The Newtown bee., 1900-04-13
views of waterfalls and cascades, . mar. velous world shut in by mighty walls.
WOODBURY.

WOOO0UAI' PROGRESS GOING BACKWARD WITH A l
 VENGEANCE. The great orator of America was only II years of age when he made plea for | B woodchuck's life that convinced his father that there were two sides to & question and that justice should be done even to woodchuck, and if I possessed that great oratorical power that Daniel Webster had, would sacrifice time and take vacation from the most healthy, honorable, honest, (snd if justice was done, the most independent occupation that man ever engaged in since the Lord planted the first garden in Edep) not to plead for justice to be done to 6 wood chuck but the woodchuck owners. For if there is any cne that needs sympathy, encouragement and help It is the mortgage-bound farmers. A few. little items published in our local paper set me linking and finally forced me to take up my pencil, not to discuss old, worn out local subjects ts ken from the Wood. bury Reporter, but to encourage the people in Water.own to stand for their rights and the rights of eople living in adjoining towns who need the main road more than the trolley, car does.
 It looks to me like addir g sin to sin to allow the trolley car tn pass over 6 road that has cost the town and state what that road has. The editor of the Re- porter can call it-Progress going back ward with vengeance, or whatever he pleases. I sincerely hope that the peo- pie in Watertown and all the adjoining towns that want to travel that road will oppose it's being disturbed with the same spirit that our forefathers did the tea tax on Bunker Hill. For there has been sin enough committed in building the road and getting tt in such nice condt tion without giving the devil another inch. If Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could use their pen and tongue to-day, what would l they say to see Legislature giving au- ! thority and power to 8 set uf fools pur- l suing 8 similar eourse that Rehobohsm did after Solomon's death. Solomon, who was the richest and wisest king that ever sat on an earthly thone, said tha. he hated all the labor he had taken un, | der the sun for he had got to leave Il either to wise man or 8 fool, and he left everything to one of the greatest fools that ever ruled over the Jews. Fol he undertook to live in such extrava gance and exercise 80 much authority that he caused the frst revolt in Israe and lost 10 out of 12 tribes, and if the Lord hadn't interfered he would hay, lost his own head into the bargain.
 1 believe that the men who framed wrote and defended in the stormy hall of Congress the constitution of this grea commonwealth were chosen and prepar ed by an oyerruliug Providence, ss mucl as believe that Moses was preserved il the bulrushes to deliver the children O Israel from bondage and become tb lawgiver of Israel. If there is anythini outside of the Bible that is written b, inspiration believe it is the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution 0 the United States of America. And whel 8 legislature undertakes to amend or de part from what is 6 perfectly safe guid for 8 town, state or nation to obey an, follow, believe it is like Christian Sci ence, beaded by woman who tries t, improve what was written by inspiration
 Nothing can remain permanent with out a good foundation, and when tn foundation of American independenc and American pros Qerity is gone, wha will become of the structure an superstructure?
 should like to have the editor of th WoodburV Reporter, or any other perso that thinks car run by lightning Is 0 more importance than good road, O people who are obliged to use thei teams, get on to load of rye straw som windy morning when 1t is rough travel ing and be obliged to constantly mee teams, the trolley car and automobile From the bottom of my heart I believ that when they reached the Brass Cit they would be as thoroughly converte as the great apostle was when the LOT met him on his way to Damascus { persecute the church of Christ. Afte Saul was changed to Paul he saw thing differently and became the great advc cate of what he once persecuted. So believe that if these great advocates O lightning and the devil could only hay 8 little experience with rye: straw, wind and rough sidling roads, the trolley car automobiles and teams to meet, the, would see things in different light, an, instead of seeing ''Progress going back ward with vengeance" they would se things progressing with love followinl the Golden Rule, "Doing unto others 8 they would like to be done by," ant obeying the two great divine command upon which Christ said hang Ill the lav and the prophets, "Thou shalt love tn Lord thy God with all thy heart an, with all thy soul and with sll tn, mind and with all thy strength, and tn. neighbor as myself"
 One of Woodbur3's greatest advocate of temperance (who has gone to his re ward) told Judge Huntington in tn Methodist church that there was high er judge than in the Litchfield court anl I will add that there is higher lav than what is written in the reviset statutes of the state of Conn ecticut. -