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VERMONT WATOBMAN & STATB JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JULY 28 '9ro.
tftrnumt tSSfaltkmatt.
T1IE I'OSTAIi SAVINGS SYSTEM.
Tho address dollvered Wednesday
cvenlng before the Vermont State
Loague of the Natlonal League ot Post
masters by CongreBsman Frank
Plumley, ln thls city, on Postal Sav
ings Banks was the clearest and
nblest presentatlon of thls aubject yet
roado to Vermonters, and probably
one of tho best glvcn anywhere. The
hlstory of the movement, tho need of
such leglslatlon, the provislons of the
blll and what the law is expected to
accompllsh were set forth. The peo
ple of thls State ' have had rather a
vague idea of the nature of thls blll
which Presldcnt Taft was so anxlous
to lmve pnssed by Congress and
It should be read carefully by every
person who deslres to bo lnformed
Tegardlng a new feovernmental pollcy.
The blll arousetl little enthuslasm
when lt was first presented ln Con
gress and that body took up the blll
apparently Wlth consldorable reluc-
tance, because tho Presldcnt deslred
its passage, and the Republlcan plat
fonn favored lt, rather than on ac
count of any strong convictlon that
tho measure was needed. As the blll
was dlscusscd and perfected near the
close of the sesslon greater Interest
was arousetl, and lt was seen that
great posslbilltles lay ln the estab
llshmcnt of a system ot postal sav
ings. Probably lt ls' more dlfficult to un
dcrstand the need of such a system
here ln New England, where the sav
Ings bank ls almost as flrmly estab
Ilshed as the church, the school and
the town meetlng, than ln almost any
other sectlon of country. When lt is
understood however, that the vast sum
of $1,500,000,000 ls ln hldlng, or with
drawn from circulation, that for every
dollar ln actual circulation four dol
lars of credlt are secured, and the
danger arislng from the frequentper
iotls of money stringency that ariso,
the need of some method of bringing
out thls hidden treasure is seen. Prob
ably the greater part of thls boarded
money is held outslde of New Eng
land, although some of it may be held
by tbe forelgn born populatlon hcre.
It ls hardly necessary to argue that
if cnly a portion of this misslng
money is drawn Into circulation
through the operation of the new pos
tal eavings system a great lmpetus
will be glven to the buslness of the
country. On the whole our banking
system is sound and reliable. Never
theless there are, ln the aggregate,
many who distrust lt, of whom for
cigners form a considerable part. The
majority of these persons have con
fidence in the Government and will
not be llkely to hesitate to entrust to
it their savings.
Tho experiment will be wntched
wlth much interest, partlcularly by
ilnanciers, and the prediction of Con
gressman Plumley that the postal
savings bank bill will be the most
beneflcial of all the acts of a sesslon
of Congress noted for its achieve
ments, does not seem unreasonable.
TOWN' ABVEUTISIXG.
The Rutland News says:
"Barre granite manufacturers havo
started a movement to advertise
more widely thelr products. This
is commendable as well as enter
prising. There is not a town in Ver
mont whlch has made full use of its
occurring constantly throughout the
and to advertlse its resources. There
are natlonal conventions of all klnds
occurlng constantly throughout the
country, before whlch it would be ot
dlrect material advantage to forcibly
present the claims of the resources
and products of thls State, by an en
crgetic representative or an attrac
tlve exhibit. The expense of such pub
liclty Is always small in comparison
with the accruing advantages. het us
all do more of this kind of advertis
ing. This ls good doctrlne to prcach in
Vermont, where it has been practiced
very little. In other sectlons or the
country the value of munlcipal and
State publlclty has been recognized,
as the Jeurnal has polnted out from
tlme to time. This publlclty is obtaln
ed in many dlffercnt ways. For ex
ample, Dayton, Ohlo, whlch adver
tises itself as the City of a Thous
and Factories, which lncludes the
Wright aeroplane works, will hold an
Industrial exposltion Sept. 19-24. A
great aviation exhlbition will be htjld
and people wlthin a radius of oO'J
mlles will be attracted in large nur.i
bers throusn the effoKs of the Cbani
Lcr of Comnviice.
Portland Otgon ls using pago ad
vertlsements in leading newspapera
throughout the country to spr-id
broadcast th? c'slm that Wall Strert
has picked Portland to a blg city
"and is oacklng up its opinlon with
millions."
