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The times., 1898-04-06
The Message.

II. as the Administration press pre-
dicted yesterday, the Presidents mes
sage today win recommend interven-
ton in Cuba without American recog-
milton Of Cuban independence. il will
not do.
The American people expect and de
Inand the immediate recognition Of the
Cuban Republic. and viii be satisfied
with nothing less. Without that condi-
tion precedent. American intervention
would be against the Cubans rather
than for them. They would be neither
allies during hostilities nor a party in
interest when the time for settlement
came This is why the Administration
has always been frantically opposed to
granting the Cubans either independ-
enee or the rights of belligerents. In
teIveniion without recognition would
enable this Government to force
the spanish-Cuban debt, if not
autonomy, upon Cuba, at the end
Of the war. That is the sole
reason why it has been insisted upon
It is now reported that, while Mr.
Mckinley viii urge the principle of in
teryention on humanitarian grounds
he viii also argue that Congress should
leave the time, ways and means-the
entire conduct Of the subject-to him.
II is alleged that he win ask il 10
turn over the resources Of the country
and its military and naval power. com
pleteiy and irresponsibly. TO the Presi-
dent. confding absolutely in his judg-
ment and discretion as to what he may
think il well to do or not do
This viii not do. The American peo-
ple would scorn such a thing, and Con-
gress would do well to remember the
fact Mr. Mckinley has not displayed
either The energy, independence. or
American patriotism in his treatment
Of Spanish and Cuban questions or is
sues in the past which would make it
either safe or possible to endow him
with any more power than he has
Congress has the power to declare
war. 1t must not put that power out
a its hands. If MI Mckinley wants
war. Congress viii declare it, and, if
his message turns out TO be as it is
forecasted, he VIII get it without The
asking,
The Presidents contention that he
alone can recognize Cuban independ-
ence is one more thing that viii not
Do, He may recognize il, but So may
Congress; and he would b. very foolish
70 resist the Nill'of the nation, ex-
pressed through It's Legislature. But
il he thinks that all power and glory
of constitutional necessity are lodged
in the person Of a President ii would
be just as well to have the matter out.
ana once for all destroy the pernicious
and reasonable precedent sought to be
set up by Grover Cleveland
Today viii demonstrate the compara-
tive greatness Of Hanna and Reed. as
compared with the Senate and House
II Representatives in Congress assem-
bled
The times., 1898-04-06
The mmes News Reports SNOW

To the Editor of The Times:
1t would be favor to many, if The
Times would publish list of the patriots
in Congressman who will stand by the
people in the present crisis. The people
want to know who are their friends just
now.
You have the people with you in your
fight against peace at any price" We
do not want peace until there is not a
Spaniard left on the Western Hemi-
sphere REPUBLICAN.
The times., 1898-04-06
If We Must Fight.

If We must fight let's do it with vim,
Engage the foe and. at one blow
Knock blazes out of him.
Stop talking; get ready;
Clear the deck and train our guns
With an aim that's true and steady
Make sepulchers for the Dons
If we must fight let's do it with a will
Our brothers, slain aboard the Maine,
Cry out for vengeance still.
On the sea in flying squadrons
On the land in stanch platoOns,
Let us show the world were heroes,
Not nation. of poltroons.
CHAS. II. DOING
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KLoPsCH CoNFEsSEs.
He Had No source of information In


DIR" Klopsch. the almoner. who made
an argument recently for AUTONOMY and
peace has confessed:
Il met only one Spanish official. he
says. in a communication to the Brook
lyn Eagle. "and that was the captain gen
eral of Cuba, with whom 1 certainly did
not exchange more than twenty words
And yet this man who had talked to
neither Spaniard nor patriot was de-
pended on by the Administration until
The Times exposed him. 10 bolster an ar
gument for peace. KIopsch got out from
under almost as quickly in this instance
as he did some days ago when the insur-
gents began to manifest a lively interest
in Cuban railroad train on which he
rode. Klopsch is about as dead in Ameri-
ca as is Spanish rule in Cuba
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If the Administration can override Con-
gress today. there is still a chance to at
tempt the restoration of Spanish soyer-
eighty in Cuba through foreign interven-
ton. Great Britain has refused to go into
the scheme, but our patriotic authorities
still live in hope that the pour-parlers
Rome. Vienna and Paris will lead to
something All depends upon the CONVEX
sion Of the House of Representatives into
a camp of Tories and Hessians.
The times., 1898-04-06

