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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09
MISLEADING TITLES.

Why load down good cause by
giving it names which, by association
or otherwise, have gathered to them
selves an element of reproach? PRO
hibition" and prohibitory' are
terms in this class, as applying to
the existing law for regulating the
traffic in Intoxicating liquors and
their use. They are nom descriptive
and are, therefore misleading. They
have become terms of reproach and
they are employed to bring reproach
on any system of liquor traffic legisla-
ton that is in all its details directly
under the control of the State-as dis
tinguished from the license or local
option plan.
The existing law is prohibitory
neither in intent nor practice. 1t is
a bad name for law wise and good
in its original purpose but upon which
have been engrafted provisions to
which many of the best temperance
people are strongly opposed.
Dispensaries' is another term, de-
rived from South Carolina, which, also
inaptly describes feature of the plan
of State regulation which contem-
plates the sole control and manage
ment of the traffic by the State. This
term is being used to describe the
agencies which would be the places
of sale of liquors under a system of
sole and immediate control by the
State, and which should supplant the
existing system. The details of com
plete plan of State regulation, suited
to Vermont, would be worked out by
the body of men to whom the task
would be assigned, and the law pro-
posed by this body would become the
subject of debate and doubtless of
amendment. But this proposed meas
ure ought not to be loaded down in
advance by foreign names or designa-
tions which have not now-and may
not have-any possible application.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09
IN CONGRESS.

Washington, July 3.-The records
at the Capitol show that every bill
presented to President Roosevelt was
signed by him before Congress adj
journed This is an exception, as it
generally happens that some measures
are overlooked or forgotten in the
hurry. The total number of bills in
troduced in the House during the re-
cent session was 10, 800. Three COM
mittees of the House handled two
thirds of these bills-the committee
on war claims having 2, 48S of these ;
the committee on invalid pensions, g.
500 and the committee on military
affairs, 2, 33S
Just before the Senate adjourned
finally Senator Allison, chairman of
committee on appropriations, present
ed statement showing appropriations
for sessions by bills as follows: Agri
culture, So, 208, $50; army, sol, $50, 1856 /;
diplomatic and consular, 81 957, 925 /;
District of Columbia, IS, 647, 1896 for
tifications, 81, 29S, 900; Indians, &c.,
l43, 902 legislative, etc, 1926, 1893, 3S1 ;
Military Academy, 81, 627, 1874; navy,
S78, 67S, 1858; Apension, Sl39, S42, 230 !;
post office, S13S, 436, sos; river and
harbor, s26, 1876, 442 exclusive of con-
tracts authorized) sundry civil,
$50, 1875, 1853; deficiencies, $2S, 039 Oil:
miscellaneous, 50, 800, 900; isthmian
canal, $50, 1870, 900; permanent annual
appropriations, 1928, 921, 220; grand
total, $500, 1893, S37 The total last year
was $3.50, 1888, 575 The treasury de-
partment has issued warrants in favor
of the States of Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Michigan, Vermont and Ohio,
aggregating 50, 2lS, 5S4 These warrants
cover the claims of these States for
expenses incident to the raising and
equipping of troops during the civil
war, recently allowed by the com
ptroller of the treasury and for which
Congress has made the necessary APP
| preparation.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09
CONGRESS ADJOURNED.

Washington, July 2-After a session
marked by some of the stormiest tde-
bates ever heard in the American Con-
gress, the Senate adjourned sine die
at 30 Tuesday afternoon. During the
last hours Of the session there was q
tart debate OH the Philippine question
participated in by Messrs Carmack
of Tennessee, Spooner of Wisconsin,
Culberson of Texas, McComas of
Maryland and Lodge of Massachu-
setts.
Amid scene of enthusiasm that has
not been paralleled since the exciting
and stirring days of the Spanish war,
Speaker Henderson at . 80 Tuesday
afternoon declared the House of Rep.
resentatives adjourned without day
In doing so he said that no House of
Representatives since the adoption of
the constitution had done as much
work as this one. At :2S Mr. Payne
on behalf of the committee to wait on
the President reported that the Presi-
dent had no further communication to
make. The speaker then arose and
with evidence of much feeling ad.
dressed the House. He said in closing
u" And now gentlemen, in pursuance
OF the concurrent resolution of the
two houses, l declare this session of
the Flfty-seventh Congress adjourned
sine die.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

