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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24
DISTRAINT BY ARMAMENT.

The relation of England and Ger
many to the private debts which the
powers in question are seeking by
force and arms to collect of Venezue-
la, and the general character of the
transaction out of which the private
claims grew, are set forth in the New
York Sun by Goodwin Smith, himself
an Englishman famous for his able
contributions to the discussions of
great international questions:
The British and German demands
on Venezuela are not at this date very
clearly before us. But if they COM
prise private debts the question may
arise whether nation is warranted
in collecting private debts by force of
arms. Might it not be maintained
that the Spectator who lends to for
eign government or corporation must
take the risk of lending to borrow
er OH whom he cannot distrain and
cover it by the rate of interest? The
punishment of the defaulting or re-
pudiating debtor will be forfeiture of
credit for the future, as it was in the
case of Spain.
.. Great powers are just now inclined
cheerfully TO accept the duty assigned
to them by Providence of extending
their beneficent dominion over weak
or "decayed" nations. What are the
lawful grounds for armed coercion
seems, therefore, not an impractical
question. 1t is submitted to the mas
tiers of international law.
One of the great powers is compli-
mented with the title of "the police
man of nations. - But the ordinary
policeman is not judge in his own
cause, the debts which he collects are
not his own, nor is there any danger
of his proceeding to annex the house
and lot of the debtor.
.TLittle nations, if they are defraud-
ed or injured, have no means of ex-
torting reparation.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24
THE SALVATION ARMY's WORK

Writing in the Social Serv ice,
Commander Booth-Tucker of the Sal =
walton Army gives some interesting
statistics concerning the forward
movement Of the army during the
past six years. In that time the
number of officers, cadets and en-
ployees has increased from 2,035 to
3,098; corps, outposts, slum posts and
special institutions, from 707 to 911 {;
annual provision of beds for the poor,
from 200, 600 to 5000, 900; annual
amount expended on the poor of
America, from $50, 600 to $3.50, 600;
industrial homes for fallen women,
from seven to twenty one; accommo-
dation in same, from ITO to 500: girls
passing through yearly, from 800 to
1900; accommodations for children
from 100 to 600. These figures repre-
sent the increase along lines already
established, but this does not tell the
story of philanthropic work in new
directions since 1896. The latter in
cludes the establishment of fifty-three
industrial homes, wood yards and
secondhand stores for the unemployed
with accommodations for $50. Three
farm colonies with an acreage of
2, 800 have been established and 400
poor people have found homes there.
The Christmas dinner idea has also
been developed during the past six
years and in 1901, $780, 600 people were
guests of the Salvation Army on that
/ day.
AS rule for all assistance giveI
an equivalent of either work or pay
ment is required, but when Christmas
comes an exception is made and thu
hungry thousands are fed without
money and without price.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24
TO COLONIZE NEGROES.

Washington, Dec Ex-senator Nor
gan, of Alabama, has a plan for col
onizing in the Philippines the negroes
of the United States. He has urged
his scheme upon the President, Secre-
tary Root and Coy, Taft. and he be-
lieves that it will result eventually in
millions of nergoes emigrating to the
Philippine Islands. His plan involves
the incorporation of steamship
transportation company and the dis
tribution of homesteads of about TWEEN
ty acres each u
Negro colonization has long been
one of Senator Morgan's pet schemes.
When he first came to Congress he in
troduced resolution to recognize the
Congo Free State as an independent
nation merely to afford the negroes of
this country a place to which they
might emigrate when their number
increased to an exent that would make
immigration Necessary.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24

The Hardwick Gazette has not been
in accord with the views on the liq-
uor bills held by Representative J.A.
Dixon Of that town but it is crafty
ing to note that Mr.. Dixon S stand on
the caucus bill was more satisfactory
Says the Gazette: And after all
a caucus law was not passed. The
House killed the Senate measure at
the last minute. It's too bad The
Gazette notes that Mr.. Dixon voted
right on this measure and that he
stayed on his job until the session
closed but 100 members were absent
when the vote was taken on this
measure.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24
A FATAL WEAKNESS.

