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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-29
Old Home Week

Commenting on the benefits of "Old
Home Week." especially for the New
England States the Brooklyn Eagle
very pertinently says:
There is a great section of the West
which has been built up by the most en-
ergetic sons of New England and the
lie of New York and Boston is
strengthened by the boys born on these
New England farms. The large pro-
portion of the country-born among the
men in prominent places has become
commonplace. But the same process
which has enriched the life of the cities
with this good blood has depleted that
of the country. The result is the de-
terioration of the hill towns, of which
we have heard so much. The old home
week is the best device yet found to
overcome the evil effects of this tend.
ency. Missionaries and settlements
have been advocated to meet that con-
dition, but the only missionary of any
use is one who lives among the people
and becomes part of their life, friend
rather than an official guide. The man
of means who buys his fathers or
grandfather's old homestead and estab-
fishes his family there for the summers
becomes by degrees force as we'll as
as market for the community. He has
more kindly feeling toward the people
than he would have in strange region
and their proud shyness of him is bound
to wear off after time. His children
play with the country children to the
benefit of both, and if he has a taste for
farpnino ha fria 10
which may prove profitable to the
neighborhood.
A summer population makes mark
ct for the only things which mountain
regions are fitted TO raise-vegetables
small fruits, eggs, chickens, dairy prod
ucts and horses. Even in these things
the home farmer cannot compete in the
city markets, but when the city con-
sumner goes to him he has the advant-
age of freshness on the side of his prod
uct and ought to win. That is true
even of summer hotels. The tendency
of the old home week is to increase the
number OF summer homes to which the
same people go year after year. The
| effect of these is to give both an intel
lectual and financial stimulus. If the
movement is only continued long
enough it will check the degeneracy of
the hill towns and make the outlook of
the permanent residents there less
hopeless. Fifteen years ago the
wretched condition OF hill towns in the
Berkshires used to be written about.
Now that the summer invasion has ex-
tended far beyond Lenox, Stockbridge
and Litch6eld, those towns have be-
come envied. If the prosperity of alb
sent sons continues, that process may
yet be extended through Maine, Yer
mont and New Hampshire. OF these
Vermont, which needs it most, is the
only one which has not yet established
an old home week.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-29
The SOuth's Danger,

In its efforts to expand its infant in
dustries the South still sticks to the
silly idea that it can run Us fast wi h
legs of lead as if it had winged ones
like those of Mercury. r, ports from
regions south OF Mason's and Dixon's
line are to the effect that betting and
broom factories were opened in one
week in North Carolina, a canning fac
tory in Georgia, coal mines in Alabama,
Texas, Virginia and West Virginia, q
factory for making coal briquettes in
Texas, cottonseed oil mills in Louisiana
and North Carolina, cotton mills in
Georgia, Louisiana and Virginia, -four
ing mills in North Carolina and Ten
nessee, a foundry in Tennessee, fur
niture factory in Virginia, granite quar-
ries in Texas, handle and spoke fac
tory in Tennessee,a hardware company
at North Carolina, knitting mill in
Georgia, lead and zinc mines in Arkan-
sas, limestone and quarries in Alabama,
lumber mills in Alabama, Florida, Mis-
sissippi, Texas and West Virginia, ma
chine shops in Mississippi, papes box
factory in Virginia, rice mills and irri-
cation works in Louisiana and Texas,
telephone exchanges in North Carolina
and West Virginia, $4,000 wood
working plant in Georgia and wood
working machinery mandatory in
Virginie.
This is only weeks work; and yet
the South is sung to and seduced by
that silly old song of the silliest old
syren that ever sang, free trade. Will
the South ever learn wisdom? II will
wake up should Bryan succeed, to find
| itself in the arms OF al octopus that
will hold it back or down, if it does MOI
crush and suck the life out of it. This
is not advocating anything like the ex'
IRENE protection necessary in earlier
years; it is calling attention to the ter
rible danger of the South's committing
suicide, if not hari-kari. There is only
one word to be shouted out to the
South, and that word is-Thinkl
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-29
Bryan Ghosts.

