The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-11
THE NEWS ANSWERS.

The Rutland News makes much ado
about matters of secondary import
ance, in it's answers to certain publish
ed statements of fact respecting the
condition of affairs in the Boro of
Proctor it leaves out entirely those
things which are of primary conse-
quence. For example, it selects the
statement of the practical monopoly
of trade at Proctor by the corporation
store-a matter that is indisputable-
and answers that one "B. McGarry
has long maintained general store
in the heart of the village and has a
considerable trade. - CONSIDERABLE
is very good but somewhat indefinite.
McGarry's trade occupies about the
same standing in the business affairs
of Proctor that peanut stand would.
If his dealings should indeed become
really considerable in extent and
variety of merchandise sold, his stand
would be "preempted, or his business
strangled by notice to his custom
ers on the Marble Company's pay roll
to buy their goods at the corporation
store. McGarry is chiefly an inotfen-
sive makeweight-to serve the pur-
pose the News or its space writer
makes of him in this instance-a sort
of curse remover.
The other matters of the News
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use of which is conceded, but is not
of any great moment anyway, the
personal ownership of lands or houses,
the graveyard, ETC., make conven-
lent matters for befogging the issue,
while the apologists and eulogizers
of the "Model Marble Town" are
dumb as oysters over the weightier
matters of observance of the prohibit
DRY law and obedience to the COM
mands of the law for appraising prop.
erty for taxation. On these subjects
the individual who provides the News
with copy respecting affairs in the
Boro' is as silent as the grave.
Neither the contemporary nor ex.
Gov Ormsbee undertakes to explain
away the fact of record that number
of United States licenses for the sale
of Intoxicating liquors are held il
Proctor, that liquors under the ban o.
the law are sold there and drank by
workmen whose labor could not b.
had or retained if they were denied
their beer or wine or harder drinks
The defenders of Proctor glide trip
pingly over immaterial things, bu
show the discretion that is the bette
part of expediency in lodging the ma
terial things. 1t would not requir
two or three double columns of tn
News space-nor the flooding of til
State with copies of that paper-t
tell why licenses for the sale of III
toxicating liquors are held in Proctor
and how the News or its coacheT
reconcile this prima facie evidence G
violation of law with the stalwaI
prohibition professions of Proctor
Grim silence gives assent to the col
elusive reason the law and the publ
draw from such evidence.
In respect of the water system {
Proctor which is one of the cas-
!. things the explainers undertake to e'
plain, the reply is that the systel
belongs to the village corporatio
! which issued $780, 600 municipal bono
\ for the construction of the same and i
/ village sewer system" The "villaG
\ corporation" is a corporation witt
h in corporation. The whole is equ
to the sum of all its parts, and tn
village corporation is one of the par
( of the all embracing corporation, Il
I Vermont Marble Company.
\ Who pays the interest on this 500