The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-21

which employs them-has extended to
the handlers of these butter packages.
The loss cannot be limited to the break
ing, or the weather damage, of the
boxes alone. Packages so handled can
not bring the neatly made and wrapped
prints to the hands of consumers in
the attractive form which is intended
when this work is done by the pains
taking dairyman, or dairywoman. The
robbery of the farmer extends through
the whole line. In travelling, we have
watched, with boiling indignation, the
willful and deliberate destructiveness-
nay, the chuckling malice-of men
handling the baggage of passengers.
Their superiors evidently set no watch
upon them, and hold them to no respon-
sbility. The last time we were in
Boston, at the Boston and Maine sta
ton, we saw baggageman draw out
from the baggage car heavy trunk
with no one hold of the other end, and
let it fall without support upon the
platform-bursting the trunk open from
end to end /; and then, with his fellow
trainmen, laugh loudly at the success of
his exploit.
IN all these transactions, the infrmity
results from the discouragements and
hopelessness of making appeal for re-
dress to these mems business superiors.
Delay and insult is what is usually met
with, until the sufferer fnds--as he is
doubtless meant to find-that he had
better bear his loss with resignation.
Is this result of free government? 1t
would seem so, for travellers in Europe
frequently speak of the difference in
the conduct of trainmen in these mat
tiers. They see that there is control,
there, which makes itself respected.
WE are not going, again, if we know
it, to bring on ourselves the wrath of
Brother Messer, by asking why our
farmers organizations cannot make
themselves heard and felt in the re-
form of evils like this Nobody in
particular is to blame. We are all to
blame in general, because we of the
farm do not sufficiently respect our
selves, and assert our rights. 1t is
easy to see that the direct tendency of
things as they are is to drive all dairy
men to the butter or cheese factory,
and to crush out everything like indi-
vidual work and reputation in the in
dustries of the farm. 1t is, in short, in
the direction of the serfdom of the
farmer to the capitalistic element of
society. -
THE individualism of action, and
personality of responsibility, which has
been the chief element of American
character, are in vital danger, if the
people can be made to acquiesce in
the present course of events in this
country. There must be and will be
an upheaval of the people against this
Va tllC LlOhCJ POWCt
Indignation boils in the hearts of mil
lions at the aggressiveness of capital
upon labor. That past efforts have
been futile, because ill-directed, is no
sign that the future will be as the past.
There must be able and energetic
young men who can perceive the vast
field that is open to honest intelligence
as leaders of the popular mind and will
toward successful effort in this direc-
ton. Negro liberty is assured. Let
us unite to give the working white
man that industrial liberty, that free
dom from corporate and capitalistic OPP
preston, which is plainly indicated and
demanded in these small instances as
in the broader and greater events OF
every day that are working in mems
minds and hearts towards a great up
rising of the people against the money
power. -
EVERY man naturally deserves to bt
, treated honestly and governed honestly
even when he knows that he is not al
ways strictly honest himself. This is
| the only hopeful basis of free politica
| government. Even the man who
r knows that he means to take the ad
\ vantage of neighbor when he can, il
averse to state of things which will
: admit of others taking an unfair ad
vantage of him. AS he sees that there
is less power in himself than there il
9 in all his neighbors, he will, by hi
: very selfshness, be led to favor law
0 which prevent injurious aggressions.
BUT it is not safe to put such ma
into office. He is there made arti6
J cially bigger and more powerful ma