Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-02-22


issue Is six pages, which include several
departments besides the local
and telegraph matter.
1t would be very poor time, indeed that
not possess a single redeeming feat
ure. There is good bit of comfort
to be derived from the the fact that i'm
is steadily falling off and that
during the last six months it was con-
siderably less than the emigration. This
again is Offset in some degree, inasmuch
as it is largely the Industrious and able
bodied class who are leaving, while the
criminal, the vagabond, the drunkard
and the Anarchist are still with us.
That was a very oubtful compliment
that a member of the Massachusetts
legislature paid his colleagues when he
said that the high moral standard of the
legislature was due in 10 small degree to
the fact that the early hour of adjourn
ment enabled the members to go to their
homes every night. The ''moral stand
ard" of legislator who couldn't be
tru sted to behave himself in Boston over
night, would not be visible at any great
distance.
The Boston Herald says: "For the
first time since 1885 the foreign COM
merce of the nation shows decrease
from the preceding year." To which
the Boston journal makes apt reply: SIT
is somewhat significant, isn't it, that
this shrinkage should come just as the
country is embsrking Oh an experiment
of tariff for revenue only, the chief argu-
ment for which is that it will bring the
.ma,kets of the world" into our posses
.kore: -4s-.---s-ts.-s
The advertising business of the late S.
r. Niles, of Boston, Mass, will be car
! led on by the S. R. Niles Advertising
Agency, which was incorporated prior
to Mr.. Niles death. The management
is as follows: K. G. Niles, president;
Carl G. Zerrahp, vice president and gen.
eral manager; j. G. Howard, treasurer.
This is one of the oldest advertising
agencies in New England, and one of the
few in this county who are willing to
treat the newspapers fairly. A continu-
alton of the business on the same lines
means unlimited success.
Between a choice of lower wages or
shorter time, the workmen who accept
the latter are apparently taking the
wiser course. Lower wages may insure
steady employment, but they also neces-
state the continued piling up of goods
for which there is no market even at the
reduced rate of manufacture. The ad-
vent of good times will find the market
overstocked and the return to its normal
condition will be slow, and efforts to Sc
cure increased wages Intellectual. Short
er time, however, means just as much
money for the workman, but less goods
to dispose of when the tide turns, better
prices and large orders for the manufac-
turer, and speedy return to full time at
the old scale of wages
1t is amazing to what lengths some
political organs will 60 in their efforts to
bolster up the tottering ia oric of lost
cause. Listen to the Manchester Union
for instance:
The United States treasury gold reserve is now
more than the required $10O,C00,Ot0. The abuse
of the administration should go down just as
fast as that reserve has come up. The new
bonds will soon be out. Uncle Sans affairs
went through trying time after the Republicans
got through playing them in political jackpots,
but they are coming out fresh and clean after a
Democratic bath in honesty and patriotism.
Party loyalty is commendable, but
such stuff as this is only an insult to the
intelligence of those who are fed on it.
Josiah Quincy, that "most extraor-
dinary man." who ratified around few
short months in the office of assistant
secretary of state, is to be investigate
for alleged crookedness in procuring a
contract for company in which he was
personally interested. The contract was
for printing the Patent Office Gazette
and amounted to $4,000 per year. His
company bid four cents and two mills
under the firm who have printed the
Gazette for 25 years and got the job
They had been organized but two days
and had no capital, no presses, no work
men. no office and no knowledge of tn,
business. They have managed to gel
out the work from one to six weeks be.
hind time, but its wretched appearance
has caused so much complaint that con
gress has taken hold of the matter. Jo
siah is one of those "Teformers," too.