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whether there be left any private OF

whether there be left any private or
official honesty.
"There is not reading or thinking
person present who does not know
that I am undertaking rather than ex-
aggerating the situation which con-
fronts us. To one who loves his coun-
try, who desires the blessings of
liberty which we have inherited
through the blood and suffering of our
older brothers, the situation is appal-
ing. Unless the thing be stopped,
chaos or the man on horseback is our
sure destination"
Mr.. Howard then cited the case of
President Arthur throwing open the
Crow Greek reservation, and President
Cleveland revoking the order, after
many people had invested their all in
shanties, etc., which were left to the
plumber of the braves. Which Presi-
dent was right he would not say, but
many people suffered, and an act was
passed by Congress looking to reim-
burse for actual losses. Then came the
Hyde county combination of county
officials who pushed through fraudulent
claims, but the plot was discovered and
the officials dwelled awhile at the pub
lie expense. State Treasurer Walter
Taylor defaulted for third of million
of South Dakota money, and the
people were astounded, and yet Mr..
Howard was satisfied that if the books
could be opened and the petty stealings
from townships, school districts, etc.,
could be made known that sum would
shrink to insignificance besides the
grand total of what has been stolen
from the public purse in the past ten
years. He cited Lawrence county, s.
D.. with debt of over half million
and property in it that would be dear
at $50, 600. Chart fiends sell charts and
other educational trash for ten times
it's value, and one of them has recently
boasted that he could pay the officers
$50 each and make big money on an
average sale, and that about S. was
the price to get favorable action to each
officer.
Recently gentleman told me in
Pine county there was vampire up
there who had made good living by
being a member of a district school
board and holding petty toaaasllis'r.
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living prison hells of Andersonville and
Libby. Call the roll for these? No.
For they have proudly answered here
to the roll call sounded upon the eter-
nal camping ground of glory Fl"
MIR. Howard next branded as cow
ards those who claimed that G. A. r.
men had no right in politics, and that
they should not have a voice in NAM
ing tickets and in aiding elections. He
contended that the men who followed
the flag up Lookout's craggy side, un-
til from it's summit it waved in triumph,
who stood like a wall for those three
terrible days before Lees unbeaten
army at Gettysburg, who froze, starved
and suffered at Chicamaugua, were not
dangerous to the Republic, unsafe to be
trusted, and need give no further
pledge to the Republic for their loyalty
and love of our institutions, and if
there was one in the hall then who
dared sheer at anyone who had earned
the right to wear the bronze button up
on his breast, he had heart as full of
spite, of hate, Ct disloyalty, as hell it.
self.
The speaker then drifted to questions
of the hour and touched up the "bood-
ler.' 'The first evidence of the decline
and decay of nations is always found
in that peculiar form of disloyalty
which regards the government as some
thing separate and apart from the in
dividual and to be plundel ed and loote d
as opportunity is presented" he said.
'This spirit preceded the fall of Athens,
Carthage and Rome. 1t is the dry rot
which in a single century degraded
proud Spain, mistress of Europe, to tie
level Of third rate Nation.
| care there indications that the fatal
virus is at work in our own govern
ment? Read your daily papers and
see. Boodlers in Congress and in
State legislatures. Bandits in our
State, our county, our city treasures.
Thieves in our banks, our loan COM
panies; petty rascals filching from our
school districts and our township funds
until from sheer familiarity, horror and
disgust merge into a mild wonder
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DRNGERS OF THE REPUBLIC
Mr. Howard Calls Attention to
BoodlelSm In His Deco
ration Speech.
CaustiC Comments on School, Town
County and State Rob-
berry, Etc.

