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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-21

THEY NEVER SIGNED IT.-Col.
Franklin Fairbanks, president of the
Fairbanks scale company at st.
Johnsbury, is out with a card denying
the published statement that the
Fairbanks company signed petition
asking for reduction of the duties
on pig iron, scrap iron and scrap steel
and for free importation of iron ore,
coal and coke. Says President Fair
banks: "We never joined in any pc
tition for reduction of tariff duties,
or for free iron and coal, and it
would be a sorry dgy for St. Johns
bnry when said duties are removed.
A large share of our sales of scales
are made to iron manufacturers and
anything tending to break down the
blast furnaces or rolling mills of Penn
sylvania or of any other State would
greatly reduce our manufacturing and
necessitate a large reduction i'll our
help. We are to-day buying coal
from Pennsylvania and Maryland at
a less price than we paid for English
and Pitcon coal under a free tariff" ="
This rather dulls the point of numer-
Gus editorial items based on the state
ment that the Fairbanks company
had asked for ruduction of duties.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-21
General News Items.

The San says that ex-president Cleve-
land is under treatment by DIR. Gibbs of
New York, with view to reducing his
flesh. He has been advised, according
to the San, that his increasing bulk may
become a source of danger He is other
wise in good health.
An important railroad deal has just
been concluded by A. q. Yates of Roch-
ester. 1t includes the purchase from Ad-
rian Iselin of New York of the controll-
ing stock, which in the aggregare is over
$l2 900 900, of the Buffalo, Rochester
and Pittsburg Railway and for 81, 900, 900
of the Rochester and Pittsburg Coal and
Iron Company.
The bid Of the Louisiana Lottery COM
pany to the legislature for renewal OF its
charter from 1895 is just made public.
At the approaching session of the general
assembly of Louisiana meeting, May a
proposition will be submitted by John A.
Morris to pay the state Sl2,500.O00 fol
the purpose of maintaining a lottery for a
period of twenty years. The license
of $500, 900 per annum thus offered to be
paid, is to be devoted TO certain specific
purposes named in the proposition OF
Morris.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-21

Secretary of War Proctor proposes
to the Interior Department to recruit
a regiment of Indian soldiers. Why
not? There are many thousands of
Indians who can now be trusted, un-
der capable and experienced regular
officers, to do service in the unsettled
regions where patrol and protective
forces are still needed. The Indian
scouts have done excellent service
whenever they have been selected
and commanded by the right sort of
officers-men who know how to man.
age Indians No better judge of In
dians than Gen. Crook ever lived, and
he was justly proud of the Indian
scouts that pursued Geronimo and
his Apaches into Mexico.
The Indians are born cavalry SOL
diers. Sheridan thought them, in
some respects, the best fitted for cav.
airy service of any men in the world
1t would be a long step toward
solving the Indian problem if Indiar
cavalry could be used in our frontie
service, but that two OF three or ever
more regiments would ultimately b,
added to our army, thus giving to tn,
more active and adventurous Indians
a sphere congenial to natural fighter
and made useful to the country
Mail and Express.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-21
Bounty on Maple Sugar.

Now, Gen. .Grout, go in for boun-
ty on maple sugar. The tariff COM
mittee have yielded to the pressure
brought to bear on them by the great
number of sugar consumers, land have
put sugar on to the free list. Proba-
bly, just thing to do. In order to
protect the sugar interests of the
South and the beet and sorghum inter-
ests of the West, a bounty of two
cents pound is put on domestic SUI
gar. That is, government will pay
the sugar maker two cents pound
for such sugar cane, beet and sorghum
as are made in this country. Why not
maple? The maple sugar of the North
is, in a certain sense, in competition
with the cane or beet sugar of the
South and West, and it ought not
only to be Fprotected, but to be
fostered, if any sugar should be, by
the bounties. The object of the free
sugar legislation is to make the arti-
Gle cheaper to the consumer; the OBJ
iect of the bounty is to keep alive the
sugar industries until they can get
upon a paying basis, ultimately to
furnish the country with its sugars.
If the sugars consumed in the country
could be produced here, the many
millions of dollars that are sent out
of the country to purchase them can
be saved to the country, while thous-
ands of acres of land and tens of
thousands of laborers can be put to
raising and manufacturing sugar.
While Vermont is furnishing the
whole country with men for thous-
and enterprises, and money to set
the wheels of business in motion, con-
gress ought to give her the little ben
eft she might get from her maple
sugar industry, protected by bounty,
as it is proposed to benefit the sugar
interest elsewhere. Gen. Grout has
already tackled the matter, and we
expect he will do his best to amend
the sugar schedule by getting a
bounty on the maple product.
Bathe freely with Johnson's Anodyne Liniment'
then rub hard light and morning, for pleurlsy.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Wdshin0tOn, Apr. II.

