Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-04-05
"SHEEP VOTE IN VERMONT
The New York Worlds Free Advertise.
ment of The Phoenix.
such ThinR- Come High, >, but We Must
Have Them.

During the campaign which closed In November
last Mr. Chills. of Bruttlehuro published small
circular concerning wool In which he quoted
tah- uf lie average prices at Boston from iSli
He copied II from letter photographed from col
unhus Jan ist ISIS, and printed by the World
jan . The writer ut the letter himself quoted it
from wool circular The World was no more
responsible for It's accuracy than for the nun-ful
hlmpnt of the weather prophecies telegraphed to
It daily from Washington,
This table was not quoted or even alluded to by
the World during the political canvass The
World used the New York tables complied for the
Secretary If the Treasury for statistical reference
The Boston table was used by speakers and writer's
aud quoted extensively, during the canvass, ON ac
count Of ITS compact form, Tut no direct question
Ut It's accuracy was properly raised, 50 far as
known, until this winter
The editor VI the Brattleburo Phoenix wrote ask
ing for the genesis uf the table and for copies Of
the World containing the letter from the Culum-
bus correspondent These copies were supplied
from the Worlds private file and an investigation
begun. The name aud address Of the writer were
furnished soon as they could be ascertaiued and
a systematic search started far the source from
whence he obtained il, and the source from whence
others obtained IL during the campaign
A careful comparison of the figures with the
New York figures used by the World during the
campaign showed discrepancies not to be account
ed for, and the World notified The Phoenix that
the Boston table inaccurate and untrust-
worthy, and forwarded copies Of the New York
tables to point out the errors. IL was the more
anxious to test the table, aud to spread abroad "A
knowledge Of its inaccuracy. because K had a few
weeks previously Dec l6l quoted this table rs the
being its first use in any way by the World. THIS
use had been communicated TO the editor of The
Phoenix and a copy of the answer furnished
Those who dine with him need long spoon
and this fairness and frankness by a Democratic
newspaper met with the usual reward of those
who fight the Devil with tow.
The Phoenix is a Republican newspaper engag
ed In deluding the sheep who vote in Vermont.
Taking the facts supplied by the World and sup
pressing from his readers knowledge how they
were obtained concealing from them the fact
that the World supplied copies containing the
Columbus letter, the name and address OF the
writer, and the information of the use Of the table
! Dec l6th-thp editor NJ The Phoenix published
brOadside Ostensibly directed against Mr.. Childs
! but really to pose rs Republican Hercules who
! has seized the fierce Democratic World by the
throat and compelled it to confess" that ITS Ia
BILE used 10y Mr.. Childs" was Enthusiastically.
As the table was not the Worlds. as the World
had never used Il prior to December, and as the
| World could be held no more accountable for MIR
| Childss use Of 1t last summer than for the bald
ness of Bill Nyes head which frequently appears
| in the World-the fairness and honesty Of The
! Phoenix in labelling it the Worlds table and
/ repeatedly enumerating the uses made Of the
| Worlds table during the canvass, may perhaps
appeal directly 10 the sense of Justice of Vermont
/ sheep; but men-whether Republicans or Demo
! crats-will consider that If not meant to be funny
| il is certainly idiotic
The table by and of itself has no more conuec-
| ton with the question Of free wool" than the
sweet influence Of the Pleades" has with the
weather. and its accutaces or inaccuracies are
| matters only of curiosity not Of moment. They
| have not the remotest connection with the ques-
ton at issue But this fuss over errors in a tele-
! graphed table is a goOdenu Morgan up in
| Vermont to attract the attention Of sheep who
! vote from the fact that more wool than we raise
| in the United States is imported yearly into this
country after 1t has been made into cloth In for
| eign mills by foreign workmen; and that the oh
! iect Of The Phoenix and the Republican party
aud press is to compel us to import that foreign
wool IN a manufactured state, and to prevent
| American wOrkmen in American mills from man
utacturng il into cloth. The Phoenix prefers 10
furnish employment to foreign paupers' rather
A H..p1a r Loot
! the vote of one Vermont sheep.
Besides the above article, which occupies
three quarters of column in the Weekly
World of this week, there is half column
article devoted to the Burlington Free Press
in which the name of The Phoenix is freely
used. If we were working for glory we
should say that a column and half OF
blood drawn from one issue of the New
| York World, which claims to be the great
newspaper of America, is glory enough fol
one day.
The articles are Enthusiastically written by
/ Mr.. T T. Wilson. The points made in tn,
above article, especially devoted to Tn,
Ph~nlx, are the same as those made in Mr.
/ Wilson's letter to us, and therefore II,
comment is called for We are incredulou,
on only one point we have yet to be con
WINGED that reputable writers or speaker,
on the tariff have made any considerabl,
use of the Griudotone figures.
Whatever may be Mr.. Wilson's opinion
of the way sheep vote in Vermont, VT
trust he is convinced 10y this time that gees,
do not edit Vermont newspapers