The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-29

COulu 40 10 no CHORES an MIX an get
up wood, an hev he'd the gol darndest
lot of other things to do. noticed
big pamphlet drop out of my last
copy of the Bungtown Roarer, an 1
laid it behind the clock an told Sam
antha not to let the kids tear it up.
I thought it might contain an account
of the antics cut up the last night of
the session when they raised the salary
of the chaplain of the States prison an
made him gree to spend his hull time
there, cause they expected an increase
in the family there"
Said Farmer Collins: "When you
get home, you sit right down and read
that license act that has the referend-
um in it, and it will just make every
bristle on you stand on end. It's a
cracker and 10 mistake. Read it out
loud to Samantha and the boys, and
you will see how that Lawyer Doolit-
tie and Squire Junkins and Gus
Blarney will be able to put their heads
together, and give you great big fine
for selling one glass of cider, or send
Samantha to the house of correction
for one, two, five or more years to
scrub marble, if she should do again
what she did last week-carry that
bottle of brandy over to Timothy
Pickles sick wife when she was FAINT
and give her one teaspoonful which
she needed to keep her alive.
This referendum means that you
and l must go to the election on the
first Tuesday in February and vote
mo" and vote down every such
law"
Farmer Stepbins took long breath
and opened his great eyes in amaze
ment and said:
"Du tell. Then that's what the ref
erendum is, is it?-'n that's the law
that those blarsted hypocrites down to
the Corners want so as to feather their
own nests is it? I'll look into that.
l have six boys CROWN up. | don't
want rum sold in public for them to
see an think it's popular md 0. K,
md hev that lazy hotel keeper git all
theil money, md make em drunkards
md fighters md lazy-not by a long
shot, by gosh, md [ don't want any
SIGH law lying round loose for any of
my particular enemies to git hold of.
That gang down to tn Corners, they
call the forty thieves. They are watch
in all tn time for jist SIGH chances.
Ev'ry one of them III git as tight as a
kerosene lie barrel. Old Junkins III
do just as Doolittle tells him-and be-
lieves the law to be just as Doolit.
tie says.
"Doolittle is sure to win before him,
and Gus Blarney is sure to pick out a
| Doolittle jury-a lot of fellers that he
has got some hold on-ketched them il
some mean scrape or tother, and once
that was too plain agin Doolittle, nc
he let the Teller go-he hadn't done
nothin' only knock over Teller that
was about to strike poor wilder fol
nothin'-you ought to hev heerd Doc
little go for Junkins, md Junkins tool
it as meek as Moses, COS he knew thai
his bread an butter depended pretty
much on Doolittle's cases bein' before
him; md so Junkins tried to calm
Doolittle down Job Snyder stood b,
N heerd it-'nd chuckled md sed, Sc
he: Things hev come to pretty pass
if man can't wallop his own Jack
ass. >"
Farmer Collins had listened will
great interest to his neighbours com
ments, and proceeded to point GU
other absurdities in the proposed Ii
cense law, and explained to him tina
all these extravaganza penalties wer
not designed to stop the sale o
liquors, but>to enable the fellows VIII
were lucky enough to get the license
to sell all the Intoxicating liquor pos
sible, at the biggest price possible, TO
there would be but small competition
and the competitor could easily form
a trust to raise the price of drinks t.
twenty-five cents each; and then t.
sell the poorest qualities, if they onl
had the fuddle in them, and tina
drunkenness must be increased wit
all the woful results.
He concluded by saying that ever
good citizen should vote "No.
"Them's my sentiments, sal