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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20

THE New West Education Commits
sion appeals for help to fight Mormonism
in Utah, which it declares is to be checked
and overthrown only by moral influences
and education. 1t is declared that while
the Mormon religion outlaws its votaries
and debases the people, ait yet breaks
public law in but one point, polyg-
amy is its only offense." To abolish
and prevent this sin it declares is a
task of difficulty. The crime is well pro-
tected. Through its various and active
instrumentalities, the central organiza-
ton shields it at every exposed point.
Not only that, but the country itself, by
its peculiar physical features, defends it.
Utah is mountainous and arid country.
All the lana must be irrigated hence the
people must live alongside the streams as
they run through the canons or across de-
pressed plains. The Mormon church
owns all the irrigating bitches, and hence
can admit or exclude whom it will. The
commission has four academies and fif-
teen other schools, with over sixteen hun
dred pupils, of whom seven hundred are
children of parents who are or have been
Mormons. But no loyal Mormon will for
a moment think of allowing his children
to go to school established for the
avowed purpose of overthrowing his re-
ligion. Brigham Young, Jr., emphasized
his hatred of these proselyters by saying
in the tabernacle that he "would rather
throw child of his into hell than send
him to one of these Gentle schools
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20

The communication from w. c." in
our current mention column in relation to
the measles is commended to the atten-
ton of the people. There is unquestion-
ably great heedlessness by families in
which the disease is prevailing. Chill
dren are allowed to 60 to school, to run
around the neighborhood and, in some
cases, efforts have been made deliberately,
if not maliciously, to spread the contagion
regardless of the suffering, inconven-
fence or expense that may be entailed
upon other members of the community.
The five sons of farmer in neighbor-
ing town have been sick with the disease
this spring. Aside from the personal
hardship incident to SO much sickness,
the delay in teamwork and other sources
of loss, the measles have cost this man
over 5000. Other farmers have been SINH
larly affected by the prevalence of the
disease in their families, and they all
agree that it is not so very cunning" to
have this loss and hardship thrust upon
them by the carelessness or malice of
their neighbors.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20
An Important Hearing.

In the hearing of the petition OF the Central
Vermont railway against the Montpelier and
Wells River railway before commissioners at
Burlington, we condense the following from
the Free Press report. The petition is to COM
pei the defendant road to make connenctions
with the Central, and for the fixing of tariff
of rates. For three years prior 10 1850 the
Central ran a Saratoga and White Mountain
express train over the Wells River road. In
1880 the Montreal & Boston air line road was
formed made up of the Boston, Concord Il
Montreal the Passumpsic, the st. Johnsbury
& Lake Champlain, and the Southeastern
roads. This combination entered into brisk
competition with the Central for the New
England and Canada business. To break up
the Central's White Mountain line, in May,
1880, the roads named above, excepting the
Passumpsic, made a contract with the Wells
River road, by which the latter, in considera-
ton of $1,000 paid by each of the three nego-
tiating roads, broke its connections with the
Central and refused 10 make through rates for
freight or passenger traffic by way of the latter
road. This action of the Wells River road in
juriously affects the business of the Central
and discommodes the public There Is state
law requiring connecting or intersecting lines
to extend proper facilities TO each other, ETC. !;
and at the last session of the legislature an
amendment was passed, giving to commission
ers the power of liking the hours when passen-
ger trains of connecting roads shall connect
with each other. 1t IL under this statute that
the proceedings are brought. The Central
Vermont managers claim that they have en-
deavored to run their trains 80 rs to connect
with the Wells River road but that the man
ayers OF that road refuse to give them any
connections. The Wells River folks claim, on
the other hand, that they are and always have
been ready TO carry all passengers and freight
furnished by the Central, but that their conec-
tons AT Wells River are so much more impor-
tant and numerous than those at Montpelier
that they cannot afford to neglect the former
for the benefit OF the latter, The commission
ers will submit their report to the supreme
court ON Thursday Of this week in Burlington.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20