Lincoln NM. has contracted for a
half pago ad -otisement for a y?ar
ln a leadinq iragazine at a cost of $80
a month, to tell to the world thc busi
ness opportunities of the capital of
Nebraska. '
Tho chlef of the llterary btireau of
the California Development Board
haB been worklng ln the densely pop
ufated agrlcultural region surround-
lng Chlcaco where farm pronts are
said to be totally inadequate to the
labor and expense of farmlng. Many
of these farmers are immlgrants and
3,000 heads of famllles havo been reg
lstered, 90 per cent of whom will set
tlo on California farms.
That progresslve magazine Town
Dovelopment says:
"The fleld of town development
grows apace.
"Every town and city has JtB cora
mcrclal club or development organ
izatlon. "The comparatie efficlency of
tlieso development organlzatlons now-
adays as against cven n few years ago
is surprislng.
"Today the llve town development
organizatlon has its pald seeretav.v,
who dovotes all of hls tlmc to tho
work of aflvanclng tho industrial,
civic and esthetic Intercsts of the
communlty. The secretary is the
local manager of development eflort.
"Town dovelopment effort lately is
taking on more progresslve methods
of advancing tho interesta of tho
communlty.
"Not many years ago a town de
velopment organizatlon meant an or
ganizatlon kopt up to meet an emr
gency whlch mlght happen to arlse
or any opportunlty whlch unexpect
cdly turned up.
"Nowadays thti development organ
izatlon is expected to turn up oppor
tunlties. "These organlzatlons are dolng
creativo work.
"ln thls dlrectlon no avenuo of
effort ls more lntcrestlng than the
marked Inclination of towns, cltlcs,
and communitles, through thelr de
velopment organlzatlons, to advcrtise
the advantages of the communlty, the
opportunities to be found there and
the general attractlons of the place.
"Town development advertising may
bo said to be a twentleth century
step in the dlrectlon of creatlve effort
at communlty advancement.
"Progresslve towns no longer walt
for opportunities to turn up.
"They advertlse for what they
want"
Swltzerland advertises and gets n
vast number of tourlsts, Canada ad
vertises and obtnlns settlers by the
hundred thousand for its agrlcultur
al provinces of the Northwest. Call
fornla ls adding to its populatlon and
resources rapldly by advertising. A
principle that is good for other
States ls good for Vermont. A prin
ciple that is good for other clties
would be good for Montpelier.
'ETY IIAMl'SIURE POLITICS.
The dlrect primary system will
have lts first test in New Hampshire
on Sept. 6, when Itobert P. Bass, of
Peterboro, and Bertram E. Ellis, of
Keene, will contest for the Republl
can nomlnation for Governor. New
Hampshire is tbe first State east of
the Mississippl River to give the dlr
ect primary system a fair test, and
the experiment will be watched with
the keenest interest by Vermonters,
many of whom have manifested an in
terest in the system.
Mr. Bass represents the more pro
gresslve element of the party. He is
a young man, is wealthy, has served
on both branches of the Leglslature.
and is the author of the present prim
ary law. Hls father was one of
Abraham Lincoln's poltical lieuten
ants in Illinois. Associated with Bass
as leaders of tlie more advanced ele
ment of the party in the State are
Col. Winston Churchill, of Cornish,
the novelist, and Sherman Burroughs,
of Manchester. Churchill and Bass
recently visited Ex-President Roose
velt at Oyster Bay, N. Y. It will be
remembered that Churchill was a
cfindidate for Governor a few yeais
ago and came very near winning the
Republican nomlnation. Mr. Bur
roughs is Eupposed to be ambitious to
succeed Congressman Sulloway.
Mr. Ellis is supposed to represent
the, more conservative wing of the
party, the organizatlon headed by
jenator J. H. Galllnger, although his
friends deny the assertion. Ellis has
been Speaker of the House and Pres
ident of the Senate. Mrs. Marllla
Rlcker, of Dover and California, has
filed a declaration of her candldacy,
and deposited a check of $100 in 00m
pllance with the law, but the Secre
tary of State has refused to place her
name on the ballot, and the question
of tho ellglbllity of a wonian for such
a posltion has beeil referred to the
Attorney General.
The Democrats probably will nom
inate Clarence E. Carr, of Andover, a
lawyer and buslness man. Two years
ago the Democrats nomlnated Judge
Blngham, who declined the honor.
Mr. Carr was drafted as a substitute
and came withln 3,000 votes of an el
cttion, and is consldered a strong can
dldate. The Influcnce or tne Boston and
Maine Railroad has been very strong
ln the State, and the flrst open rvclt
agalnst It was the Churchill candldacy,
and slnce that campalgn there has
been a large element of the Republl
can party that ha3 been hostile to
any corporatlon control.
