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eeive letters for publication. from its
readers, under the above heading. A
brief and to-the-point communication,
as a general proposition. carries more
weight and conviction than a lengthy
one in which the argument is not
concentrated We do most emphatic-
ally suggest brevity. Long-winded ar-
ticles. we have observed. are the last
to be read. and are many times avoid-
ed altogether.
MR. WORDEN REPLIES T0. MR.
VOIGT. .
To the Editor of the Sentinel:
I see by the reply of the president
of the South Norwalk Socialist party.
which numbers sixty-seven, according
to the vote of the last October elec-
tion, on January 10th, to my last let-
ter in The Sentinel. of December 22d,
1911, he accuses me of "lots of abuse
and false statements and no facts."
it is vcry evident that they still stick
to their imaginary lens. for the abuse
has been all On their part. As far
as facts are concerned 1 will put up
one hundred dollars as a forfeit. if
Mr. Volnl wishes to match it, that
what i have said has been from the
best authority obtainable and they
cannot refuse one of the narrow-mind-
ed statements either. They are state»
ments and facts that they do not like
, strongly in favor of stopping the
Illumination and poisoning of Con-
ectlcut waters. but he. makes people
Lap and take notlre when he do
claret; that. Connecticut must keep her
‘oysters at .home and cut them it they
no to be eaten. The logic seems
billable; it is like saying: “You insist!
ththour oysters are healthy, then
eat them yourselves." There is no
newer to the logic of that if it is
nee admitted that Connecticut oys-
l‘s are dangerously contaminated. As
"to this we have understood that a
tee Part of the Connecticut oysters
are grown in deep water which can
’ihardly be dangerously contaminated.
land that most of these oysters. if iat-
ned. are iattencd in water that is
not dangerous it is also understood
that a good many (‘onnectlcut oysters
are eaten in pcniiecticut at present. i
, If these things are so it may not
be true that restraining the sale of
ecticut oysters will lead so
ptly and directly to the purified
of the streams and of Long island
(lurid as Dr. Vi iley imagines.
. y all means purify the streams and
: top the dischmge of sewage into the
' and. liut do not imagine that a few
‘ys'lers more or less will change at
once the strong opposition to radical
. tfiorm of the disposal of sewage. 'l‘hut
ought to come and will come, but this
rticular form of compulsion may
play rather than advance the change.
A COINCIDENCE.
(Cleveland Loader.)
{Lincoln‘s birthday is the birthday
of'the new era in China. it maynot
be the day the leaders of the Chinese
volation will celebrate. The Fourth
July is by no means the time the
“h government acknowledged the
pendence of the American colon»
'But in the estimation of the
the day the Manchu dynasty
ped‘down and out will be the day
" Writs the beginning of the
' 'och in China. ' .
the twelfth day of February he
s doubly dedicated to liberty. It
out far more conspicuously
before as a day sacred to‘ the
pic that no race or nationality
rightfully hold another race or
J lity in subjugation for the
slit and profit of the rulers. And
another powerful impetus is given
the cause of selfigovernment in
a bright omen for the hundreds
‘ of Asiatlcs who live under
0, but it will not please Eng-
Russia. There may be a
birthday for. India. before
dos. and ultimately~ such a
mi ‘regions in Asia which
‘ shadow of the czar's eagles.
W.
Wait- OF THE quAL.
'3 so practiced as the ideal.
is, tho-basis ofitiie practical.
, of" the practical, the
“ practical. The ideal
' to hear.
'ty." Such a statement is
Now Mr. Volgt, you say it
low facts and less words. Either put
up——or shut up. lie Bill‘s, “Will Hill'-
one believe that calling the members
of a political party a bunch of sore.
heads, etc, is not attaching that par-
false in
the extreme.
in the Sentinel of October 30th.
1911., in my letter in which i took on
ceptions to Dr. Chancellor teaching
politics in or using the entire public
school the best part of'n week as an
electoral college. 1 said the proper
method Would be to educate the chil-
dren ill municipal affairs so they may
be enabled to vote intelligently. If
thehistory of the country was lnstiiv
led into their minds the different ad.
ministrations, their various policies
and the results of their operations.
etc, they would be able to determine
whether the country would be safer
in the hands of the present adminis-
tration under its present policies and
principles, or better to adopt an anar-
dcr the rule of a new party led by the
sore heads of the defeated. dissatisv
fled candidates of the now existing
parties and policies.