While there is life there is hope! Up
to the last moment preceding inevitable
action, patriots in Congress will be
pleaded with and wept over to prevent
the salvation of Cuba, and any punish
ment of Spain Tor the Maine massacre
All "in the name of righteousness and
the business interests of the country"
How many win succumb to the pressure?
No doubt there would De plenty of money
in it. The Spanish-Cuban bond conspir-
ators and their foreign and domestic al
lies could make the consideration valua-
bic in a prncely degree!
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The Administration organs think that
there is not much difference between the
views of the President and Congress.
The President does not yet think that
the Cubaus have established a govern
ment If Congress would give him six
on that point, when completely satisfied
he would be the first to frankly admit
that recognition ought to come just be-
fore the November elections-but on the
payment of the SDanish-Cuban debt of
course. We shall see today how much
difference there is between executive and
legislative wisdom.
The times., 1898-04-06

Tagging steps have been taken at last
TO save the lives of our consuls and citi-
zens in Cuba by trying to find vessels
to send for them. Those vessels ought to
have been ready to sail three weeks ago.
Why have our people been left so long
exposed without preparations for their
succor? Nearly every day for a month
The Times has begged the Administra-
tion to get ready for this inevitable eli
max to the crisis in Cuba. Now Gen.
Lee and other consuls declare that a
massacre of Americans is momentarIy
imminent But perhaps it is not regard
ed as a serious danger. If it should hap
pen, it would be only another "unimpor-
tant incident to be treated with friend
ly diplomacy.
The times., 1898-04-06

Wall Street must have looked lonesome
Yesterday. II had dumped its most ac-
tive and efficient figures into Washington.
The Shoreham, Arlington, NOrmandie and
Ebbitt fairly swarmed with the best busi-
ness interests last snight 1t was a busy
day for Hanna and McCook, and Napo-
leon Mckinley was undecided whether
it was the eve of Austerlitz or Waterloo
Reeds reconcentrados will have to an
swer the question for him, and to an
angry nation.
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As might have been expected, Blanco's
order releasing the reconcentrados was
only for effect. According to a New York
dispatch not the slightest attempt has
been made to carry the order into opera
ton, and none is intended. The situation,
as far as the victims of Spanish starvation
is concerned, is just as bad as ever
Spain must be ordered off the Western
Hemisphere and Cuban independence ac-
knowledged now. This is no time for the
policy of bond sharks and Spanish Tories!
The times., 1898-04-06
Hirsute Comparisons.

(From the Chicago ChronicIc)
May such things be? Here is Senator Wolcott.
in open debate, talking of Lyman j. Gage as
''fippant and impertinent person. This OF
statesman who has the finest head of hair since
Roscoe ConkIing.
The times., 1898-04-06

There is no longer room for doubt tha,
today will witness the final enga agenent
between Hanna, Reed and McCook on one
side, and Congress and the people on the
other The issue is Cuban independence
All the Tory influence in the country has
been concentrated into one last desperate
effort to prevent that. American inter
vention in Cuba without Cuban independ-
ence is the one hope left 10 the Spanish
Cuban bond sharks.
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Take Them.
from tho Chicaeo Times Herald !

From the Chicago Times Herald)
1t would never do to destroy that Spanish tor
peto hotilla. Such course would be shameless
waste OF property. Tow the fotilla into the
nearest American port and man it with Yankees
We need those boats.
The times., 1898-04-06
Free without Price.
(From the New York SUM-

UfOm Inc wv lOTA SIIn.J
Cuba must he free, Uaconditionally, absolutely
free or the flag OF our own free Republic will
he SO covered with shame that neither its stars
nor its stripes win be distingushable.
The times., 1898-04-06
The Chmnce 10 E,.-n u.
Goes the other WaN

