Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-11-10

dlebury. by our friend Mr.. Higgins of
the Addison House, and he recovered -
hundred and fifty dollars for damage to
a carriage, the automobilist paying in
addition the cost of the suit. We are up
holding system which will prevent
damages: and the editor of the News one
where they will occur, and that most
frequently, and occasionally of the most
rous character, and talks as if he
thought that would be a pleasant thing
10 his subscribers.
Will this Editor state whom he intends
to represent by the sentence "ThCse who
wish to see the advent of the new and
popular mode of travelY'
Certainly it is not Cur merchants. In
conversation recently with one of the
most successful merchants in Eastern
Vermont. he remarked that automobiles
were seriously interfering with the busi-
ness interests eff the merchants. For
because of them the women were afraid
to drive alone to villages for their shop
ping as they had always been ac-
customed to, and the result was that
they were ordering goods sent from city
stores more and more. Speaking of this
to "A prominent Middlebury merchant.
he said he had had a similar experience.
And certainly it is not our liverymen
for they all say the same thing, that
they do not dare when automobiles are
about to let their horses to women or
children Nor is it the citizens of our
villages and cities, who are constantly
obliged themselves to cross the streets
and whose children are also thus
obliged every day in going to and re-
turning from school, and who recognize
that every time an automobile appears
there is a liability to some kind of acci-
dent Is it then the farmers? We do
not know one nor ever heard of one
who wishes to see "the advent of this
new and popular mode of travel"
What this Editor means by fatality"
we do not know. But the Register has
already called attention to several
serious automobile accidents in this
neighborhood within the last few weeks
where horses have run away and car
riages been broken up, and where death
might easily have resulted and as every
sensible person knows, if the ssme order
of things continues may result at any
time
Undoubtedly similar accidents have
occurred in the different counties of the
State, though unknown to the Rutland
News.
The statement in regard to Vermont
owners oi machines being careful maybe
correct. But very large share of
automobiles which pass through the
mont people. and as the Register has
shown, some of those who operate them
are utterly reckless and entirely regard
less of both safety and rights of others.
But this whole sentence begs the quest
ion that is before the people, and does it
! too, most dishonesty. For it is only the
! fool OF the knave or both that will
undertake to argue To the people of Yer
mont that they should not remedy great
and constantly threatening evil, because
within IA limited period, SO far as the
writer's knowledge extended, there had
been no fatality"
The closing sentence of this monstros
ity is Have done much TO win favor
among people not fortunate enough to
possess cars What an Ass.
The moment that automobiles do not
invade the rights and interfere with
the safety and comfort of others, and
do not undertake to steal the roads built
almost entirely by the money and labor
of others, that Is, the moment that they
organize to build their own roads, that
moment every one will wish then
well