Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-23
PLAIN TALK FOR PLAIN PEOPLE.
Crisp and Breezy Comment on Mat
tiers in the Public Eye.
written for The Reformerl

hut actually proposes TO revel stu
further In the mre by attempting to
prove them. / say attempting but
there Is a sort Of grim confidence IN
his demand for an investigation that
doesn't look whole lot like fear, but
rather like a promise for trouble
Well let 1t come. If there's anything
crooked In those charges for eN-
penses and salary, let 1t come out.
don't believe there is anything but
little poor judgment and printers
error. Any way. let us have those /
vouchers and bet Messrs. Barber, era
ham, Davenport and two more good
men, one republican and one a |
democrat go over the whole account |
in detail Then print the facts,
A man told me on the dead level
that Burlington's baseball manage
ment, with record breaking crowds
and pennant- winning team. Is act
ually $4,000 in the hole after all Is
said and done. And, another thing' |
Millionaire whitney isn't paying the |
bills alone: not by a large majority
and several towns 10 hear from. The |
deficit will be made up by the stock
holders. of whom he Is one Burlng-
ton, as a sporting proposition mas
advanced by several long leaps from
the day when w. X. Walker OF Ia
mented memory, practically Shout |
dered the whole team, with a salary |
list around $3.50 a week and | be- /
lleye paid all bills with about one /
IF
mer.
I'm going to hold out welcoming |
palm to my brother Davenport OF the |
Barre Telegram on his initiation into
the sacred circle OF men with red cor
puscles, who aren't satisfied with /
locking up the rape tiends for year /
or two and then turning them loose on /
society again. able and willing TO re-
peat the crime. Davenport's proposal /
isn't new. 1t was exploited by Col /
lier's weekly most year ago but 1t I
has the merit OF being at once a ter /
rible punishment and an absolute
guarantee that the violator of girl or /
woman won't repeat the offence
against deceucy and virtue. Brother /
10 the OK" is the way Golfers put 1t, /
and Davenport. dropping metaphor
simply says "Unsex him''
Good man, and good idea. Let
every rapist, duly and truly convicted /
be made under proper legal and of1-
cial scrutiny. in truth, brother TO
the OK, unregarded by man or wo-
man save in contempt. Where I'M
prisonment fails, where death may
not be inflicted, this awful penalty.
which leaves a man his life and pres
entity his liberty. would certainly
cause the lust-ruled brutes TO hesitate
and, when they didn't, would erect
ually lead their thoughts into other
channels and their deeds to other
aims. who's the daring man to in
troduce such bill at Montpelier TINS
fall?
The other day / was driving along
a country road and half grown
Brahma rooster was feeding in the
ditch. As the team approached, the
picked up his head, looked
across the road, then, with mao
dive ran across under the mares
nose. then turned and watched us go
nv, Now | shall never see man
rush madly across a railroad track
ahead of a freight train, then turn
and watch the cars go by without
st,.,,,i. 80 +bot fool rooster. The
worlds full of half-grown Brahma
chickens. /.
What | predicted has come to pass
In the case of the marble strike, the
workmen voting TO go back 10 WORK
without regard to the feelings OF the
outside agitators who had II in Tor
Proctor. II was inevitable and i am
only glad that the boys can go back
generally without prejudice. and get
into a position where the Saturday
night envelope will come regularly
and the coal-bin contain something ,
beside dust. And meanwhile
1on't believe the strike has cost the
Marble company fifty dol ,,
ars. All of which just goes to show
you.
A ouartette of youthful friskers
up to the city clerks ONCE 70
n burlington Monday and demanded
licenses to get married, One pair OF t
infants. aged respectively 50 and a. I
allowed that Cupid had them down y
md out, while the tender passion in t
he second team, aged IS and ~ L
lyerred that life without each other r
vas a dreary blank Query: At t
ust what age do we quit getting $
wiser? .....
Bv an exercise of self control al ;
most beyond precedent, | haven't said
lnything about the doings of the sol
iier-boys at Manassas. | learn that
hey marched, lay in the sun and
,aked, hiked weary miles, shot at IN =
-isible foes and generally played the y
yiddv militiamen at the cheerful war :
,ame They didn't take part in the /,
grand review on account of sore feet. a
But | believe If the order had been
-iven the First Vermont would have
,een there with the goods, afoot, boss
Jack or awheel. The boys ought TO
emember Mulvaney's tendency to
,ut too much grease on his hair and I
Tot enough on his feet and govern r
themselves accordingly.
Speaking about war, / foregathered n
With the survivors of Company |, Sec 4
md Vermont Volunteers, the other $
lay, and heard a story that / haven't e
zen in print before. II was the usual v
ime of no-tobacco and the boys were n
imply pining for a chaw. when Pri- o
ate Fish was authorized to go out 3
nd get some Didn't have a cent Il
md wandered up to where a team s
ad been driven into camp and the L
nan was selling peaches at five c
ents per Sticking out his greasy $
Id cap, he demanded a quarters \
worth. and. noting a five dollar bill p
int. hn thnf cnr.r.nd q, fill II