The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-02-22
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
(Hardwick Gazette

man went to Montpelier with
thirty thousand dollars. He sold
the Pavilion hotel few weeks ago
for sixty thousand, his electric
power plant few days ago for
three hundred and fifty thousand,
and now retires with a fortune of
five hundred thousand. That's
! not bad.
(MOrrisville Messenger
Somewhere in the law supple
ment that only a few people ex-
pert in deciphering freak post
cards and the Lords Prayer writ
ten on collar buttons have been
able to read, expectoratiOn on
sidewalks or in public buildings
is forbidden under an expensive
fine penalty. The law went into
effect, Feb. 1, and by way of COM
ment the st. Johnsbury Caledoni-
an says that ga man who expecto-
rates on the sidewalk, now, not
only violates the law but cannot
expect to rate as gentleman"
AS to our own opinion, we are
inclined to think that the courts
would deal as leniently as they
could with offenders who forget
fully expectorate into six inches
of new snow on the MOrrisville
sidewalks before the plows are
put into commission, say along
about the middle of the forenoon.
(RandOlph Herald and News
That suit of the minority stock
holders of the Rutland Herald
against P. w. Clement to force an
accounting promises to stir the
dry bones. 1t has not been gen
orally known that all these years
during which the Herald, as Mr.
Clements personal organ, has
been driving it hard into the Proc
tors, Senator Proctor has held
quite a block of Herald stock,
taken many years ago, and that
Clement owned only a bare 81
per cent, or merely a controlling
interest. But whatever may be
thought or said of the proprieties
under such conditions, the charges
now brought against the Clement
management, affecting the pecuni
airy interests of the shareholders,
are of a different nature. Pee
judgment is unWarranted, but if
it should be proven that Clement
has circulated thousands of Her
aids to promote his political
prospects without making ade-
quate payment therefor to the
company, and has used office
quarters paid for by the assOcia-
ton for purposes other than
those of the concern, how does
such conduct comport with the
disciple of anti-graft that the
state has heard from so much?
And how does a refusal to let the
stockholders see the books of the
association become him who pried
the lock off the state auditors
door so that the humblest indi-
vidual taxpayer might at will ex-
anime the accounts and vouchers
of the state?
(Northfield News.)
The Jericho Press gets after the
Essex Record for preaching high
temperance morals and continual
ly carries advertisements telling
the tOpers where the deadly stuff
can be purchased, at extremely
low prices. This is one class of
advertising that is debarred from
the columns of this paper
Waterbury Record.
The genial Waterbury neighbor
must have overlooked q large ad-
vertisement of-''pure malt wills
key" on another page of the same
issue containing the above para
graph. The News debars liquor
advertisements from its columns,
and refused the advertisement
which apears in the Record. The
probable reason IN tnlS instance
that of two newspapers which de-
bar liquor advertisements, one ac
cepted the advertisement mention
ed and the other refused it, is
that the agent had better luck in
persuading the former that his
whiskey was solely for medicine
Just when whiskey is a medicine
and when it is a beverage may be
a pretty fine point, and one not
considered in a majority of cases
where a person sends dollar for
a quart in answer to a newspaper
advertisement.
HAWAII'S LESSON TO HEAD
STRONG CALIFORNIA.