1t is said when public Libraries ban
ish books from their shelves as being
unfit for general circulation that it is
one of the best advertisements the
authors could desire. Such being the
case there are several writers who
must be gathering in the shekels on
account of the action of the Evans
ton, H., public library commissioners
who have decided that the following
books shall be cut off
"Sir Richard Calmady," by Lucas
Malet; "A Lady of Quality" by
Frances Hodgson Burnett; 1.-THE
Aristocrats, by Gertrude Atherton ;
1.-THE Secret Orchard" by Egerton
Castle; "a Fool of Nature,'' by
Julian Hawthorne 81 l Were King, I"
by Justin Huntley Mccarthy " Orlotf
and His Wife" by Maxim Gorky ;
Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Har-
dy "The Story of Mary MacLane, -,
by herself, and g. Mr.. Dale" by Mar
ion Harland.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

The Register is pleased to note the
manner in which most of the State
papers are discussing the question of
a change in the laws regulating the
sale of Intoxicating liquors in Yer
mont. All are impressed with the
Importance of the subject. Nearly all
are opposed to the open saloon. Much
space is being .given to the matter
and the great majority ofsthe articles
are very sensible and helpful There
is wide difference of opinion as to
the best method of regulating the
traffic, as was to be expected. Almost
without exception the press con-
denim any attempt to make political
capital out of the issue 1t is too big,
too important for that. Let it be
thoroughly discussed, in a fair, candid
manner, and there is no doubt but
that a law can be framed that will
meet the needs of the State; that can
be enforced and that will regulate the
sale of Intoxicating liquor and reduce
it to minimum. -Mlddlebury Regis
ter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09
WASTE TINE.

The Springfield Republican takes
the national House of Representatives
to task for devoting an occasional
hour or two to eulogizing its members
who die while in service and says
that, beyond some little curiosity in
the eulogies as to orators, there is no
interest in such proceedings. 1t would
have that body devote Sundays to the
reading of memorial addresses to the
honor of its dead members and not
waste time" during week days,
What has the Republican to say con-
corning the pension measure introduce
ed by Congressman McDermott of New
Jersey, which is not merely an effort to
be facetious but is vulgar in much of
its phraseology? For instance the fol-
lowing are taken from among the
thirteen questions to be asked all pen
sion applicants;
(a) With whom have you talked
concerning your application! Give
! time of conversation and color of the
eyes of person with whom you CONVEX
sed also two photographs of his near
est relatives
co Furnish photographs of chill
| dren. with evidence of forty-nine re-
putable witnesses to prove paternity.
If applicant is childless, satisfactory
evidence of the reasons therefor must
be furnished
CD If it is claimed that deceased
died of consumption contracted dur
ing service, furnish embalmed section
of left lung, If claim is OF oath from
Bright's disease, similarly contracted,
furnish X-ray photographs of kidneys
and toe joints.
If this is not frittering away valua
BILE time what would it be called
Doubtless there is much of what il
commonly termed "official red tape
in the pension department, but it ex
lists in every large corporation's bust
ness.
1t is not only belittleing the maj
that cheapens himself enough as to 81
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09
FROM HARVARD TO TUSKEGEE.

