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The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-23
Written for the Globc,l
MOnOpOlies.

"Other selishness may be as intense but
none is so unblushing, because none is so much
tolerated as that of a monOpolist claiming
rested interest in a public njury.-[Senlor's Lee
lures on Public Economy.l
AS matter of temporary policy, mono
poles may sometimes, perhaps, be proper
ly authorized by honest and intelligent law
givers. But the rule for wise and just
legislation is that of non-interference with
the industry and enterprise of the people,
and while giving equal protection to all,
granting exclusive favors to none. Indeed,
it requires no argument to show that mon
Opolies in traffic or commerce, or in the or
binary means which they must employ in
their pursuits, are antagonistic to the COM
mon rights of a common humanity. They
certainly are not democratic in principle.
Rather, they rest on the aristocratic basis;
the benefit of the few, a class, at the ex-
pense of the many.
Such have been the abuses of monopolies
in the past, it is now conceded on all hands
that none should be granted hereafter by
law, unless always open to scrutiny, and
subject to any subsequent legislation, of
repeal or amendment, which future eXpe-
rience or their misbehayior may suggest as
proper to protect the public from imposi-
ton. But as they are founded on bad
principle, they should be discouraged in a
republican community. Nor can the pres
ent increasing jealousy of the people to-
wards overgrown and grasping monopoles
be regarded in any other light than that of
well founded conviction on their part,
that exclusive privileges aud human rights
are at natural cnmity with each other, and
where the first obtain, the last are liable to
suffer
What is one of the great questions of to-
day? Surely the colossal corporations of
the country, with their ''yested rights,
their power, their disposition and habit to
control both state and national legislation
in their interests and to secure immunity to
themselves in their rapacious selfshness.
This state of things is properly arresting
the attention of many thoughtful men. II
is question that will not down without a
hearing. 1t was to prevent 'hostic legis-
lationD to a monopoly that Cakes Ames, as
a director in the Pacific Railroad, disbursed
his ''Credit Moblier" stock where ii
would "do the most good" and many
hands, thought to be clean, became smeared
with this pitch of dehlement, and great
national shame came upon us, through the
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-23
THE CONSTITUTION OF WEIR
MONT.

Our neighbOr, in fit of disagreeable med
dlesomeness, wants the constitution of the
state changed. He does not find any particu-
lar fault with it, He only wants it made more
convenient to alter, so that in case fault
should hereafter be found it could be soon
or corrected. But the GLOBE thinks the
Constitution and the arrangements for its
amendment are good enough. The State
Constitution has mouldy appearance, as
anything would have that had lain like a
mummy embalmed between book covers
for nearly round hundred years. 1t
strikes us oddly, to be sure, to be solemnly
assured in the manner of very ancient
grandfather looking down on us benignant-
ly through the huge round spectacles of
the last century, that we shall not be re-
tanned as slaves after twenty-five, any of
us, or our wives or daughters after the age
of eighteen, even if we came "trom over
sea-" The blessed old constitution has not
heard of the late "cruel war;" nor of the
movements by which long before our great
civil strife slavery was swept clean from
all the hills and valleys of New England.
1t sounds oddly in these times OF going
TO and fro in undammed and unimpeded
streams of emigration, to read the fatherly
permission, allowing to all people the
Fright to emigrate from one state to an
other that will receive them"
We perceive something about imprison-
ment for debt in the old text, but it has
gone the way of mortal things more than a
third of century.
We have long since past any necessity
for provision to regulate entails, or the
time for prohibiting the forfeiture of SUI
icde's estate, or the forfeiture of articles
occasioning accidental death. The latter
relic, If in force now would cause the
loss of many locomotive wheel and car
wheel.
There is a starched morality about the
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-23
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
'AssED AS THE THIRD SESSION OF THE FORTY
SECOND CONGRESS.