This is free government-its citi
zens are free to worship God, and free
to serve the Devil, and of the two
certain of the citizens choose the lat
ter and exercise it to the extent of
inflicting unlimited distress on the
business interests of the country, and
measureless suffering on the people at
large.
The existing situation in respect of
the coal supply-in principles not
essentially different from constantly
recurring conditions. Now it happens
to be coal that is involved. At other
times it has been transportation, on
some system of railways, that infiicts
losses upon individual industries or
branches of business, and delays or ar
rests the passenger traffic; or it has
been local, tying up the transportation
lines of city and putting it's people
to unspeakable loss, trouble, or incon-
venience in making their daily tours
of pleasure or necessity; or it is in
some other department of complex
system of related affairs, one member
striking out of its orbit, throwing the
others into confusion and inifcting
injury upon the community at large.
Business has become a constant war
fare. The temple Of Janus, in indus
trial or commercial warfare, is seldom
closed.
The essential difference between
the other battles between labor and
capital and the conflict between the
miners and the local barons" is that
1T involved an article of fuel, nee
essity of wide use, and the fight was
kept up till empty coal bins and the
shortening days and lowering temper
ature made combination that prom
ised and has brought very evil con-
sequences and widespread disaster.
Not i'll principle at all but in the ma
ture of attendant circumstances does
the late prolonged suspension of labor
in the anthracite mines differ from a
hundred other industrial conflicts
that have gone before.
What is IA government worth that
cannot, or will not, protect it's people
from so fatal disaster as has befallen
the country? Or from similar disasters
that have heretofore come upon this
people? 1t is one of the first duties of
government to safeguard the right of
the. governed to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. ~ This right
has been denied the American people,
once and again. The transgressor is
not always the laborer. 1t can hardly
be charged that the miner was the
chief sinner in the late pr olonged coal
strike The miner has been the poor
est paid Misunderstanding the dan
ger and hardship of his calling-in
the United States. His demand for
larger pay, last spring, was not I'M
reasonable. The refusal of the coal
operator to consider his petition was
unreasonable. He has piled up riches
out of the miner ill paid labor. He
is heaping up wealth today out of the
miseries and misfortunes Of large
part of the American people.
How long is this barbaric battle be.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24
A BALLAD IN G. .

The following ballad by Commits
sioner of Pensions Weare, better known
as "Ironquill, may not be in the
Poems you ought to know" class,
but it is characteristic of the style
that has made its originator famous on
two continents:
A man with a marvellous mug
Rode off of Fort Scott on nag,
He carried jug in a bag
And many and many swig
Reposed in that corpulent jug
And a cob fitted in as plug
AS snug as snag in a bog.
The nag had wigglety jig
Which churned up the jag in the
jug
And along by it's side went a dog
Which jiggled along in jog
With narrative shaggy and sag
While he YEARLY, warily wug
o! That jig, and that jog, and that
o! That jog, and that jag, and
that jug.
The man shouted "Whoa" ito the nag
Then took out the jug from the bag
Then took out the plug from the
jug
And then from the jug took jag
A terrible, horrible jag
Which acted as quick as drug.
He shouted "Yip-yip" to the nag
And dug in his heels with dig
And the nag who would never re-
mig
Sprang off with the speed of stag,
Then the man with marvellous
mug "A
Began a vociferous brag- A@1's.' -. -
"Whoo- pee-I'm bird on crag
I'm thief, and wolf, and thug
I'm bug eater hunting bug
0 l can hold more than kag
And | have Doodle and swag
That says that my grave don't get
dug. "
To the front with yelp went the
dog
And-shouting "Yip-yipr" to the
nag
Pell-mell with jug and the bag
Went the man with a marvellous mug.
And there in the road lay a hog
AS still as bum on log.
Then down in pile went the nag
And the dog and the hog and the
jug
And that was the end of the hog
And that was the end of the dog
And vain were his efforts to wag
The narrative previously wug
And Timber and limp as rag
In wad on his lug lay the nag.
And then the man with the marvellous
mug
Rolled up like cavalry flag
Done up like family rug
Lay there with his head in the bag
And twenty feet off stood the jug
The opulent, corrpulent jug
Unframed, while the loyal cob plug
Held down what was left of the
Jag.
And this is the song of the jag
And the jug, and the jog, and the
jig
And this is the song of the nag
OF the nag that would never renig
And the dog and the hog and the bag
A song of the swag and the swig
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24
POKER AND CRAFTSMANSHIP.