Mr.. Bryan INDUCED in a good deal of
CUFF about the American citizen at the
Chicago picnic which he attended last
week. He dwelt especially on the
great advantage which our citizenship
has, as being composed of "the best
blood of all the civilized races" This
is exceedingly wide of the truth. The
dangers coming from the cosmopolitan
character of our people are that the
elements are 80 largely from the worst
portions of the various countries. We
do not have the best blood of all the
peoples represented in our population.
On the contrary we have a good deal of
the worst element from every nation
which has contributed to our popula-
ton, and from some of them we have
very little else. 1t is only talk" to
plume ourselves on the composite
character of our citizenship. Here lies
our danger, not our safety; hence
comes much of our shame, rather than
our glory. We have been too eager to
build up in quantity, rather than to
better the quality of our citizenship. II
no doubt fiattered Mr.. Bryan's audi.
ence to be told what valuable members
of the community they are; but some
palmer, if less palatable, truths would
have been better for them.
Mr.. Bryan fears for the country when
we "put our light out"-as he express
es it. But who is putting the nations
light out9 Not the Republican party
or the administration. The American
light shines as brightly today as ever
and the spooks of Imperialism, militar
ism, etc., etc., are only myths conjuret
up by hard-pressed candidate, wht
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-29
Stand by the Ticket.

The Republicans of Vermont have
had several disquieting side Issues dur
ing the State campaign now closing,
but any minor difference of opinion
that may have arisen has made no good
Republican forget that vote for Stick
ney and Allen next Tuesday is practi-
cally vote for Mckinley and Roose.
welt in November. The presidential
vote in Vermont in November is SIM
ply ratification of the vote for Gov
ernor in September.
The eyes of the whole country will
be on Vermont next Tuesday. Repub-
licans in nearly every State in the
Union have two months OF struggle
ahead of them after Vermont casts her
vote in September. A rousing majority
for Stickney and Allenwill be hailed with
delight by Republicans throughout the
country, while merely normal Repub-
lican majority, or worse yet, falling
off, will be the strongest kind of a
Democratic argument and will be used
for all it is worth in the campaign of
the next two months.
1t has been suggested that the Re-
publican newspapers of the State print
the full instructions to voters in regard
to marking ballots, but this, to the
JOURNAL, seems unnecessary. The vot-
ers of this State are familiar with the
Australian ballot, and know how to use
it.
Let the Republicans of Vermont for
get local differences, whether they af-
feet the Senatorship, high license, pro-
hibition or State printing and go to the
polls next Tuesday with the one pur.
pose in view to swell the Republican
majority far beyona "off-year" figures
The myriad torches and bonfires thai
will be lighted, and the flags that will
be hung out in other States from on,
end of the country to the other in cele
bration of the Republican vote in Yer
mont will be the best evidence that tn,
work of Republicans in this little State
of ours is appreciated.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-29

free trade for live stock to become of
as little value as it was in the days Of
Cleveland. But IL, on the other hand,
the farmers of the country want to keep
what they have and to add to it, they
need to stand by ,he policy which gives
the American market to the American
people, and which, by bringing work
and money and prosperity to the indus
trial workers Of the country, creates a
s1ong home demand for the products
of the farm.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-29
Where is China's Government

Ordinarily a nation transacts business
in a regular manner and can be adj
dressed through authorized channels.
But since the Boxer trouble began the
government of China has been a mys-
terry. The Empress seems to have de-
cided to shut off direct official commun-
ication, and this fact is proof of her
completely in the international outrages
that have occurred. The first occupa-
ton of Pekin would have been the pro-
per time for her representatives to
come forward to ascertain the nature OF
foreign demands or at least the condi-
tons of truce, but the policy has been
that of ineffective resistance followed by
another spell of silence. Probably
the court officials of China are 30 deep
ly involved in the Infamous attacks
that they keep personally beyond the
reach of the allied armies. There has
been theory that the crimes for which
there must be settlement were COM
mitted by insurgents too powerful to
be controlled. But the indications are
that the government itself was the
handspring of the outbreak.
The conspiracy seems to have aimed
at the slaughter of all foreigners in
China and the assembling of an i'm
mense army to prevent, for many
months at least, any movement upon
Tien Tsin and Pekin. A prompt adj
vance of the allies spoiled the plan.
The Chinese are undoubtedly dazed by
the manner in which the tables have
been turned upon them and by the
gathering of larger armies to demand
reparation, with security for the future.
OF course, the Empress is aware that
her well-known hostility to foreigners
and to national progress of any nature
will unfit her, in the judgment of the
powers, for any further direction of the
affairs of the empire. China is prac-
tically without head and the situation
can only clear up by degrees.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-29

