The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-07-23
HOW LONG -
A Manchester Taxpayer Gives His
Views on Several Matters

Editor Manchester Journal,
Dear Sir Yes, mean how lonl
are we to submit TO this recklessnes
in auto driving. A young woman
killed in Rupert Sunday and a littl'
girl killed near the same place Mon
day? Are our officials incompetent
and unfit TO hold positions of resopn
sibility giving us protection agains
the brutes who will ride down chill
dren to death, then not stop to ever
see what damage they have done
We are paying good money to have
our highways in condition to use. Are
we to be killed il we happen to be in
the track Of a chauffeur who is in q
hurry to reach a given point on time
Right in our villages autos are run as
fast as railroad trains ordinarily go
A gentleman told me yesterday of q
run Of forty-one miles in an hour on q
very good road at that.
When one Of the family go for a
drive we almost expect to have them
brought back killed or disabled. Mr.
official, it may be your wife or daugh-
ter, or hired girl, next time. Would
anyone blame Charley Danforth if he
should cry "blood for blood !"
Autos are driven past my place
faster than most of the trains go over
the same section for the half mile.
don't know as all chauffeurs are
drinking men but what can one infer
from their actions?
In an article written by gentleman
living in western state, he says:
my son, who is fourteen years old,
never saw drunken man." Why
here in Manchester our babies see
dozens Of them every week Men and
boys ride the sidewalks; lead horses
along the marble walks; beer by the
two o-horse load and tons of boxes come
by express of liquors to be used right
in our own beautiful town of Man
chester.
Just for curiosity ! looked in our
town report and we find that the sum
of eleven dollars was received in fines
for the year 1913. Oughtn't we to get
more money than that out of so much
fun !
| think remedy for reckless auto
would be in cases like these
two last accidents in Rupert to take
away their licenses, fine them $1,000
and commit them to stae's prison for
four years. / believe such medicine
would be blessing and | should be
glad to see it administered. There is
no use to gable about keeping out
of the road then if you don't want to
get run over" That is all poppy-cock.
If person is guilty of manslaughter
let him pay the penalty.
Yours truly,
EBER L TAYLOR.
Depot, VT, July Ia, 1914.
The above was written by good
citizen Of Manchester, but it goes to
show how far from facts person will
get when they write in haste, and sit
in judgment while the affair is still
hot.
Neither of the men ran away after
the accidents mentioned, but did all
that men could do in like circum-
stances.
1t is foolish to think that a man
would deliberately run down a child. |
The highways are not for Fairgrounds
for our children and if the children
insist in making main travelled high
ways their Fairgrounds when there is
plenty of room in their own yards for
them it would seem to us, that it was
up to the parents to see that they |
we're kept off. II moral suasion won't |
10 it try a good old fashioned way Of |
such cases.
So far as the matter of intoxicants
and intoxication is concerned it would
seem as if the man who sees all that
he correspondent says he sees going
IN in his own neighborhood and failed
o make complaint was neglecting a
grand opportunity EDITOR.