The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-22
RECKLESS AUTO C'RIvERs
Not Enough Responsibility Is Placed
on Chauffeurs

Editor of The Banner admit
every word of your editorial in The
Banner of July Is, but do not concur
in some of the comments made in re-
gard to the auto accidents that hap
pened in Rupert within few days.
The idea that the drivers of those
machines were in no way responsible
for the deaths caused does not show
very goor sense and are against
all established principles of Justice
We arrest men for simple drunk, and
fine them smartly, and for killing two
or three short trout we sock II to
em" but if "a reckless or drunken au-
to driver kills a woman, a little girl
or anything OF that nature, you pub
fishers will print the most pathetic ac
counts of how sorry the chauffeurs
are that the dead were so reckless
as to get in the way.
Now, give us who realize in some
measure the value of a child's life, or
even hired girl. You fathers and
mothers, who are blessed with a lit
tie brood, whether it be six or twelve
will you set a price on any one of
them? Just say what you will take
for anyone of them. You marshall
them out in the highway (and you
have Just as good right to be in the
highway as any five thousand-dollar
car owned by prince as he hast
and run the chances of one of them
being killed before your face.
You can go and bring your dead
child into the house. People will tell
you, You have enough left Let
me cell you, when we cease to value
child life we are steering towards
hea;hendom.
Within the past week | saw Two
Young men go back and forth past
my place twice, going faster, should
Judge, than forty-fve miles an hour,
the whole length of the street. W
child, man or team could have gotten
out of the way. Some of our doctors
will dive just rs leCklessly. Peo2,e
excuse them by saying they are ply
sicians and may have had a hurry
cali nill some one in trying TO set
20 another who MAJ not be so very
had.
understand perfectly well why
such accounts of these accidents ara
touched up with cO;Cr, which is no
ticcaiie Ia every Cae of them Any
cri.a nal %lll try tc Ckade punishment
bat anw courts CIR sanction suCa dt-
incs q beyond m. oomprehel iior.
Your suggestion that some chauffcurs
should 20 trusted " t.. nothing More
dangerous than a s,jlc boat" Is good
IN! certain ones @t.uld be OF nore
use TO humanity if they were set to
treakIg rocks.
hope to see the aspirants ID the
Office OF governor las ermont in tho
declaration of principles make es-
pecial mention of the need of the leg
islatme to pass st; ingent laws gov
e-n'ng this subject, lad also hope the
voters will see to it that the men.
WHOM we Scuu 10 Mohtpelici, Sldii w
men who are in favor of letting Us,
who pay for our highways have the
use of them instead of being practi-
cally forbidden their use. do not
hold your municipal judge in con
tempt, but it certainly is surprising
that a Judge should make such a rul-
ing. that little Jane Danfo-th was
only to blame for her death.
The Blessings, who have no chill
dren, according to the newspaper ae-
counts, we're greatly shocked but
the parents of the little girl are sup
posed to be reconciled because they
have othe, children. That is the fiat !
est kind of "gush" persons who talk
that kind of rot have no more human
feelings than rabbits.
Yours truly,
Eber l.. Taylor
Depot, VT, July is, 1914.