nook and corner or the sacred city and
proving to the people that when once
the civilized man had begun to move
nothing could stay him. Itwould have
been regarded by the Chinese as an act
of sacrilege, of course, had the sacred
edifce been invaded by swashbuckling
Germans and ferocious Russians, by
business-like Yankees and complacent
Englshmen, by dapper Frenchmen and
polished Japanese, for not even a Chi
naman of the common sort may enter
the palace or It's grounds. The EN-
peror is secluded from the public gaze
and the attempt is made by means Of
mystery to Surround him with that
sanctity which European emperors say
they have acquired from their parents,
and which, therefore, needs no con-
cealment or ceremony to make impress
sive.
Doubtless, the average Chinaman
believes that the wrath of heaven would
fall, quick and fast, upon any being
who dared the fstes by entering the
palace, unsummoned or unprepared by
tediously long line of ancestry. The
benefit of lodging our troops in the pa
lace, of cooking bacon on the imperial
ranges, of smoking cigarettes in the
best rooms with feet on the window
stills, and doing other things that prove
the supremacy Of the white mans CIV
ilization, would be to show to the trem-
bling hordes that the heavens would
not fall, that emperors are nothing but
flesh and blood devoid of sanctity, that
rules and ceremonies are vain and
worthless and that in wars of the flu
ture the victory will go to the side that
has not only strength but sense. Any
shock that will awaken China from her
ignorance, her self esteem and her su-
perstition will be for her ultimate
good.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-29
COUNTY TICKET.

FOR SENATOR'S,
ZED S. STANTON, of Roxbury.
JOSEPH A. DEBOER, of Montpelier.
FOR ASSISTANT JUDGES OF COUNTY
COURT,
CHARLES D. EDGERTON, of North
field,
EBER W. HUNTLEY, of Duxbury.
FOR JUDGE OF PROBATE,
HIRAM CARLETON, of Montpelier.
FOR STATES ATTORNEY,
RICHARD A. HOAR, of Barre.
FOB SHERIFF,
CHARLES G. GRAVES, of Waterbury
FOR HIGH BAILIFF,
BOWMAN B. MARTIN, of Marshfield
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
DANIEL WORCESTER of Montpelier
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-29
For the Farmer to Decide,

BY the best figures obtainable it ap.
pears that the farmers of the country
paid over $800,000,000 in the shrinkage
in the value Of their live stock alone
as part of the price of the election to
the presidency OF Grover Cleveland on
a free trade platform in 1892. Most of
this loss they have made good since
free trade received knockout blow in
1896 and protection returned to its own
again. If the farmers have more money
and more prosperity now than they
want and would like to get rid of some
of it, the surest way in the world is to
vote for Bryan and free trade this fall.
1t wouldn't take long under Bryan and
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-29
STATE AND DISTRICT NOMINATIONS.

FOR GOVERNOR,
WILLIAM W. STIcKNEY, of Ludlow.
FOR LIEUTENANT-G GOVERNOR,
MARTIN f. ALLEN, of Ferrisburgh.
FOR TREASURER,
JOHN L. BACON, of Hartford.
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE,
FRED A. Rowland, of Montpelier
FOR AUDITOR OF ACCOUNTS,
ORION M. BARBER, OF Arlington.
FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS,
TRUMAN c. FLETCHER Of st. Johnsbury
HORACE f. GRAHAM, of Craftsbury,
GEORGE E. FISHER, of Lyndonville,
FRED G. FLEETWOOD, of Morrisville.
FOR MEMBER OF CONGRESS,
SECOND DISTRICT,
KITTREDGE HAsKINs, of Brattleboro.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-29

