Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-03-12
(From the Montpelier ArgusO


Arc the small towns of New England
seats of barbarsm and haunts Of vice!
Ono might think so from reading some
of the pcssimistic statements that are
made public from time to time and
might think that degcneracv was de-
stroyiur this section of the country
4 Connecticut minister the other day
made very severe charges involving the
moral life of small communities. At n
recent meeting of the Baptist association
in Boston the Rev. George +. E. Horr
said:
Il want also to speak concerning rural
New England 1t has been nv privilege
to acquire "A knowledge of it by driving
over it with my own horses. 1t has long
been my deliberate conviction that there
is no immortality in a Western mining
camp that will compare or that will not
go beyond the immortality that YOU can
find about five miles from a New Eng
land town. 1t is the plague spot of New
England These pcoplc are too far from
the centres of population. The churches
do not reach them AS for the Sabbath
why, the Sabbath is no more kent than
it is kept in Chicago, or in St Louis
was not surprised at what Mr.. Iutchins
the agent of the Bible society. said about
the immortality of the country towns else
where-his observations exactly CORES
pond with my own"
There is immortality in the country
towns. There always has been. There is
also immortality in the cities In the
small towns where evcrv ono knows
every one else. lapses from virtue and
recttude are noted by all and form a
subject of gossip and conversation. II is
moro easy to see vice in the country than
in the city and much easier to hear of
it. SO comparisons may not he fair
Doubtless it is true that youth in the
rural districts acquire vicious habits in
the towns near which they i've and that
these are communicated to their associ-
ates at home 1t NAV also be that when
this happens vice is vlllearized and
brutalized because it is stripped of the
garsh surroundings of the city and an
pears as naked evil
We do not claim or believe that the
country towns are like paradise before
the fall that they are scencs of coron1nta
,.rocencc. oul we empnaticahE dissent
ministers make. 1t does not accord with
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know that he is growing up to nj posi-
h"s fora 'o VIZ, % tha+ uaHt nS ms ia'iitr
able and honorable too clean minded to
harbor or Indulge in the vice of Western
mining camps or the immoralties of the
cites. The dereliction of an occasional
individual should not count against
class.
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(From the Montpelier Journal)
boys may he denied the novelty of KraE-
senssn l.'le' a. 'lie rtN. o.ate muster.
accumulated about 5000 krags at the
various arsenas for distribution among
the states. but Secretary Root does not
approve of haste in carrying out the pro-
visions of the new militia law and has
referred IL 10 the war college board with
instructions to prepare a general plan for
putting the new law into effect The
plan will include an ARRANGEMENT for the
distribution of the new arms. but this
will probably be delayed several months
The boys can console themselves with
the thought that their fellow militiamen
in other States. particularly New York.
are so attached to the time honorod
Springfield that a protest against the
change has been entered
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N'''r' ioi' NoMt.N'
(From the Bellows Falls Timcs)
New hampshire town meetings VIII be
held next TUESDAY. voters Will then be
gwen ah opportunity TO vote on the pro-
posed amendments TO inc constitution,
~ III All Terilaps the most important
OF theSc amendments is the one giving
ms suffrage 10 women The PROPOSE
tloh VIII propapiy be turned down but
no GOOD reason has been given why it
Shoulu De-
UNDER NEW CONDIrIONc
n total Of 374, Enosburgh voted Tues
day under the local option clause of the