lT is singular that the tariff should pro-
duce in this country precisely the same
evils which afiiict free trading England.
The Louisville Courier-JOurnaL says, " The
tariff increases the cost of living, inter-
feres with the distribution of manufact-
ured articles, closes large numbers of es-
Establishments every year, and leads to
strikes and their attendant miseries." At
the same time the London Labour News
says that the British labor market con-
tinues unsettled, owing to strikes and
labor disputes ten thousand North Stat
fordshire coal miners have struck against
a ten per cent reduction of wages. At
Middlesborough there is strike against a
five per cent reduction. Wages aud shop
management disputes at Sunderland have
disturbed the engineering firms. The
Sheffield file-trade strike has assumed
large proportions. 1t is added that the
effect of the American tariff is making
itself felt in the cutlery branch Many
table-knife manufacturers are leaving fol
the United States and elsewhere" 1t is
more reasonable to impute the disturb
ances in the British labor market to Eng
lands freetrade principles than to ascribe
similar troubles in America to the tariff
The fact is that free traders like Waiter
son either are not candid or they are
ignorant. To influence the unthinking, il
is probable that labor and commercial
disturbances which are the outcome of tn,
shifting demands of trade, of the rivalriel
of competing interests or other incidenta
causes which always have and always will
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20

ANOTHER indictment has been found
against Brady, and indictments against
other individuals for connection with the
star route frauds or for completely in
them are awaiting trial. In the strongest
of all the star route cases the government
has tried and failed. In any other com.
munity than Washington the result might
have been different, and the other cases
might have chance to succeed. The
trial has cost the government an immense
sum of money. Whether any good pur-
pose can be served by continuing this ex-
penditure is hardly question. The after
part of the late trial shows that conviction
by a Washington jury is hopeless. 1t
would be exceedingly gratifying to see
these men punished like lesser malefactors,
but no great good can come from spend
ing money ON trials that must be merely
farcical. The material benefit, the STOP
ping of the leaks, was realized long ago
and has helped to give us provision for
the reduction of letter postage. The
moral benefit of conviction and punish.
ment seems to be beyond the reach OF
Washington courts.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20
Eighteen Hundred Ninety.TwO.

The matter of the celebration of the
four hundreth anniversary of the discov-
cry of America is already receiving atten-
ton. The time-still nine years distant
may all be needed to devise the plan of
suitable celebration of the great event and
to arrange the details. 1t is said that the
present son and heir of the Christopher
Columbus family is the Spanish duke of
Veragua. The dukes conception of a
celebration seems to be grand pageant
at Madrid in which color, grandeur, mag
nificence and, doubtless, bull fight,
should be the characteristic features.
CASTELAR,, the great political leader of Spain,
thinks the celebration should be the
grandest the world ever saw. Spain, Italy,
the United States, and other nations inter-
ested, should each commission vessel to
transport its representatives to historic
Palos in Granada. After becoming cere-
monies the fleet should follow the track
of Columbus to San Salvador and, return
iuS w oniSOioho, ohO NoyoSOio ohu PSoPiO
should participate in final magnificent
festivities at the court of Ferdinand and
Isabella. The sport-loving Spaniard neither
by nature, nor by training is competent
to devise celebration that shall suitably
honor the bold and adventurous spirit of
the great Genoese sailor, or which shall
be in harmony with the progressive spirit
of this age. Instead of a grand exposition
like that which, seven years ago, made
Philadelphia the converging point of mil
lions of travel ers, he would doubtless
have signalized the centenary of his ma
TONS existence by gala times, in which
sports that please but do not profit would
have prevailed and in which the matador
would have been the hero of the day
The ceremonies which shall fifty celebrate
Columbus achievement should be some
thing more than the street parade of a
circus or parody of the great discovery
America should endeavor to show in hel
ways of honoring the discoverer that the
land whose existence he had conjectured
and for which he sailed with an abiding
assurance that he would find it, has ad
vanced somewhat in the scale of civiliza
ton during the four centuries which have
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20

