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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-08-06
MEMORIAL DAY.

The coming meeting of the national
encampment of the Grand Army of
the Republic at San Francisco revives
the talk about changing the date of
Memorial Day from May 30 to some
Sunday in the early summer Those
who believe the day should be OBJ
served in the manner and spirit of its
institution and early celebration are
in favor of the change.
In the lapse of time and the coming
of the generations born since the
peace of Appomattox, the day has
become more of general holiday
than memorial occasion. Games
and sports, races and excursions, fes-
tive affairs Of many kinds, are planned
for the 30th of May about the same as
for the Fourth of July. Excepting
the latter, no other holiday is so
much given up to observances that are
anything else but memorial. The
latter hold an entirely secondary place
in the celebration of a day in which
they should be wholly first. In the
nature of changed conditions and cir
cumstances this can never be other
wise so long as secular Memorial
Day is maintained. The only way
to eliminate from the occasion the
non memorial features, which have
usurped the place of the commemora-
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May or the first Sunday in June Mem
orial Day. If the rising, or the
risen, generations demand another
holiday for sports and games, or gen.
eral relaxation, and cannot wait a
month or so for the coming of July 4,
the States in their own pleasure and
wisdom can provide that day, each
for itself. There is no anniversary
that could be made national holiday.
Even now Memorial Sunday is OBJ
served. The exercises on the proposed
new Memorial Sunday would be
changed They might be modifi-
cation of BOTH and would necessarily,
in the large communities, include.
substantially, the exercises of the
| secular day. In the smaller commun-
tiles it is already difficult, by reason
of the thinning ranks of the old SOL
diers, to maintain impressively the
observance of the secular day, and for
these the change to Memorial Sun.
day would be especially desirable.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-08-06
M. s. STONE ON PHILIPPINES.

Former State Superintendent of Ed
ucation M. S. Stone of MoIrisville
gave a very able address on the dis
covery. history, geography and nature
of the Philippine Islands in Burling-
ton on Thursday evening, before a
large audience composed, for the most
part, of teachers who are attending
the summer school now in session
there. Mr.. Stone said in part
Magellan never saw this archipelago,
as has been claimed by the Spanish, but
Portuguese first discovered the island
of Manila in 1870. The next year, be-
cause of it's commanding position, it
was established as the capital and
walls, streets and plazas we're laid
out and council for the administra-
ton of justice was formed. The old
city or wall city is much less in area
than the city as whole today and is
occupied by the merchants and offices.
The Chinese occupy place in the
land, even to the most remote and Sc
cluded corners. Trade is almost en-
tirely in their hands and has been
since their settlement there because
the Filipino is too indolent to be any
thing more than laborer in the field.
During the $50 years of Spanish rule
the island was scene of war, rebel
| lion and bloodshed. The tribes of the
| island have entered into several great
rebellions. The first occurred in 1854
but the rebellion of 1896 is the more
! nearly connected with us. AT that
! time an organization of about 40, 600
was formed against the Spanish.
The government OF Spain learned of
| this uprising and endeavored to cap.
| ture the leaders and 5000, 900 was given
| them to disband. The uprising con-
| tinued, however, and the outcome il
| still fresh in the memory of every
one. The work for the civilized
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-08-06
HOME, CHURCH. SALOON.

