The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-08-10

The banks will all be closed at - o'clocI
on Friday, Governors Day.
-''Sweet Marie" keeps the hair in curl. Sol,
by Il. X. Barr0ws and Mrs. w. ii. Phillips
This week we are selling 80 cent under
wear mt 30 cents and % cent at 10 cents
BrOsnahan Il Sullivan.
j. II. Chamberlain had a very successful
sale of about 80 Kentucky and Vernon
horses Tuesday.
The special partnership Of Col. Hooker II
the firm of w. ii. & +. S. Minor expires th
week by limitation. The colonel retires an(
w. II. & T.. s. Minor continue the business
e. McKennon the baber. and a puglist
shook BrattIebOro's dust from his feet some
time before daylight Monday morning ant
there are sundry mourners as they look al
their iedgers.
-Chas. Cratic denies that he was the man
knocked out by pugilist McKennon Il week
ago Sunday, and insists that it must have been
an optical delusion on the part of bystanders
who so reported.
John Blake while cleaning out the pit at
the gas house Tuesday afternoon became I'M
conscious from the gas but was discovered by
his fellow employees and doctor called before
any serious results occurred.
"A. Amidon, the hulled corn man. had
his goods packed to move to Londonderry
Tuesday and was coming down the hill from
Canal to Elm street, walking beside the team,
when the horse went to backing fractiousy
and backed off down the bank two-thirds of
some 30 feet. The horse came out with the
bride and collar, and comparatively unin-
jured, but the rest of the outfit was reduced
nearly to its original elements.
THE North American Review for August
has symposium by Gen. Miles, Wade Hamp-
ton, United States commissioner of railroads,
Harry p. Robinson, editor of the Railway
Age, and Samuel Gompers, the labor leader,
Oh the lessons of the Chicago strike. General
Miles advocates the restriction of immigration
and the EQUALIZATION of population as means
of prevention of the recurrence of such a
state of affairs as he was recently called upon
to deal with. He urges that the country 60
to work at once on the reclamation or arid
lands by irrigation, to the end that the condi-
tons which once gave plenty of room for
population and relief from the congestion of
great cities be brought back to us. Debsism,
he says, in substance, threatens not alone the
dwelling, but the cottage and
the hamlet, ''the little personal property
of the humbest citizen liable at
any moment to be confiscated, seized or de-
stroyed by any travelling band of tramps."
Gen. Hampton's contribution is mainly de-
fence of the presidents course, and protest
against this country being longer allowed to
be the dumping ground of Europe. Mr..
GOmpers article is the weakest of the lot, try
ing to justify the strike as a protest against
Mr.. Pulman's injustice, and neglecting to
consider whether any injustice was done to
by stopping or checking the ma
TONS commerce and food supply. Mr.. Robin
son is a prophet of evil, for he believes that
Debsism was but "A manifestation of a process
that was merely checked for fomenting So
cial war, ''organized labor against not alone
capital, but society. The outbreak was, he
an accident, by which the train of
policy was exposed. st was" he says, ian
of certain sections of the wage
earning class against constituted society,"" and
hat it was happily confined within even its
great limits was due to the belief of other
lgitators than Debs that the time was not OPP
Doil"Ho ~ " uoiHonstratlOn. Inc CnlcaSO
strike and boycott was a sort of dress re-
1earsal of the part which organized labor
proposes to play in the national drama, and
which he maintains it will play unless forci-
'ly withheld when the right time comes. OF
he result of such conflict he has, no doubt,
ofdence that the strength of the republic
will be amply sufficient to make it victor; but |
e is equally certain that the conflict is newt
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