Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-03-11

arbitrarily prohibit the sale OF liquor
/ in the remaining one-elghth, would
pray for the power to compel them TO
/ do things his way. Is this modern
/ Christianity, or is II belated
remnant Of middle-age intolerance
/ that he would force upon u.s.
4 l saw a group picture Of students
graduating from the Carlisle indian
school the other day Interestingly
/ Decidedly so. What impressed me
/ most was a peryading vitality In the
/ faces. They seemed all so excessively
|aliye to have such an abundance or
repressed energy, such a capacity for
long. sustained and eXhausting effort.
I This impression Is sustained by the
achievements of the Indian In
athletics. In Carlisle football games,
when did an Indian ever succumb to
/ fatigue or injury? And so thlhk
that this idea of education may do a
great deal for poor Lo and may build
on that marvellous physique a capacity
for steady, concentrated effort that
will make the Indian heard from in
many and other fields.
Mr.. Clements conception OF the
Prodigal Son act seems to be standing
outside the door and iourishing a
big club.
Was the wish father to the thought /
in the announcement of the st. AL I
bans Messenger last week that Mr. /
Clement was trimming his sails TO adj 1
vance or retreat in the governorship /
matter? It's an old political dodge to
work some campaign manager Tor I
half way admission like that and then I
exploit it with all the scare heads in .
the alley. | don't honestly believe /
there was anything in IT, but little 7
copy making guess-work
Along that very line. | remember +
county senator once reduced TO
speechless rage by an announcement 4
during the last campaign that he
would support General Mccullough at 4
Montpelier He had trimmed himself T
very carefully to catch the Clement
and Mccullough vote, but in an UNI
guarded moment he told a reporter (
that, as he was the partys nominee,
he would carry out the party's Will.
Now, his county convention had en-
dorsed Mccullough, so the reporter
literally flew TO a phone and had II /
given out that the woud-be senator .
That senator literally frothed at the
mouth. but he couldn't say word, and
the worst Of il all was that public
sentiment and politics actually COM
pelled him to make the fake good.
Talk about the power of the press!
Rutland has long been due for
general waking up, but her rebellion I,
against trading stamps is the most
hopeful sign of sanity yet exhibited
1t had gotten to n point where man
couldn't live in trade unless he gave
stamps. There were stamps OF every
color of the spectrum and the whole
thing had become an unquallhed
nuisance. Now the merchants pro-
pose to throw out the trading stamp +,
Jonah and start anew. But Rutland
is still union-rldden and doesn't know /
enough to buck.
There is n cultured languor about {
the editorial endorsements of G. j.
Bell for governor that conyinces any
one wise to the situation that news &
papers would sooner stand well with {
the farmer than with the farmers
candidate
al
to stop in Washington county or some /
one is going to be prosecuted. And }
as John holds the unique position of i
democratic states attorney in re- 1
publican county. what he says is I
mighty apt to go.
People with graduated intellects
are poking each other in the ribs and
saving: well, if Clement and Agan
want to get a drink now they'll have
to go out of town." Such dubious
proved humorists probably have
formed a mental picture of Mr.
Clement leaning, in a posture OF
negligent grace on the corner OF a
gilded bar, and inviting the crowd up
to have something, or of Mr.. Agan n
walking heavily into the Goddard and i
hooker" to give him an .
appetite! l wonder. +
|
Jack Harris says he is proud to r
count Senator Reed Smoot as one of :
his friends, and | presume that he has r
reasons, but of all the disclosures of g
Ieprous filth that ever disguised !,
clearly men, the testimony of Shoots :,
president, Joseph Smith. is the most \
revolving. Artemus Ward dashed the h
Mormons with all the biting power of a
his caustic pen, then was nursed to -
life and health in Salt Lake city when
he was taken with fever on lecture
-our That's the trouble with the
Mormons. They've gotten together II
reed that hanks back to heathendom
md vet they are frequently of gentle u
md kindly nature to the world outside !,
md create the impression of patri- "
lrchal benevolence 1nwardly II we II
,an believe their own president, Utah {,
s one vast shelter for a horrible form n
IF prostitution. more horrible than the n
common kind in that church and a II
powerful hierarchy winks at and II
virtually protects it. Ask your friend - :,
Smoot about this, Jack. .,
The young fellow from Bennington
whom J. L. Martin prosecuted the
,ther day was fined one hundred dol
ars for carrying off a mail-box while
hilarious" I suppose by this he
means he was drunk. l have seen
-oung sprouts drink whiskey, then =,
beer. then a little are and then have :,
, hot one" for a night-cap after
which they were frequently inspired
With a desire to move things" Some
lines they would move signs, door e.
steps wooden Indians, barber poles O.
md palings: at other times they j.
NOulu SIT NlStNA0blAANAN WI snAlATNAAttA--
inything and be inwardly moved, but
never saw anyone try ripping UP
nail-box. They must have added b
something to the usual mixture, or N
,erhaps the license brand of booze in +
is OF unwonted potency. III
The time to move things is when W
hey are loose. ~
And the time to move mail boxes %
$ when j. L. Martin is not looking. 81
Yours reminiscently. OF
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