The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-11-21
THE BENNINGTON BANNER TUESDAY NOVEMBER I'll .o22

and approaching ibis legislative duties
by "main strength and ignorance"
There are number of people who
know just as much about public bust
ness as the men and women elected
to act for the wisdom and virtue OF
the whole commonwealth. Rutland
Herald
The fact of the matter Is that In
theory We are nearly all ideallsts but
IN practice most Of us are casualists
and accldentalIsts as the Herald
calls us. Representative government,
although the best form eof govern
ment that The world has yet devised,
IL Il long way from perfect. Too Of
ten II Is too truly representative.
We send TO the Legislature represent
ativos or our own Incompetence just
about ~ often as SEE send from the
several towns representatives OK the
higher grades Of Judgment and unset
6shnpss. At is 20 rare MS to he prac-
cally accidental that any consider.
able number Of or Vermont towns
send to Montpelier their best and
wiges mca. The fault & fuzzy as
much with the minimizing machinery
a. With that Of the e.ectlon In this
state and in this country mostly we
nave no way OF irving into Office
the men whom majority OF the yot.
ers would like to sec e.ccted. The
best we can do Is to choose as wise
ly us may be between those who
come forward to seek the office.
This however, Is another proof OF
the fact that our government Is pre-
elsely what we make IT,
Anglo Saxon government, with AL
It's faults, has been far and away the
best that the world has yet produced
and wc people OF America inherit
largely from our British forbears.
History shows though That the best
Of governments are not. az rule
long sustained By the people them.
se.vcs.
Oliver Cromwell, in SPITE OF some
OF the excuses OF his earlier career,
gave England. following tho cxeeu.
ton Of Charles |, a bette: government;
than the country had ever had before,
lyet the pee ple OF England in sheer
sloth and wilM ness brought back
the Stuarts, With all Their weakness,
tyranny and excesscs.
Following the accession Of the
House CT Hanover, after the death OF
Queen Anne, Robert Walpo'e and the
Wing party. governed England for
thirty years. kent the country out OF
war, gave the people relig' Gus free
dom reduced tho public debt. rnt
taxation in hall and brought prosp.r!.
~ to the nation. Yet the English
people soon becamt dissatisfied AMI
finally forced Walpole from OFF &c,
plunged the country into Disgrace
and defeat In. oauseloss and frnltless
foreign wars. quadruplsd Their own
debt and taxation and brought dis
tress and famine to the nation ~
Il Vermont Oh November I had
elected from each and every town III
hest and S&isest citizen We doubt
whether the foks al home would give
them cordial and united backing III
genuine progress and reform.
The. Herald Is a rttle inclined TO
resent the fact, proved regularly once
in two years. that the legislature OF
Vermont will moi take orders from
the Herald. This may be unwse on
the part of the several leg sldtnres
hat il is an established precedent. y
Nor do We think that the members,
EJECT should go around gobblng up
the big chunks OF advice that are
thrown before tlTem. Too much of II
is entirely indigestble, particularly
n the form in which II comes. II Is
hest to be at least discriminating.
Somewhere in The prayer-hook
There Is the statement AS He spake
by the mouth of His holy prophets
which have been since the world
began. that we should be saved from
our enemies and from the hand of ALI
that hate us" The whole lesson of
advance and recession OF ciyilizatio1i
IL taught In that sentence.