Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-11-02
FISH AND GAME LEAGUE
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never will while the men at the
tables jumped TO their feet and APP
plauded,
Judge Fish, the next speaker, tried to
qualify as a sportsman of very humane
and patriotic order, He was particu-
larly ardent In the conservation Of
game, admitting that when he took a
crack at flock Of half dozen ducks he
usually left half dozen TO propagate
for another season. He had had his
first lesson in cunning as pupil Of
Toastmaster Barnes some twenty years
ago, witnessing an exhibition Of hog
killing with rife,
President Thomas likewise made en-
pertaining remarks, and was roundly
applauded when he paid tribute 10 the
league and its objects with which he
had such full sympathy that he desired
TO become a member.
President Patrick reviewed the his
tory Of the state league, and, among
other things, urged that the fish and
game interests be particularly consider
ed at this time in connection with the
food supply, He urged that there
should be state preserves for ducks and
geese
warden Hawkes. Of Bennington took
issue with the Governor as to where
were the best streams in Vermont and
boosted proudly of those Of Bennington
county. He told of his own ideas Of
warden service, and fish and game club
work. In his county he said the club
was particularly anxious TO deal fairly
with cases of treaspass on farmers land
and had a grievance committee which
sought to adjust such disputes, As
warden he had hopes Of doing much in
the education Of the young generation
in respect to the fish and game laws and
told of classes he had organized for this
purpose,
MIR. Stickney was drafted for a genial
word or two, which he cut short to give
the last but principal speaker Of the
evening the right Of way the Hon.
Frank l.. Greene, member of Congress
Mddebury has heard number Of
war speeches of late, but there is no
question that they were all surpassed
by the eloquent Americanism Of Con-
gresham Greene. For more than an
hour and around the midnight hour
he held the sportsmen spellbound with
his patriotic utterances. Time and
again as he carried himself to one eli
max after another, he paused to say
"But that is only rhetoric Howe\ er
overwhelmed he may have felt at the
futility Of words in either winning the
war or in picturing its full significance,
however conscious he may have been
that 1T was only rhetoric, his was
such skillful effort that it rang like
martial music.
Time after time he reused the gath
ering to more vigorous applause than
we had heard at any war meeting here
and when the speaker was on several
occasions about to desist from further
remarks the crowd cheered him to 90
on. He spoke of the industry and re-
sponsbity of the representatives in
in Congress during the past few months,
and tried to depict what he believed
Vermont wanted her representatives at
Washington to do, namely, to thorough
ly consider all propositions, arrive at an
intelligent conclusion and stay put .
Vermont, said he, wanted no pussy
foot politicians seeking to please all
interests. She hated a trimmer She
wanted a man whom she could find next
morning Just where she mad left him
the night before. He told Of hearing
in Congress a flap-doodle speech, after
which neighboring Congressman
asked, Greene, why don you make a
speech like that and have it printed for
your constituents ?'
"Well", replied Mr. Greene The
trouble is a speech like that wouIdn I
do for me. represent people who
can read.
Vermont never did any thing off hand
he continued, once she had put her hand
to the pillow or the sword she came out
IN the eternal sun and did all she set
out to do.
We had, at the outbreak Of the pres
ent war. barely come, said Mr.. Greene,
to anything like full agreement as to
how our great Civil War was actually
fought and the justice of the issues it
decided, but that was only a family
quarrel whose largest battles scarcely
engaged 100, 900 men. Throwing ones
Imagination across the water and pic
turing twenty millions in battle lines
today that string across continents, -
lines of men in which every language
known to the civilized world is spoken,
to picture these lines having already
stood entrenched for three years, and,
to acknowledge ourselves still ignorant
of the true condition of affairs, we
might easily understand, said he, that
all of US will go to our graves without
having anything like "a full conception
of just how this war)began, how it was
conducted or what may come of it
America had awakened to see the
demon of war striding through Europe,
and we realized now that it was "our"
war from the very beginning, but,
thank Heaven, he said, the terrible
crime of involving the world in it could
not be laid at our door.