The New York Sun says: "Last Sun
day at Hunters Point, occupants OF car
riages in funeral professions were openly
supplied with lager while they sat in the
vehicles. Apart from the breaking OF the
law, it seems strange that people should be
unable to 60 to funeral without bracing
up on beer, especially on day no warmer
than Sunday. But like fascination is
seen in the cigarette smokers, who never
go into a crowd without putting one OF
their vile papers. On the platforms OF
horse cars, in the lobbies of theatres, in
short, wherever they can give most an
noyance by having their ill-smelling
smoke blown into the faces of people who
cannot get away from it, they are to be
found industriously at work. The physi
cal aud moral effect of this nuisance il
perhaps even worse than that of filling uI
mourners with beer on Sundays"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20

A CRUSH on narrow stairway, fall,
and then a panic, caused the death of
nearly 200 children in hall in Sunder-
land, England, Saturday. An audience
of thousands of children had enjoyed a
conjurer's entertainment, and this terrible
accident occurred in the descent of 1000
of them from the gallery. The 1856 who
were trampled and suffocated to death
were from to IA years old. The door
leading to this gallery had been fastened
open just wide enough to admit one for
the purpose of facilitating the taking of
the tickets and had been left in this posi-
ton. So at the end of the performance
the trap was set and was only too fatal in
the dread certainty of its operation.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20

WELLESLEY COLLEGE gave two hours
exhibition of its methods of physical cul-
ture, recently, to delighted audience,
one of whom remarked, at really seems
as if these girls were having as good a
time as boys" Alice F. Freeman, presi-
dent of the college, says that the cause of
the breaking down of the girls in institu-
tions of learning is the lack of proper
physical care before entering. "Expe-
rience shows" she asserts, "that in the
boarding-schools where a proper amount
of exercise is compulsory, the students i'm
prove in health but the college is not a
place for invalids, and those who go there
with weak constitutions and nervous pros
tration are likely to become ill.,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20
Balancing Wrongs.

Wrong leads on to wrong, N. L. Dukes,
a member of the Pennsylvania legislature,
some months ago shot and killed Captain
A. G. Mutt, the state treasurer, at Union
ton, Pa. The act was unprovoked, cold
blooded murder. Dukes was tried and a
shameless jury outraged justice and af-
fronted public sentiment by acquitting
the murderer. It is said that of late he
has borne himself in a most offensive
manner in the presence of son of the
murdered man, a youth Of twenty years
that, stung by his insulting behavior,
young Mutt prepared to execute upon
Dukes the penalty from which recreant
jury saved him. Wednesday evening, the
18th inst, the son encountered his fathers
slayer, shot and killed him. The young
man surrendered himself to the officers of
the law and is now awaiting trial. Sym.
patty for him is expressed in unstinted
terms on every hand. 1t is trite maxim
in civilized government that, among
other things, the people surrender to the
laws the power to punish crime. When
an individual seizes this power he places
himself above the laws and the result is
anarchy. By no stretch of the principles
of government or of law can Nuts act be
justified. In the eye of the law, human
or divine, he is a murderer. But men
look beyond the law in such cases
and take in the provocation. They see
extenuation in the circumstances. A
wrong has been done to right wrong
This may not be law, but to "the mad
ding crowd" there is in the act an even
ing up which strongly accords with a
crude idea of retributive justice and this
doubtless, will save the offender, as it has
often done before, from the penalty of the
law. Nevertheless, young Nuts action
cannot be defended on moral or legal
grounds. The orderly course of the law
in Pennsylvania is sufficient to protect its
citizens in all their rights. In single
instance a jury on its oath after full and
fair trial found man not guilty of the
crime of murder. Thereupon youth
steps up and shoots the man the jury had
refused to hang. The safety of society
demands that the law shall deal impair
TALLY with such man, no less than with
criminal such as Dukes was. Indeed
the danger to society and to respect fol
law from any remissness of court or jury
is greater in case like Nuts than in g
case like Dukes. The latter carried with
it its own antidote. A punishment worse
than death, the adherence and loathine
of all mankind, was his, while the act Of
Mutt surrounds murder with glamour Of
heroism and makes the murderer a hero
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20