Somehow the two seem to go togeth-
err whether of necessity or not, or
whether the existence of an aptitude
for the two games in one individual is
in the nature of things or the result.of
personal proclivities, it is not expedi-
ent to inquire.
1t is interesting to recall at this
time the circumstance that there once
existed famous statesman by the
name of Robert G. Schenck He
hailed from Ohio; he served his State,
or stood for his State, for many years
in Congress. His star rose steadily
in the political skies, till it reached
its zenith in his appointment as min
lister to England. 1t might be more
exact to say that while at the Court
of st. James he attained to the fulness
of a world wide fame. None of his
predecessors, not even Charles Francis
Adams, the sturdy hero of the Ala
successors, Lowell, or Phelps, or Lin
coin, or Hay-achieved such re-
nown. And yet history does not con-
meet Minister Schenck's name. with a
single diplomatic event of Importance.
His fame arose from the introduction
of the game of poker among the Brit
ish aristocracy, and his chief title to
immortality is in the book he pub
lished on the American Game.
In like manner, certain of the states
men recently assembled beneath the
dome capped by Pomona may never be
numbered among the immortals by rea-
son of demonstrated capacity for or
achievements in craftsmanship, even of
the rural sort, but all the State, and
the regions lying in darkness beyond,
are ringing with the fame of their ex-
PLOTS in the game celebrated and in
ter-nationalized by the Great Schenck
Rum and bovine tuberculosis, not even
foxes and hedgehogs, subjects over
which Senators and Representatives
struggled and competed for forensic
honors, are in the same class with
poker as the vehicle of luminous
fame on which the Senator from ---
embarked and rode into distinction
all his own, Hail to the poker chief
1t may be possible that the out
cropping of the incidents of the gam
ing table will clear up some things
that have never been fully explain
ed"-the need of recess and an ex-
tension of the session for additional
per diems to even up scores; the low
sense of honor that brought marked
cards into the game may be part and
parcel of the lack Of honor and fair
play in refusing certain legislation
amendatory of the existing liquor
code-and so on, quite indefinitely.
The current poker stories are alto
gether suggestive. 1t cannot be main.
tanned that they rebound entirely to
the glory of Vermont. or are illustra-
tive of the fidelity of the electors tc
the constitutional requirement re.
specting virtue and wisdom in the
men chosen to the General Assembly.
Nor can the stories and developments
respecting poker playing be taken AZ
an index of the character of the leg.
islative body in general. Neverthe,
less, these published-an unpublish
ed-incidents are altogether regret
table and ample cause for humilia
ton.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24
EDITORS ARRESTED?

Paris, Dec. 17.-The Matin this
morning publishes dispatch from
Caracas saying that the editors of the
principal papers in the Venezuelan
capital have been arrested on account
of their alleged completely in revo.
lutionary movement which is now be-
ing furthered. Some of the revolu-
tionary leaders have refused to make
common cause with President Castro
in his preparations to resist posi- BILE
invasion.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24
M other cray's Feet Pow
ders for Children.

Sue ssfully used by Mother Gray,
nurse il the Ohildren's Home in New
York ~ure Feyerishness, Bad Stom-
ach, Tcething Disorders. move and
regulate the Bowels and Destroy
Worms. Over 30, 600 testimonials.
They never fail. At all druggists,
25c. Sample FREE. Address Allen
s. Olmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24
THE VENEZUELAN SITUATION.

