The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-26
ONLY THE "HOME GROWN"
AND HOME PRUNED.

Editor of Waterman and Journal -
In recent issue of the Journal a cor
respondent seems to object to mil
lionaire for Governor of the State,
either because he is supposed to be I'M
sound on the temperance question, or
because he is millionaire, or because
of both disqualification.
While Vermont has many good and
capable men who could creditably fill
the gubernatorial chair yet some would
like to see a good honest farmer elect
ed to that position. Why should the
people in an agricultural State almost
always select from the lawyers and
millionaires? No doubt but they pos
sess the bulk of the brains and wealth
of the world, but there are others.
1t seems that the agriculturist is even
more Disseminated against than the
millionaire whose taste for the ardent
is an unknown quality to those who
measure men by that simple standard.
We do not remember when the medi-
cal profession was represented, if ever,
in the executive session of the State.
The concensus of opinion among medi-
| cal men may not now hold that the
town agency drug shop dispenses the
| best or most wholesome remedies for
| the public good, or that its large daily
output is essential to the life and
health of its numerous p atrons. Vol.
of Cohen's system of Physiologic
Therapeutics, a recent scientific au-
thority, says, alcoholic beverages
do so much harm that their utility
under any circumstances has been de-
MED 1t is true that they are unnec-
essary as beverages and even as medi-
cines, for there are other things that
can produce all the good results as
cribed to them. There are drugs
which may be substituted for alcohol
which are equally potent with the
latter for the treatment OF the sick.
Its use, is therefore, not necessary
either in health or sickness. When
prescribed in disease, it must be re
garded as a medicine and not as some
thing to be used at will by the pa
tient.
The viewpoint of the Psychologist
is that of science, and not that con-
corning the sociologic phase of the
subject. The doctor holding to the
above views or facts should he eligible
to the governorship in prohibitory
Vermont. If the traditional policy
as to maintaining the town liquor
agency regardless of the quantity OF
quality of the stuff it dispenses is to be
the criterion for legislation then the
man of one idea is the man for office.
A man who has won fame and
wealth outside of the State, as has the
one so well commended and endorsed
for Governor by the journal. cannot
be highly honored by the Office, though
he would undoubtedly honor the office,
Having been broadened and disciplin
ed through experience in the center'
of business activity, commercial life
and scientific thought, he would bt
more likely be mindful of all interests
for the good of the people. He would
be more apt to consider the changed
conditions and needs of the rural dis
tricts and favor the promotion of theil
interests as we'll as the interests o.
corporate industries. An up to dat'
experienced, trained, progressive, ant
scientific mind, like that of Presiden
Roosevelt or of Gen. Mccullough
could do much to promote such legis
lation as would tend to lif