Mr., Howard commenced his address
by an Introductory talk to children, re-
ferring to their presence as splendid
thing, and to have them learning the
lessons Of patriotism and love of coun-
try this day, as no other day teaches. He
referred to the review of his army by
the emperor, Marcus Aurelius, at the
close of his greatest campaign, in which
the emperor was caused to remark,
s'Alas for Rome" when the battle
scared veterans, slow of step with tat
tered banners and dimmed eagles,
passed by; and when the middle aged
men, the strong right arm of Rome at
that time passed by, his cry was still
the same, but when the mere boys with
the flush of youth upon cheek and
brow, marching with proud, buoyant
steps, and with flashing eyes fixed up
on the imperial eagles with which they
hoped to march to victory-boys filled
with the ardor, the glow Of youths
generous emotions, the old statesman
warrior looked upon these with his eyes
kindled, and springing to his feet with
eNultant voice, he shouted "Huzza for
Rome' He saw in the young the
potential force which would be able to
beat back the rising tide of barbarism,
and save, yet for time, to the world
the fruits of Roman law and Roman
civilization. Mr.. Howard bid his young
friends to enlist for campaigns yet un-
fought; for victories yet unearned.
Past all question he who offers up
his life for any cause is heroic. Yet, il
the cause be inadequate the sacrifice is
idle-the heroism vain. The greatness
of redeemer is measured by, the value
of that which he redeems. A savior
rises to majesty or sinks to insignificance
in direct proportion to the real worth OF
that which is saved.
Looking into the faces of men who
shared the pain and the glory of those
four terrible years of blood and carnage
of the civil war-the survivors of the
grandest army this world ever saw, ano
l feel confident that they will agree
with me that the true greatness of this
day is that it is a memorial to mighty
nation saved-aye, saved through the
pain, the suffering, the agony of thou
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public slept while dishonor blotted the
flag and dulled the glory of it's gleam-
ing stars. This power grew more
naughty and arrogant, more servile BE-
came those in power, and while some
dauntless soul voiced it's indignant pro-
test, the giant slept on. The bred Scot
decision fastened more firmly the
clanking chain upon the quiverlng
flesh of humanity, Garrison was mobbed
in Boston, Lovejoy murdered in IL
linois, and Sumner struck down in the
National halls of Congress, while the
repeal of the Missouri compromise
marked the lowest level of the National
shame and sent the slave hunter to bat
tie for the fertile fields of Kansas. The
speaker then referred to the giants
awakening, the coming forth of the
leader, the greatest the Nation ever saw
since Westinghouse leader who came
not from the castles of the rich, but
from the novels of the lowly; not the
perfumed and petted darling of luxury
but the self-taught child of poverty
the wood chopper, the fiat boatman,
the surveyor, Lincoln became the chos-
Ell knight of freedom.
Mr.. Howard touched on Lincoln g
election maddening the slave power,
which trailed Old Glory in the dust at
Fl. Sumpter. This was the awakening OF
the giant, and the thunder of his wrath
smote treason at Shiloh, Gettysburg
and other points, and before the boys
in blue treason reeled back, crushed
and bleeding while liberty marched
with Sherman to the sea and freedom
sits with the '.Silent Commander" at
Appomatox.
"Well done, my comrades" the
speaker continued, "in your work for
freedom and the flag. So we'll done
that the rebel, Fitz Hugh Lee, is proud
to be Yankee at Havana; so well
that 10 Wheeler cheers the stars anC
stripes to victory at Santiago; so wei
that blue and gray are blended in de
cIaring that the flag which Dewey *
calamity planted at Manila shall no
be withdrawn until the hayward Fill
Pine shall be taught true liberty.
| Yes. But out of these four years o
heat and smoke and flame Of battl
those lines of blue came back broker
and wasted Call the roll? Some G
those who proudly marched to thei
country's call do not respond. VIII
are they? Gallant ones who died il
. the fierce charge of battle; patient ones
breathing out life's last lingering sig
in the fetid atmosphere of the hospital
, missing ones, over whose graves tn
tears of affection have never fallen-th
flowers of commemoration have nevt
. been placed; aye, and martyred one
, starved, tortured, murdered in thos
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sands OF her bravest and best-a Nation
redeemed through the death of these
her saviors and her redeemers ;"
Mr. Howard then proceeded to con-
slider the claims this Nation had upon
her sons. and why that which was
saved made the death Of her sons glori-
Gus. He contended that the United
States was one of the mighty Nations
of the earth.
"When we consider" he said, "that
the campaigns which made Caesar
master of the world did not cover an
area as large as Texas; when we reflect
that the European wars of the great
Napoleon, which shook the foundations
of every Nation of the world, was con-
fined in a space much less than that
over which our flag floats so grandly;
and when we know that England,
France, Germany and Austria could be
carved from this country and leave an
empire vet untouched we begin to
properly appreciate the imperial extent
of our domain When the setting sun
this evening shall kiss the little hamlet
in Eastern Maine his morning rays will
he greeting the stars and stripes in far
off Honolulu.
"Mere territorial extent does not
alone constitute greatness. Vast as is
the wealth of the worlds matchless
Republic it sinks into lttleness as com.
pared to the moral greatness of oul
institutions. The Declaration Of In
dependence was the announcement O.
ideas greater than material wealth
mightier than force of arms. 1t pro
claimed that this Nation rested upor
the loyalty and intelligence of it's citi
zens; it made the individual the king
1t was the dedication Of a new land tt
the sacred cause of human liberty anC
to the fulfillment of that high ideal o
our brotherhood of man-tirst recOg
nized il that noble prayer to lou
Father in Heaven, 1.-THE pride ant
glory of the Christian faith. Yes. Tn
Declaration of Independence was {
vast stride forward to that perfect free
dom, pointed out by the might.
Galileean to people too dull, too blin'
to catch the full and splendid meaning
of the prayer.
"What wonder then that defeat a
Bunker Hill. What marvel that tn
awful suffering of Valley Forge coul
not stay the rising, swelling tide c
freedom, but that anew from every de
feat, afresh from every reverse it aros
until the travail ended-in a Natio
born"
Mr.. Howard proceeded to state tn
necessity for the civil war, speaking {
human slavery, the cries and groans {
the victims going unheeded while Iik
mighty giant the sentiment of tn
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Sixth page.)
WhoOpinG Cough.

