Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1902-09-12
The Situation Now.

drives their crests about fifteen feet
above sea level, and that as the wind IN
creases in fury, and especially If con-
trary winds arise, the waves become
chopped up and their power diminished
until at times it becomes almost foam.
Full currents possess the height oil
power, but excess is the same as detici-
ency in the loss of power. just so the
political waves and currents have been
broken up, and some of them into foam.
A portion of the democratic current
which has been running steadily against
prohibition for years was detected to
crowd of men without party and without
name; and so democrats deserted their
home principles and ran after strangers
who had adopted one of them and re-
pudiated all the rest. Republicans who
had been guaranteed at home everything
they asked also ran down into that
strange current; and so large numbers
left home in which were cherished every
single household god and ran to the
tents where an image in imitation OF
only one of them was set up and wor-
SHIPPED. And so the democratic current
met contrary winds, and so did the re-
publican; and those who created them
are looking with forced satisfaction on
the depleted ranks of their respective
parties. 1t was a time of passions, jeal-
ousies, of elimination and recrimination,
a time for revenge, to pay OF old scores,
time of envy and political biliousness,
time fruitful in excuses for changing
political bases, and time when men
were politically ambitious and dry.
And now we come to the inquiry,
What is the political situation now?
There is no election of governor by the
people, but Il strong probability that the
regular republican candidate will be
elected. Now it will be better for the
peace, harmony and general political
consistency (better for both parties
probably that this should be the result
1t will sooner reunite the political and
social bonds that have been severed by
the impulsive and nomadic exhibitions
of the campaign.
But when the governor question il
settled the work is hardly begun. The
legislature is made up of men of a grea
variety of views, and omnipotence alone
can declare what it shall or will do
There are some determined ones WHIT
will not let go of prohibition on the on,
hand and on the other there are man,
who would open the dram shops so Wild
as to deluge the state. There is almos
as great variety of tastes, sentiments
passions and prejudices in respect t.
this legislation in the elected legislator
as there are men elected to it. If a sui
stitute for the prohibitory law that vii
be acceptable to the people is passed a
the coming session of the Legislature
will be done by very large personal COZ
cessions.
1t is not easy to stir men in Vernon
from their legislative bases, and if s
many of them had not been taken Of
their feet recently we would hardly thin
that very radical change could b
made in legislation, Vermont's legisls
ton so soon becomes sacred A grea
many years since an act was passed b
the Vermont legislature prescribing on
of the most complicated and needles
systems of computing interest. 1t passe
the senate without fair understandin
of its provisions But it was not work;
BILE. Men (including capable bushes
men) kept on computing interest unde
old rules and the statute has RENAME
almost entirely obsolete except to |
taught in the schools. At last mo,
was made to reform the rule so as
have one that common people could an
educated people would use. A bill hi
been repeatedly introduced into the legi
lature for that purpose, and has bee
met bya swarm of others, each presen
ing different methods of computatio
And so one of the most useless, bunglir
and confusing statutes stands, not b
cause approved by common sense b
through inability to agree on any othe
A tax law exists, Everybody kno,
that it is productive of more PERU
and fraud than any other Except pos
bly, one), law that invites and rewar
perjury and discourages and punish
veracity, and yet the legislature
been unable to agree on substitute.
We hope for high license act til
will restrict the dealer in every possil
way, and impose on him the create
responsibility; but this hope is in t
face of the fact that the liveliest inf
ence in the Legislature will be exert
by those intending to go into the TIA
and their means, and in full conside
ton of the results of other similar leg
latiOn.
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annual convention of the Vermont S