AsHBURNHAM, Mass, January "a, 1880.
have been very sick over two years. They all
gave me up as past cure. | tried the most
skillful physicians, but they did not reach the
worst part. The lungs and heart would fill up
every night and distress me, and my throat
was very bad told my children | never
should die Ia peace until had tried Hop Bit
tiers. ! have taken two bottles. They have
helped me very much indeed. am now well.
There was Il lot OF sick folks here who have
seen how they helped me, aud they used them
and are cured, and feel as thankful as do
that there is 80 valuable medicine made.
Mrs. JULIA G. CUSHING.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20

Waterbury Center.-The foundation for
the boarding house is nearly completed, and
the wood work will be commenced next week.
The work is TO be under the charge of 5. A.
Andrews OF Richmond, which is "A guarantee
that it will be well and quickly done.
ETHAN A. RUSSELL is raising and putting A
cellar under mis- barn, and is putting ON an ad-
diton of eighteen feet.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20

The president has taken vigorous
step towards reducing revenue expenses.
In connection with Secretary Folger he
has completed plans for effecting a reduc-
ton of at least thirty out of total of
one hundred and twenty-six internal rev.
enue collection districts. He is anxious
to cut closer than this and may abolish
forty-two districts, so reports from WASH
ington say.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20

tia task Of extraordinary skill and labor to
establish their guilt beyond reasonable
doubt. That task has simply proved i'm
possible of achievement"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20

affect business, are seized upon and inn
pressed into service against a protective
tariff
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20
Wafrilmar Dc NnnrraL.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1888.
The president has taken a vigorous

TRRMs-S2O0 per year. strictly in advanced or $3.50 II
not paid within three months.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20

THE Ohio Prohibitionists have nominated
state ticket.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20


further demands from the government.
1t seems that they will not even be obliged
to promise not to steal again"
THE NATION " In England there is no
appeal in criminal cases, unless the Judge
thinks the points raised by the defence
worthy of consideration by the full bench.
In that case he preserves them, and
they are argued before several judges,
and, if sustained, new trial is ordered.
But point has to be very strong one
indeed, and one from which the prisoner
has really suffered some damage, to pro-
cure its reservation in this way, and the
consequence is that it is but seldom that
the prisoner can get to the court above.
The feeling, however, that appeal ought
not to be privilege dependent on the
consent of the judge who tries the case,
has been growing for some years, and has
| at last led to the introduction of bill into
| the house of commons, which has now
reached its second reading, giving Grimm
ais i'll capital cases an appeal as matter
of right. 1t is not, and cannot be, alleged
that the judges discretion has often been
abused, and the swiftness of justice in
such cases is generally recognized as most
valuable to the community. But the hu-
manitarian sentiment of the day will no
longer allow any mans chance of life to
be dependent on the opinions of single
judge, whose temper may have been
reused against him by contact with him
during the trial"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-12-31
THE COMMTTTEES.