/ had little boy who was nearly
dead from an attack Of whooping cough.
MY neighbors recommended Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy. did not think
that any medicine would help him,
but after giving him few doses of that
remedy noticed an improvement, and
one bottle cured him entirely. It is the
best cough medicine ever had in the
house,. L. MOORE, South Burgetts-
town, Pa. For sale by. Hitchcock &
Co. 38-4t
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-04
TO OUR PATRONS.

The Monitor agents are on the road
now and theipost- office appointments
will be made this month. This will be
the time to see the agent and arrange
| for your club papers. We wish at this
time to thank our patrons for their
continued good will and favor, and
will try to show our appreciation by
giving them a clean, reliable paper,
and through the paper, or otherwise,
will always try and do them such ia
vors as the circumstances will permit.
The paper has always had very large
and reliable patronage and during the
past few months we have taken on
a large list of new subscribers.
Our advertising patronage has
been good and we point with pride to
the fact that these partrons are nearly
all home people, furnishing advertis
ing which our readers are glad to see.
Only a small part of our advertising
space is taken up by foreign adver-
tisers, much of this matter being re-
fused, while it might pay the publish
er it is sure to displease the readers.
We have large number rofrepresenta-
tives in the territory we cover and
expend a great amount of money in
collecting the news from different
towns. We are publishing many more
county locals than ever before, giving
our readers more local news than any
other paper in the county. We might
devote less of our space to locals and
give more general reading matter,
but we believe that it is the county
news that the people prefer in their
local paper, with a fair amount of
news from all over the country. Those
who desire general reading matter
can select it from the club list we Of
fer at a very slight cost. During the
coming year we intend to make this
paper better and more desirable than
ever before. The year is to be one
which promises to bring forth many
things of interest from all over the
world, and the local and city papers
will be Of interest to all. Examine our
club list on page two Of this paper
and you will find that we can give
you plenty of good reading for little |
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-04

The twenty eighth annual session of
the Vermont State Grange will be held
at the Pythian hall in st. Johnsbury
Dec. 1916. An excellent program
has been prepared and it is expected
much benefit will be derived from the
meeting. Delegates, other than Mas
ters, or wives or husbands of Masters
must present a certificate from the
secretary Of their Grange that they
have been elected as such.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-04

Nearly 100000 worth of property
was destroyed by two fires in the
heart of the business section of the
city of Philadelphia early last We'd
nesday. The greater of two fires
started inlthe big department store of
Partridge & Richardson, at the south
east corner of Eighth and Filbert Sts.,
the very centre of the shopping dis
trict, at $50 A. NJ, and before the
flames had been put under control
they spread to adjoining property,
including the building of the j. B. Lip
pincott Publishing Company, and
caused a loss of about 81 200, 900.
While this fire was in progress and
spreading every moment, another fire
broke out four blocks away on the
fourth floor of No. 419 Market Street.
The loss at this fire is estimated at
$4,000.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-04

Reed rules are considered necessary
to insure republican control of House
legislation.
The expulsion of Representative
elect Roberts, of Utah, from the House,
which is probable anyway, will be-
come an absolute certainty if the Nor
mons continue such tactics as making
boasts that they have secured pledges
from sufficient number of members
to prevent the adoption by the neces-
sary two thids vote Of a resolution
for his expulsion. The only possible
show that Roberts has to retain his
seat lies in his ability to convince
members that the Mormons are not
responsible for his nomination and
election, and are not interested in
having him keep his seat, and it may
be imagined what that show will be
when this Mormon boast becomes
generally known among members. A
number Of them have already eX-
pressed the opinion that such talk, of
itself, was valid ground for the expul-
sion of Roberts. A plan Of keeping
Roberts out of the House, has been
suggested, and if the Clerk of the
House, who presides until the Speaker
is elected, agrees to it, only majority
vote would be required. This plan is
to raise an objection when he presents
himself to be sworn in. If the Clerk
entertains this objection, the House
could either sustain the objection, or
refer the matter to a Committee for
investigation and report. In either
case, majority vote would keep
Roberts out. There are, however,
serious objections to this plan, and it
may not be adopted.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-04

The policy which Vermont has ad-
hered to for a generation, of promot-
ing her ablest and most experienced
men to the United States Senate has
borne such excellent fruit that at the
present juncture it should not be
lightly set aside. The election of Gen.
Grout to the senate accords with the
cherished traditions and usages of the
state. It will be not only well mer-
tied recognition of long, faithful and
able service, but it will make avail
able the ripe experience, the excellent
capacity and the wide and intimate
knowledge of public men and meas
ures which are an indispensable
equipment for the best work.-Spring-
field Reporter.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-04