Mr. Bass' platform summarlzed is
as follows:
Real equallzatlon of taxatlon be
tween publlc servlce corporatlon s and
individuals.
Reductlon of express rates.
Enforcement of present law pro
hlbitlng increase of frelght rates.
A public utilltles commlsslon.
Constitutlorial conventlon deallng
wlth taxatlon and representatlon in
the general conrt.
Good roads.
Increased licenso fees for automo
bllea, based upon horse power of ma
chlnes. Workmen's compensating act and
employers' llablllty law.
Corrupt practices act.
Prohiblt corporatlons making pollt-
lcal contiibutlons.
Oprotution to influenco of the bro.v-
ery lnterests in polltics.
Tho Boston Globo says that with
ln a few days Mr. Bass' opponent,
Mr. Ellis, asl ed hlm to Joln wlta lit 0
In an agreement not to spend any
money except for legltlmato cam
palgn expenses in thelr canvass for
votos for the gubernatorlal nomaiitori
and to publish tho same after the
prlmarles.
In reply Mr. Bass wrote Mr. flllls
that. aolaiddownln his platform. he
would be glad to agree to thls and
furthermore that it is hls intentlon
to publish an Itemlzed account of hls
expensos incurred ln his canvass be
foro the priroarles and another ac
count of hls expeneeB incurred ln the
electlon bcfore olcctlon day ln the
cvcnt of hls recelvlng tho noininn
tlon. Mr. Bnss said that publlcation at-
ter the prlm'aries or tho electlon
would be of little advantage to the
publlc.
Tho carapalgn 1b llkely to be a hot
one and the chances of victory for
Mr. Bass are Eaid to be good
CAXAIHAJS" JtEClI'ItOCm.
The plattormB adopted by Ver
mont Republicans at the recent State
conventlon declared that, "Wo favor
such rcclprocal tarlff relations with
the Dominion of Canada as will .tho
more actlvely stlmulate the inter
changes of profltable. trade between
the two countrles upon a basls fair
td both and sufflclently protective to
th,e lnterests of our own people." It ls
a well known fact that President Taft
is favorable to closer buslness rela
tions between Canada and the Unlted
States, and that negotlations are un-
der way to secure more llberal trade
relations between the two countrles
There is an element in thls country
not Incllned to look with favor upon
any tarlff reductions, whlch is oppos
ed to reciprocity with Canada on the
ground that such a measure will be
detrlmental to Amcrlcan lnterests. It
is always well to look at a question
from more than one polnt of view and !
for that renson the opinlon of a writ-1
er in the Britlsh Natlonal Review on
th KiililPot mnkea intprPHfintr nmi
profitable reading. The writer sayt
in part:
"lt is no exaggeration to state that
wlthin the next few montbs the!a,,les Ior a maJr,ty- e coronauon
whole flscal, and slmultaneously the'of (Klng George has been set for next
whole polltical and soclal, future of
the Empire may be decided. And that
decision will be made at Washington.
No less a signiflcance can be attached
to the forthcoming negotlations for a
reciprocity treaty between Canada and
the United States. It is, therefore, ot
the utmost importance that all who
have nt heart the Imperlal ideal
should strain every nerve to prevent
so fatal an event. That this disaster
will be averted for the reasons ad-
duced below is tho confident hope of
the present writer; but the magnltude
of the lnterests involved is, neverthe-
less, a sufficlent juslncation for treat
ing the situatlon wlth all serious
ness. The arlcle contalns a review of
previous trade treatles and attemptsat
reciprocity, and shows the difference
between conditions that prevailed fifty
or sixty years ago, and at the pres
ent time, when industrial conditions
have changed and there are no fish
eries or boundary disputes to com-
plicate the situatlon. Recent tenden'
cles have been toward closer rela- feeling, the growth of democracy
tlons with the mother country as a;England are favorable to the ilor
,, , , .i..4 1 .Rule cause because all of these thin
source of supply for many manufac
tured articles needea. Slnce 189",
when a prefercntial tarlff was arrang
ed between Canada and Great Britain,
British cxports have increased mater
lally. Th'e objections from a British point!
of view are summed up in the maga
zine article referre to as follows:
"Nor is it only the immedlate
merclal importance of the issues at
stake that has to be consldered. There
can be no doubt that the moral effect
of a llberal reciprocity treaty between
Canada and the United States would
be enormous, and that th'e mere fact
that the Dominion which inaugurated
the preference ln 1897 should make so
serious a departure from it would in
evitbly deal a heavy blow at the 1m
perial ideal.