CHICAGO, Aug. 2S.-The thirty
fourth annual encampment of the
Grand Army promises to be the most
successful in its history.
The right of the line on the opening
day was given to the men who sailed
the seaslduring the civil war. OF the
1872 900 men enlisted in the navy in
the early days of the war less than one
thousand marched Monday, and it is
agreed by the old sailors that their
number was greater than it will ever
be in any parade 70 come. But one
battle flag was carried by the navy vet.
Grams. 1t was one that futtered from
the monitor Winnebago when Farragut
sailed into Mobile bay 10 gain his
browning victory. 1t was borne by
seaman Edward Woodruff of Rockford,
ILL.,, and beside him marched ex-Boat-
swain's Mate ] r. Lynn of Chicago,
who made the flag.
The late afternoon feature of the
days celebration, the naval parade on
Lake Michigan, proved somewhat of
disappointment, weather conditions in
terfering sadly with the arrangements.
Besides the revenue cutters Morrill, and
Fessenden and a fleet of excursion
steamers it had been planned to have
the large feet of the Chicago yacht
club included in the parade from the
lake front park off Jackson Boulevard
to Lake Michigan, where the naval bat
tie took place, but the breeze of the
morning died away and hardly breath
of air was stirring during the afternoon,
so this part of the programme was nee
essarily abandoned.
Mr.. Bryan has followed the example
of President Mckinley and declined to
be visitor at the national encampment.
He, Monday afternoon, sent message
to executive director, William H. Har-
per, the head of the local committee in
Chicago of the local end of the encamp-
ment saying that because of the alb
sence OF President Mckinley from the
encampment he considered it advisable
to remain away.
CHICAGO, Aug. 28.-Perfect summer
weather greeted the second day of The
Grand Army encampment and helped
to swell the ranks of the great parade.
More than 10000 veterans representing
1000 posts marched in review before
the commander-in-chief and his staff
for three hours. The line of march
was short because of the age of the
participants.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-29
The Heavens Would Not Fall.

No doubt the entrance of the allies
into the imperial palace in Pekin would
have reused the Cinnamon to a greater
wrath, and, no doubt, also it might
have converted some of the neutrals in
to hostiles, yet it is almost to be re-
GREETED that the white army did not
complete its conquest by probing every
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-29

Mr.. Bryan would have the country
believe that he is the only genuine, dis
interested, all-wool, yard wide, war
ranted to wash, savior OF the Republic.
He stands for dazzling purity, white
sincerity and spotless integrity, and
yet in this self-sacri6cing nation-saving
business he does not hesitate to employ
the disfranchisement of the colored
vote of the South, the vice-begotten
and corruption-born blood money of
Tammany Hall, and 100000 or more
of Clark's money, who with brutal
frankness bought up Legislature in
order to get into the United States
Senate. Even the Chinese could learn
few pointers from such colossal as
surance.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-29

finds himself turned down on all exist
ing issues, and is seeking a refuge aud
o cause.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-29

The alarmists ought to find some
consolation in the announcement that
orders have been sent to the troops
now on their way to China to go to
Manila instead. This means that no
more American soldiers are needed for
the protection of Americans in China
and that all that remains to be done
now is to finish the work 80 successful
ly begun. OF course, it will take time
to do this, but as the greater part of the
work will consist in diplomatic negoti.
atoms the soldiers are needed only to
reinforce by their presence our reason
able demands. The Chinese have had
enough of fighting FOR the present. 1t
is likely that in short time arrange
ments will be made for the gradual
withdrawal of our troops, 30 that by the
time our differences are settled there
will be few left to come hon e. All
this is, of course, contingent on the
preservation of amicable relations be-
tween the powers and the absence Of
complications arising from new out
break of hostility to the foreigners.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-29

Mckinley wishes to uphold the SOW
ereignty of the United States over the
Philippines. Bryan is committed to a
protectorate. The former places both
the responsibility and the protection in
American hands. The latter would rob
the United States of any power to curb
the foolishness of the natives and yet
commit the United States to fight their
quarrels. 1t would make the Filipinos
the arbiters of the destiny of the Unit
ed States. When stable government is
established in the Philippines, Bryan
says he would withdraw the armies of
the United States. But the Atlantis
Constitution says that stable govern
ment cannot be established in less than
fifty years, in which case Bryan would
not have to call an extra session of Con-
gress.