(FrOm the Mobile Register.)
Now is the time for Southerners to get on the
pension roll.
The times., 1898-04-06

From the Detroit Free Press.)
''Do YOU go in for smoking, Bloomiy? -
''No; my wife has me go out. doncher know?"
The times., 1898-04-06

with paws. She has never learned TO
use her hands, and takes no pleasure
in the occupation. She can sometimes
use her elbows, III a crowd, but to
quote another expressive eld-time
phrase, she doesn't know how to take
hold of work
What is the cause of this sort of
thing? Natural happiness has some
thing to do with it. 1t is not peculiar
to any one time or country. There are
always some people with paws to be
found. wherever one may go. and as a
general thing. their inability and sin
clination to use their hands has a re-
feX influence on the mental faculties,
and they cannot grasp anything with
the mind much better than with the
hand. When they get through with q
book, the pages are considerably worse
| off than before, and if you ask them
| how they liked the book, they say
pretty Well" or splendid" or some
thing like that, and forget the names
of the author and the characters.
Teachers know this type of scholar
| only too Well One cause of their eX
istence undoubtedly lies in the fact
that we live in an age of machinery
| when much less work is done with the
hands than formerly. The mechanical
genius, the foreman, the man with a
turn for using brain and hands to-
gether, is just where he always was,
| but the great mass of the people are
narrowed down to very few occupa
| tions. Take children of parents who
! have always done manual labor Of a
! simple kind, and give them no manual
training, only book-training, in which
they are not interested, and then turn
| them loose on the world, and you have
people with paws. They may learn to
/ develop their paws into hands, by sheer
| force of necessity, after they begin to
| earn their own living, but that sort of
thing is done much easier with a young
child than a grown person. 1t need not
interfere with the growth of the intel
| lect, either. Most children can learn
all that it is al all necessary for them
to know Of books, up to the age of ten,
without spending anything like the
| amount of time which is now spent on
their education; and the rest of the
time might be spent in manual train
ing of a practical kind There is no
reason why every girl should not
know something of housekeeping, and
dressmaking, and every boy something
of farming, mechanical work, or car
pentering before the age Of twelve.
That was the way of our grandfathers,
and it did not interfere with the learn
ing OF the three rs, either. And it was
that which made the keen witted, prac-
teal American of the best type. No
special education will ever take the
! place of miscellaneous education.
The times., 1898-04-06
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

WEDNESDAY,, APRIL 6. 1898
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-12-29
ORANGE COUNTY.

Mrs. S. r. Adams, formerly Miss Nina
Riford OF this place, who has been spend
ing several months in tho Adirondac,s
because of her suffering from malaria,
has now accompanied her husband to At
lanta, Ga. Their home is in Hartford, CT.
Proprietor Fred Church has leased the
Red Lion Inn for three years more and
contemplates immediate improvements.
The funeral of N. W. Rindge who died
Sunday of heart disease, was held Tues
day afternoon from his late home on Elm
street, Rev. George O. Howe officiating.
He was 50 years old and left two sons by
former marriage and wife. AS he was
a veteran L. S. Grant post, G. A. r.,
attended in a body and acted as escort
Mrs. Mary Grove has been quite i'll.
Miss Mary S. Dubois. assistant teacher
in the high school, Is spending portion Of
her vacation in Hanover, n. H., with rela-
tives.
Prof n. j. Whitehill of the Montpelier
High School, with Mrs. Whitehill arrived
Tuesday and is being entertained at the
Christian parsonage.
A r. Hastings, who has been here Tor
about two weeks. returned Monday to his
work at Franklin Falls, N. II. His wife
and daughter, Hazel, will spend the win
ter with Mrs. Emily Hastings.
The Olympia Mandolin and Guitar club.
q rected by George ii. Wilder. OF Mont
pelier give a concert followed by dane
at Dubois & Gays hall this Thursday
evening.
Fred Curtis went Tuesday to work for
the winter at Observation-Disclosures. Lake
wood, N. j.
Granville Barnes has been on the sick
list but Is convalescing.
Lawyer NJ. Nj. Wilson and wife have re-
turned from Bethel where they spent
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CREAMERY NOTES.