"As was intlmated at the opening ot
this article the writer cllngs confi-
dently to the hope that for the mo
ment, at any rate, this blow will be
averted. The prellminary obstacles
on both sides are neither few nor
easy to surmount. Unlike the Canadi
an minlsters who could grant the in
termedlate tarlff rates by an order in
council and need only apply to Par
llament in the event of that tarlff
proving an insufficient basls for nego
tlatlon. the United Sates minlsters
j would be compelled to apply to Con
gress for any lowering of the tariff,
and this the present Congress ls not
llkely to grant. lt ls, however, not
without signiflcance that during the
last Presidentlal campalgn the Re
publlcan candidate found it neces
sary, for the flrst time, to promlse a
reductlon in the tariff ln order to
counteract the support whlch his ad-
versary was galnlng by hls advocacy
of thls pollcy, and recent events have
shown that the posslbllity of the nw
Cngress belng more Democratlc is
far from remotfi.
So far as Canada ls concerned the
great obstcle must be tho plaln, in
disjnitable fact that she is not yet
strong enough industrially to with
stand anythlng like the full measure
of United States compe'tltlou. Tho Can
adlan markets would bo promptly
swamped by the highly speclallzed
manufactures of her nelghbor, and
the Canadian manufacturer, as has
been shlrewdly said, would not ven
turo to remodel hls factory and
speclallzo hls output whllq the con
tlnuance of the enlarged market de
pended upon he goodwlll of Washing
tn. 'In other words' as the Canadian
Gazette declares, 'tho permanency of
tho enlarged market could
not be
counted on
,n short of a polltical unlon, fl m,t g ag0 lw coiiected
LV!e,0.,Tnt'"?Jsome English lads at Surrey, talked
. nnn hnnoi! tippd no loncer be
taken Into account.
"To sum up, then, it would appear
that, at the moment, neither Canada
nor the United States is in a posltion
to conclude any far-reaching reclp
rocty treaty. If any such treaty ls
made It will 00 necause ino Aiucriuuim
fnlly reallze tho enormous potenuai
nn?nQJ nrlnc the future. The out-
' .. I
look, from tho Imperlal point of view,
Is of the utmost gravity and yet the
British people declino to say me woiu
such will banlsh forever all work
anxieties and establlsh the future or
the Empire." , Ax ., ,
There Is no doubt that the United
States ought to conslder, in any cora
mercial treaty, the enormous un
iiovnloned nossibllitics of Canada.
When the Grand Trunk Paclflo shall
1 ,irv ,ho vnnt Teclons ot
T.r.,n rnnn.iri a creat nation. scc-
'nr on;V to our- own, and composed
of people mucb like our own, will oc
cupy uiiB grefti .v
Thelr trade and thcir good will will be
well worth cultlvatlng. In recent
yeare wo have looked coldly on trade
relations with tho Dominion. No time
should be lost in changlng thls nt
tltudc. We have no "pauper labo-" to
contend wlth there, but a people
simllar to our own ln ways of Uvlng.
We must look to the future and If we
are to have our proper share of the
trade of the great and powerful Can-
adlan nation of tomorrow, we must.to
day, take the necessary steps to se
cure lt.
THE IIUSII AM) THE LOltPS.
The latest reports from London
point to the poRsibillty, at least, of a
settlement of the controversy over
the House of Lords, and the granting
of local self goverment to Ireland,
wlthout a bltter struggle, long drawn
out. Thls seems a result so improb
ahle, judgcd from commonly accepted
standards, that it will be accepted
with several gralns of salt, but It
comes ln a letter from T. P. O'Con
nor, the well known Irlsh Journalist
The new King is glven credlt for
the chnnged situatlon. It has been
known that at hls requcst the lcaders
of the two great partles have been
holdlng conferences in an effort to
flnd, if posslble, some method of
nereement ln thc Hol,sc of Lords
"aB
peeuiuon lnal sucn an
agreement
wmllu De reacneo, as no
concesslons
regarding Home Hule were consid
ered posslble, and the Liberals are
dependent upon thelr Irlsh and Lobar
Jtino and it is deslred that that his
toric event shall not tako place ln the
midst of a bltter partisan strlfe. More-
over, the new monarch is showing a
disposition ,to act thte part of a states
man. When he came to the tlirone lt
was believed that he was a good deal
of a Tory, and less llberal in his
vlews than hls late father. Now he is
on the best of terms with Lloyd
George, the most radical of the Llber
al minlsters, and he is said to favor
local self goernment for the Scotch.
the Irlsh and thl& Welsh.
