Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-14

meant 10 say WIS IcsoiNtu w h"N'
gle" and | referred TO the moving
trains round Bellows FaHs, Honest
Iniun, now, Claribel, do you solemnly
and sincerely avouch that 1 perpetfa'-
ed devoid TO mingleY"
(Clarlbel, being Intercepted. states
that she read the poem" as wei as
she could, that she thought II didn't
make SENSE" but that she wasn't
paid to make sense of the copy, any
way."-Ed)
opened up like progressive whist
marty, didn't IL? l mean the legisia-
ture. Some different from two years
ago, when members had To be praeu,
cnlly dubbed into their seats ana
held down. both hands full of bills.
which they were determined to intro
duce before the house got organized
This year, every one seems to be reel
ing his way and there hasn't been
enough decent copy" In the whole
capitol. apart from the messages 10
wad beanblower. But the messages!
AS the photographer used TO say about
my dry plate smudges, "Contrasty'
very"
Mr.. McCullough,--I suppose he's
plain Mister now, went in FOR tacts
and figures. Extremely so. The ex-
message was meaty, IL
you're not too much of "A vegetarian.
II was businesslike. II you hadn't TOO
much business of your own. IL makes
about six columns of solid nonpareh
and covers everything from the poliu-
ton of Lake Champlain 10 creating the
office of attorney general. Too bad
that nobody will ever read II or pay
the slightest attention to Its recon-
isn't It? IL any message
was ever thankless task, it's that OF
a retiring governor And the incomer
isn't too highly regarded, either
Mr.. Bells telegram" takes up less
than two columns. but It's fuH Oh
things from the first snapback. After
telling the Legislature, mostly farih-
ers that n full measure of the WISDOM
and virtue of the state was poiieu
down and bottled up in them, ne prays
for them piously and then proceeds 20
Law down the law. Did ! say law
Ask some lawyer. You'll still ma
few of them scattered around the as
II there's justice in law or
law in Justice, Governor Bell mas GER
tainly got them both going south when
il comes to wildeyed equity
Take his recommendation about tim
her. Presumably this stuff is taxed
on the stump as realty, and yet ne
wants il taxed in some additional way
if cut down and carried out OF the
state How? Search me. As pre-
vious paragraph cries out against
double taxation. il can't be that way
Must be a sort of export hoiuup
which wouldn't fail to drive the inter-
state commerce commission into an
early grave.
Mr.. Bell has decided notions about
good roads. He believes in govern
ment aid. why, asks the governor
should Burlington and 81. Adams
spend thousands of Uncle sam
dough for public buildings when down
TO Walden we hain't even got post
office building to show for 1t? Ergo
let us try and get a slice of the Z. ,.
funds by a good roads bill in congress,
even If said Burlington and 81. AL
hans. gosh darn 'em, have TO dig up
most of the additional taxation, In
other words, the governor doesn't pc
lieye in double taxation except wheh
applied to the larger towns!
Automobiles - consarn the pesky
things, keep them off the hill roads
and the crooked roads and the side
roads, forgetting that no man can go
anywhere in Vermont by boulevard
This recommendation would make the
auto practically suburban luxury
and would do away entirely with
touring and the use of the auto Tor
business. The practical man, now
ever, develops in the desire to keep
weeds. bushes and obstrucuons OH
he roadside, all of which Is ALREADY
covered by law, | believe. me desire
for trees and the hatred OF the uh-
slightly fence placard are all gooa rec
concentrations.
Capitalization of schools, creating
he office of attorney general, improN-
nc the work of the cattle and railroad
etc. all show the
houghtful farmer who reads the
,apers. but in the whole message 1 ran
o find one single recognition OF Yer
mont as anything else but a farming
state Not word about granite OF
marble, nothing about the needs OF
he several manufacturing cehters, on
he contrary, an intimatloh' pam
to be read by anyone, that the
'armer and the farmers interests are
o be paramount this fall.
This is wrong; it is narrow; II is III
Had Mr.. Bell depended on
he farmer-vote and the farmer-or
for his campaign ms
would have been ABOUT 10,
'29. Vermont is a farming state put
20 per cent of the people in Vermont
ion't farm for a living ana thelr
interests ought to be recognized. Ana.
ust word of caution to the farmers
in the legislature: Don't
AIRY things too far in this matter OF
lass legislation. The theory that
anything that helps the farmer helps
Vermont is all right, provided, always,
hat YOU don't step too heavily on the
oes of others. And there's a senate,
you know, that sometimes steps on
hings of it's own accord
I congratulate Mr. Bell on the plain,
I'D fashioned, homely, honest ring of
lis message. It's not practical in
places. Its classy all through. It's not
n any sense a great or an epoch
making document, but it's just the
,ort of thing we might expect from a
simple. absolutely sincere and earnest
nan, who desires humbly to do the
,est he knows for his Vermont as he
,nows it.
.
So I'm distinctly in favor of Gov
,rnor Bell. Despite his spots, l love
lin still.
Don't you?
II. L. Hindley.
Senator Hoar's Successor.
Gov. Bates of Massachusetts, has APP
pointed ex-Gov. w. Murray Crane OF
Dalton United States senator to NIL
a Al LIZ