We are in receipt of the address de-
livered at Harvard, June 20, 1902, by
Mr.. Roscoe Conkling Bruce of this
city, class orator for the year. Mr..
Bruce is a son of the late Blanch K.
Bruce, one time United States Sena-
tor from Mississippi, and for several
years Register of the Treasury. His
record at Harvard has been brilliant.
Men are not selected to be class orators
at such institutes of learning save up
on very high grounds and because of
very distinguished merit. 1t is safe
to assume that his relatives and
friends in Washington the city of his
birth, are extremely proud of him
We learn that Mr.. Bruce intends to
go South and cast his lot with Booker
L. Washington, the famous head of
the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
Writing to friend in Washington,
he says: 81 am eager to do mans
part at Tuskegee. Upon this re-
solve we hasten to congratulate him
He can render the highest possible
service, both to his race and to the
State, by enlisting in the splendid
propaganda of which Booker Washing
ton is the most conspicuous apostle.
AS he we'll says in his address Ito
uplift the PROSTATE Black South is to
uplift the whole South, and to up
lift the South is to uplift the ma
ton" We are glad to find, after
a careful examination of Mr.. Bruce's
grafton, that he has not fallen into
the error, so common to collegians in
general, of imagining that a univer-
sity education is the universal pan
acea-the one equipment for the stern
and too often cruel battle of real life.
We make brief extract:
But in America, as everywhere
else, theory and practice are not one.
The nation does not sufficiently pro-
vide technical training. OF the 10000,
600 American citizens between the
ages of fifteen and twentyfour less
than one-third of l per cent are re-
ceiving instruction III the arts and
sciences which bear directly upon
their occupations. By extensions of
the industrial education, we may
reasonably expect to aid Importantly
the work of retaining the submerged
tenth in our great cities, lessening the
drain from our farms by Transforming
drudgery into intelligent labor, in
spiriting the mountain whites of the
South adjusting the negro to
merCllesSly competitive ClNlllZdtlOH,
increasing the efficiency and hap
piness of American workingmen and
workingwomen, giving rich and poor
wholesome respect for work and
workers, furnishing the republic citi
zens of resource.
Mr.. Bruce has chosen well. He has
adopted calling in which he can do
more good for society in general and
his own people i'll particular than all
the negro politicians and office hold
ers in the country put together. He
goes forth to teach the only true gos-
pel-whether for the whites or for the
blacks-the gospel of intelligent and
productive industry. Neither races
nor individuals have ever risen by
virtue of clamor or complaint. Men
do not obtain recognition" by de-
manding it or crying for it. Respect,
esteem, honor, Difference, come to
them unasked as the inevitable har-
vest of achievement The teacher
who points the way to this consum-
nation is benefactor to his gener-
alton. Washington Post.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09
KITCHENER S..RETURN.

Lord Kitchener is doing all he can
to discourage the British public in its
perfectly natural desire to make hero
of him on his return to England. He
does not care for display. He has
served notice to that effect upon sew
eral of those who want to use him
for purposes of parade. He is unwill-
ing to to be made a substitute for the
postponed coronation, and, beside, he
has no remarkable appreciation of a
popular esteem which is of very re-
cent growth He probably recalls the
time when he was the idol of this
same British public. That was after
Omdurman. He also probably recalls
the changed tone adopted toward him
by large section of the British ma
ton, as well as by many English
news papers because he did not close
up the South African war as soon as
Roberts had transferred him to half
finished job. He is q grim, uncomprom-
Using, elf-reliant genius, believing
always in his capacity to work toward
successful issue even in the face of
manifold discouragements. Since the
days of Wellington his equal as an or
ganizer has not been bred in the
British Army, aud because he is what
he is he has;the right to feel himself
superior to that public opinion which
alternately condemns and condones,
a system of which he is a part, but
which can neither make nor unmake
men like him. And, while the Brit
ish public will fete him in spite Of
himself, he will neither abandon nor
modify his own ideas as to the value
of popular applause. Brooklyn Eagle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

Well, with the convention out of
the way, summer weather at hand and
the prospect of license law in the
fall, what is the matter with grand
hustle for summer tourists right
now? Vernon thas never taken her
rightful place as summer resort
State. We have the climate, the
scenery, the fishing and the natural
attractions Let us now get after the
seeker for vacation pleasure with a
lureful smile-Vergennes Vermonter.
Summer weather at hand? Which
hand? And the prospect of license
law this fall? Where did you get the
tip about this question Brother Hind
ley? No, Vermont has never taken
her lawful, or perhaps you ought to
say rightful place as a summer resort
State, and unless something of a
change is made in the weather we
doubt if she could sustain her claim
to such place.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