Dr. Walter Laidlaw, secretary of
the Federation of Christian Organiza-
tions in New York city, has issued a
paper of unusual interest ON social
and religious conditions in the me-
tropolis As to home ownership he
discovers only half as high percent
age in New York as i'll Chicago. In
the list of cities of 500, 600 inhabitants
or more the highest percentage of
home ownership in this country is in
Baltimore. Philadelphia has gener-
ally been held to be the second city on
that list, but DR.. Laidlaw puts Chi
cago, and after it st. Louis, as follow
ing Baltimore, with Philadelphia,
Boston and New York next in order.
Another striking fact is that the
number Of home proprietors in the
Boroughs of Manhattan and the BRONX
in New York city who are of German
birth or parentage is much larger than
the number Of home proprietors of
pure American birth; indeed, the
citizens of New York who are of Ger
man birth OF parentage also outnum-
Der the whites of New York of pure
American parentage. AS to church
distribution we find, as might be ex-
pected a correlation between it and
the distribution of the foreign born.
Among the boroughs, that of Manhat-
tan, having the largest foreign born
population (and also the smallest home
owning proportion) has the smallest
number of churches in proportion to
population. When we come to the
saloon question DR.. Laidlaw corrects
the notion that an increase of foreign
born citizens is followed by an in
crease of liquor saloons in any given
locality; while there are some few
facts which support the inference, it is
generally a wrong impression. Fur
thermore, Manhattan liquor licenses
prove that the Hebrews. who are
largely located both on the upper and
lower East Side, are not supporters Of
the saloon to the same extent as Ro-
man Catholics and Protestants. The
result of DR.. Laidlaw's paper should
be to impress upon the New York
settlement worker, and also upon the
institutional church work a greater
sense than ever of the necessity of
those institutions, especially in that
section of the East Side containing
less than one-tenth of the total area.
but nearly twenty-nine per cent. of
the population There are already
about twenty-five so-called settle
ments in the borough of Manhattan
the most important of which are in
this district. DR.. Laidlaw believes,
and so does the Outlook, that the
return of spending, say 500, 900 south
of Fourteenth street to provide work.
ers and equipment for neighborhood
work in existing institutions would
be much larger than the return of
spending the same money on new
institution, unless indeed the latter
expenditure be specifically directed to
districts which are still comparatively
neglected. Exchange.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-08-06

against the reelection of the Presi-
dent next year. Accepting this state
ment on the part of the opponents of
the administration as correct, what
would be more simple or effective
remedy than to put on the ticket with
Roosevelt man whose presence there
would assure the support Of the great
financiers for the Republican ticket?
The houses of Rockefeller and of Sen
ator Aldrich are closely related
through the marriage of son and
daughter respectively. With Aldrich
on the national ticket Mr.. Rockefeller
of the Standard Oil company would
not only support it, but he would I'M
questonably be able to induce Morgan
and other great financiers who have
close relations with him to follow his
example,
If the ticket were to be Roosevelt
and Aldrich, the Democrats who have
been shouting that Roosevelt was re-
garded as unsafe by the country's
leading financiers would be up po-
litical stump. They would find it
difficult to take back their assertions,
inasmuch as the same have been re-
peatedly in print. They could not
make it appear that Roosevelt has been
friendly to the trusts, for the whole
world now knows better. Still there
would be those same great financial
interests supporting the Republican
national ticket, not because of any
| love for Roosevelt, but because of the
close relations of the greatest of those
| interests and the second man on the
ticket. Aldrich as vicepresident
would not be in a position to do any
harm in the way of influencing ma
tional legislation against trusts, and
indeed, judging from present tenden-
cies, little additional legislation
against combinations made for the
purpose of securing monopolies will
be needed. If any flaws can be found
in this programme it may be service,
if the same are found before it is car
ried out. Exchange.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-08-06
RIVERS BROS.

new liquor law, The Essex County
Herald says:
"Its enforcement lies principally in
the hands of its friends. It's oppon-
ents cannot be any more expected to
heartily rally beneath its banner than
were the opponents Of the former law
expected to be found battling under
its call. Prohibitionists and not high
license [menl did most there was done
to enforce the old; now let the tables
turn, and the advocates of the new, by
their energy and determination, show
to their brothers, standing by and
looking on with deep interest, bet
ter condition than the former. The
friends of local high license are, with
the new law, being tried in the bal
ance. "
A proper enforcement of the law is
impossible unless there is coalition
of energy on the part of both license
and non-license advocates. Now that
we have the law, let prohibitionists
be loyal and help to enforce it in order
to get something better.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-08-06

