Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-10-04

logical and forcible, and must have impressed the
good sense of his attentive listeners, although
Vermont has but little 10 fear from combinations
of such character.
The growth OF newspapers was cited as one oil
the most striking features OF the nineteenth cen
fury. Two hundred years ago Il required strug-
gle to get politics into q newspaper now II re-
quired ~ great struggle to keep politics out.
The -" Junius letters opened the way to this use
OF the press, and now all parties and creeds ana
nati0nalities have their organs Newspapers
were divided into two classes the leaders and the
ted the latter class being by far the more nu-
merous, and were the cheapest daily food ni both
republicans and democrats II n man Is stu
dent in nothing else, he is generally student in
his newspaper. The average circulation OF All
the newspapers in the country was given at lol2,
but the fifty to eighty thousand day issues drew
a large per cent from the circulation OF many "a
struggling weekly, when this average came 70 be
assigned 10 respective Offices Of actnnl publiel-
ton. The character OF the papers OF to-day he
regarded as comparing iayorably with those Of
thirty or fifty years ago. We can no more dis
pensc with the local paper than we can with the
-choo master or the preacher, and he advised
none to subscribe for city paper until he had
first become q subscriber TO the one printed m his
own locality
fhe tendency to Capitalization in building up
educational institutions was not regarded as ia
yurable b. the best interests of the people The
gliding Of a Harvard or a Yale at the expense
Of smaller and not less meritoriOus colleges, found
no luvlr 10 the good Judgment OF the orator,
whose sympathies evidently did not run IN the
direction OF growing classics IA herds IL
would be- strange indeed If there did not come
forth from these petted institutions some men Of
mark, out Of the large mass who only gather the
branches and twg- Of learning, without ever
comprising the trunks and roots. The non petted
colleges send forth fair share Of thinking sch1l-
ars, whose discipline clings 10 them through lille.
The boat OF no one is showed along for any great
distance after he leaves college without iudyid
ual application. Aafon's rUd swallows up the
rods Of the Magcians, and every man finds hi
true level whether his parchment was signed in
II ryard or Yale or on less pretentiUus classic
grounds. Education requires a complete de-
Capitalization.
In passing from colleges to the domain Of
churches the speaker uttered some plain truth.
lie thought that reverence for divine worship was
not gnuged 80 much by reverence for divine love
| r. by reverence for handsome or eloquent
preacher and the price Of pews Duty and mol
. entertainment ought to bill churches. "Ih,
church around the corner is deserted and The
house Of prayer is not - much "where two OF
three are gathered together rs whore goes th,
multitude The brilliant speaker alone car
command an audience. When the plain mar
breaches, many have bought land or oxen, OF
have married a wife and cannot come.
Mr.. Morrill, made some further remarks upoI
the increasean Capitalization OF power, in which
be declined 10 discuss political Capitalization
Rulers he said must obey or be crushed. I'm
limited power is not 10 be trusted anywhere.
In closing his address, which was one OF nm
usual thought and ability for such an occasion
he alluded TO the farm as the home of phy-ica
and moral health, remarking that he would ool
for the good citizen where the ship builder look,
for his staunchest timhers, in the open countr,
among the oaks.
The address was listened to with marked atten
tention by all within hearing OF the speaker, an,
evidently gave great satisfaction.