Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-12-11

/ good in heaven will be realized by mankind
on earth because the quality Of the heart
aud life makes heaven and is heaven. The
new bible is progressive, being filled daily
aud weekly with the fresh, glowing, and d.
vine inspirations Of God and common sense,
through the human soul.
In the days Of the apostles no printing
press had been invented. Therefore timer.
atiug preachers and lecturers were quite
proper and necessary to. instruct the people.
But the printing press, at the present peri
3D. is the Archimedian power Of the intel
lectual world aud, like our western thrash
ing machine, which will do the work Of q
hundred men with the old fail, one press
may be equal to a hundred clergymen-aye,
perhaps many hundreds-to teach and en-
tighten mankind What farmer on our
prairies would 90 back to haud thrasbing<
His grain would not pay the cost SO with
the press. 1t is the wonderful thought ma
chine. The cheap avenue of all knowl.
edge-relgious, legal, medical, scientific and
literary-is through newspapers, books, mag.
azines, and tracts and what sensible man
will pay hundred dollars for certain
amount of information, when he can get the
same, by another method, for one dollar
All wealth comes from productive labor.
The professions generally produce no wealth,
but only consume it. When working peo-
pie come to realize this fact, it may tend to
change their course of action. They will
appreciate themselves more highly, and pro.
tect their own interests. No laboring man
of good sense will give his hard and honest
earnings to an attorney or physician, for
him to live in style and ease, when he may
become his own lawyer aud doctor That
he can do, and let these proud, aristocratic
professionals turn "common folks" and raise
their own potatoes, and manufacture their
own broadcloth. Let the workers combine
and cooperate, for solEemployment, self.
direction, aud self-protection, in oranges and
Sovereign lodges.
The press is like the blazing sunlight to
the mental and moral world, and its rays are
for every human being; and, if it is to bless
mankind, the time has come for it, Let no
man be cheated out Of it. The great world
is like beehive-tbc working bees making
all the honey, but the drones eating the
most Of it. The drones must be killed off,
or forced to join the workers. The drone
class, or monopolists, extortionists, and mon.
ey aristocracy, consists Of many sorts :
Military drones, political drones, legal
drones, medical dropes, gambling droncs,
speculating drones, offce-holding drones,
fashionable drones, etc. These favored ones
always stand in the places Of queen bees,
kings, and rulers, while the workers-the |
producers-are merely their drudged and
cringing servants.
But the day of revolution is at hand-a
war portends, and is even now declared and
commenced. The wars of all past history
have been brutal and bloody, covering their
red fields with the mangled dead. But now,
we wage new style Of warfare altogether,
for it will be bloodless. 1t will leave no
widows nor orphans in its fiery trail, nor
coudscate nor destroy any mans property
for our battle-ground is the printed news
paper. Our powder is printers ink. and
our bullets, the leaden type. Every think
ing man or woman is brave soldier, who
will discharge effective shots of flaming ideas
into the heavy brains Of the stubborn enemy.
Victory to our noble cause is assured. Yet
no one can possibly be hurt, for it is
harmless battle of ideas.
"The pen Is miglter than the sword !"
All hail, then, to the new bible Mag
nifty and extol the newspaper-the VERMONT
FARMER 1t is thousand brain power
machine for thought and for preaching. And
it is 80, so cheap! This is the epoch of
newspapers. Circulate the good newspaper
in every family, like the thick and fragrant
apple blossoms Of spring, and it will teach
every man to be his own doctor and lawyer,
and save the foolish waste of money that
belongs to the old system. Disband the
bloody army Of the dark and cruel past, and
fight hcnceforth with peaceful weapons only,
on the fair battle.plain Of the plucky news
paper.
The questions now are The old or the
new; the right or the wrong; blessings for
the many or the few equal rights or mo-
nopoly; manhood and labor or capital and
unity and cooperation, or wages
labor and slavery Let it be settled by
that grand tribunal Of our glorious ora--the
VERMONT FARMER.
Most noble and heroic army of working.
men and women, now uniting in nightly
phalanx in our great country Let the
Patrons, SOvercgns, and workers of YER
mont be wise and strike for freedom. Or
sanize and stand on your dignity. Do
your own thinking, and shut off the national
Vampres-the official beggars and rob
Ders.
llol the car Emancipa tion
Rides majestic through the nation
Bearing on It's train the story
Liberty nations glory.
Champlia, Mimi, Dec, 1874.