The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-09

CHASTITY failure.
"OHl well; we shall get along some
way. 1t amt so bad as all this talk
would signify" Readerl the liberties
of many nations before ours have been
lost in just this way. Is it not time to
drop all the dead issues of the past, and
take up the living issues of the present?
What does it profit us if, after shedding
such rivers of blood for liberty against
the slave holder in the South, we
should wake up at last to see more
subtle slavery-the slavery of the peo-
pie, under the forms of law, to classes
of rich men who know how, with their
money, to make laws which they do not
like of no effect? We see that very
thing all about us, now. 1t is an easy
way to enchain careless people of
waning patriotism, or of stupid over
confidence. These wrongs will never
work themselves right. They must be
righted, and that soon. If we do not
rouse up, and go at this work that none
but the voting freeman can do for his
country, who will do it for us? Point
TO one great wrong that has been
righted in this country since slavery
went down. Every generation has its
work to do. Is the present generation
to prove itself less faithful to liberty
than the last? Have we no leaders to
cry, with Patrick Henry, in soul-inspir-
ing voice, Forbid it! Almighty
Godp'
AN exchange says that it is hard
job to flatter farmers as a class, because
they neither believe enough in them
selves, nor in their art to be susceptible
to flattery. But as the native fertility
of our continent sinks to the point
where no profitable crop can be grown
without thorough knowledge, farmers
will all have something to be proud Of
just as other skilled laborers have.
SELF-REsPECT is the foundation of
character, and no man, or class of men,
can have sound selfrespect unless
they are conscious of a resolute purpose
to make the most of themselves.
Slouchy, slip.shod men or women, who
are satisfied to get along any way if it
is an easy way, will never get along very
fast or very far.
WE GIVE this week large slice from
Mr. Bowker's admirable paper on Farm
Sanitation, read at Brattleboro. 1t is
leaf from personal experience, and in
directness of purpose and vigor of style
is characteristic of the man, and at the
same time testimonial to the efficiency
of training which can be and is given in
good agricultural college. w. H.
Bowker, and Edwin Fl. Libby of the
Rural Ne,o Yorker, are both, we be-
lieve, graduates of the same class in the
Massachusetts, college, and are among
the considerable number of the men
from that institution who have SCOT
there"
WE are receiving still good many
requests for our Catalogue too
many to answer privately-and there =
fore we desire to state here that we are
out of the seed and nursery business,
and have therefore issued no catalogue
for the past three years. The fire which
destroyed our buildings, in the fall of
of 1889, carried up in smoke our en-
tire stock of seeds; and at our age we
concluded that it would be too much
for us to attempt any re-establishment.
Our thanks are due, just the same, to
old friends who still desire to send us
their orders. We have nothing now to
sell, outside of our fruit and farm crops,
except small surplus of iron-clad APP
pie, pear, plum and cherryl trees from
those grown for planting in the large
orchard we are planting for posterity
on our own farm.