Mr. O'Conno says:
"People seem to feel lt in thelr
bones that we are reaching the end
of this long struggle. lt is certain that
there is no use whiitever in trying to
frighten the English masses any
longer with the bugbears that have
defeated the Home Rule cause during
the last quarter of a century.
The buying out of the Iriso land
lords, the appeasement of religious
in
have had thelr effecU
"I mlght sum the present posltion
of Home Rule accurately. I bclieve, by
saying that it has lost some of the
enthuslasm, but a great deal more o
the hostility which it once provoked
lin Encland
Another factor in produc
ling that gradual change of fc--llng is
the enormous and immedla success
rapldlty with which the passions ot
the Transvaal war have dled out; thc
com-lum'on of the Boer and the Brlton on
the niorrow of that terrlble struggle;
the hearty acceptance by thc Boers of
the British flag all this has ftreatly
1 increased the instlnctive faith of the
1 British democracy in the benellcent
rpcnltn nf free lnstitutlons."
Another phase of the situatlon of
nnrtlrnlnr Interest to Americans, is
the report that Ex-Prcsldent Roose
elt in private dlscusscd the Jrish
question freely with Mr. BaHour, the
1 Conservative leader, and possibly
I with the King, pointing out the great
improvement that would result ln
Anglo-American relations as a result
of a fair oo'uticn or the irlsh prob
lem.
While .1 hot polltical conc-jt over
these great nuitters is the thing to b-3
expected, It is true, nevertheless, that
there has been a marked change in
niibllc sentlment of late, and that
stranger things have happened than a
Rntisfncforv settlement of the Ilouso
of I.ords and the Irlsh probl?ms.
THE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT.
The current issue of the Outlook con
tninH .111 exceeinclv interesting ac-
ount of thc Boy Scout movement, writ
ten by Rnlph D. Blumenfleld, edltor
of the London Dally Express. Accord
Ing to the writer of tho article the
inception of he movement was at the
siege of Mafeking, during the Boer
War, in 1899-1900. The advance llnes
were flve mlles in cjrcumfercnce and
the garrison was hardly sufficlent to
man the works. In this extremity the
boys of Mafeking were drllled, uni
formed and acted as messengers and
orderlles bravely and most efflclent-
iy.
General Baden-Powell, popularly
known as B. P., was in conimand at
Mafeking.' He was so well pleased
..,1.1, thfi ,vm.v 0f tbe boys that about
i some fcngnsn
to them, showed them how to play In
dlans, took them into camp, taught
them woodcraft, how to know tho
blrds, and to love Nature. Jlis-inter-est
was such that he wrote a book on
"Scoutlng for Boys."
t-. irion iMniii iiYmipnselv nouular
is best told by the author's own words.
He says:
"The idea was to lcad boys, by th6
attractlvo practice called scoutlng, to
teach themselves character. Tho boys
of England caught the idea in a mo
ment. Every boy of mettlo grow wlld
to becomo a Scout. AU over inu cuu
, thov hpcnn in form themselves in
to patrols and troops of Scouts. They
begaji to teacn tneniBt'ivi.-B v,in.v.n...
.n(1 l)0yB ,md censed t0 be boys and
u.n,i v.o.Amn Rnv Hcouts. In another
Before a year was out h iuumicu wuu
vear there were more than, two hun-.
' dred thousand 1B0, ; Scouts ".
- But tbe scouta are seen ev-
crywiuTe " uio oii"
don, in tho lonelleBt country parlshcs,
in towns and hamlets from Land's End
to John O'Groat's. Whenever any
thlng happens when thcro ls n rall
way nccldcnt, or a horBo runs away, or
a house catchea flre, or a man falls
Into tho river Boy Scouts seem to ap
pear on thc scene as if by maglc, to
make themselves useful In any and ev
ery way. They are tralned to deal
with emcrgencles, to glve flrst ald to
the slck and woundcd, stop runa
ways, irnt out flrea revlve the suffo
catcd, and to rescue and resuscltatc
the drownlng. Go where you will, in
England, Scotland or Ireland you will
mect Boy Scouts. And lf you are ln
any trouble, you may trust them to
help you out If they can, for every Boy
Scout 1b pledged to do a good turn
whenever tho chance comes."