Washington, Apr. IA.
Saturday was a gala day in Wash
ington, made in honor of the Pan
Americans. The day was a perfect
one for street pageantry, and the
government showed the members of
this international American congress
some specimens of the United States
soldier as he appears in the regular
service and in the ational guard, in
the infantry, cavalry and artillery.
The streets were alive with martial
music and bodies of blue cloth clad
and russell leggined soldiers, and a
great crowd of people attempted to
see the review of the troops made by
the president and cabinet together
with the Pan American delegations.
A rather poetic and pretty incident
of the affair was the presentation to
each country represented in the con-
ference of an American flag made of
American woven silk.
This conference, by the way, which
has been in session here for so many
months discussing the spread of COM
merce, the march of progress and
liberty on the western continent, and
kindred international subjects, ex-
poets to conclude its labors on the
18th inst. That is the day fixed
for the delegation to start on their
tour through the southern states.
Among important reports of its
committees that have been submitted
to the international American confer
ence and adopted by it, is one that
recommends that reciprocity treaties
be negotiated between the several re-
publics of the American hemisphere
each making tariff concessions, sc
that the peculiar products of all OF
them may be introduced free into the
others. This report is in the same
line as the amendment suggested by
Secretary Blaine to the committee OF
ways and means of the house of rep
resentatives.
The committee of the conference
on banking thinks that commerc'
could be greatly extended by facili
tating direct exchanges between th'
money markets of the countries rep
resented in the conference. 1t ma,
not be generally realized that United
States merchants who import good
from South and Central Americ;
make these importations almost en-
tirely through the use of Englisl
bankers credits. Therefore the com
mittee suggests the passage by th
United States of law incorporatin!
an international American bank witt
ample capital and giving the citizen
of the several countries in the con
ference the privilege of taking share
in the bank pro rata to their foreigI
commerce.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-21

Those who seemingly begrudge an
old soldier his deserved pension, are
men without patriotism, without gem
erosity of decency.-Borton Monitor.
And yet we read in this same pa
per but a short time since that one
of the bravest of the soldiers had re-
ceived his full share of honors be-
cause he had occupied the Lient.
Governors chair, ,and for that reason,
although he was fitted for higher du-
ties, he ought not to be further hon
ored.-LyndOnUiHe Journal
The LyndonUiLe Journal seems to
feel the force of what the MONITOR
stated in the article from which the
short extract is given. To be plain
about tive had Bro. Davis and a few
others of his kind in mind when we
penned the article. From time TO
time he has published items and arti-
cles which were intended to cast a
reproach on the pension laws and pen
sioners. We are glad he is wounded.
If he stands out to be shot at by SOL
diers he is very liable to be hit.
We hope Col. Woodbury. is getting
a good round pension for the loss of
his arm in battle. He deserves it.
But pensions and honors are different
things. There are hundreds of men
who deserve pensions who are not
made up just right to be governors
of Vermont
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-21

liable or efficient officers but the
chance that they are really the best
fitted for the highest place in the gift
of the people is very small. There
is phrase more familiar to most men
than the instances which might be
described by it, which says, ''The Of
fee should seek the man." This is not
the philosophy nor the ethics of those
who run the political machine, and
the instances where the very best is
obtained through the workings of
ring politics are very rare. The
Messenger thinks it will be very diff
cult to find men who will consent to
take minor offices if this shall debar
them from aspiring to be governors.
The argument is that such men would
naturally be second class donkeys
perhaps. There will be, at least, in
the non promotion rule one good
thing, donkey lieutenants can not be
promoted to be donkey captains. Do
faot. fear, Bro. Messenger, Mr.. Page is
not attempting to select candidates
for any state Office. He is by very
general common consent the most tit
candidate for governor in the field.
He entered the canvass on the applica-
tion and solicitation of a very large
number of influential men in Vermont.
He is not allied with any other man
in this political scrimmage if he wins
he will win on his own merits, and by
| fairest means. If he loses he will
still be one of the best examples of a
self-made man, one of the best busl-
ness men, and the staunchest and
most useful republican in the state.
If any other candidate combines more
good qualities, more fitness for the
place of governor, and deserves more
from the republican party or the peo-
pie of the state than he, let such a
man win. In the meantime let the
Messenger point out such man, and
continue to show the advantages of
the promotion rule in Vermont poll
tics.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-21

