The examiner., 1882-02-04
From our Travelling Correspondent. Release the Robber Cruelty the
 Robbed.
EDITOR EXAMINER:

EDITOR EXAMINER:
 Amid the hills of the Green Mountain
 State, along the edge and on the high
 banks fthe Passumpsic river, stands the
 picturesque village of St. Johnsbury, eel
 ebrated Wherever in the wide world men
 are weighed and found wanting) for the
 number and accuracy of scales manufac-
 factured within it's borders. Walking through it's principal streets one sees o ol every hand the controlling force of its most prominent industry.
 The Academy, of which it is said no finer exists i'll the state, the pubic library building with well filled shelves, the hall for lectures, the beautiful church, the magnificent houses and grounds, adorned with rare statuary and deer-parks, all show the work of an unspairing hand going often to we'll filled purse.
 Passing by all these we see the immense store where everything man consumes, in the humble walks of life, is kept for sale. The office of the company is finished and furnished in most excellent design and richness, and no cost has been spared to carry out selfish desire for comfort and convenience.
 So farthe observant stranger has seen lit tie to condemn and much to praise. Courte- sy requires that ere we gOwe should inspect the inside of the workshops, where we shall come in contact with the ones who have produced aU this aUedlH which oth- CTS have distributed SO lavishly. These seem to be badly constructed, the comfort of rL1o- 0 of consideration, one of the most glaring instances of this being the position of the polishing room which is directly over the forge shop, in consequence of which the polishers lnhale with the particles of en- cry brass and iron, the deadly fumes of coal gas. In the forge shop below the air was infinitely worse. One could not help the thought that it would have shown more humanity, more benevolence, more Christianity, to have built one church less and one shop more.
 Nay! would it not be @ sound business investment to preserve the lives of the workmen by every means that modern science could suggest, since every work man bourne to an untimely grave must have his place supplied by unskilled labor at a consequent loss until it becomes skilled? I write this with but little expec- tation that the hint will be acted upon by the powers that be, for it has ever been thus if you kill a man instantly you shall be hung; but you may poison the air and slowly murder one hundred men, and society will move on in the even tenor of its way, hardly stopping to listen to their funeral knell, while the widows and children are quickly crowded into back rooms and attics where they are starved into the grave, and woe unto the man that dares to say word in their defense.
 Eighteen hundred years ago Jesus was crucified for preaching that the poor had rights which the rich were bound to re- spect. The crucifix is still standing on a thousand other than Judean hills. The same willing hands are reauy to sacrifice. The old familiar voices of the chief priests and scribes are still heard shouting, Re- lease unto us the robber, cruelty the robbed. J. W. B.
 St. Jo7ansbatry, Vt., Jan. 25, 1882.