Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-03-18
PLAIN TALK FOR PLAIN PEOPLE.
Crisp and Breezy Comment on Mat
tiers in the Public Eye.
(Wrltten for the Reformer)

ed advertising, circulation and the IN.
luuity of the paper trust, and some OF
them talked n lot OF nonsense. nut
there wasn't enough political wisdom
expounded to even family Indicate who
win get the nomination for governor
Fact is, they don't know. Nobody
knows. But we're all willing to keep
a-guessing.
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By-the-way, have attended
whole lot of political, fraternal ana
sporting conventions, but for down
right good fun and n bunch of the best
of fellows, give me Vermont editors
And bright! | wish stenographer
could have taken down half the witty
stuff there was continually bubbling
up around Hotel Windham last Friday
evening. Quips, jokes, roasts, jollies
and brilliant skits. ms pointed as
needle and as keen as surgeons Dis
toury. fairly kent the mir magnetic
with good feeling. Even the Naughty
Waitress and the Cynical Bellboy had
to unlateh their countenances ana
grin. No wonder Vermont newspapers
are rated Al with such a ready-wit-
ted and od-tempered crowd TO con-
struet them
Talk about meanness Here's the
CITY OF Rutland TO be drler than a SER
mon ON predestlnntIon, and yet, IN the
old town Of Rutland, they talk of a sa-
loon Just as near Percy Clements resi-
dence ~ II cau be put without con-
struetng new building. ! venture 20
remark that that saloon will behave or
win have the time Of its life,
An old and tested solution Of Rev
NIr. I.awsons problem Of getting
Young men TO attend church IS 70 geN
Inc Young mans girl 1t sounds tTl-
,,ISi Int it,s the trine that turns the
scale don't believe there is much
nee IN irving TO get the young man 70
church Of n morning. for reasons Wei
sci forth by the Mcddler last Week
but MS entirely practical to attract the
vounr man and his girl on Sunday ev-
aninr There's lack Of Sunday morn
ing formality In the right kind OF an
evening service Plenty of singing q
male nuartette IL you can, congrega-
tlonal singing Of hymns that have
swing and musical merit, then ser
mon-or rather not a sermon, but q
Main. direct talk on subjects that help
And be sure and take up a collection,
so the girl can see whether or not the
young man is willing TO dig up.
Speaking of church going, | used to
no driven to church, not exactly with
n cad, but next thing to Il. | have at
tended church at 1890 Sunday school
NJ IL. driven with my father to n mis-
eion church nj $50. attended Chris
tjan Tndeavor Mt 6, evening service NJ
7 and an after meeting at s, and the
only thing that made that strenuous
day endurable was the fact that | was
allowed to walk home with the girl
after It was all over! Fact
have been told that the prohibition
nropaganda Is actually on foot against
The local option law. l can't under
etand the prohibitory mind. II has
nm Illogical twist. believe in voting
believe in temperance, be-
I,ava In every honest effort to fght
the rum evil. but | believe IN govern
ment by majority; the probationary
don't. Don't deny IT, Brother with
the Wrinkled Mind. that's just what a
repeal campaign means. You. in your
cosy strdy. would like the power 70
cav that n majority In Burlington, de-
daring license n practical method OF
handling its local consumption OF
liquor. shall not prevail
Worse still. there is the prohlbitory
bvnocrite. who orders his wine or
whiskav bv the case, drinks privately.
hit in public denounces local ontion
and would like to stop, by arbitrary
Gat the moor man from buving glass
Of beer. Why, I heard n Thing with 2
cor1plevion like n picked ham, and
breath that suggested a third-rate
dlstillerv bray about what curse the
license law was. He never drinks ~ ?
bar. thinks 1t sets a bad example rye
wouldn't abstain from his daily tipple
on any consideration, but he thinks
license advocate ought TO so TO hell
That's the spirit that knocks me OUT.
A reformer I can respect a fanatic
can tolerate q drunkard | can pity All
three combined would turn the stom
ach of an Eskimo team dog, or a Tex
as road-runner.
I saw Archie Boyd in Bellows Falls
the other night Reminded me OF the
davs when he used to play Denman
Thompson's parts in the number two
cornnanias. And he played them SC
well that he lost his Job The critics
usad TO tell how much better Archie
nloyed them than did Mr.. Thompson
Now he's star on his own hook and
can play Uncle Josh just rs we'll as nc
wants to.
Col. 10 Battell of Mlddlebury has
attached himself to the dispensarS
idea with 4 tenacity that suggests the
adhesion of a bull-pup to a tamaracP
sapling. The Colonel knows whole
lot about Morgan horses; he has
knocked the wave theory into dis
tinguishable molecules; he has giVer
evolution a trimming that makes i
resemble the last cut of pie at board
| ing-hou dinner and now he wants tt
take another fall out of high license
He thinks he has the present law
rravod into n Turkish fringe and this
4 hottie groggerv, state bought-rum
private- gain-abolished bug Of his vii
probably result in modified dispen'
sary bill next fall,
/ The BOYS were very nice to thu
/ Colonel at Montpelier two years ago
He received the Difference that his ag'
and standing commanded and he wa
listened to with respect and attention
Then they proceeded to give it to tn
dispensarv bill in the same portion o
the person that Ann Eliza usuali!
decorates with chiffon They'll do !
again this fall and they won't be s.
polite about It. either. Better stick U
your "Iolstein horses" Colonel dear
A man with a fine scientific knoWl
edge regarding the thusness of IN
heretofore is sometimes unable to DIS
/ tinguish between a drink and a drunk
The editors Of the Vergennes Enter