1 referred to the sorohcsds of the
old line parties and did not say one
word about the Socialist party. He
says i said that their writings are dic-
tated by one who is an educational uu~
thority. I don't think I said so. if i
did i was greatly mistaken, for they
don't show it. lie says they have
been written in the presence of a num-
ber of disinterested persons. That
seems reasonable, I don't see how
they could be greatly interested in
such trash. it shows that they must
have thought them to bdmasterpieces
of oratory, to have had a convention
or conference to have made sugges-
tions to one another in order to frame
them int words‘for publication.
He says that I must have a grudge
against Dr. Chancellor for some reas
on or other. He is greatly mistaken
l have nothing against Dr Chancel-
lor; don‘t even know him to speak
with; have never criticised his per-
sonal or private life, but have a per-
fect right to criticize any man's pub
lic doings if they are not in keeping
with his profession or position. i did
take exception to him teaching poli-
~tics in the public schools. it isn’t
what he is hired to do. Thetown of
Norwaik doesn't pay him‘twelve doi-
liars and fifty cents a day to dabble in
politics. either in school or out but
to give the children sufficient instruc-
will enable the'm to become intelli-
gent citizens without dictation.
He says Mr. Worden quotes No. 21
of the general demandspof the Social-
ist Party platform. but he has the
Socialist Party platform and fails to
auditor section 21 or any allusion to
the abolition or the d tn penumi
would say for the; _
chlsl or monarchial government un~.
tion in the stairs of the country that T
MIDWINTER DAYS.
Midwinter days! how oit they
brim.r
With lengthening light a sense of
spring.
However keen may be their sting.
A vague. sweet sense that far
below
The secret wasting of the snow
The sap already stirs to how.
The frozen sod seems thrilled
with hope, 4
And where the valleys sunward
slope
The buried rootlets blindly grape. A
.
Beneath the dim. protecting pines
Peep here and there still verdant
vines
Through rifts of ice. as day de-
ciines.
s «‘ (ixfl't‘iififif 3&4
And pours a sudden ruby glow
Through lovely woodland aisles
that show
A crimson‘path across the snow.
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The birds that tarry all the year
Are twittering that spring is
near;
And busy with their plans appear.
Storm driven from some softer
node
Anon the flash of wings unknown.
And winter seems already flown!
..
The air is full of prophecies,
‘Soit humming like Hymettus"
bees.
In days, midwinter days. like
these i
—-Harriet M. Kimball in. Congre-
getionalist.
. have done much harm yet.
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n‘Bosron Srope,
points on the Socialist question that
he is at unseat a stranger to. '
Then he" says: "Now comes the
McNamaras, which our kind and
Christian friend is trying to connect
with the Socialist party." I didn’t do
it. They were already connected with
it before i heard of them. And please
lot the say in passing that any person
that will stoop so low as to criticise
and star on a man‘s Christianity or
temperance principles. as Mr. Vol'gt
and Mr. Chancellor have done, have a
mighty weak cause and poor material
to defend it. it wouldn't do either of
them any harm to practice a little of
both of these attributes. i am a pro
teased Christian and a temperance
man and it doesn't make me any less
respectable, and starring upon me for
tt,’ doesn't make them any more res-
pectable. We have all got to ford
the dark river to the'unirnovvn.
we may need assistance or we w 't
touch bottom. and when this or an)”
other nation is governed ‘by a class of
people who disregard Christianity and
temperance the next step is immoral-
ity. idolatry; and lleentiousneas and
we'll soon bake their places with the
nations that have gone down to rise
no more, for if we can judge the pre-
sent and future by the records 'of the
past they are the two great moral
support.