Thls movement has spread to the
British colonles and throughout Eu-
rope. There are varlous grades, the
tenderfoot Scout, second class and flrBt
class Scouts, tho Klng'a Scouts, etc.
flrst class Scout must be able to
swim flfty yards, have a shilllng ln a
savings bank, and be able to send and
receive a message elther in sema
phore or the Morso code, of slxteen
letters per mlnute. He is sent on a
two days' Journey alone or wlth one
other Scout, and on hls return he must
write an Intelllgible report of his ex-
perlcnce. He must be able to deal
with ordinary accldents and cook cer
tain dishes suitable for camp llfe. He
must be able to use and draw maps,
be able to fell tlmber, and Judge dis-
tance, area, size, numbers, height and
welght wlthin twenty-flvo per cent
error. And last of all he must pre
sent a tenderfoot whom he has traln
ed who can quallfy for a tenderfoot's
badge.
There are nlne points in the Scout's
Law, "A Scout's honor is to be trust
ed." "A Scout is loyal. Thls means loy-
alty to country, to parents, to em
ployers and to hls Scout ofWccrs.
"A Scout's duty is to be useful and
to help others."
"A Scout is a frlend to all, and a
brother to every other Scout, no mat-
ter to what soclal class the other be-
longs." The real force of 'thls law will
be appreciated in England, where
aristocracy means so much more than
lt does in America.
"A Scout is courteous." This law is
teaching boys that they must not ex-
pect a tip for every act of common
servlce.
A Scout is a frlend of anirnals."
A Scout obeys orders."
A Scout smiles and whistles undcv
all circumstances."
"A Scout is thrifty.'
The secret of the wonderful success
of this movement ls that it recognizes
the underlying traits of a boy's charac-
ter. lt takes the love of play, of
scoutlng and imitatlng soldiers, with
the uniforms, the drills, the secret
codes and passwords, and turns them
all into right channels. The bolster
mis, animal spirits that sometlmes
trouble those of us who are older, and
causes 111-concea.led annoyance, are
diverted from rowdyism or something
worse, into useful and manly charac
teristics. The boy Is given a task that
he enjoys, and that appeals to hls im
aglnation. Ho not only has a whole
lot of wholssome fun, and learns
how to do those things that every boy
should know, but he is also tralned
to becocie an honorable, chivalrous
man, a good citizen in the best sense
of the term. It is to be hoped that tho
idea may become popular in this
country. The possibllities for good
are practically llmitless.
Chlcago Ib becomlng decidedly am
bltious when it talks of annexing ev
ery town and village wlthin one hun
dred miles of the City Hall. Why stop
at the hundred mile limlt?
The St. Albafo Messenger ls mak
ing such a vigorous campalgn against
the fly that it is said that even toy
balloons cannot go up ln Franklin
county on clrcus day.
If the report that Governor Mead
will make Robert A. Lawrence, of
Rutland, hls Secretary of Clvil and
Mllltary Affalrs ls true, the choice is
an admlrable one.
Census reports show that Oklahoma
City has increased ln populatlon 540
per cent. during the past decade. This
ls a larger gain than Montpelier
claims.
I FAIRY TALE READERS, GAZE I
X UPON THIS. ?
Hnns Anderscn has been dcad
for many, many years, and hun
drcds of wrlters havo trleil hard
to omulate hls famous falry
tales. None has succeedeil un
tll rcceutly, wheu ouu man dld
so. Belng too modest of hls suc
cess in fllllng Ilans' shocs, he
falled to glve hls nnrae. Latcr
wo will hear from hlm. His Orst
yarn Is a corUer and ono that
will leavo a lastlng lmpresslon
upon all tiioso who .read It. Now
start all togcthcr:
Andcrson, center flclder of tho
Dccp Ilovcn (Mlnn.) tcuro, prom
lscs to ccllpso ln hlstorlc famo
Casey ot Mudvlllc. In n gamo
with tho Prlnco Itcality tcam of
Mlnneapolls on Excelsior dla
mond recently Anderson caught
a fly, Bhuttlng off. thrco ruhuers.
After a long run Anderson fell
Into the lake, turned on his back
and caught the fly, swam to shore
and Deep novcn won. Thls was
ln tho clglith wlth tho scoro 0 to
4 ln favor of Deep Hoven. Tho
umplre says bo kncw Anderson
caught tho ball because ho livea
ln Deep Hoven and knows the
flclder caunot divc.
Advortine ln the Watchman.
PRESS COMMENT
Wint thc Ncwspapcrs of Vermont
and Ollicr States Are Saylug
Abont Toplcs of Interest to
Journal Kcadere.
RAILROAD 1NFLUENCES.
(Morrisville Messenger.)