Queen City Creamery, Jericho Paid pa
irons so cents for per cent milk for
the month of November. The highest test
OF any patron for the month was Go; the
lowest test of any patron for the month
was 400 the average test of all patrons
for the month was $50; the average num-
her OF pounds of milk received per day
was 1898.
Mount Mansfield creamery, Stowe, paid
patrons s. cents for per cent. milk for
the month OF November. The highest test
Of any patron FOR the month was SIS; tho
lowest test of any patron for the month
was Al: the average test of all patrons
for the month was As. The average num-
Der Of pounds OF milk received per day
was 2679.
Highland creamery of Derby paid for 1
per cent milk for the month Of November
Sc cents. The highest test of any patron
for the month was 81; The lowest test
of any patron for the month was 40,.
The average test of all patrons for the
month was AS. The average number Of
pounds OF milk received per day was 6G0.
Milk received at Orange County Cream
cry company for the month OF November
was 1895 pounds; butter made from
same and an equivalent OF milk and
cream sold, 1905 pounds; received for but
ter. dcducting freight and commission,
S2,O7cO2; running expenses. including re-
S302.7l; paid patrons 81 cents.
Lake View creamery of Charlotte paid
for per cent milk for the month OF No
vember 20 cents. The highest test was
sos. The lowest was 1875. The average
test was 4.63. Tho average number of
pounds Of milk was sos.
Cabot creamery of Cabot paid per pound
churn test 20 cents. The highest test was
635 The lowest test was $50. The aver
age test was $40 The average number Of
pounds of milk received per day was $3.50
The Barnet creamery paid It's patrons
21is cents per pound FOR butter fat in No
vember. The highest test was so, the
lowest $40 ana the average i9l7.
The Noyesville creamery Of Walden
paid o cents per pound for butter fat in
November The highest test being 6,S5
and the lowest test 4,05.
South Hero creamery of South Hero,
paid for per cent milk for the month OF
November $3.50 cents per hundred. The
highest test of any patron for the month
was $50 the lowest test was aS. the av-
erage test was AS the average number
of pounds If milk received per day was
6.164.
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RUTLAND COUNTY,
RUTLAND

Oakley Gibson. of Mill Village, died at
his home Monday after an illness OF
nearly week with pneumonia. He was
a member of the Knights of Pythias and
the Odd Fellows. The funeral was held
In the chapel at Mill Village Wednesday
morning at II O'Clock. The burial was
at East Clarendon. Killington lodge of
odd Fellows attended the funeral and
mad charge of the services at the grave,
Deceased leaves father and one sister.
BENSON
Mrs. Jennie Ladd of Round Lake, n. Y.
is visiting relativos.-Mr. Arthur Wilson
and Daisy King were united in marriage
Saturday at o'clock p. m, at the Congre-
gational parsonage, Rev. C. e. Hltchcoci,
performing the ceremony.-Dr j. p. New.
ton Is victim of grippe.-There were no
services in the NJ. f. church owing 10
the illness OF Rev. f. A. Blanchard. Miss
Alice Southworth of Rutland is here with
her father.-Charles Dickinson is here
with his parents for the holidays.-Miss
Jessie Kellogg is home for the HOLIDAYS
Miss Katherine Ladd came Saturd ay
from Hampstead, l.. l., called by the seri.
Gus Illness of her father-Dr C. F. Strong
of Astoria, l.. l., Is here to spend thu
Christmas season.-J. Il. Howard of Con-
cord, y. H., is here for q vacation of three
weeks.-The Christmas service to have
been given in the Congregational church
Sunday morning was omitted on account
of sickness from grippe. The Methodist
society have postponed their Christmas
entertainment from the same cause.
PITTSFORD.
S. Kendall has rented his farm ard will
move to Rutland in the 81 ring.-Johr
Goodenough has sold the Boyne or VIII
lard farm to John Camden of Chttenden
Miss Hattie Kinds ia spending a week
with friends in Glens Fails, n. Y.-Wol-
colt Mead, who has carried on the D. X
Hall farm for the last eight years, has
bought farm over the mountain in the
town of Hartford and will move there in
the spring.-Emmet Seward will move tc
Castleton, having bought a farm there
Mrs j. NJ Goodenough is dangerously
sick with heart trouble.--TNwo of the farm.
ers keeping the largest dairles in towr
are shipping their milk TO Boston gettinl
one dollar and fifteen cents per hundred
on the cars here-The Vermont Marble Co
are opening a quarry on the LovelanC
farm that they bought last spring.
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VERMONT LOCAL NEWS
Continued from 9Th page.)