conscription? Are the eXigencies of
another's candidature so desperate as
to require recourse to the Infamous
expedients employed against Mr..
Page? Was it an unpardonable sin
for the youth, under the circumstance
es that environed him-as detailed
by Col. Sawyer and Captain Blake
to Weld filial obedience to the wishes
and entreaties of an invalid parent !!
Was it a crime that he twas diligent
in business ?" Was it to his dlscredlt
that at fifteen he was his fathers fac
totum? How many boys of his age
could be implicitly entrusted with af-
fairs so varied and important? The
boy was clearly father of the man, land
we greatly mistake if the people do
not discover in this glimpse of young
Pages early life the strongest posi-
BILE reasons for making him governor
in this crisis of the states affairs.
Here are seen precisely the qualities
that are needed in the chief executive
at this time. Excepting w. P. Dill
lingham, he is the youngest candidate
for the governouship since the war,
and he and Mr.. Dillingham; were born
in the same year. Whatever objec-
tions-if any at all-may be made by
Mr.. Pages candidacy, no unjust dis
elimination on the score or "war rec
ords," as between him and the other
civilian candidates for the last twenty
years, will be tolerated by the men
of Vermont. Mr.. Page has deserved
we'll of the people of Vermont, and
they will see to it that he has fair
play"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-21
Promotion or Non Promotion

The st. Albans Messenger, in a
long and labored article of recent
date, struggled hard to disabuse the
minds of it's readers to the natural
objection they have of promoting
lieutenant governors to the position
of governors. 1t is a hard PROPOSE
ton to demonstrate that water nat
urally runs up hill; and almost as
difficult to prove that a promotion
rule conserves most to public good.
The average voter well understands
that rules and customs, in the matter
of selecting political candidates,
mean rings and cliques. Whenever
custom establishes a rule, the field
which ought to be open and broad is
circumscribed and limited. 1t would
be well always if the first office in the
state could be bestowed on some citi-
zen whose ability, experience, char
acter, and success in the line Of his
effort are such as to characterize hin
as the very best man in all the state
for the office. That man might hap
pen to be lieutenant governor bu
those who have some familiarity will
the workings of political machinery
would not expect that the "machine'
would always turn out a lieutenan
governor candidate who would be O.
all men the best man for a governo
candidate, two years hence. Th
machine doesn't work that wav
Those who succeed in obtaining th
second place on the state ticket ma
be worthy of it; they may make cred
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-21

On Saturday the president decorat-
ed Francis Joseph, the inventor Of
the life saving car, with gold med
al. Congress had decided he should
have it as a mark of national esteem
for ingenuity that had already saved
thousands of lives. There was but
little ceremony attending the presen-
tation, which took place in the blue
room of the White House. The presi-
dent made short address and told
the inventor how much pleasure it
gave him to place the medal in his
hands.
After an investigation of great care
and accuracy, the special committee
of the national reform league esti-
mates that more than one-third of the
entire time of each congressman is
consumed in securing offices for his
constituents, and upon the strength
of this, the league warmly commends
the bill recently introduced in the
house relative to the appointment of
postmasters as fourth class officers.
The death of Hon. Samuel j. Ran
dali yesterday morning was a sur
prise to no one. For several days
all hope of his recovery had been
abandoned by his family and physl-
clans and his death was expected
momentarily. His Washington resi-
dence, a small, modest building on
Capital Hill, was visited daily dur
ing his illness by Secretary Blaine
and President Harrison. Although
no callers were allowed to see the
sick man, hundreds came daily to
make inquiries, and the sick room
was kept we'll supplied with fresh
flowers from the White House con-
servatory.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-21
The Bible in Schools.

The recent decision of the Wiscon
sin supreme court to the effect that
the Bible may not be read in the pub
lie schools has received further inter
probation by one of the judges con-
cerned. In answer to questions from
President Albee of the State Normal
School the Judge writes that the de-
cision prohibiting the reading of the
Bible in schools simply forbids its
use as special book for ''specific-
ally religious purpose" The Bible
may be used in the school like his
tory or any other book, and as such
may be read before the whole school.
The decision of the Wisconsin
court has given birth to heated dis
cussion throughout the country, and
it remains to be seen if this latest in
depreciation of the opinion will make
it any the less Objectionable to those
Who believe in its use for "specific-
ally religious purpose. The ques-
tisn seems to be whether the Bible
will subserve its purpose as a moral
agent used as the court permits it's
use. In this way the Bible must de-
pend wholly upon its intrinsic merits,
divorced from any religious or inspir-
ed origin. The permissible use of
the book will not teach the pupils to
reverence it. If this is desirable, and
it has generally been deemed so, then
the courts latest Interpretation only
adds objections to the original decis-
ion.-IeLegrGph.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-21

Deacon Jacob Estey, founder of
the Estey Organ Co., and senior
member of the firm, died suddenly,
Tuesday morning, April 10, of heart
clot. at Brattleboro. He was taken
i'll in his office, about II O'Clock Mon
day morning, and although his symp-
toms were not alarming until late in
the evening, he gradually grew worse
until 2 As Tuesday morning, when he
died. He was born in Hinesdale, n.
H., Sept. 80, 1914, being one of the
family of eight children, four of whom
survive him. He began here in the
plumbing business in 1885, contlnu-
ing twenty years, when he begun the
manufacture of melodeons with seven
or eight hands. Finally he began the
manufacture of cottage organs, which
industry, together with its various
branches, has grown to be probably
the largest musical establishment IN
the world. MI. Estey served in both
branches of the Legislature and came
within a few votes in 1876 of being
nominated for governor. The busl-
ness interests will be continued under
his provisions by his partners, Col
L. K. Fuller and Julius j. Estey
The funeral was held in the Baptist
church on Friday afternoon. Deacon
Estey was in every sense noble man
He added to his natural integrity anc
honesty the excellence of religion
and lived in the fullest sense Chris
tian life.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-21
A Change in the Silver Situation.

