Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-10-06
EDITORIAL NorEs.

EDITORIAL NOTES.
Who will introduce into the legisla
ture the bill to unsex the iend con
victed ofrape?-[ Barre Telegram.
Indeed, who wills
Swanton has turned over a new
Page Carroll S.-whose connection
with the savings bank lately estab,
: lished there promises well for all.
1t was fortunate for Gov. Bell thai
| j. A. DeBoer gave up pressing bust
ness matters to assist in clearing him
from the charge of grating. He
could not possibly have had better
representative, both in following up
the accounting and in holding the re-
luctant Democrats to the unpleasant
task Of publishing their own dis
Comfture.
1t is solely due TO the scandalous
conditions inside the Republican party
in New York that that great state must
be placed in the doubtful column this
year. The bosses and would-be bosses
and have-been bosses, with their re-
spective henehmen, disgust the rank
and file, who yet seem powerless to
break the letters and give the mischief
makers a sound spanking
Several of the state papers preached
temperance sermons on the death OF
three men who were killed BY a train,
only to find ont atterward that there
was not the slightest evidence that any
ofthe men had been drinking. Then
they tailed to clear the regulations OIL
the dead men they had maligned. !
r. Wilmington Times.
Unfortunately, the Times Itself is
mistaken. In proof of which witness
that the lucky survivor of the fearful !
experience welcomed the chance to
plead guilty OF intoxication.
The IIardwick Gazette utters this
good advice respecting the mail order
proposition
"When your bunco steering neigh
Dor begins an attempt 10 inject You
with tue mail order microbe ask him
If Skinem Il Getrich of Chicago will /.
extend you credit il you should hap.
pen to be sick or out Of work ask him
II that concern pays any taxes into the
treasury from which money is drawn
to build local roads. run local schools ,
ana maintain local government; ask
him II the dollars sent ont OF town and
state don't lessen the local circulating
medium by just so much"
The action of Governor Mccullough
In pardoning Martin Carrick ofBethel.
sentenced 10 the house Of correction {
for three years for beating his wife, is
condemned by people in
that town who say the governor has
been imposed upon. Would il not be
q good idea to take the pardoning !
power ont Of the hands Of the govern ,
or and lodge 1t with the Judges OF the
supreme court?- Middlebury Regis
ter.
Yes, undoubtedly. The supreme {
court is a continuous body, highly J
capable. uusweryed by clamor and
lnmoved by base motives. Il has no {
political axe TO grind, or debts to pay. !
md could be relied upon to exercise q
III proper mercy. But it would re-
luire an amendment to the constitu- q
ion to bring this change about, which )
almost hopeless undertaking.
The Quincy incident brings up the
question Of eXteritorial,y again. This
ong word means that in theory the
representatives Of this government in -
oreign countries and the representa- !.
ives Of foreign governments in this
ountry are AZ home, while away from -
.ome. They are amenable to the laws !,
Il their own country, not to the laws =,
] the country In which they are To-
ated. Thus this Mr.. Quincy. who
ped an auto, could not be arrested !,
nd fined by the Lee magistrate be- =.
ause he was legally apon British soil -,
il the time. Many complications
hight arise aud, indeed. have arisen -
bat would make trouble, but il is J."
'ell established that the persons Of :
lreign ministers and their attaches r
re sacred from arrest in the eountrv
which they are accredited. what
yer the charge against them. TbeIf
o'ernments they represent are sup-l
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