No. TAN ACT to provide for the establish
ment of a military prison, and for its govern
ment,
De ii enacted by the Senate and House Qf Repre-
sentatipes Of the United States Of AnericG IN Com
gress assembled, That there shall be established
at Rock Island, In the state OF Illinois, prison
for the confinement ana reformation OF OHen-
ders against the rules, regulations, and laws for
the government of the army OF the United
States, I'm which shall be securely confined, ana
employed at labor, and governed In the manner
fore any cOurt-martial or military commission
In the United States, and sentenced according
To law to Imprisonment therein.
SEC 2. That the Secretary OF War shall or
ganize n board of five members TO consist OF
Three officers Of the army and two persons from
civil life, who shall adopt plan for the building
OF such prison, and who shall frame regula-
lions for the government OF the prisoners, in
accordance with the provisions OF this act. the
said commissioners lrom civil life shall h0ld
their ofllces for the term Of three years, and
shall be paid five dollars day while on duty,
and necessary travelling expenses; and the said
officers OF the army shall, ~ all times, be sub
ject 10 removal by the Secretary OF War.
SEC. 3. That the Secretary OF War shall, with
said commissioners, seml-annually, and us
much oftener as may be deemed expedlent, VS.
Il said prison for the purposes OF examination,
inspection, and correction; and they shall In
Qure into all abuses or neglects OF duty on the
part OF the officers or other persons IN charge OF
the same, and make such changes In the gem
eral discipline OF the prison as they may hold
TO be essential.
SIC. lnal lhe olllCelS III INC pilaOh siihll
consist of a commandment and such subordinate
officers as may be necessary, chaplain, a sur
geop, and a clerk, who shall be detailed by the
Secretary OF War from the commissioned Of
ficers OF the army; and a suincient number OF
enlisted men shall be detailed by the Secretary
OF War TO act as turkeys, guards, and assist
ants In the prison.
SEC D. That one OF the inspectors OF the army
shall, at least once In three months, visit the
prison for the purpose OF examining into the
books and all the affairs thereof, and ascertain
ing whether the laws, rules, and regulations
relating thereto are compiled with, the oincer
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provision that the house of representatives
" shall consist of persons most noted for
wisdom and virtue" We wish it could al
ways be so. But If we cannot see the pic
ture as it is painted, it is some satisfaction
to see what the artists of the constitution
intended for likeness of our legislatures.
All these provisions are dusty, but not
unclean. They may not be all needed now,
but they are harmless, and interesting as
relics Of antiquity. SO there does not appear
to be anything to alter, unless it might be
the manner of making alterations, and it
seems scarcely worth while to go through
with so much for so little. When altera-
tions are called for, the manner of making
them might properly be incidentally con-
sidcrcd.
But whether any system of changing the
constitution is TO he found better than that
in use now in Vermont we have serious
doubt. We do not call to mind any better
arrangement in any other State. We have
the common method of preparing amend
ments in one Legislature, voting on them in
the next, and then submitting them to the
people. The work of changing the con
stitution is made matter of much dcliber
alton, can only occur at regular intervals OF
ten years, and is not therefore subject tc
party impulses or undue haste.
Constitutions ought not to be changed
too frequently. The proof of the wisdom
of interposing difficulties in the way Of
hasty changes is shown by the amendments
of the Vermont constitution, which havt
possessed two cxcclencies: they have beer
few in number, and such rs ought to have
=, lJccn made. Tie last Is the change from
= annual to biennial sessions of the legisla
- turc-a decided improvement, which has 81
far worked we'll Legislatures are too prom
to make and unmalIe laws and to bless in
diviluals and corporations at the expense
y of slice off the general welfare. One
in two years will give time to note the elfec
-, of the laws of the previous session, AM
avoid keeping the State in perpetual Will
of new acts flung out upon partial consid
Grafton and after inadequate experience.
So long as the present system works wei
)" why NEEDLE with it, at the risk of subst
III tuting something more expensive withou
~ much reason to believe that future ament
" ments will show an improvement in qua
~ ity?
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-23

AN AGED VERMONT JURoR-A few years
since Jabez Knapp, Esq, of Woodford,
was summoned as petit juror in the
county conrt. When the first panel to
which Mr.. Knapp was called had taken
their places, an attorney Informed the pre-
siding judge, the late Hon. Loyal C. KEEL
logg, that Mr.. Knapp lacked only two
years of being four score years of age.
Judge Kellogg, in voice not above his or
binary tone, informed the juror that he
was exempt from jury duty by reason of
his age, and quietly asked him if he did
not wish to be excused. Uncle Jabe said
he didn't know as he cared to be. "You
seem to hear well enough, how is your eye
sight ?" II think | can line bee as well
as ever | could" was the reply. Judge
Kellogg said he saw no reason why Mr..
Knapp wasn't perfectly competent. About
like this was the reply of Uncle Brom.
Harrington of Salisbury. several years
ago when inquired of by Judge Williams
as to the fitness of a juryman. 81 think
my marcus system is a little weakened,
but my mentalities are as good as ever they
were,' was the old genteman's confident
answer. Bennington Banner.
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-23