/ American soldier in the islands of the
Philippines cannot be comprehended
| by us. Military manguvring was al
most impossible, as there were no
| open roads or open fields and the ma
! tives fight with the deadly bolo and
| keep in ambush, where they can
| spring upon their foe, deal the deadly
| blow, and then escape unframed. For
civilized soldier to adjust himself to
these conditions was almost an i'm
| possibility. 1t became necessary to
tortrue the oaptives in order to obtain
information.
The land of the islands would cover
an area about equal to Japan. The
islands number in all, from the small
est to the largest, about 1900 There
are no general mountain systems or
high peaks, but some of them rise as
many as 5000 or 10000 feet above the
sea. There are eleven volcanoes, the
highest being about 5000 feet above
| the level of the sea. Not all of them
are active.
There is little to say in regard TO
the climate, as so many accounts have
already been printed, but the average
temperature is from 90 degrees to SO.
The suffering in the islands from con-
toSiOuo OlbOdScb 10 NCl1 BItdb.
The land in some localities is very
productive for sugar cane and rice, in
fact the richest rice land in the world
is there, but the inhabitants are too
indolent to cultivate it. The Filipinos
in some localities seem to be more
ready to die than to strive to gain
something to eat.
There are eighty different tribes in
the islands and they speak as many
different languages. This fact may
help us to understand why there is so
little unity among the inhabitants.
The natives live mainly out of doors,
the house merely being sleeping
abode. Mentally, these people are able
to remember or disremember, as they
see fit. They have great faculty for
remembering foreign words, but for
get the simplest problems in mathe-
MATES very easily. By nature, these
people have very little sense of honor,
which is one of the greatest disad-
vantages to the work being done
among them by the teachers, but the
teachers are doing magnificent work
and through their agency great work
will be accomplished in the islands of
the Philippines,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-08-06
SOLID SESSIONS.

To those interested in the solid
session" school system it may be of
interest to know that the Edinburgh
Board school children are below the
average height and weight of scholars
in England. 1t has been explained
in some measure by the bad system
of meal times laid down in Edinburgh
and Scotland. generally. The dinner
interval is not allowed in Scotland
board or other schools, half an hour
or twenty minutes being granted at
noon for luncheon. which generally
consists of bread and butter. AS the
school classes are not dismissed till 3
p. IN. the children have practically no
nourishing food between 8 30 O'Clock
and $50 O'Clock. The Edinburgh
Merchant Company, which provides
secondary education to some 5000
children, has resolved to adopt the
English system of meal hours.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-08-06
WHO SHALL 1T BE?

When Senator Platt of New York
first suggested the nomination of Sem
ator AldIich of Rhode Island for the
second place on the Republican ma
tional ticket with President Roose-
welt, there was marked disposition
abroad in the land to regard the prop
osition as among the list of political
improbabilities. 1t was very generally
assumed that Mr.. Platt was up to his
party, and that nothing further would
be heard of the attempt of the Republi-
can dictator of the Empire State to
play the part of Warwick in national
politics
Now that Senator Hanna of Ohio
has taken up the cudgels in behalf of
the Rhode Island Senator people are
beginning to think there may be some-
thing in the proposition worth consid-
ering after all and not few curious
individuals are wondering what it can
be.
So far as we have observed no salts
factory explanation of the proposition
has been forthcoming, but an interest
ing possibility suggests itself in this
connection. Some of our good Demo-
, cratic friends have been rolling as a
| sweet morsel under their tongues the
statement that the financiers were
afraid of Roosevelt, and that the infiu-
ence of Wall street would be thrown
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-08-06
"MILD TREATMENT. :"

The license commissioners at their
friendly meeting" with the licensed
liquor dealers of this city stated that
they had "heard in a roundabout
way that the license law was being
violated. They stated that they de-
sired to have the law enforced and
asked the licensees to band together
to assist them in such enforcement.
After all of the notorious disregard for
the law this mild treatment is decided
ly generous. Licensees and illegal
sellers certainly have had fair warn
ing. If the violations of the law con-
tinue those guilty deserve and should
receive no quarter Meanwhile the
public will watch the commissioners
pretty closely to see whether the meet
ing of Monday night was sop to
them or whether they actually mean
business when they state that they
are determined that the law shall be
strictly enforced. While it is impossi-
BILE to have the comparative sobliety
and safety and good order under the
present law that the people enjoyed
prior to it's advent, and it cannot reas-
onably be expected, no one thinks for
moment that the present conditions
cannot and should not be vastly i'm
proved. Rutland News.
I'm referring to the present newspa-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-08-06
NEW RAILWAY STATION.