Speaker Carlisle has announced his
committees and congress has taken a
breathing spell until January 9TH.
The committees seem to satisfy
everybody but a few prominent
northern and western democrats who
find themselves cut out of chairman
ships by their southern democratic
brethren. When the explanation is
offered, that the brains of the party
are in the south, where the n~meri-
cal superiority is to be found, the
outraged feelings of the disappointed
are still further aggravated, and there
is no peace in the family. Of the
A chairmanships of the standing
committees, 27 90 to southern men
and II to northern and western men.
This is pretty much the SAME divis-
ion that prevailed before tie war,
and shows how thoroughly the ex-
confederates have gained by the bal
lot what they could not win by the
bullet
The ways and means committee
which will have the tinkering of the
tariff is made up of majority of
revenue reformers. In fact about all
the really able and pronounced free
| trade democrats of the house are on
this committee, and include Hurd.
Morrison, Blackburn and Mills, who
believe in free-trade by the shortest
cut. The committee is confessedly
made up with q purpose to reduce the
tariff from 20 to % per cent, and g
bill to that and will undoubtedly be
reported. It is not at all likely tC
pass the house, however, for Mr.
Randall's following will be likely te
oppose so heavy reduction. Should
such bin pass the house it would
have to encounter q thorough sitting
by the senate. It is evident that ONLY
4 compromise measure, if any, Cal
| be passed and such q measure, re
moving any Inconsistencies of tn
present tariff, as well as enlarging
the free list of raw materials, will b
wise and timely legislation. Beyon'
this it would be folly to go, and be
You'd this there is no probability tina
congress will go. There may be
long tariff debate, in which the ex
treme men on both sides will ofte
and freely air their views, but th
moderates will carry the day.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-12-31

lating this important matter. He
recalled the fact that at the time when
he entered upon his present office, his
death, removal, resignation or ina
bllity to discharge his duties would
have left the government without
constitutional head. The present law
makes the president pro tenn, of the
Senate first in the order Of succession,
and the speaker of the House second,
but goes no further. At the time OF
Garfield's assassination the Senate
had adjourned without electing
president pro TEN, and the House had
not yet met and elected speaker.
If Mr.. Arthur had died, one man
would have had about as good a right
to claim the executive office as anoth-
er. Such a contingency may again
arise and it ought to be provided for.
President Arthur favors the bill in
troduced by Mr.. Hoar, which passed
the upper branch of Congress at the
last session. This bill removes the
succession from the president pro tenn
of the Senate and the speaker Of the
House to the Cabinet officers in a
stated order, beginning with the sec
rotary of state. This will not only
prevent the possibility of there never
being anybody with a legal title to
the vacant place, but it will insure the
filling Of the Office until new cleo
ton by representative of the same
party which elected the president.
The presiding officers Of the two
Houses of Congress, either or both
may be chosen by the opposition
and under the present system the de-
feated party in the national election
might, through death, draw q prize
in ''the presidential lottery" as Mr..
Edmunds has called it. Mr. Hoar's
bill removes all danger of such injus-
tice. The original draft conferred
the presidential office for the whole
remainder of the term upon the Cabi-
net officer who might succeed to it,
which would be only less unjust. AS
now amended, the acting president
will hold only until new president
can be elected, and he must convene
Congress within twenty days to ar
range for such an election.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-12-31

The Vanderbilts easily take the
head of the wealthy families of the
country. Their wealth is not only
colossal but it is astonishing. Ac-
cordng to William II. Vanderbilt
himself, his own private fortune
amounts to the enormous sum Of two
hundred millions Of dollars, and his
sons have also among them private
| fortunes of their own, amounting to
forty millions Of dollars additional,
making altogether an aggregate
wealth Of $240, 100000 among the
Vanderbilts, being exactly double
the amount left by the old Commo-
doro himself at his death, which was
a hundred and twenty million dollars
The sons of the present head Of the
family are said to have made theil
money themselves, mostly by theil
operations in railroad affairs on thei
own account. One of these sons ha:
a fortune Of eleven millions, ant
another, boy just Of age, is wortl
nine millions. This case is certainly
one of the most remarkable on re
cord, as showing such extaaordina,
capacity continuing through tire
generations Of one family for making
money in the same line of bushes
on a stupendous scale. These me-
are not real estate monopolists and
indeed, the only thing of value the
do monopolize is railway securities
and perhaps one very important rea
son why their wealth goes on increas
ing so rapidly may be found in til
fact that they are compelled to en-
gage in new operations to protec
their railroad interests.