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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-01

After the Knights of Pythias "trip
to the quarries on Wednesday one of
the visitors was overheard to remark
that the quarries didn't amount to
much after all. " OF course such a
remark would cause only smile from
any discerning man who had taken the
trip, but it passes understanding how
anyone can ride past miles of granite
sheds in Montpelier and Barre, get
ting even the limited view of the
quarries that hurried railroad trip
affords and still have the courage to
say that it doesn't amount to much.
This man probably belongs to that
class of Vermonters who cannot see
much that is great in Vermont any
how, but this class is happily grow
ing smaller year by year and the time
is near at hand when such remark
as that quoted above will be greeted
by boots of derision instead of the
smiles which did greet it on this oc
casion.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-01
THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING
OFFICE

President Roosevelt is confronted by
vexstious problem in the matter of
reforms in the government printing
office. 1t will be remembered that
one Miller, an employee of the office,
was discharged at the behest of the
labor unions. The President rein
stated Miller. Out of that incident
grew the investigation recently COM
pleted. Miller sent long letter to
the President in which he made vari-
GUS charges as to the domination of
the printing Office by the unions, the
extravagant methods employed, etc
These charges caused the President to
ask Secretary Cortelyou to investigate
the entire printing office and the Sec
Rotary assigned the task to Mr.. Sar-
gent, commissioner general of immi-
grafton, and Mr.. Garfield, chief of
corporations.
The report which is now in the
hands of the President, substantiates
many of Miller's charges and points
the way to reforms which promise to
save the government thousands Of dol
lars year. Meanwhile, the Book
binders Union has secured the past
record of Miller and has filed charges
against his private life. Sargent and
Garfield also found that Miller was
of quarrelsome disposition, dictato-
rial and arbitrary, and man who, in
the position of foreman, caused fric-
ton and dissatisfaction. In word,
he is a man ill fitted to manage men,
quite irrespective Of the union factor
in the situation, There is little doubt
| that, under ordinary circumstances.
Miller would be promptly discharged.
On the other hand, there are likely to
ensue extensive and radical reforms as
a result of Miller's having brought the
matter to the attention of the Presi-
dent. But the charges preferred by
the Union, it is said, are so serious
| thai it will be almost impossible for
the President to ignore them. In fact
it is generally believed that they will
compel the President to discharge
Miller for the good of the public ser
vice, but from whatever standpoint he
! looks at it Mr.. Roosevelt is bound to
find the situation perplexiug.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-01

without the help of France. Mons
can tell. But victory was assured,
and certainly the war was shortened,
by the preoccupation of England at
home, as we'll as across the ocean, by
an enemy of the quality and power
of the French. The assistance of
France may have been at times dis
appointing, but in the aggregate 1T
was strong oontributory force, and
must be credited among the powerful
agencies that made the American
Revolution a signal success. Aside
from his individual services to Wash
ington and the army, Lafayette's de-
cisive agency in insuring the French
alliance entitled him to all the honor
and gratitude past generations OF
Americans have given him, and will
insure him the grateful benedictions
of all coming generations.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-01
ADMINISTER THE LAW.

That the prompt and efficient ad-
ministration of law is the best anti
dote for crime and disorder is truth
that ought not to require demonstra-
ton; that the violent taking Of ven
geance out of the hands of the officers
appointed to administer the law and
execute it's penalties does not act as a
deterrent to crime and disorder, is
shown by the testimony of many facts
and circumstances, in the North as
well rs In the Stares of the South.
Lynching, with its varied horrors,
has net cured the crimes for which it
is esteemed the only adequate punish
ment. Disorder amounting to anar-
chy in parts OF Kentucky is the fruit,
primarily, of lax administration of
law; secondarily, of the lack of the
existence there of twentieth century
instrumentaIities of civilization, sup
plemented by indu lgence in moon
shine whiskey, and a general public
sentiment in favor of ignorance and
illicit distilling
AS the result of these low condi-
tions in parts of Kentucky, lawyer
in the Goebel case is quoted as declar-
ing that i'll the last four years Ken
lucky has had twenty times as many
killings as has the State of New York,
but onty one thirtieth of the number
of executions of the death penalty.
The same authority declares that in
no other place on earth is lawlessness
so prevalent as in Kentucky. Only
nine men have been hanged there in
the past five years while there have
been 1893 homicides, according 10 Off
cial reports, except in the case of
Breathitt county. In that municipal
/ ity official life hangs by so fragile q
tenure no man, for the past three
years, could be persuaded to accept
the office of coroner, who has to do
with these affairs of life and DEATH
These statistics may not be credited,
but the evidence of he most conserva.
tive hardly shows that Kentucky is a
health resort. In Breathitt county, il
is stated that there were thirty
seven homicides in two years. Ii
that county curing che past year three
prominent men, James Cockrill, the
town marshall, DR.. b. ID. Cox, lead
ing physician, James b. Marcum, al
attorney and holder OF offices of trust,
were assassinated and Mar
cum being shot from the court house
Such irony doth crime visit upor
the halls of justice The assassin il
each case was Curtis Jett, and during
his trial for killing Cockrill a wit
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-01

OF the existing coal situation the
Springfield Republican says: 1t is
probable that cheaper instead of still
dearer coal will come with the winter,
although no one should stake very
much on the possibility. At present
prices the miners are producing more
coal than can be sold, and either
prices must be reduced to increase
consumption, or production must be
reduced. The coal monopoly is choos-
ing the latter course, but it may not
prove the more profitable. 1t means
loss not only to the coal mining cor
porations, but still greater loss to the
coal carrying roads. which must main
tain their plant at about the full-going
capacity while traffic falls off. Such
glut as now prevails in the anthra-
cite market has more than once here
tofore resulted in breaking up the rail-
road combination over the coal region.
1t is not likely to have this effect
now, since the interested roads are
much more closely tied together, but
it may bring about cut in prices. "
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-01
ANTHRACITE.

