Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23

1nere is no EeaStern state Wnlcn pos
sesses more advantages for summer
home than Vermont" truthfully says the
Brandon Union. But what is the matter
with it for winter home as well? With
such sleighing as we have enjoyed now
for nearly two months, affording the best
of facilities for business and pleasure,
Vermont is good enough for any fairly
healthy person.
We give elsewhere copious extracts
from Judge Powers admirable speech at
Chicago last Friday night, in which he
says many true things about Vermont's
past. But wouldn't it have been a more
profitable discourse had the distinguish
ed speaker, instead of devoting so much
time to Nermont's ancient glories, given
equal attention to her present condition
and pointed out the remedies for existing
evils.
The attorney general of the United
States has decided that no maple sugar
produced prior to July l, 1891, is entitled
to the bounty provided for by the Mckin-
ley bill. But Internal Revenue Commits
sioner Mason says that producers "who
intend to make sugar in the spring of
1892 under the bounty provisions of said
act must file their notices and execute
the bonds between April l and July /,
1891" and that regulations and instruc-
tions will presently be issued.
1t is sad commentary on the state of
agricultural education at Burlington that
the newspaper organ of the alleged agri-
cultural college there situate uses, day
after day, in its editorial and news col
umns, the word "agriculturalst, a word
which no decent dictionary of the English
language contains. But the organ is per-
haps eXcusable; it has to work its inge-
nuity so hard in defending the institution
for agriculturalists that it has no
strength left for learning its mother
tongue.
Now that the disposition of the express
companies to swindle the people has be.
come so manifest the newspapers loudly
demand that Congress pass a law provid-
ing for parcels post such as they have
in Europe. Says the st. Johnsburv Re-
publican: "The advantages of the par
GELS post systemic everybody but the
robber express monopolies-are too OBJ
vious to require statement. Why may
not Congress give the people this boon
1t would be worth a thousand federal
elections bills"
If Virginia is the "mother of Presi
DENTS" Kansas will 90 down in history
as the producer of more political parties
than any other State of the Union. The
third-party prohibitionist first came into
prominence there; the farmers alliance
next sprung up IN that region, and now
delegates to a citizens alliance conven
tion at Topeka issue a call for a national
convention at Cincinnati between Marcel
10 and 20 to organize still another party
to be composed of the farmers, the
Knights of Labor and other like bodies.
Brother Blaine and his reciprocity
ideas are not in favor with the Ohio wool
growers, who passed this among othel
resolutions at their annual meeting las
week: "That we denounce any scheme
of reciprocity which has proposed OF
shall provide for the admission of wool
mutton or beef free from any nation O
the western hemisphere or elsewhere
and we will oppose in every Legitimate
mode the nomination of any man for any
political office who will not aid in main
tanning the purposes of this and the pre-
ceding resolution; that whenever by leg
islation or reciprocity treaty wool shal
be admitted free from any foreign coun
try, we will demand that woolen good
shall be admitted free from all foreigl
countries"