The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24
Our Legislature
It's our legislature.
Praise the Lord!

Praise the Lord!
1t may display some fearful and
wonderful hair cuts. It's clothes may
smell of the COW barn. There may be
tobacco Juice running down inside It's
whiskers and it's trousers may bag at
the knees. 1t may say oval, l swami!
have dandruff on it's collar, burr IN
its speech and several teeth missing
in the orchestra. But you can't buy
it and YOU can't rush it. You can't
buIldoze it or you can't buffalo it.
You can't borrow it, steal 1t, excite
it, trip it up, or make it stampede.
There's not another legislature like
it in the country.
It's 100 per cent American!
It's our legislature
Twenty-Five months out OF the
twenty-four it sets hens, haws the OIL
horse, and pulls cows teats for a hv-
ing. It spends its summer evenings
fishing for full pout down by the
dam or sitting with neighbor in the
dusky shadows of the front piazza
splitting with long syruppy swishes in
to the lilac bushes. 1t spends its
winter evenings mending the harness
OF feeding green birch wood into the
kitchen stove, while it reads the
county weekly with it's shoes off. 1t
makes last years suit do for another
season so that Ruth, the eldest
daughter can blossom forth in white
muslin and a few do-dabs for the
Annual Home Coming dance down to
the Center and it drives to meeting
Sunday morning and looks more
kindly on the crime Of rape than up
on the crime of not paying its bills
1t doesn't dicker nor spar for the
price of it's immortal soul and it gives
its boys cheerfully to the flag when
the need arises.
It's a legislature to be proud of
It doesn't stand for monkeydoodle
and clap-trap. 1t comes through
. clean!
The bright city boys who want
things, breeze in occasionally, cast al
antiseptic glass eye over it and kie
themselves that they can run of
: with the State House doors.
, The oily Corporation boys sluic'
. and sitter around and hand ou
pleasant hints and bum cigars tina
/ Our Legislature takes in fingers like
hams and smokes at weird angles.
A certain percentage of the ladie
God Bless EN- !-look on and ge
disappointed, and feel certain-posi
tive that the country is going to tn
dogs.
: But the Bright City chaps and tn
: Oily Corporation Boys and even tn
$ ladies-God Bless 'Em!-go home at
e ter a while sure they know what i
!. implied by an immovable object hi
n by an unstoppable force and some
thing slipped US somewhere. Tn
: legislature adjourns with a fai
v amount of good laws to it's credit an
not more than the usual number @
n near murders and a pleasant time
" had by ALL
i We wouldn't swap it for any othe
# legislature we've yet seen in Americ
and we reckon we've seen a lot.
II Because there's no other legislator
; exactly like it
&c It's honest and human and take
itself seriously.
Which says everything.
- It's the legislature which doesn
~ take itself seriously that breed tt
g Bolsheviki-outside.
We're strong for the Vermont lie,
= islature. As the small boy said: "N
VI love every bat in it's belfry." Whie
Il may or may not be making light
: sacred things but anyhow, it expires
III es the idea and after all VIII
er constitutes language?
The boys at the press table m,
ny wear the Bored Man of the Wor
10 look and feel like sliding under t
o. table when some rising young state
cy man, corn fed and greasy with b
ot- con, rises in his place and an eigl
1t dollar suit and tries to rock Nj
lily Justice atop the gilded dome with
OF speech which listens like Daniel We
he ster with the blind staggers. But
know he's only playing to the lit
lot wife with the fried-egg hat in the g
ed lery who is certainly sure he's j,
on perfectly going to be President
MS fore his Career ceases and we f
give him because once our wives
of the same way about it Intensely
of We forgive him his transgressions
ov- the name of the American eagl
an tail-feathers and the Life q
md Speeches of Chauncey M, DepeW 2