ting impatient for the good things on a
we'll laden Christmas tree, attention
was given to distributing its fruit, which
was nicely done by Edwin and Gladys
Houston, assisted by Polly Gale and Bes-
sic Adams as carriers. Three hundred and
twenty-four presents were distributed af-
ter which a very agreeable surprise, got
ten up by Mr.. and Mrs. Houston, await
ed the company in the shape OF a sup
per consisting of oysters, cake and all
sorts Of good things. After partaking of
this the company enjoyed a social hour
and returned to their homes. all testify
ing to having enjoyed n very pleasant
evening. The oldest person present was
rs years, the youngest nine months.-The
ladies of Stowe are planning a ride to Wa
terbury January 3. 1899, taking dinner at
Barretts Hotel and returning at 500 p. m.
MIR. and Mrs. r.. b. Smith spent Tues
day in Waterbury.
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sold her house and lot on Water street to
Mrs. Inez Bean Hersey. The considera-
ton in the deed was mentioned as s52j.
AT the last meeting of the ID. of II. lodge
q. c. Bates, drillmaster, was presented
with a handsome gold chain by the Off
GERS in acknowledgment of the valuable
assistance rendered by him III perfccting
the work pertaining TO the degree. At
the Same meeting these officers were elect
ed: N. g.. Miss Clara Harris; V. g., Mrs
Clara Pock; secretary, Miss Matte john
ston; treasurer. Mrs Lizzie Parsons. The
arpointive officers have not yet teen
named. The ID. of r. encampment and
subordinate l. o. o. F., lodges contem-
plate holding their installation of officers
the same evening thus allowing the mem
bors of one to view the installation of the
other.
WATERBURY.
Sheriff Graves and Deputy Cooley satur-
day night made a raid Oh the premises of
ono Blair, who has been suspected Of do
ing an Illegal liquor business. and un-
earthed in hole in the cellar carefully
covered with dirt, n box containing several
bottles of liquor and a large jug of whis-
key. Blair himself was not found but two
intoxicated persons on the premises were
arrested and placed in the lock up.
y very pleasant family gathering at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs Q. S. Aver took
place Sunday at which about 80 Of the
immediate relatives sat down to q Christ
mas dinner and afterward shook a well
laden Christmas tree.
At the special town meeting held on
Monday. December 26. the town voted to
authorize the scectmen to borrow $500
and give notes therefor at per centum
per annum to pay the expense of furnish
ing and lighting the new school building,
placing seats in the large hall of said
building and grading the grounds. The
proposition to hold all town and village
meetings in the hall was voted down. The
town also voted to instruct the selectmen
to borrow money to pay the Indebtedness
of the town and to call in all uutstand-
ing orders by February 1 next. Also voted
to have the report of the town officers
published and circulated among the vo-
tiers Of the town by the 18th day of Feb
ruary in each year. proposition to
utilize the old school building for town and
village meetings was voted down.
Arthur Connolly, the party arrested by
Sheriff Graves Saturday night on the
premises Of one Blair for intoxication
was brought before Justice Burlcigh and
pleaded guilty to the charge and was fined
including costs sl05l. Connolly concluded
to take the alternative of 10 days in the
county Jail. Blair, or whose premises the
arrest was made and who has been sus-
pected Of selling and furnishing was not
found. but the sheriff found two bottles
of whiskey on the premises which was
seized
Lewis Stewart on whose premises Dep
uty Cooley seized about two gallons CT
liquor, was brought into court OH the
charge of keeping With intent to sell and
pleaded not guilty. He acknowledged tina,
10 had received by express four or five
shipments within the last three weeks,
sometimes in two gallon jugs and some
times in case but got 1t for his own use.