The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-03-15

stance yesterday, Norwich, Yer
mont, voted for license. Norwich
is just across the river from Han
over, N. H., where Dartmouth
college is located. The town of
Hanover, N. H., is always pro
hibitiOn on account of it's being
a college town. They do not even
vote on the liquor question in
that place or in Durham, another
college town, for the legislature
has fixed these places for all
time to be dry. The fact that
Norwich has gone for license
practically undoes all that the
legislature of New Hampshire
has done to keep the temptation
of liquor from the student body
of Dartmouth. And, really, with
open saloons in Norwich it will
be a hard proposition to control
nearly 1000 students in a small
town.
montpelier JOurnal.)
The best thing that has been
written on the value of publicity
in the ThaW case-and in others
of the same character appeared
in Harper's Weekly of Saturday.
1t is in the form of parable and
first deals with the character of
Stanford White as follows:
Once there was a man who had
the Incompatible misfortune to
be afflicted with a mania for eat
ing babies. He was an eXtraOr-
binary man, of astonishing vigor,
of remarkable talents, of many
engaging qualities, and of pro-
digious industry. He had educa-
ton and social position; he could
earn plenty of money; and the
diligent exercise of his intellectu-
al gifts made him valuable to
society. There was nothing with
in reasonable reach of man of
his profession which he could not
have, but over what should have
been a splendid career hung al
ways the shadow of his remark
able propensity. The precise di-
mansions and particulars of it
were not definitely known to
many persons. A few men who
had a mania like his doubtless
knew absolutely; good many
other men knew well enough;
and there was practically a pub
lie property in the knowledge
that he had, and gratified, canni-
balistic inclinatiOns of much
greater intensity and more curl
Gus scope than those that COM
monty obtained among careless
men. There was an honest preJu-
dice against him. Persons of con-
siderable indulgence to eccentricl-
ties of department disliked to be
in the same room with him. Sen
sitive stomachs instinctively rose
against him. Yet he was tolerated
for, after all, nobody had even
seen him eat a baby.
Substituting Whites particular
and lOathsome mania for that of
"eating babies" the aptness of
the simile becomes very marked.
Then Col. Harvey pays his re-
spects too Thaw thus:
One day another man-quite a
worthless persOn-knocked him
on the head, and let his pitiable
spirit escape from its body. 1t
made a great stir, for the man
who was killed was very widely
known, and his assailant was also
notorious. There followed pro-
fuse discussion of the dead mans
character, qualities, and achieve
ments. His record was assailed,
but it was also warmly extenu-
ated. When it was averred that
he was an ogre, the retOrt was
that he was not a materially
worse ogre than lot of other
men, and that we must take men
as we find them, and make spec
ial allowances for men of talent.
When it was whispered that he
ate babies the answer was that
that was absurd; that whatever
his failings, he was the helpful
est, best-natured man in the
world, and particularly fond of
children and good to them; and
that if he ever did eat babies he
was always careful where he got
them, avoiding the nurseries of
his acquaintance, and selecting
common babies of ordinary stock,
who were born to be eaten, any
way, and would never be missed,
and who, besides, were IN many
cases not as young as they made