The House Conference Committee
on the Silver Question seems to have
found it's head and its courage at last ,
and abandoning the unfortunate con-
cessions which it had made to the sill
yer men, has taken its stand upon
the modified Window bill, and deter
mined to report that measure to the
Republican caucus. The silver ex-
tremists, who had congratulated them
selves upon having their own way in
the Joint conference, are depressed
and perplexed by this turn of affairs.
There are numerous intimations that
the change in the House Com
mittee. and a certain stiffening of
conservative sentiment among some
Republican Senators, are attributable
to distinct intimations that the Pres
ident did not approve and would not
sign an extreme measure. Whatev-
er of truth there may be in these re-
ports, it is not open to question that
the expectation that the President
will act with frmness against either
free coinage or any other reckless sill
yer proposition has presented to the
silver extremists an obstacle which
they could not overcome. With this
change of front on the part of the
House Committee the situation is per-
ceptibly improved There should now
be an organization and concentration
of conservative sentiment against
any extreme measure. Hitherto the
pressure has been almost wholly on
the other side.-,JOurndl
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-21
Death of Mr.. Randall.

In the death of Samuel jackson
Randall the democratic party loses
its wisest and most patriotic states
man, and the nation an upright, hon
est and fearless public servant. For
many years Mr.. Randall, through his
attitude on the tariff question, has
occupied a more prominent position
before the country than any other
member of his party. His death re-
moves the last hope of the constantly
diminishing band of democratic pro-
tectionists and hands the party over
completely to the free traders.
Mr.. RandalPs prominence in Amer
lean history for twenty-five years has
been due to qualities that make a
leader of men, rather than to those
that make leader of thought; and
yet he has been the leader of one
school of thought in his party. In
the light of that modern method of
analysis of character which ranks the
perception of moral aspects highest
among the intellectual faculties, his
intellect was of a high order; intui-
tive in its nature, though restricted
in the scope of its powers by deficien-
cies of training, but linked with tre-
mendous personal force, and thus
forming a combination which gave
it's possessor an extraordinary power
of welding men. Randall was not
specially gifted with what is known
as magnetism; but he was clear
headed, he was strong, he was hon
t,and thus every one came to know
that he could be depended on.
The one characteristic trait of Ran
dall's public life was honesty. Wrong
he may have been, obstinate he was,
and often imperious and dogmatic,
but he was always honest and always
watchful so far as the interests of the
government was concerned. A sig
nal proof of this is the fact that Mr..
Randall dies as he lived, poor man.
Though he occupied position of tre
mendous trust at the head of the ap-
propriations committee, we do not
think Mr.. Randall's bitterest foe ever
accused him of an act that savored
in the least of using his influence for
personal advantage. There is no
taint of jobbery on his record.
Mr.. Randall was among the most
earnest of partisans, and was one of
the few modern democrats who re-
manned true to the party's ancient
principles. He led the opposition
to the Force bill in the house of rep
resentatives, and in the trying duties
of the speakership during the Hayes
Tilden contest his stern integrity and
fidelity to states rights made him
firmly overrule all attempts to flibus-
ter against the decision of the elector-
al commission, based as it was on
the reports of state returning boards.
When his party abandoned what he
believed to be the right way he him
self abandoned neither the right way
nor the party, but retained his fellow
ship with it and tried to bring it back
to the most direct methods of revenue
reduction-the simple abolition of in
ternal taxes.
The democratic party under its
present leadership will not realize the
great loss it has sustained in the
death of its Pennsylvania leader, but
the country at large will. Every pat
riotic citizen who sympathizes will
American labor will mourn the los:
of Samuel J. Randall. ~. Y. Press
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-21

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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-21

The WdtchneGn in commenting on
our article on Mr.. Pages war record
of Apr. IA, says: "Why this mur-
derous warfare at this time upon a
civilian who is a candidate for the Of
flee of chief executive? Why is Mr..
Page singled out for invidious distinc-
tions that were not raised in the case
of Stewart, Batcheider or w. p. Dill
lingham? Why, quarter of centu-
ry after peace was declared, is a man
who was a minor-a youth of eight
cen when the war broke out-taunt-
ed with the fact that he did not enlist,
and charged with self-exile to avoid