Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-12-22
ADVICE TO LEGISLATORS
"A Common Citizen" Urges Them to Be Wary of Wolf
Who Stimulates Sheep-Don't Change
Statutes Blndy.
Advice to new members of the legisla-

Advice to new members of the legsla-
ture:
Don't get all fused up and have nery-
GUS prOStratl0n thinking over the big re-
forms you expect to inaugurate when you
arrive at the capitol. When you get there
you'll find you amount to about as mucn
as flea on the well populated carcass
of hound dog. You may agltate the
cuss so he'll take an extra jump, but
neither of you nor anybody else can tell
where he'll finally land.
Ii you've got a well deserved local rep
utatlOn as a slick "hOss' trader you'll
probably get along first rate with some
of the politicians, for "swoppin bosses"
is their big stunt. If you can swop with
them so as to gain in the long run almost
as much as you lose, you II soon be
hailed as a. real political wise guy.
mentals of a political career. but now
that the automobile has changed the
horse shed to a garage you need to watch
out or you'll get political asphyXiation
trying to run the old machine with the
doors closed. TIMES have changed bit,
you'll find.
The trouble with the state as with
some humans, is that it has a champagne
appetite and only beer income. Either
the appetite must be carefully restrained
or the income will have to be increased,
which means reducing, by taxation, the
wage of the laborers, the great mass of
the people who support the state. and q
careful study of recent strikes will soon
convince you how kindly the laborer
takes to reduction in his wage,
especially when it has already been re
duced about to the limit Don't crowd
the government-supporting population too
far or another big strike may result. Tax
alton, like death, is one of the things we
all expect to experience, but too much
is too much by sight, as the MINIS
ter told his Pensioners after the benefit
pound party to which each of 491 kind
friends had contributed a pound of rice.
The closer you stand to thing the
obscured. Because big Appropriation
of the states money will benefit your
own town of Skeedunk is no sign for the
state as whole. A grain of sand IN your
eye seems like a big thing to you, but
the neighborhood as whole will be mucn
more animated by and interested in the
birth of triplets at John Smiths or the
poster on the town hall announcing the
| coming of town show. Get the compre-
! hensve statewide view of things.
Because YOU are farmer or a manu-
| facturer or a merchant don't blindly. sup
port every measure alleged to be bene-
! fetal TO YOUR particular class and turn
down without intelligent consideration all
! other measures. 1t is said that some
times wolf assumes the general appear
ance of sheep when he gets hungry
enough Likewise special interests have
been known to howl loudly, in favor OF
measures that they say would hasten the
millennium for farmers. or merchants OF
whatever class they wish to. capture pc
lit;collv After "the deed is did, they
t H1pr"'t crawl around with the saliva o.
greed dripnng from their hungry Jaw
and saw kindly scratch my poor back
Remember that I scratched yours th'
other day when it itchNd.' And whel
YOU stoop to the disgusting task you are