"Perslstent rumors are afloat to tho
effect that a systematlc effort will be
made next fall by some of the corpo
ratlons to draw the teeth of the exist
ing law glvlng the publlc servlce
commlsslon a considerable degree of
control over the rallroads of the
State. In the electlon of -members of
the general assembly it will be made
sure that the sentlment of the peoplo
of Vermont on thls Important toplc
shall be falthftilly represcnted."
Montpelier Journal.
We have recognlzed the symptoms
to whlch the Journal refers.
They were in cvldence before the
nominatlng conventions at Montpe
lier. K has been an open secret that the
corporatlons, and railroads are very
much opposed to the present Publlc
Servlce Commlsslon law.
They belleve lt gives too much pow
er to a commlsslon to regulate thelr
buslness.
That they should seek to amend It
during the sessions of the comlng
Leglslature is one of the most prob
able things.
Eternal vigllance is the price of
llberty now as ln the ages past and
the people should be on thelr guard.
The Importance of electing strong,
reliable, incorruptible men as repres-
entatives was never greater.
It is not so much men who can talk
as it is men who can be depended up
on to vote and vote right.
Sad the best man to represent
your town ln Leglslature.
(Burlington Free Press.l
Thc Free Press nas received a let
ter from a citizen in the central part
of the State of which the following
is an extract:
"I have noticed your editorial re
garding railroad influcnce in thls
State, and I want to congratulate you
on taking thls matter up in trls way
because I have no question whatever
that you are iright and that a serious
effort is being made to gain control
of matters in thls State as they were
controlled in some former years. Dur
ing the last session of the Leglslature
a number of the members of the Sen
ate ln my Judgment were controlled
by the chlef attorney of the Boston
and Maine railroad."
We have received letters of a sim
llar nature from different parts of the
State, showing that the people are be
comlng aroused to the true situation.
It is no secret with members of our
Leglslature and others who are thor
oughly ocqualnted wlth leglslative
matters at Montpelier, that the rail
road influcnce always aims to get
men in the Senate in its good graces,
because sixteen men can there block
any leglslatlon the people may demand
through the more popular branch.
The lohbyists of the Boston and
Maine railroad in Vermont have be
come conspicuous at Montpelier. Here
as elsewhere they are about as smooth
gentlemen as can be found anywhere,
and thelr forte is working without ap
pearing to he anxious to bring about
any desired end. They seldom openly
favor any project because they want
it or oppose any measure because
thelr lnterests will be Injured, but are
almost invariably able to make it ap
pear some interest of the publlc would
be adversely affected.
Sometlmes they are able to secure
the incorporation in a measure of a
yrovision they know is unconstltu
tional, and then they are loud in their
professlons that they are not opposed
to the blll.
ln these and countless other ways,
the Boston and Maine influence
against whlch the people of New
Hampshire have struggled for years,
often -without avail is trying
to fasten its grasp on the people of
Vermont, and present lndlcations tend
to show concflislvely lt is receiving
tho support of allled lnterests in the
Green Mountaln State. The comblna
tlon is what makes the present men-
ace so dangerous.
This is not a party question in Ver
mont. If the Boston and Maine pollti
cal machlne gets control of the legls
latlon at Montpelier, It will make lit
tle difference what party is in control.
The real power hohind the throne will
in reallty 'be President Mellen of New
Haven, Con., a raan who galned his
flrst lessons In railroad politlcs at St.
Albans.
The real question ls shall the people
of Vermont regardless of party con-
tlnue to be thelr own polltical mas
ters, or will they allow the insldious
octopus that has so much of New
England in lts grasp politically, re
duce the Green Mountaln State to a
mere pocket borough of tho money
klngs back of the New Haven-Boston
and Maine comblnation?
Our people from the time ot Ethan
Allcn to tho present havo sfood for
home rulo of Vermont ,nnd if we aro
wise in thls gencratlon we shall In
slst upon tho electlon of Senators and
R'opresontatlves who will stand open
ly on thls platform ot tho contlnued
rule of the people.
THE DEMOCRATIC OPPOS1T10N.
(tlcrlington Cllpper.)
The Deiv.-iCjatlc State Conventlon
held at St., Albans last week wa very
harmonlous ns conventions are apt to
be when thsre is no strlfe for the
nomlnatictis. Charles D. 'VTatso.t, who
was namcd for Governor i& il;hly
wpokcn of und well Ihought ot. Tho
other mcn on t)?( tlcket are also ot
good character. They would no doubt
servc thc State well In case of thelr
electlons but U.at ls hardly wt'iiu
the possibllities. At this crltlcal tlmo
In the n-ition'g history the Republl
cans of vermont will hesitate :t long
tlme before castlnft thelr ctea for
others than thelr party's stand-.ui
bearers.