The New York Sun tells hard story on
some of our officers on the New Mexican
frontier The price of beef at one of the
posts was eight cents a pound. The COM
missary rejected beef offered, as unsound,
and the herd was condemned by the com
mander. There being no other beef to be
had, a man in the ring with the commits
sary and commander, offered to supply all
the beef needed at twenty-five cents n
pound. The offer was accepted. lie
bought the condemned cattle on the hOof
at eight cents, and sold the lot to the gov
eminent at twenty-five cents.
That country is a long distance from
headquarters, and there is sort of ire
sponsibilty about everything very encour-
aging to rascality. Fraud, perjury and
robbing hen-roosts are sisted to be among
the diversions with which lonely officers
while away the time.
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Hon. J. G. Mccullough Of California.
son. n-law of Hon. r. w Park, Is expected
on to take up his residence at Benning-
ton.
Hon ]. II. Gates Of Bennington, who Is
in i'll hea'uh, is to spend the coming sum-
mer in Pennsylvania.
Capt i. s. shurtiff of the war steamer
Bachc, which is stationed on the South
Carolina coast, ON coast duty, is spending
few days with his brother. John r. Shurl-
Tiff, Esq, at Bennington.
Rev f. II. Garfield, d. D., Of Airing
ton. preached his first sermon as rector of
st. Johns Church. North Adams, vi sun
day last
Rev. l.. j. IIibbarl, formerly Of Graf
ton, Vt. is to deliver the address ON Dec
Grafton day at South Adams Mass.
Gen. Burnside is to he present at I'll,
Decoration day ceremonies at Athol
Masc.
Rev. a. l.. Park, brother Of Hon. T
w. Park of Bennington is sojourning il
the Holy Land.
L. r. Hall, Esq, formerly of Shebnn
is county clerk Of jefferson county, Ten
nessee.
Hon. Justin S. Morrill, wildcliycr the ad
dress before the literary societies of thu
Agricultural College of Amherst College
at the next commencement.
j. w. Churchill ia the oldest Freemasol
in Troy, N. Y. He joined the lodge Il
Nergenncs, Feb. Il, 1919.
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Many people, perhaps most people,
air they breathe, the god they worship. In
that is bound up all their hopes and fears
james A. Coe, of Boston, who is charged
with forging and uttering certificates of
railroad stock, desired by that means to inn
prove his responsibility in the estimation
of his neighbors. When the exposure of his
errors came, nervous prostration ensucd,
and he had to be supported by the officers
on his way to the court room. The Dis
trict Attorney stated that the forgeries
amounted to between $150,000 and 5000.
600 Bail was fixed at $4,000
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-23

Found DEAD.-On Friday afternoon of
last week, Frenchman, whose name we
have not learned, came to this village from
Mineville, where he had been at work for
a month or two, and got tight" and kept
so, up to Sunday morning, when he was
taken by a couple of his friends up into the
lot north of the School house, where in a
state of beastly intoXieation, they left him,
supposing he would soon get over the eff
fects of the whisky. In his drunken stupor
he rolled over upon his face; in which po-
sition he threw up the poison he had been
drinking and also what he had eaten and
died of suifocation as near as a Jury could
conclude from the position in which he
was found. Port Henry Herald
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-23
EZRA CORNELL.

We do have hard time with our public
trusts. There was the Brooklyn bridge.
There stood at the head of that enterprise
Mr.. Roebling, distinguished engineer.
But while he, as it has seemed, performed
his duties satisfactorily, there was sort of
fifth wheel called superintendent, and up
TO date the towers of the bridge have cost
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-23

The subject of the currency is beginning
again to excite public attention. At the
recent meeting of the Social Science Asso-
citation, in Boston, John s. Roper read a
paper upon the Restoration and Reform
of the Currency" in which he said our cur
rency was both unsound and dishonest, and
that the only remedy for its evils was in
retrenchment of personal expenses.
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-23

The Pal Mall Gdzette comments on
American public money spending as if only
monarchies were honestly economical. Sir
Hugh Allen, of Canada, is accused of
spending 100000 in the Gould and Tom
Scott style of aiding the election of friends,
through whom he obtained the contract
from the government to build the Pacific
railroad. The Canadian House of Com
mons has committee investigating in Re
publican style.
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-23

