Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-08

will alter. Our rulers win become cor ruRot, our people careless. It can. never be too often repeated that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis IS while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united. From the conclusion of this war (the Revolution) we shall be going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be for gotten, therefore, and their rights dis regarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money"
 Photography was unknown in T. Jef- ferson's time. But could any modern camera print out a sharper outlined pie ] ture Of America in this twentieth cen
 tury than that?
 One moro quotation and I'm through
 on that line. Here is a little reminis-
 cence, written by Jefferson in his later
 years, which tells something I'm sure a
 good many of us never knew, and
 points a moral certainly as applicable
 to the congress of 1922 as tO that of 1900:
 II served with General Washington :r , the legislature Of Virginia. before the ! Revolution. and, during it, with Dr
 Franklin in congress. I never heard
 
 time, nor to any but the main poin , which was to decide the question. | t the present congress errs in too mucl |. talking, how can it be otherwise ln z 6 body to which the people send on . hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trad : is to question everything, yield noth l ing, and talk by the hour? That on h hundred and fifty lawyers should l = business together ought not to be ex l, pected."
 r: Tho three men probably most inf1u t ential in founding our government an ' starting it off on it's test trip, wec / Washington and Franklin, to whom. J4t P. ferson refers in this manner, and Jei D ferson himself. He doesn't say wha @ his own habits in oratory were, bu 2 from the fact that he manfescfy q It mires the directness and brevity of h b- two compeers, it may be assumed ths h he wasn't given to long-Windednes a himself
 n What would he have said, dye s'pos l. to the endless exhalations and erul e tions of verbosity poured forth by suc g windjammers as LaFollette and Bora 70 and Reed, ct al? What would he hay is thought of a Congressional Record ru C. ming into millions of words and fillir s. huge quartos for each session: Ot n, Record which is crammed from til T. page to finis with an interminable flo, ,h of talkee-talkee, and only sparsely dc ad ted, here and there, with an occasion
 oasis of accomplishment? so Come, now, yOungster with your e b. aggerated admiration for the prese re as contrasted with the past. do V en really think the present congress ge Washington is an improvement ov r. hot VI.
 were never heard to speak so much Ter ten minutes at time?" And tn Tt, only to the main point?
 be We have surely gone a long TO ry since Jeffersons day. Whether it f nd always been the right road, or even t we best road in an emergency, may be su ms ject for differing opinion. The thi
 that impresses me, as I read u IIy statesman's words, is the shrewd co Lp- mon sense with which he read the it. ture from the past and his outspok, of ness in setting forth the way We W, ten going.
 ing l have quoted just three instances for might quote three score, had SH' ob- and sufficient confidence in your us- tience.
 tn- Of course, we farmers can't help tes be specially interested in the first q nse tation, that one about the relations
 an agricultural people and those of ms city dwelling people to their gove cen ment. We talked about it some we the ago, you'll remember. At that tim, as had the feeling that some of you wo ore regard me as reactionary if not re; 1ist old-fogyish. Now, I'm somewhat
 couraged and a bit stuck-up to find t ex- Thomas Jefferson long ago held V a-yl much the same idea. That idea is,
 put it in plain words, that the stahi ter, of our institutions and the permane