Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-12-10
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fFrom the Rrattleboro Reformer.1

Montpelier, Dec. 8.
OF all the leisurely. easy-going, care
free and independent collections OF reu-
benescent law-tinkers Vermont ever saw
gathered together under one r0oi--or
tent. the present Senate and House Of
Representatives Il entitled to 72-point
type on the program and the star dress
ing room
II is hard to say whether these pis-eyed
sernphs Of legislative wisdom and virtue
can be classified Is animals or vegeta bles.
Some Of them eat and drink and show
symptoms Of reason. Others merely ex-
pand and absorb nourisLment- A few
seem 70 have the typical thick aud she'll
like process surrounding their brains and
finer nerves, together with the lack OF 3
spinal column, which would classify
them a. molluscs. few have growths
Of trailing moss upon their features,
while others merely sport stiff, upstand-
ing grass-like formations that seem some
time to have been green and probably at
for food. All have been trained to come
at the sound OF bell and 60 through the
motions OF legislation with an instinct
that is often suggestive Of hplQan intelli-
Rence.
All through recess this smiling galaxy
Of slow performers was solemnly lectured
BY the state press and handed . revised
list of attractions which were supposed to
be pulled on before Christmas. They
came back from the bosoms Of their faIni-
lies and the affairs Of their town gods and
gave loud yslps of glee as they confronted
the trihing task OF dispoaing OF some 500
odd bills, participating in seven or eight
big debates, holding q lot Of public hear
ings, unlimited committee meetings and
1 ing before Christmas with their little s96
tucked away in q vest pocket and heart
at peace with the world. (Having drawn
$500, they keep thinking Of the extreme
sum which they may be expected to
ssearn. ~ suppose must use the word
before they finally quit the states pay
roll-)
The first week is practically finished
and what have they donef Press the o
key of your Underwood with the Cap
shift, lit the carriage and read the an
swer.
Clarke Fits. he says the most impor-
! tant measure that has been passed or will
be passed this session has been sent down
the line, H. $50, which allows a town,
village or school district to recover dam
ages II taxpayer lies about his list and
! they catch him ct il. II be dies uncon-
secret Of his life. then the claim will lie
against his estate and the statute OF limi-
tstions won't hold. It Is quite husky
young law.
Then Frank Williams, be thinks those
] court procedure bills, H. 249, H. 25S, H.
r 81. are certainly the real pazaz, as they
e viii restore masters and referees and Jig
e gle up little old Miss Justice so she will
n have TO wear rubber heels to sterilize the
y vibrations from her swift flight.
n Il would be pecans to enumerate the
e things that have been done that ~hadn'i
' oughter." The doe bill. one of the mosi
e damnable bits Of deliberate cruelty evel
p psrpetrated BY . bunch Of slant-bFowed
3 COW chambermaids in this or any othei
sovereign state. has been passed BY botk
houses and signed BY the governor. Il
means that the gentle, timid mothers o
, our deer-kind, those beautiful types o.
v arcadian innocence and beauty, will be a
+ the mercy Of any sport or farmer who car
v scare mp rife and impose his carcass OF
! the landscape Is q deer hunter next sea
= son. II means that the gentle-mindeS
II hired man, who viii feed does and fawn
ls in the barnyard this winter-'cause it,
e going to be q hard one-can mark dowI
D the plumpest, keep Il tame all summer
1t as hundreds of them are already, then, il
the holy name OF sport, 60 out next fal
ID and lay the lovely creature quivering IN
is der bis feet.
ss Oh, it's such manly, such noble Is
8 pirationl The fat-faced and eock-eyeI
be enthusiasm that such bloody lust mus
Of inspirei The noble Joy of seeing a doe
re the very emblem of helpless weakness. "
le pical Of tender trust in the stronger ami
70 NAL. dead under the hand that has fed II
= -. 4
rs wretches, who make war on women. VIII
beat their wives, who lash little childrel
OF until the blood runs, who torture an
Of abuse beasts. (Tuti Clarice, that Is
ut perfectly legitimate TRADE
N Every newspaper Ia the state ought {
81 begin 4 crusade against these welterin
i'd and bloody-minded doe-killers. The frs
man that brings in q doe ought to b
90 blacklisted by al. decent sportsmen, hi
er name ought 70 head the list Of dee
Mt 'thuniers" as q cad, and the contemr
il and execration Of all lovers Of our viii
in animals ought to be directed toward him
Oh IL. instead of treating these rufians q
'es sportsmen, every editor in the stat
e. should begin to show them up Is tn
all cowardly, hulking brntes they are,
nd would be mighty few does that would b
brought In or hung in the shambles.
nj the doe bill even il Handsome Bert Prof
en- ty didn't have the nerve.
ed Then the Senate killed the bill exemp
nd ing from trustee process and deliberatel
ng repudiated one Of the specific pledges
nd the Republican platform. The process B
en- which it arrived at this remarkable stat
OF mind, or rather at the iop-sided menti
ay inertness which it regards as decision
I've are so involved that / wouldn't unde
ose take to unravel them. In fact,
nd shouldn't really refer to the Senate
he mind; 1t hasn't any. now that Gibson hi
an been sent home to his domestic pes
bid house. A few senators may own an ind
i've vidual mind, but collectively they mere
secrete kind OF ieIlified consciousness,
,us sort Of unvitalized protoplasm. In tim
Nd = stray seed might fall into this quiverir
nd and gelatinous mass and take root, but
ad- would be in the dim and previsionary 4