FISH CULTURES Green's venture in
the waters of the Sacramento R%cr, Cal,
has proved successful. About two years
ago Mr.. Green took 10, 1000 young shad, just
emerging from the egg, to San Francisco,
and deposited them in the upper waters OF
the river. The San Francisco newspapers
contain accounts of the first catch of those
fish, which was made in the Vallego Straits.
The prize of $50 of the California Pisci-
cultural Society for the first fish caught of
this species, was awarded to Baltimore
Harry" fisherman in the employment of
a San Francisco fishing firm.
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-23

PLArrsBURaH. - The town of Platts-
burgh, N. Y, is in debt actually and con-
ditionally $205, 900, having already paid
over $3S, 900 on the railroad bonds issued
to build the road to Point of Rocks
The Indebtedness of the town is more
than IA per cent, of the assessed value of
the real and personal property of the whole
town. But the village must pay about
two-thirds of the whole Indebtedness OF
the town and the $4,000 debt for the
water works, making the village indebted
ness and liability over 90 per cent of the
assessed value of the village.
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8utlana aNetklu Glube.
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1878.

Commissioner Douglass has received the
S46S, 900 claimed of the New York Central
railroad for taxes on scrip dividends. A
test suit for the refunding of the tax will
settle the same question for or against
other railroads.
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-23
The military Reunions az New IEa
ven.

The military Reunions az New Eaa-
ven.
The reunions Of the army veterans at
New Haven, which substantially closed
Wednesday, were supplemented Thursday
by grand parade of military companies
and review on the Green by President
Grant. Vice President Wilson, Gen Sher-
man, Gen. Sheridan and other distinguished
officers attending the reunions also partic-
patcd, and the spectacle was very fine one
The city was thronged with people, the
public schools were closed, and the day was
a general holiday.
The national convention of the Grand
Army of the Republic continued its sessions
and completed its business Thursday. The
following officers were elected: Command
cr-in-chief, Geo. Charles Dcvens of Massa-
chusctts senior vice commander, Comradc
Gable of New Jersey; junior vice com
mander, Comradc Ferguson of Wisconsin Z;
surgcon-in-chief Comradc Power of New
York; chaplain-in-chicf, Comrade Angus
tus Woodbury. of Rhode Island; council of
administration, Comrades George l.. Real
of Maine, William Pitt Moses of New
lIamsphirc, j. II. Goulding of Vermont.
William Coggswell of Massachusetts II.
Clay Trumbull of Connecticut, Irwin Met
calf of Rhode Island. Henry A. Banum
of New York, Richard II. Lee of New
Jersey, Robert l.. Orr of Pennsylvania.
William Thatcher of Virginia. T. Lubcy of
Potomac, c. G. Russell of Ohio, John Me
Arthur of Illinois, George W. Northrup of
Kentucky, George A. lIanaford of Wiscon-
sin, James George of Minnesota, James
Coey of California, S. b. Grafton of Tex
as. Gen. Dcvens made an eloquent speech,
accepting the position to which he had been
elected. A new form of burial service,
recommended by the department of Massa-
chusetts, was adopted. and new devices for
badges of department officers and post
commanders.
All the reunions of next year are to lie
held at Harrisburg, Pa.
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4 SABBATH DISCOURSE.
Rev. w. r. Aiken,s Sermon.