Believers in license will readily adj
nit that liquor should not be sold to
persons who make such use of it as to
encroach on the rights Of others. Who
shall determine this? - The saloon.
keepers interest is too sell all he
can, and he cannot afford to be over
particular as to his customers. If the
State had charge of the liquor traffic
directly, and the vendors were sal
aried agents, held to close account by
their superiors, and liable to removal
for cause, there would be more pros
pect of sales being properly circum-
scribed Let the State handle the
business at profit enough to pay good
salaries to those engaged, and let the
retailing grogshop, with its nefarious
hangers-on and custom of treating, be
avoided. Let liquors be sold to those
who, it is known, car safely be
trusted to purchase. Let others be
denied. Give towns the right of
local option as to whether they will
have these agencies or none. We
have outlined pretty close pattern
to the dispensary system of South
Carolina, but that is nothing against
1t, for no excise regulations anywhere
work more satisfactorily than those of
the Palmetto State Vermont's liquor
system is worthy of all the thought
and attention it will receive between
now and fall-and afterward We
urge that the subject be approached
in judicial spirit, with the sole pur
pose to secure neutrality-suspicious. as
shall best serve, the State and people.
Herald and News.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

The Vermont Press Association
shows signs of life. Now that the
political stress is about over, it would
seem appropriate for the boys to get
their legs under the same mahogany.
Like lawyers in court, editors say
great deal about brother editors that
they don't mean, and the best of it is
that they know they don't mean it,
the other fellows know so too, and
the public looks on complacently.
Here's hoping that the summer out
ing will be success, and for one,
we'll be there. Herald and News.
While the organization is in session
it might take hand at drafting the
proposed bill to regulate the liquor
traffic and incidentally to CHOOSE
sides.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

The following Associated Press dis
patch was sent out for publication
Tuesday:
Scranton, Penn, July AT the
ELEPHANT Catholic church Sunday
morning a striker arose in the congre-
cation, and declaring that scab'
workman was present, asked all fair
men to quit the service. The striker
left the edifice and sixty union men
followed him.
Is this to be construed as a bolt or
a boycott? Such proceedings as the
above have a tendency to make laugh.
ing stock of men who fight for the
cause of organized labor and the SOON
er that such fire eaters in it's ranks
are subdued the sooner will the solu-
ton of labor troubles be reached
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

The Tribune is not a license paper
in so far as desiring to see licensed
saloons in its own town. 1t simply be-
livees in the right of each town to
govern in its local affairs, and in the
absolute failure of prohibition as a
State law to decrease intemperance
We should like to see the next General
Assembly agree upon good local OPP
ton bill providing for licensed saloons
and good local option bill providing
for State dispensaries, and both bills
submitted to the people. Ludlow
Tribune,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09
Poisoning the System.

II is through the bowels that the body
is cleaned of impurities. Constipation
keeps these poisons in the system, causing
headache, dullness and melanoholia at
first, then unsightly eruptions and finally
serious illness unless remedy is applied.
DeWitts Little Early Risers prevent this
trouble by stimulating the liver and pro-
mote easy, healthy action of the bowels,
These little pills do not act violently but
by strengthening the bowels enable them
10 perform their own work. Never grippe
or distress. c. Blakley's
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09
Blood Wine Has No Equal.