Reports from Washington are to
the effect that later developments in
the Venezuelan situation were such
as to make it evident that the govern
ment is more than ever apprehensive
as to the outcome of the pending stu
alton. While gratified over the
British government s concession of the
American position, that peace block
ade has no effect, the administration
is concerned over the announced in
tention of England to go to war with
Venezuela. The government au-
thorities fear that war waged by the
two great European powers against
Latin-American nation, already weak
ened by revolution and debt, will so
inflame sentiment in this country that
Congress will be influenced to take
action, which may involve the United
States in serious difficulty with Ger
many and England.
In respect of the Venezuelan situa-
ton the London Daily Mail declares
that the British government is being
dragged deeper and deeper into the
mire at Germany heels. 1t contends
that there is an abundance of pre-
cedents for a pacific blockade, includ-
ing one established by the United
States itself, saying that in 1861 the
blockade of the Confederate coast did
not involve anything which other
powers could call war.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24

The widow of the late Congressman
Amos j. Cummings of New York, who
served his time as a typesetter, has
giveo his library to the Old Printers
Home at Colorado Springs. Mr.
Cummings had frequently stated that
his intention was to make this dispo.
sition of his books, but his will made
no mention of it. His widow, how
ever, has carried his wishes into ex-
ecution
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24
The Grip May Come

or it may not. When it does it COM
monty attacks those who are already
low with Indigestion, liver trouble
and impure blood Fortify against it
by getting rid of these disorders
through the cure of the new medicine,
Calcura Solvent. 1t puts the stomach
right and gives strength to resist
these rowing epidemics. Discovered
by DR.. David Kennedy. of Kennedy
Row, Kingston, n. Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24
Forty Years Torture.

To be relieved from torturing dis.
ease might well cause the gratitude of
any one. That is what DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve did for @. Haney,
Geneva, o. He says "DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve cured me of piles
after had suffered forty years. T"
Cures cuts, burns, wounds, skin dis
eases. Beware of conuterfeits. Riv-
ers Bros.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24

Booker Washington, says the Nash
vile American (dem.) may or may
not be a Democrat; we have been in
formed by those who claimed to know
that he is. If the President has made
appointments in Alabama on Wash
ington S advice, it will be noted that
Democrats have been given the most
desirable positions. If the Alabama
Republicans who have some difficulty
in reaching or maintaining satisfac-
tory positions at the .feed-trough sue
coed in proving that Booker is Dem
ocrat, it will not injure him among
southern people, and it will hardly
change the President attitude in the
matter Washington can probably
prove, however, that from strictly
orthodox standpoint he is neither a
Republican nor Democrat, but rath-
er an independent who is inclined to
stand with the Democrats in local
elections.
AS was foretold, effective trust legis-
lation is likely to run against an OBJ
stacle in the Senate, and this circum-
stance has moved the House of Repre-
sentatives to change it's course. The
conservative element in the Senate has
made it known that it will oppose
anything in the nature of radical
antitrust bill and for that reason the
chairman of the House judiciary COM
mittee is attempting to draft bill
which, while it carries out the wishes
of the President, will not meet with
fatal opposition in the upper chamber.
Meanwhile, there is strong prospect
that the Hepburn bill, which appropri-
ates $500, 600 to enable the attorney
general to prosecute the trusts under
the Sherman law, will be passed by
both chambers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24

Now that the high license local
option act has been printed for gener-
al distribution would it not be we'll
to have the present prohibitory law
treated likewise, for the latter, is
practically an unknown quantity to
the majority of Vermont voters? Let
us have fair competition.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24
CLUBBING LIST.

The following offers are for the
benefit only of subscribers to the
Waterman (weekly) or the Jour
nal daily who pay all arrearages and
years subscription in advance. One
or more of the publications may be
the club rate, must invariably accom-
year in advance. To the "Club Rate"
add 81. 80 for the Waterman, or ,$3. 90
for the Journal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24
Itkeeos the Feet Warm anS
DrV.

Ask today for Aliens Foot Ease,
powder. 1t Cures Chilblains, Swollen
Sweating, Sore, Aching, Damp feet
At all druggists and shoe stores, 25e.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24

If Referendum Day happens to be
extremely cold some no" votes may
be changed to yes" between home
and the polls
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24

If names count for anything it
would be well to keep an eye on the
j, P. Morgan Comedy Co. now tour
ing the State.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24

1t was not a postage stamp this
time but the goodly amount of 50, BAL.
48 that some conscience stricken per-
son has returned to the treasury de-
partment.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24
FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO SOUTH
AMERICA.

