The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-23

genCy by Une reIallleTS Vi ullc NdluOIl-
Astoria barons to herd the freemen of
Vermont like Weyler's reconcentrados
in Cuba, has been utterly wrecked,
the wire is an inextricable tangle, its
barbs dulled, the block houses burn
ed or blown up, and consequently en-
tirely Intellectual for purposes of re-
straint. The need is urgent for
more substantial and enduring struc-
ture and one should be erected with
out delay.
An aged and honorable native citi-
zen whose grandsires fought at Hub
bardton suggests that Wall, after
the plan of the ancient barrier of
China. be reared around the borders of
the State and that it be built of mar
BILE, quarried, of course, at Proctor,
the Mecca of the men of the new or
der of oriental and paralyzing exclu-
siveness Each block, he suggests
further, should bear the armorial de-
vice of the anointed of the Waldorf
Astoria barons, after the practice of
the emperors of antiquity, who were
wont to impress their names on the
bricks used in similar mural construc-
tions Such structure would cost
money With trust prices" for raw
material it would cost more money
Barbarian labor might be introduced
to save money. Such Wall is i'm
peratively demanded at any cost, and
when completed ought to be enduring
whatever might become of the State.
Vermont for Vermonters and Yer
monters for Vermont is the express
sion of policy so profitable to few
of her people that it must be main
tanned at whatever public sacrifice.
On its perpetuation the political sal
walton of the men of the Waldorf
Astoria Touraine Canadian Political
Trust of Vermont depends. The
present membership of the Trust to
say nothing of the future, demands
this sacrificial outlay. The necessity
is urgent and imperative.
Broad and deep should the Wallis
foundations be laid, massive it should
be, and it should be reared to an alti.
tude twice the height of the wall of
China. A structure less formidable
might be scaled or preached by the
insurgent element increasing in the
State, which has long been laboring
under the delusion that, like their
forefathers, they were possessed OF
certain unalienable rights" were
born free, equal and independent citi-
zens, but now find themselves pros
pective subjects, if not voiceless vas
sails, of few political barons, to be
delivered, like the Hessians their
fathers fought at Bennington, to serve
the cause of certain divine right to
rulership. The Wall should be design
ed both to keep barbarians out and to
restrain those natives from departing,
who, disguised at the narrow, bigot-
ed intolerance exemplified in the slo-
gan, Vermont for Vermonters, and
seeing no hope for the growth of
State so handicapped, are becoming
suspiciously impatient to get out, and
will speedily seek to join the great
army of their self -eXpatriated fellow
citizens in other States of the Union
who have been cordially welcomed
and highly honored in the commun-
tiles of their adoption.
To insure the best results the Wall
should be guarded by the retainers of
the barons. Rome had her Pretorian
guard Vermont should have her
Proctorian guard, bearing on its ros-
ter names whose simple mention
should send terror to the spirit of mu-
tiny. The Wall should be pierced by no
embrasures or other openings, except
ng royal gateway on the southern
boundary of the satrapy, preferably
near Brattleboro, through which Sc
cret egress could be made to bed
room conclave at the Waldorf Astoria
in New York, or the Touraine in Bos-
ton; it should have another at the
north, above ST. Adams, when the
exigencies of warfare demand a meet
at Depot Harbor, Ottawa, or else
where in the Dominion of Canada, for
arranging draft or other schemes
for hoodwinking 1.-THE plain people"
walled in among the Green Hills.
For gate keeper at the south the
Phoenix editor naturally suggests him
self first for this post, for hath he not
a little Ratchet which he glories in
welding trenchantly in an emergency
and which is as fatal to an adversary
as Jack Falstaff's blade of lath? On
recent occasion requiring great
boldness, he allows that he did it all"
with his tiny weapon, and from his
fecund brain was not the idea of the
draft evolved? In the distribution
of the honors it is not quite clear
where the "time and energies" of the
iridescent Rufus of Randolph would be
employed, possibly as sort of Pharos
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