Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-12-13
CURRENT COMMENT.
A GREAT SCHEME.


in high license for Burlington. The
Union says: "rhe records, which are
not to be disputed, show that n high Ii.
cense law, similar to the one now in OPP
Grafton IN Massachusetts, would reduce
the rum traffic in that city by three or
four hundred per cent This would in
deed be cOrker. The rum traffic would
be not simply eXtinguished, but placed
two or three hundred per cent "in the
hole" 1t would be "a long time crawling
to the surface again Montpelier
Waterman.
THE RIGHT WAY.
"Whoever helps Boston helps me- is
said to have been an oft repeated saying
of the late f. ID. Jordan of that city. If
every business man in st. Johnsbury
would today realize TO just how great an
extent that sort of thing is true, mud
channel on Eastern avenue would he
impossible and our village would be i'm
proved otherwise to "A degree not now
dreamed of. 1t is because eminent citi-
zens of past day believed in this max
i'm, that st. Johnsbury can now boast Of
some things not to be found in most 9th
er New England towns. Yet she needs
more. II st. Johnsbury Republican.
We have spoken of the man things i'm
the annual message of 1895, the last an
nual message, except one, which Mr..
Cleveland will ever send from the White
house to the capitol. The main thing
which should be there is missing. Mr..
Cleveland denounces the old tariff rs in
efficient for the purposes of revenue; but
to the astouishment of every citizen who
| rpads rho 1nputnpnt from hpUiuniDD tp
end the end will be reached without find
! ing one sentence or one line of infOrma-
| ton or recommendation on the subject
of providing revenue adequate to the
present needs of the government of the
/ United States New York sun.
MDICULE NO ARGUMENT.
No political party ever existed that in
its beginnings was more numerically
ridiculed than the Republican party; and
perhaps no party was ever more wickedly
misrepresented by its opponents. But
ridicule did not affect 1t. Ii went steadily
forward to marvellous victory. And one
would suppose that remembering its owl
experience, its press would know
better than to think that 1t can crush an!
political movement by rdicule. Ie
that is the chief weapon which is welded
I against lllc duNOCdltS vi lItt CbliliSt hll'
the Populists. 1t is both futile and fool
ish. But the silver sentiment and thu
Populist movement have grown and al
growing. They are elements in our poll
tics that no sensible politician will ignore
for one of the plalnest principles of gen
eralship is to recognize the strength o
the opposing army. We are constant,
told that the "silver craze" is dead. 1t /
not "A craze and it is not dead. We ar,
repeatedly informed that the "POpulis
folly" is over. The Populist creed is ne
more a folly than any other politica
creed and not nearly so much as some
and it is not over. No movement that i
backed by men of conviction, as the Pop
ulist me vement is backed, is ever owe
until it achieves victory. The Farmers
Voice is not partisan paper. 1t discusse
political matters from an Independent
standpoint and it simply gives expression
to political facts. 1t is not responsible
for the facts The Farmers Voice.