The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-07-27
OBJECTS TO Fits
Thinks the Office Of Attorney General
Not Needed.

Editor OF the Banner:-In your
editorial column OF July Is you pub
llshed an article from the Rutland
Herald in regard to the Office Of At
torney General. OF coure we must
admit the writer used rather force
full language, but were not the charges
made practically true? / admit your
ability in defending Mr.. Fits and ad-
mire your fairness in allowing people
a chance to express their views on
public questions Of such concern to
us. | claim to be law abiding citi-
zen and II the combined wisdom" OF
the state deemed It necessary to Gre
ate the office of encouragement well
and good, but, If | consider 1t sup
erlluous ought not | have a right to
say SO? AS to the specific charges
against Mr.. Fits | have nothing to
say for | always wish to consider
both sides OF question and then
make allowances for sentiment and
difference In the view point. MY
friend Hapgood from Peru set some
of us thinking a few years ago when
he advised us to repeal many of our
laws, and TO enact fewer each SEES.
sion of the legislature. have no
way Of ascertaining but | would like
to know how many new Offices have
been created and how many commits.
sions have been appointed In, say the
last ten years, and the amount OF
money required yearly to pay the
bills in consequence. Now you are a
fairminded man. DO you think the
tax payers Of this state have any
idea what we are doing in this re-
spect DO you think we could possib-
ly wiggle along without an attorney
general, without county road commits
sioners fourteen OF them drawing
three dollars per day.. without ex-
pert supervision of schools and quite
a number of other items OF similar
nature which we. the people of the
state, have to earn. The capitalists
Of the state don't as a rule pay our
taxes, you may possibly recollect.
| wish you would ask County Clerk
Stakeholder the expenses of the
trial of the "Mahan case" You sug-
gest that the attorney-general fit
around and over the state wherever
"A case of much Importance was to be
tried. IL seems to me that the twelve
men sitting as jury are competent
to meter out justice to a criminal If
the evidence is presented by a com
mon states attorney. If ! had com
mitted crime ! should fear the YER
dict of jury who had been given
the facts by truthful witnesses more
than | should an argument by a law
yer.
am OF the opinion myself that
most OF the places are given TO pets
or what ! mean is, the projectors of
the bill had a candidate in view be
fore the bill was introduced. Because
the majority of our citizens are in.
different and take little interest in
such matters is the reason why we
are oyerrun by a senseless and I'M
reasonable legislation. We have
more laws now than we can enforce.
IL would be just as well to repeal
the sport trout" law, the "antiex-
pectorating' law the "antispeeding'
law of automobiles, the law against
using bicycles on sidewalks, the
licensing of dogs" and many other
acts as they are prac ically useless
and ii we could have a few practical
questions considered and acted upon
1t would be a blessing for instance.
double taxation there will be a re-
port of a commission on that subject !
expect allowing women to vote on all
questions Several of the measures
OF equal importance and repeating
scores of laws now in operation be-
cause the needs of our people do call
for them for the reason that they are
out of date
Eber i. Taylor,
Manchester Depot, Vt, July %, 0S.