Rev. w. p. Aiken preached in the Meth
odst Church, on Sunday morning, and as
his sermon had some practical bearings on
social problems of the day, we give an alb
stract of portions of his remarks.
EQUALITY OF HUMANITY.
The gospel was preached to the poor.
There existed previously to the advent of
Christ erroneous ideas in the equality of hu.
manity. The Roman emperors, the pa.
tricians, the noble ladies of Rome, watched
combats between slaves and wild beasts.
anxious to see limbs torn asunder What
matter if few gladiators were destroyed!
Rome had plenty of poor. More gladia-
tors would replace the loss But Christ
appeared with his credentials from the
skies and proclaimed that in his humanity
the slave was the equal of the emperor.
When that came to be understood the slave
was elevated above the scale by which he
had been rated as only food for wild beasts.
Mr.. Aiken might have extended the les
son to modern times. Away out in the
western mountains little band of Indians
is being pursued by large number of sol
diers, not to be captured or put in a posi-
ton to do no more harm not to be tried
and the guilty hanged, and the accessoriei
sent to the penitentiary, not at all to pun
ish them for crimes, but to he butchered by
order of the head of Christian nation, a.
Indians, too low in the scale of humanity
to be punished as white men would be fo
the same crimes. How much better are
we than the Romans They set wild beast
to tear to pieces slaves belonging to othe'
races. We set our soldiers to hack to pieces
free men belonging to another race
SOCIAL EQUALITY.
Mr.. Aiken did not claim that there should
be social equality. That would result in
stagnation. No mill wheel could turn if il
were set alongside stream standing
on dead level.
lhere are plenty of people ready to pull
down. But the equality to be sought il
not In reducing every man to the condition
oil yagrant or beggar, but in raising up
those who are down, while recognizing be-
hlnd the coverings of rags or royal robes
one dead level of common humanity; a
glit Tor every man to be proud of and
thankful for
woMAN's RIGHTS.
Mr. Akin observed that women who asl,
To be placed on IN equality with man have
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ARE COMPETENT and rlp,hr. on1.,na. ,o,,,ot,
ur0periV GOVERNED ,n in'i'N.i 'n ,t H.,
same timr trc.t.I ,tttt Hti,,, ~ +" ~, ~
ness. And II 4inif Inc, fiin nt al f iy,,,ti,
at once III mass, mn r.s,rl n 4r,nf ia FIX, L.,
rolgrv Of War '' W. '-'' '-'-
SgC g. 'rhnt t,f,,f.. t,,, ,,,.,,.,1.,, ,.,.,..
uuUn the dutias a. iii. mo. i III IVY, ~ t,i
wan sufficient sureties. In "A sum t5 6e fxcd h.
the secretary OF War H. he nnf,roypd i,v hif1
conditioned ihnt he shau f,tt xxx ~ t' ~
uil money placed m his hands ~ IN. u3. al
the prison aud for tine f.ithml diqrb,r"o ~ ali
his duties as communicate lie .h,Ii Ia, t ~! az
1nand Of the prison; sian bovo fb,. ri,r, ,t5
employment -. Tx, 49,. 49, .,. 'NdlNr una
of in tn ,r,,t,.lt, II ~ ,''iiDIHf anu ll' custody
ed with tie prison. lie si,i ri,i''."' u3ln .cl-
out all money used Tor Ing nrl.o al" PoR
accounts Of all the pr,5a,t, -; 'yhlpiclc
business, ana concerns co. a. i 'lov9 ilto"nl9'
make mll and regular rcfs,, l FL, ,,iiI 'i ~
Secretary OF WAR aud Shall ma KIN 'oi 10 ile
and with the approval OF lie ,, ,ill Cttlu
employ, Tor tue Dcncilt OF the i'niiri -, vi" H.,
COnViCl5 al SUCH labor AMI la sit.t tsiii. VIZ
may be- deemed best Tor tnoir health 1a auea rs
nation. lie snali have power 10 sell NH ' iI
| pose OF any articles Inanuf0cturcd by thec us
] Vlcs, and shall regularly account Tor tnc i,,
/ cCeds thereof, ana ahall Blit bond and security
/ for the faithful keeping ah1 accounting Of nil
! money and property coming 20 his hands Hs
such Nomlnahuant ne alldL , lahe hoie ana
mnNe rtcwd Of the good conGu,' of the con-
yclS, ana snail shorten tne aailS Ii,He OF hard
! labor nor lhu@ VINO, by lhelf oDeulehet AOn-
coty, industry, or general SOod tonuucNedrn
such iayolsi Sne the Secretar{ OF war lau-
fences Of such cpndcts, and 10 give the On
honorable restoration to duty III case the nc
Is nerlteui anu ~ case any cohylet snali Is
obey the lawfm orders OF ihe oIilcers OF te
prison, or reluse 10 comply WIN the rules 4
regulations Thereon, he may be placed IN (.
| llFy confinement, anu thC coihlHaHudht ~
at once report the case to the Secretary OF WI
who shall direct the Inspector 70 make full e.
amlnaHlpt phd report the matter at the neA
inSpcci4qtG bul IN no case snail any prisoner b.
subJechd 70 whipping, branding, or the carry
ing OF WcightS Ior the pufp2se ~ dsclpllnc' or
tOf producing pciltence' ahueVelI prisoner, up
on being discouraged IRON prison, shall be fur'
nlshrd WIN decent clOJlllllg. .,,
SIG. :; ihni Ihe use OF neW5papcrs anu BOOKS
s my W uoIlIti te a. nii.lSs Mhei,
nov Vlnpoy1ui UNI inn, uiiViitcial NlalloIs SUI
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