Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-11-24


tissue of biunders. So the patent was
allowed, and the Woodbury. part now
faunt the document in the faces of the
lumber planer and moulders, demanding
payment of heavy royalty under threat
of instant stoppage of their mills.
The lumber merchants and manufac-
.turers throughout the country, are nat
urally alarmed and indignant to find
themselves overwhelmed, as it were, by
this decision of foundering Patent Offices
by which merciless grab is now at
tempted upon their earnings, and they
have combined for common defense by
legal means. They believe the patent
to have been wrongfully granted, and
will fight it in the courts to the bitter
end. The union comprises all of the
most enterprising lumber manufacturers
In the country, and they are preparing
for their defense in the most systematic
style. The most promised legal talent
has been employed. The stakes on both
sides are immense y THE Lumber Trade
THE RESPONSE OF THE PR ESS.
The response of the press to the late
manifesto Of the State Board of Educa-
ton is anything but fattering to that
body. Their long-winded defence of
their Secretary, and advertisement of a
city book publishing firm, was published
by only a small portion of the journals
of the State, and in every instance but
one was accompanied by editorial COM
ments Disappearing of its tone, temper
and language, and characterizing it
generally as an emanation utterly be-
meath the dignity of SO respectable a
body of men as a State Board of Educa-
ton ought to be, and as, from Stheir full
some commentator of themselves, they
claim to be. Only one journal, the
Free Press, published it with common
dations. One other, the Farmer, COM
mends it without publishing. With
these exceptions only, the entire press
of the State repel with Indignation the
wanton and unjust accusations made
by the Board against the outspoken and
independent press, as being bought up
with the money of certain book publis-
ers. In this matter the Board have
allowed themselves to be misinformed
and deceived, and have committed an
injustice which reflects discredit upon
themselves, and which can only be atom
ed for by full and frank acknowledge
ment of their wrong. The Board have
mistaken the murmurings all over the
State against the changes they have
made in school books, as the utterance
and inspiration Of zone source" and
they doubtless supposed that the pub
| llCdlleH VI 'dH duuIcoS w JIG SieiACuS
of Vermont" with their names appended
thereto, would silence at once all thu
clamor of opposition. and "clear thu
!. track" for the triumphant progress o
their Secretary and book agent. Thu
e response of the press, if they have al
lowed themselves to read it, must hav,
r CunyInvvu uncm vnau Un0 vvIce VI III
!. press is the voice of the people, ant
q the "souroe" whence the criticism o
g their acts proceeds is not "one' blu
!. many. The charm of their names, pc
] tent though it is admitted to be, is no
e sufGcient-to suppress the growing dis
f satisfaction with the proceedings of tn
r Board, in ignoring the voice of tn
i. large majority of the superintendent
n and teachers in the State against an
\ change in Arithmetics, and in forcin
4 upon them, as if "by authority" ;
# change of books not imperatively needed
e What response will the Board max
e to this voice of the people ? Will the
d ignore it? And what to the positiv
n denial of the book publishers whol
N they have so unjustly accused in the
d address? In regard to all these matter
d the Board have been most grossly in
S, posed upon by somebody. Will the,
IS like honorable men, as they are, keenl
) sensitive, as their address shows thel
is to be, to the opinions of the people, an
jealous of their own good repute, wi
r they retract the unfounded accusation
at they have made against the press
d Vermont, and the publishers whom the
Of SANDER ?"-Argus and Patriot