The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-07-20
A Public Nuisance.

We reier'-we more than refer We
point TO, We ihculpate, cite and arraign
Richmond Pearson Hobson as publ,
nuisance who fails to be menace "a
public peace solely because the sensible
American people, startled at first BY
his positive assurances OF what hc
"knowsn with not take himseriously
he has been going over the country
preaching an unholy war, slandeFing a
peaeable nation, swinging Bellona's
torch and mounting the abuses OF shin.
ei or Thersites. Ne IS a public nuisance
and a national disgrace.
We have had him first prancing and
dancing over the country, ridiculous as
the most bekissed Of martial heroes,
hut Of late as the panopolied apostle
of militant peace, making new cam.
paigu around the Chautauquas and the
\. n. and Y. w. G. As OF the land,
no longer as le baiseur, ringed with
lovelocks, but changed to a frenzied god.
kin Of battle, flying over eur peaceful
heavens. swinging the red thunderbolts
OF battle, and his head horrent with
spired serpcnts, splitting flame and shak-
ing pestilence and war. War! war;"
has been his strident cry, till We could
think that the three Fates, and the
three Furies, and the,ethree Gorgons,
and nine devils, and the dreaded name
Of Dcmogorgon. were in bis train. We
had hoped that the stout shaft OF our
correspondent, DR.. J. II. DeForest's logic
might have qucuehed his madness, as II
has given confidence TO all intelligent
people, but he has steered his fight
westward and found resting for unhless-
Cd feet at Denver, and there, 70 the
makers OF the Democratic platform for
a full hour and a quarter, he pruphesied
and threatened war. declared il was com.
ing from Japan within four short years,
declared that already Japan hs huge
army Of trained soldiers in Hawaii.
that on the Pacific coast there were
as many who are practising the military
art in shooting galleries, that the ~.
ippines will be as easily suatched from
us as will Hawaii, and that then ter
ribe Japan will rule ocean and continent
as far as the Rocky mountains, while
We. poor fools unprepared, our ships
blown up, our harbors captured. our
coasts ravaged, will be driven back to
the Mississippi OF the Atlantic to be.
moan our deafness in not listening 10
this modern Tiresias OF Greensboro. Ala
The committee on platform listened
to him with open.mouthed wonder
Some believed and some doubted lie
begged them to put in an iron-elad
plank for a big navy. The next day
he was called to the platform to ed
dress the convention and the galleries
lie began to repeat his weil.worn tale
of terror, but this time they were not
impressed When he looked to curdIe
their blood. telling them that not so
very long ago the president Of the
United States said in my presence,
There exists the greatest possibility Of
a war with Japan, the disrespectful
audience called out. Come OF Rot"
You're crazy and he had TO subside.
Then the chairman. Mr.. Bell, said. The
chair halls from the Pacific coast and
UP to the present moment be has seen
no occasion to enlist and the people
roared with laughter. The next day
President Roosevelt elected him an &C
tive member Of the Ananias club. j
Congressman Hohson is ridiculous, but
his campaign Of SANDER and war is no
laughing matter. He has been support
ed by lyeeums and associations that /
have the curiosity to see and hear the
man who scuttled coal ship and was
70 cultivate kissing bees. He .
be has the gift OF speech and he has one
obsession. There are people 1
enough in Alabama to believe his insan. !
Ity is not obvious enough 10 require 1
in an asylum, but they /
thought he would yield to the constraint /
required of a new member in the CAPT. |
toll He has escaped, he il rabid, foam
ing and frothing, his tumult and wrath
in; he is a nuisance.
When Wall Dad
His sire was leaky Of tongue and pen,
His dam was CLICKING, Khuttuck
hem
,aried his curse Of an unstanched speech
% the Red Chief Gholam Hyder. at
,abul, and told him the army OF the
Russ was coming, then the king smiled a
smile as dark as death, and babe the
1abbling mischief maker climb peach
rec and shout when the Russians came,
md stay there till they came:
The Russ is upon US the elamor ran;
Surely an hour shall bring their van
Wait and watch
md twenty bayonets ringed the tree to
atch him if he fell. But that was in
jabul, and the kings Jest behtted the
'lden days, We cannot so utilize one Of
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