Rutland is again promised a new
station. The plans have been complet-
ed and they are now in the hands of
local firms who will submit bids to
cover various kinds of work on the
structure. Railroad officials will talk
little about the matter but bids are to
be submitted not later than next Sat
urday and it is understood that work
will be begun ON the structure without
any unnecessary loss of time.
The specifications call for re-
modelling of the present structure but
there will be practically new depot
The present front wall will be utilized
in part but it will be rebuilt in many
places, new windows will be put in
and the cornice will be changed.
The remodele1 depot will consist OF
the present two-story structure with q
wing on either end The wing on
the south side will be about 70 by %
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-08-06

feet in dimensions and that on the
north will be about n feet long and
20 feet wide. In the south wing will
be located the baggage and mail rooms,
with receiving and disoharging CORR
doris. The north wing will include
the express room and office and room
for freight.
The ground floor of the main struc-
ture will have a large waiting room,
ticket office, telegraph Office, two
toilet rooms and a news and lunch
room. The waiting room will be
located in the center Of the building
with the ticket office and toilet rooms
at the side, facing the track. On the
north side of the waiting room will
be a covered corridor leading from the
tracks to handsome porte cochere at
the front entrance.
The track superintendent's train
masters and yardmaster's offices, a
telegraph office, rooms for conductors
and trainmen and a large store room
will make up the second story of the
building.
There will be a cellar to the depot,
containing boiler room, refuse bins
and storerooms.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-08-06

The st. Louis Globe Democrat
(Rep). protests against assaults in
Republican papers on William j.
Bryan. "His nomination rendered it
comparatively easy for the Republic
cans to carry the country it says,
'and as Republican success. in 1896
and 1900 was what the country needed,
Bryan ought not to be denounced by
any Republican for contributing to it.
The Republicans can afford to let
Bryan's Democratic enemies deal with
him. He has been of great help to the
Republican party in recent years. -
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-08-06

to note that statement is going the
rounds of the press that Felix w. Nc
Gettrick, the late Democratic candi-
date for Governor of Vermont, though
speaking pleasantly of Mr.. Cleveland
and Mr.. Olney, has said: But / ex-
pect to see Hearst wave of enthusi
asm sweep over the country within
the next six mopths;'' and Governor
McGettrick, it is added, may prove q
true prophet.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-08-06

The contracts for furnishing the
supplies for the First Regiment, Yer
mont National Guard, for the annual
muster which begins next week, have
been awarded by General Gilmore and
from the quantity of provisions or
dered it does not seem that any need
starve. The contracts call for 1.700
pounds of beefsteak, l., 700 pounds of
roast beef, 900 pounds of corned beef
900 pounds of lamb, $50 pounds of salt
pork, 1900 pounds of ham, 1000
pounus of bread, $50 pounds of butter,
$50 gallons of milk, 800 pounds of
beans, 1870 pounds of peas, 100 pounds
of rice, 5000 pounds of potatoes, $50
pounds of onions, 400 pounds of toma-
toes, 500 pounds of coffee, 900 pounds
of sugar, 100 pounds of salt, 10 pounds
of pepper, IT'S pounds of cheese, 80
pounds of lard, 70 pounds of soap, "a
dozen candles, six gallons of vinegar.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-08-06
THE PRODUCTION OF IRON ORE.

