The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-10-29


one of the few states in the Union
where the original package will not
work.-Boston Herald.
AS matter of fact, the number of
judges ought to be reduced to six and
no new ones elected; but as a matter of
probability, the old number will be re-
tanned and the seventh place given 10
Mr.. Thompson of Irasburgh - rattle
boro Rgormer.
If pharmacists are allowed to fol-
low their profession without a GER
tificate, the same right should be ex-
tended TO physicians. OF the two pro-
tesslons, as great competency should
be shown by the man who puts up the
prescription as he who prescribes it,
Hyde Park Citizen.
No need of haste in the settlement
OF the judgeship matter; in fact haste
Is impossible, if Senator Harvey's con
stituliOnal amendment is to receive due
consideration. Meantime, it will have
been demonstrated whether or not the
remaining six judges can handle the
business of the state, if the matter of
Judge Powers successor remains in
Observation-Disclosures Falls Times.
MIR. RUSSELL and George Fred, why
do you not denounce Elk Minister-to-
England Phelps, of the Cleveland re-
gime, for being n lobbyist? He has been
IN Montpelier, VT, the past week using
quiet personal influence to prevent
the farmers from having an agri-
cultural college. But he is a LAWYER.
and of course what would be a crime
for anyone else Is all right for him, on
the ethics laid down by George Fred at
orwood.-BoStOn Record.
WE believe that this desire to secure
the place for friend is at the bottom
of much of the talk in favor of seven
judges. The possibility that demo
crat may find his way to The bench
serves to keep the Argus all right, and
almost every section of the state has its
favCrite son" for the place, which
serves to keep the f.iends of the favor
lite son all right. 1t is very much to
be desired that the legislature take ac
ton in this matter without regard to
the lobby.-Free Press
A vALUED-PoLICY law is apparently
to be one OF the outcOmes of the pres
ent session of the Vermont legislature.
The silly course of the insurance com
panies in leaving New Hampshire in
| huff when such a law was enacted there.
and then meekly returning after three
| years absence, is what is helping along
similar legislation in Vermont We
are convinced it is unwise legislation.
| hut the wav to prove it 80 is not 10 run
away, but to allow its legitimate effects
to he felt upon those who paw all the
costs-the insured.-SprinQfe}d Repub-
! lic0n.
THERE is an earnest purpose in the
movement to secure an agricultural and
mechanical college in Vermont sep
arate an distinct from any other ill.,
stitution. The time is ripe for such a
course. The grants of the national
government and The existing agrcul-
tura college fund make available for
the proposed new institution an id
come equivalent to that on an endow.
meut of not far from million dollars.
which is far greater than the enduw-
ment of many small, but prosperous
and useful college. CdledOnidn.
THERE are some advantages in the
connection Of the agricultural college
with regular classical college, but
it is believed that they are more
than offset by the fact that the agr-
Gu tural students are looked down upun
by their classical fellows, and that the
esprit du corps which is the bulwark of
an educational institution is not de-
velOped. Hence the attendance is not
wha it should be and the college fails
TO accomplish the desired results. The
best agricultural schools to-day are
those which are run Independently
So. JohnSbury Caledonian.
TIE root of the trouble, re ally, is
that the required qualifications of teach
ers bar so many young women of the
rural districts who have been wont to
look upon the district school pretty
much as upon the adjacent blackberry
patch, where they can earn little pin
money without being Obliged to 20 away
from home or especially exert them
selves in the matter of qualification;
and closely allied to the root, is the fact
that the new law rObs the "stern par
tents" of the aforesaid dam,els of
about the only fun the winter season
ADMINISTRATIONS Falls Times.
If the legislature will listen to wAat
New York man will say, one of the
last things they will do will be to dis
turb the county supervision of schools.
In the Empire State the supervisors
have jurisdiction of the assembly dis
trcts, and when we taught in their
schools more than thirty years ago the
system was i'll vogue and worked well.
Vermont is about fifty years behind the
times in school matters. According TO
reports some of the representativ al
Montpelier are farther in the rear of
progress on school matters than the
state, and that is to be depored. Ben
nmgtOn Banner.
THE people of Vermont believe thor
oughly in the principle of keeping eX-
perienced and proved men III its serv-
ice--an excellent rule when the men
originally chosen are of frs -class abil-
ity and unimpeachable integrity. When
commonplace men, without industry,