The United States has decided to
accept the agreement as to the dis
position of the Samoan Islands reached
by Great Britain and Germany. 1t
was possibly the leaking out of some
information to this effect that gave
rise to the report circulated in Europ-
can capitals recently of the develop
ment of serious hitch in the negoti-
ations. AS a matter of fact there is
no serious hitch and the reasons which
Influenced the State department here
in rejecting the British German ar
rangement when it was submitted for
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.

| lsPEoIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR.
Washington, Nou. 27th, 1899.
President Mckinley is highly pleased
with the reports of Gen. Otis on the
success of the campaign in the Philip
pines, showing Aguinaldo to be a
fugitive and members of his family
and of his So called government, pris-
oners. 1t looks now as though Gen.
| Grosvenor's prediction, made a few
weeks ago, about the Filipino insurrec-
ton would prove correct. In fact,
Secretary Root regards the insurrec-
ton as already over, so far as organ
lied fighting is concerned. The end
ing Of the insurrection will spike the
guns of many of the antis in Congress,
and they will have to hunt a new sub
ject for fault finding.
The Senate Finance Committee, or
rather the republican members of that
committee, held meeting to- day to
consider the financial bill prepared by
the Republican House Caucus Com
mittee. So far, the Senators have not
agreed to accept the bill as drawn by
the House Committee, of which Col
Henderson is Chairman, as a whole,
although agreeing to the principal
points therein, and the House Com
mittee have decided to drop their bill
and adopt the one prepared by the
Present plans for handling this bill in
the House do not contemplate it's be-
ing referred to committee. In fact,
it may be passed by the House before
the Committees are announced, al
though Col. Henderson has said that
he would announce the Committees
before tine holiday recess. The Cau
Gus Committee will report the bill to
the Republican Caucus that will be
held at the end of this week, to nomi-
nate officers of the House, and it is
expected that the Caucus will endorse
the bill, and adopt resolution in fav-
or ofits being reported directly to the
House, as caucus measure, and
passed.
The republican leaders of the House,
after CAREFUL considering the subject,
have practically decided that it will
not be advisable to make any radical
changes in the House rules, which
have been very nearly the same dur
ing the last two Congresses. There
are some proposed changes which are
favored by a considerable number of
members and which might
have been made had the republican
in the House been a little
larger, AS it will be, with the repub-
l1can majority only in the teens, the
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-04

The English forces in Africa are
now pushing forward in the attempt
to relieve the besieged garrisons.
They have long distances to march,
and in many places there must be
some sharp fighting before the Beers
can be forced back. While Gen. White
at Ladysmith is being hard pressed,
his men are good fighters and unless
something unlocked for comes up,
they will hold out until relief reaches
them,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-04

1t looks at present as if Judge Pow
ers would not be able to put up a very
strong fight to retain his position as
representative of the first district
The sentiment from all quarters ap-
pears to be very strong in favor of
Gov. Page, and from the lead which
he has over all competitors we should
Judge the remaining candidates were
in the field to see which can win Sec
ond place.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-04

The American forces at Manila are
still keeping Aguinaldo on the run and
as they have captured the secretary
who was supposed to be the brains Of
the opposition, it would seem that by
following the enemy sharp for time
that order might soon be restored on
the island.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-04

Pass me not thou pleasant stranger,
For thy company 1 adorn.
Step in when in town,
If for nothing else only to get warm.
For the winds of our Northern hills will
chill you to the bone,
Come in and buy Bishop Robe before you
do go home.
I will give you the big gray for nine,
And ten for the big black,
And if you can beat them in this town,
will give your money back.
All cordially invited.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-04

The enemies of the prohibition law
are trying to rigidly enforce it in
places where it has not been upheld
in the hope that the effect will be to
kill the law. We are glad to see this
for a large part of the complaint
against the prohibition law comes
from the places where it has never
been enforced.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-04
ORLEANS COUNTY MONITOR.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
GEO. TIL. BLAKE & CO.,
BARTON, VT.
w. L. JACOBS, Editor.

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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-04

The fifty sixth session of Congress
will open at Washington today. Gen
eral Henderson of Iowa is to be the
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, and Senator Frye of Maine be-
comes the presiding officer in the
Senate.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-04
NO T iCE::::. =. .

Notice is hereby given that the annual
meeting of the stockholders of the Barton
National Bank will be he Id at their banking
rooms in Barton on Tuesday, the 9th day OF
purpose of ele citing directors for the ensuing
year, and the transaction of any other legal
business. L. j. HARTMAN, Cashier
Barton, VT, Dec. 4, 1899. 1882
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approval related entirely to minor
matters and touch rather upon the
form than the substances of the ar
rangement.