Faintness, heat,exhaustion, lack
of appetite, indigestion, bowel-com-
plants and all the sickness incident
to summer may be relieved imme-
diately by the prompt use of BLOOD
WINE. AS tonic and strength
builder 1t has no equal. There is no
substitute for BLOOD WINE. Moth
ing "just as good" For sale by
G.E.Megrath, Suc's'r to WE. Terrill.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

din and horror, before noise and
sports, before the cannon cracker, en-
tirely superseded the intellectual and
patriotic features of the great ami
versary celebration. 1t would be a re-
freshing, grateful thing, on some re-
curing Fourth, to revive the cere-
monial of the period of its true glory
and usefulness as an incubator of high
patriotism.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

Perityphlitis is described as the
thirty second degree of appendicitis
a King could not be afflicted with the
ailments of common humanity. The
royal intestines could not be disturbed
by just the ordinary turbulence of
tho vermiform appendix. So, instead
of appendicitis, his malady is peri
typhlitis.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

There is limit to the latitude al
lowed cabinet officers as was shown
i'll Washington Tuesday when Post
master General Payne accompanied
a Senator into the Senate chamber
during the executive session. Mr.
Payne was quickly escorted from the
chamber and told that although the
President was allowed to be present,
cabinet officers were barred.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

far forget the dignity of his position
as a member of Congress by introduce
ing such a cheap literary effort before
that body, but he is directly casting
slur upon body of men that this
country is proud to call her own-the
Grand Army of the Republic.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

If you intend to visit the world con-
vention of the International Sunday
school Association you had better be-
gin laying aside your pennies as the
convention will be held in Jerusalem
in 1904-quite a long walk.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

They tell the story down in Brat
tleboro that Phoenix French devotes
the forenoon of each day reading back
numbers of his paper with the hope
that he can find something written
about the governor campaign that
will bring him a grain of consola-
tionl-Burlington Clipper.
A task that would drive a man Of
sense or honor to drink or suicide.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

That Uncle Sam opens his heart and
occasionally his purse was evidenced
Tuesday WIN 2, 500 clerks in the New
York post-ofiice each received an in
crease of 500 per year in salary.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

Russell Sage is up and around again
and probably worrying about the bill
the doctor will be sending in. Rec
ord Herald.
Uncle Russell. lis too wise to worry,
as worry produces illness in many
cases and that makes the costs greater.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

Preachers like politicians change
their minds OCCASIONALLY. This time
clergyman leaves the fold Ira D.
Sankey, the colleague of the late
Dwight L. Moody leaves the Metho-
dist ranks to embrace Presbyterianism
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09
Acts Immediately.

Colds are sometimes more troublesome
in summer than in winter. it's so hard to
keep from adding to them while cooling
off after exercise. One Minute Cough
Cure cures mt once Absolutely safe. Acts
Immediately. Sure cure for coughs, colds,
Group, throat and lung troubles. q. Blak-
leys.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

The London papers are lamenting
the fact that most of the postcards ON
sale in London, illustrating English
views and places OF interest, bear the
legend, Printed in Saxony, " An
effort, more or less successful is be-
ing made to have them printed in
England. Boston Herald
Send the next order over to the
United States. The Yankees would do
the work and leave off the imprint as
England has evidence enough of
Americanism without that
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

Will there be a Democratic cam
paign upon a Democratic platform,
or a Democratic platform with
Clement cooperative campaign at
tachment?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

After tomorrow it will be Old Home
Week Franklin county is going to
Guido herself this year in extending
welcome to Vermonters from other
States. If the other counties beat us
they have got to hustle -Swanton
Courier.
That right. AS yet it is about the
only locality that has displayed any
zeal in the matter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

The Independents of Vermont are
still wondering if the Republican
majority of their State is large enough
to cut in TWO successfully. Boston
Herald.
You are wrong there. They are
wondering if enough of the regulars
will turn out to make decent funeral
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

Since Funston stopped talking
folding bed has been named in his
honor because it shuts up. Mirror
and Farmer
There are few people in Vermont
who don't stand a ghost of a show
to have their names bestowed upon
furniture of any sort
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

And still no word from the Clement
wigwam. The only sounds issuing
therefrom are indistinct mutterings
whose meaning cannot be determined.
Barre Times.
Things have changed since Wednes-
day, Brother Langley, and now we
are all to have a chance to gather
around the table with our pencils
again.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-09

1t is believed, remarks an observer,
that little superficial inspection
will show that the Mason president
ial boom is using soft coal under its
boilers.