
the air and sickens the judge, and then
enters the comfortable jail and gets
wash, remains at the expense
Of the state in idleness or is employed at
labor; goes out of the
comfortable jail to wretched home, and
soon again enters the ever open doors Of
me 1884 licensed saloons to come again
20 the police court to putrefy the air and
iicken the Judge and again enterithe COM
portable jail, get free bath and again
Engage In unremunerative labor, never
ending circle.
would form good government clubs
n every town. Stir up the clergy and
very one else In public position to dis
russ these questions. Let In the light.
let in the light. The forces Of good are
he most powerful. The forces OF evil
md crime are weak and cowardly ifl
ought with courage and united effort.
Bet the good men In. che town 60 unite.