England, the redoutable. having
triumphed in South Africa--at the cost
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24

loss oil neSll. On
the other hand, a
gain in flesh is a
sure sign that vast ,
ing diseases are be-
ing cured.
Emaciated peo-
pie with obstinate
cough s, bleeding
lungs, night-sweats
and weakness, have
be e n perfe c I'll y
cured by the use of
DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery.
The several steps
Of the cure were re-
corded in ounces
and pounds of in
creasing W Ell g h t.
When there is gain
in flesh the wasting
disease is b eing
surely cured.
Mr.. Will II. Whitmire,
Of Arkton, Rocking
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24

ham Co., Va, writes your son contracted q
deep cold about the first Of July, 1899 and had Q
terrible cough. We called doctor and he pro-
nounced it irritation of the bronchial tubes with
asthmatic trouble, and he Informed me that my
son was liable to die at any time He told me
that If we could keep the bronchial tubes open,
he might cure him. but after treating him several
weeks and my son growing worse all the time,
concluded to try DR. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery and Pleasant Pellets / had seem
several almost miraculous cures brought about
by the use of these medicines and of course II
had wonderful faith in them. He used threel
bottles of Golden Medical Discovery at homel
and one vial of the Pellets and was then we'll
enough to go to West Virginia taking a supply
with him. am just in receipt OF letter from
him from which quote I am ueH and hdyd1i
and eating Oeyy 7eJhy.'"
The Common Sense Medical Adviser,
1908 large pages is sent free on receipt Of
stamps to pay expense of mailing only
Send 81 one-cent stamps for the cloth
bound volume or only III stamps for the
book in paper covers. Address DIR. R.
v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24
H@ Die

OF consumption is a remark often made
of heshy man. The remark expresses
the popular recognition of the fact that
the sign of consumption is emaciation,
The Washington times., 1902-12-01
RECEPTION IN HONOR OF
DR.. AND MRS. NEEDHAk
Columbian Women Greet
University President.

The Columbian Women gave a recep-
tion Saturday night at the university
building In honor OF DR.. Charles W
Needham. the new president Of the uni
versity. and Mrs. Needham. Besides the
Colombian Women there we're present
the members OF the faculty and their
wives and the trustees Of the uniYer-
sitv-
The guests were introduced by Mrs
Charles E. Monroe. the president OF the
Columbian Women. and Mrs Hodgkins.
Orange and blue. the Columbian colors.
were conspicuously displayed every
where throughout the building. and es-
pecially in one Of the lecture halls,
where buffet luncheon was served.
Yellow ChTysanthemums and shades
we're used upon the tables.
Mrs. Carroll served coffee. Lillian Hol-
brook ices. and Mrs. J. ". Holcombe the
salads
Among those present were: Justice
and Mrs. Brewer. the Rev. Samuel n.
Greene and Mrs. Greene, Theodore W.
Noyes and Mrs. Noyes, W. S. shallen-
berger, Second Assistant Postmaster
General. and Mrs. ShalIenberger. DR..
Ainsworth R. Spo1ord. Miss spohord.
Miss NicOlay. Judge and Mrs S. J.
Peelle, the Hon. Hannis Taylor. Dr.
Theodore n Gill, Andrew B. DuvalI and
Mrs Duvall, Miss D--all. Judge and Mrs.
Var Devanter, DIT. Wiley. DR.. H. j.
Huntington, Miss Christian. Dean
Howard L. Hodgkins and Mrs. Hodgkins,
Dean Charles E. Monroe and Mrs. Mon
roe, Dean de Schweinitz. Dr. and Mrs D.
K Shute. Miss Hazelton. DR.. and Mrs
F. P. Morgan, Or. and Mrs. c. W Rich
ardson, DR.. and Mrs. Schoenfeld Miss
Holbrook, Miss Brewer. Dr. and Mrs
Sterrett. DR.. and Mrs. Mitchell Carroll
Miss Thompson. Miss Ames. Mrs Gore
Miss Emory, Prof. and Mrs. W A. VIII
bur. Dr. Swisher. Miss CLANCY, Dr. and
Mrs. Merrill. Mrs Heron, Prof. and
! Mrs. Frisby. Dr. and Mrs. A. G. Wllkin-
son. DR.. and Mrs. Monroe Hopkins.