Mr. Volgtn-or his dictator (i want‘
to he sure about stating tact8)-Sl¥3
that. it is Just such misstatements as i
make. that knocks the old party poll-
ticians and boosts the cone of Social-
ism; I am in the same position of the
they that was fishing on Sunday. when
'a minister came along and says: “My-
eon. didn't you know‘ it was wrong to
task on Sunday?" The little fellow
looked up in the ministers face and
answered: "Guess l haln't done much
hurt yet. ain't bad a bite." ‘
There were sixtroeven Socialists
would have heard of it it there had
been any addition. so i don't think i
t am not
and principles
which have stood the test for one
bundles and thirtyslive years and
made this country the most successful
l‘ or any and all the countries in the
world
" amour.
and ..
sin merely de-‘
been disproven, but a little new devel-
opment in the situation has arisen be-
cause the defeated Mayor on the So-
cialist ticket accepted a lucrative of-
fice under the "Good government“
role. He was deposed. expelled. 0s—
tracized, excommunicated from their
society and not allowed to commune
with them any more. i
The South .‘orwalk Seciallsts are
more lenient with” their defeated ma-
yor. Then again. My friend says "Mr.
Worden mentions the prosperity of
this country. No doubt about this be-
ing the richest nation in the world.
but the fact remains that one-tenth
of the population owns four-fifths of
‘the wealth and this one-tenth COULD
suffer the rest to starve to death if
they choose " This is about as sea
~~stble. as the boy that is worrying
about if he should grow to be» a mhn
and bought an automobile and ran in-
to a big tree and killed himself what
would‘his mother do.
The rich men never have caused the
laboring men to starve to death
There is not a nation on earth that
the rich men are as. ready to relieve
went and suffering in as this nation’s
on There never has been a time.
nor never will be a time while the
world stands but what there has been
and will be poor and entering People,
not event: the Socialist party gets into
power! it may make business better
for a while for there will be a great
demand for “white wings and golden
slippers" when the millennium dawning
it is not those who get the lowest
wages that are in a starving condi-
tion and the greatest sulferers, but
(those who got the‘ highest wages and
misuse their money. Neglecting their-E
funnies. allowing them to suffer all
manner otdeprivstlons. Then there
are not a few who are shiftiess and
would sooner starve than work. So
_ see that it is not so much the
when l um to write, haven i. heard ’9“ M
- as there are any more and t certainly
condition of the country as the dispo-
eitlon of the people that causes the
greater pm of the suffering for the
. necessities of life.
fluidity! on team of those
countrtea where the Socialists have
the encircling new». Germany. for
instance when vote is over 8.000.000
. having full mi of the government.
yettbe‘. mass are verymuoh below
masochism but on;
hash l. to.» is flower-den
eats. including the laboring class of
people than an) other country on the
globe. and if it were not so why are“
there about one hundred thousand
people, nearly all laborers. coming to
this country every week from every
country in the world seeking for em-
ployment.
The last statistics of the United
States shows an increase or 45,000;
000,000 to its wealth. The wage
slaves as they are termed by the So-.
ciallst party, over and above the ad
vanced prices of living, have added
”42.000000 to their savings bank ac-
counts. aside from what. they have in-
vested in the postal savings banks
and various other sources. The in-
creased savings deposits in this little
state over last year is 815,000. 000.
The increase of the wage slaves sav.
lugs alone was over $480. 000 in the
last year. ...
And so goes on the prosperity of
the greatest country in the world an-
der the greatest system of govern.
ment known to the human race.
' JONAS D. WORDEN.
atom 10 Ti'IE POINT.
The party does not forget. that it
gave its highest honors to Theodore
Roosevelt. Its members cannot forget
it as they see him silently sulking and
conspiring as if to make Democratic; .
success beyond doubt. ——Nevv York
Evening Post. .
~9—
Now that the army is to be equipped
with aluminum canteens and campfire
outfits the term “light infantry" will
have a new meaniag.~Boston Globe.
~6—
You can‘t get around the fact that ,
Col. Roosevelt is an artist in his own
peculiar way. His logic. coupled With
quotations from Linocla's letters. oven .
phased the New York newspapsmem 1
~Brldgeport Telegram. '
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‘Why should the virtuous steel trust
destroy evidence? We had supposed
that only “bad trusts" not certificated
by a president or-the United States
did than-New York Wbrld.
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Some of the money that is being
sent abroad to coavert the heathen
might be used very effectively at home
- . ' in mains men with mustaches how
‘.umwherolathism my pet
to eat soup. in a restaurant—Scheme. ,
tally Union our
The president wi hardly :0 down lI
history as an innocuous chief um
tire and if he doesn‘t Ill the vacancy. ‘
Norwalk Chronicler