They wo.ild have to be show.i pret-
ty concluslvely that the nomlnees of
the oppoaition if elected, woud do
something radical to remcdy the evlls
which exist and whlch nlways will
exlst to some ewnt, no ma'.ter what
party is in powtr. The Demor-tv-tb
pvrly numbcrd '.00 many failui-33 ln its
past hlstory to insplr hope 111 the
breast of that vast majority of tho
clecton.o who jr-a and thin't Tho
Republi.U'i rity is the party of ac
tion, of posltki! vlews, of progres;
and convictlon. !t has arisen to its.
duty in past crisc3 and the p?ople oC
this country will trust it to rlse
again.
Vermont will weleome so good a
man as Mr. Watson to the fleld and
give its usual substantlal maJoi'Lv for
Dr. Mead.
(Enosburg Standard.)
ln nominatlng Charles D. Watson
of St. Albans for Governor, the Ver
mont Democrats have named a clean
and able man, with an honorable rec
ord as a citizen, lawyer and a leader
of the last State Leglslature, and a
man of whom It can he said by ali
parties, that shoull the fortunes of
polltical war placf hlm in the Gov
ernor's chair, tho duties of the offlco
would be dlschargpd wlth fldelity and
credlt.
(Morrisville Messenger.)
The Democrats have certainly nam
ed a strong ticket The platform too
ls one that will appeal to thoughtfuJ,
earnest Vermonters who place the
welfare of the State. above party.
Charles D. Watson, who was nomln
ated for Governor ls a very able law
yer and a strong, clean man. He
was one of the leaders in the last
Leglslature and was well liked by all
hls assoclates. There is no use dis
gulslng the fact that he will cut down
the Repirhllcan majority this fall if
the Republicans do not get together
and work harder than ever before
to win. There is much grumbling
heard all over the State in Republi
can ranks and it will need good hard
work to keep up the majority this fall.
lt Is an off year when the voters feel
they can do as they please.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
(Bennington Banner.)
The Vermont Democrats are ln
'that happy posltion whlch permits
i them to offer anything in heaven
above, or the earth heneath, or the
waters under the earth, provided they
get into power, knowing they will
never be called on to carry 6ut thelr
promises. Consequently the Demo
cratlc platform is open to the same
susplcion as would be a promise from
JohH Rockefeller to buy every angel
a third wlng if permitted to go to
heaven.
Naturally they have offered some
things apparently mostly as matter of
pollcy, but really the wonder is that
with the opportunlty they had they
didn't promise more. On the whole
their platform ls decidedly conserva
tive more so than that of the Repub
licans, and much more conservative
than the natlonal platform of tho
Democratlc party. In fact as an ap
peal to voters it is calculated to In
terest the man who ikes to keep
things about as they are rather than
the radical who hopes by upsetting a
settled order to develop something
better. The best features of the platform
are the stand it takes in favor of
manual training echools; in support
of the income tax amendment; favor
ing the electlon of United States Sea
ators by dlrect vote; Indorsing the
dlrect primary; and supportlng the
proposed amendments to the State
constltution.
The poorer fentures of the plat
form are the following: A spineless
and meaningless dodglng of tho good
roads issue; advocating a backward
step by urging the repeal of the fed
eral law whlch is essential to the con
trol of the rapacity of great trusts
and corporatlons lts pronounceraent
on the labor issue which ls unjust to
the workingman and also to the em
ployer; its duck of the conservation
issue on whlch it uses a few grand
lloquent words but avolds saying any
thlng of any point; its treatraent of
the taxatlon Issue where with a
splendid opportunlty for a progresslve
utterance it falls hack on a polnted
platitude whlch remlnds one of the
Repivbllcan platform plank on the
samo question. Neither party's say on
tho taxatlon issue will butter any par
snips. Tho Joke of tho Democratlc plat
form is Its handllng of tho tarlff is
sue. Repudlating the whole Demo
cratlc theory on tho tarlff question lt
adopts tho entire doctrlne of the pro
gresslve Republicans. If It Is sincere
It Jndlcates a remarkablo change of
heart on the part of our Democratlc
friends that lands them almost ln tho
Republlcan camp.
Taken as a whole tho platform Is
safe and sane. Not as radical as the
Republlcan platform and offerlng less
ln the way of progresslve theory it Is
calculated not to scare away any Re
publlcan voter who feels Incllned to
vote for Mr. Watson Instead of Dr.
Mead. Perhaps it was written wlth
thls in view. If so the Job was clover
ly done.
Advertlso In- TUo Mornlng Journal.