In July supplement of the Com.
/ meroial Advertiser are found several
notable articles on industrial America
which are in the nature of reviews of
| the fiscal year, in June, accompanied
by analytical articles dealing with
the financial operations of leading
corporations. One of these reviews,
upon the production of iron ore, is of
especial interest in that the United
States largely owes its commanding
position in the worlds iron trade to
its enormous deposits of iron ore. The
article deals with the subject, in part,
i'll the following mannert
These large deposits are found in
numerous localities, very few States
having no resources of this character.
On Lake Superior region is the great
source of supply of iron ores. This
region extends through portions of the
States of Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota, the ores being found in
localities bordering on Lake Superior,
or lying within such easy reach Of it
that railroads less than one hundred
miles in length transport the ore from
the mines farthest away to the lake
shipping posts. Lake Superior ore
supplies blast furnaces in western New
York, most of the blast furnaces in
western Pennsylvania, sometimes be-
ing shipped as far east as the Lehigh
valley, all the blast furnaces along
the Ohio river in West Virginia, most
of the blast furnaces in Ohio, and
all of the blast furnaces in Ohio, and
all the blast furnaces in Michigan,
Illinois and Wisconsin.
The output Of the Lake Superior
district last year was 81, Sl2, $50 gross
tons. TINS showed remarkable in
crease on the output of the previous
year, which was 81, 445, 903 tons
Never before was such an increase re-
ported in the production for any
single year. According to the Stats
tics compiled by John Berkinbiue, for
the United States geological survey,
the production in 1901 was as follows
by States, in the order of the magni-
tuted of their output:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-08-06

1.-The old question of what to DO
with our ex-Presidents is of little con-
sequence beside the question what can
be done to make the Office of Vice
President more attractive to men of
Presidential size, remarks the Spring
field Republican (Ind.). GAS it is,
the Office seems to be falling intoEa
lower and lower state of consideration
among the directing political forces
of the country"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-08-06

A despatch to the Tribune from
Kenosha says that ex-Representative
Stephenson has been trying to initiate
Senator Qusrles. whose seat he is
said to seek Quarles' performance
with jumper and overslls wouldn't
let Mr.. Stephenson sleep. So he set
to work in his own harvest field to
win applause and blisters. The real
farmers jeered him, as they had
jeered Mr.. Quarles, whose amateur
haying was as good as a circus for
the sons of the soil. Why this pro-
fessional jealousy? Is Cincinnatus
played out New York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-08-06

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States. Gross Tons,
Minnesota, II, 100, 537
Michigan, 1854, OCT
Alabama, 2,801, 732
Pennsylvania, 1,O40, 6S4
Virginia and West Virginia, 925, 1894
| Tennessee, 789. 494
Wisconsin, 1888, S6S
New York. 42O, 21S
Colorado, 404, OBJ
New Jersey, 401, $50
Montana, Nevada, New Mex
leo, Texas and Wyoming, 234, ola
Georgia and North and South
Carolina, 2l5, 500
Kentucky and Iowa, 46, 400
Ohio, A, 1856
Connecticut and Massachu-
setts, 1924
Maryland, 21,921
Missouri, 1880
Total, 28, 8S7, 40
1t can clearly. be seen by these
figures that so great an increase was
the Lake Superior district last year
that the output of that district nearly
equalled the entire output of the
country the previous year. 1t would
hardly be possible to make another
statement which would so strikingly
indicate the predominance of the Lake
Superior district in supplying the iron
ore requirements of the country. The
increase may possibly have been ten
per cent, but it is doubtful if it was
more than that, as the principle in
crease in the production of pig iron
in 1902, as compared with 1901, was
in the localities which are dependent
for their ore supply upon the Lake
Superior district. While the ore
supply Of the United States is more
than equal to the requirement of the
blast furnaces located in the interior,
it has, nevertheless, been found con-
venient for plants situated on or near
the seacoast to import iron ore from
Cuba and other outside sources OF
supply.
The imports of iron ore foI
the eleven months of the current
fiscal year ending May 81, 1908,
were $40, 1913 gross tons as COM
pared with 1907, 776 tons in the
corresponding period of the previous
year. 1t has occasionally happened
that foreign ores have been laid down
so chesply in this foreign country thai
blast furnaces situated as far in the
interior as the Allegheny Mountains
have found it advantageous to pur.
chase considerable quantities for mix
ture with domestic ores. This, OF
course, can only be done when foreign
ores are considerably cheaper than
domestic ores of equal quality. The
supply Of iron ore in the United
States may be considered as equal to
any possible demand of the iron trade
for many years to come.
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