Newspaper correspondents in the
anthracite mining districts have been
industrious of late III predicting a
restriction of mining on account of
the congestion Of the market for coal
resulting from the current over
production. Part of this is due to
Imagination part of it reflects misin-
formation; all of it shows ignorance
of the condition of the coal market
and OF the reasons which will account
for such restriction of mining as may
be seen
There is and has been no overpro-
duction of anthracite. The total
stock of mined coal in first hands on
the 1st of August was only GAG, $40
tons, and of this the greater part was
fine stuff, formerly mine refuse and
sent to the dump, but now used for
steam purposes where the conditions
permit. At the present time, on the
edge of cold weather, the stock is
probably not $50, 900 tons altogether
much as safety and the steadying of
the market demand.
The vacuum caused by the long
strike of seven months last winter has
been pretty we'll filled, but nowhere
are the stocks in first or second hands
more than sufficient or larger than
they should be at this season of the
year. Consumption may be expected
to jump with the first hard frost, and
belated purchases will make great in
| roads upon stocks in the retail yards.
The winter consumption may be ex-
| pected to continue ON scale which
will call for all the coal of domestic
sizes available. For many months
coal has been rushing west, but the
, western stocks are still insufficient.
Duluth, for example, needs great
deal more anthracite than it has, or
sees its way to get since the strike of
/ the laborers and dock hands connected
. with the Steel Corporations lake
fleet has shut off the supply from that
source. AS a consequence the supply in
the northwest will be limited and the
price this winter relatively high.
The advent of cold weather will place
some restriction upon production and
good deal upon distribution. There
will be no general distribution by
water after November 1. The rail
Dads have very little coal at their
terminals, or anywhere along their
! lines
! If mining is discontinued it will
not be because too much coal has al
ready been raised. We shall not
have far to look for the reason, but
the correspondents who send news"
from the coal regions are likely to be
the last ones to discover it-or at
least to tell it.-Nsw York Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-01
M CHINE M1DE.

Our mothers used to spin the flax
Our fathers used to raise,
And make the garments that they
wore
For work and holidays.
The spinning wheel is dusty now,
Nor half so stout, ween,
Are coats and vests and breeches since
We make 'em by machine.
The buttons don't stay on so long
The seams are insecure,
And nothing seems as staunch as when
The word was slow and sure.
Our stories, even, and our songs
Die swiftly and serene;
They seem to lack endurance when
We make 'em by machine.
Our statesmen, too-we scarce expect
That they will proudly grow
In public estimation like
The men of long ago.
Although we're hoping for the best,
With apprehension keen,
We look them DER and recollect
We make 'em by machine.
Washington Star.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-01
DRAINING ZUYDER ZEE.

An excellent account is given in the
October McClure's of an engineering
project second only in magnitude and
Importance to the Isthmian canal to
wit, the stupendous undertaking of
the Dutch government to drain the
larger part OF the Zuyder Zee, con
vert the rest of it into great fresh
water lake, and reclaim from the sea
a piece of ,land equal to one-four-
teenth the present area of Hol-
land. Though the work, which has
hardly begun, will extend over some
thirtythree years, each stage of it
has been plotted and the cost estimat-
ed by the Dutch engineers, with the
utmost exactness and thoroughnesa ;
all of which is most interestingly set
forth by the writer of the article.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-01

alternative. The negro must be
subordinate and remain so forever or
he will be exterminated. -
The question of negro domination
carries little to the mind of the aver
age northerner, but in the south it is
burning problem and one which
becomes more real and difficult as the
years go by, The southerner believes
that the question ought to be settled
in accordance with the wishes of the
south, based on an experience of forty
years, and many northerners are COM
ing to view the question i'll much the
same light.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-01

A good index to towns prosperity
is the business done at the post office
in that town, and Stowe is now in
line for congratulations on this score,
the Office there having been advanced
from fourth to third class by a recent
order of the department 1t is en-
tirely fitting that post-office which
is to occupy such excellent quarters as
are furnished by the Akeley soldiers
memorial building be included in the
presidential class.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-01
"Watch the Kidneys. "

"When they are affected, life is in
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Concerning this remedy, Mr.. P. H.
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relief. My druggist recommended Fo-
ley's Kidney Cure and it has cured
me. Before commencing its use L was
in such shape that l could hardly
get up when once down" Sold by
Harry A Slade.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-01

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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-01

Washington county is again in the
public eye because of the doings of
the rape fiend, Just why this county
should be the theatre for so much
iniquity of this sort cannot be ex-
planned, but, if it choose, public
opinion in the county can demonstrate
to the State that it will not tolerate
such fiends and fiendish acts, and that
without the use of the rope. Five
instances of this sort within compare
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-01
TILLMAN ON THE NEGRO.

There has been no time in the past
twenty five years when the subject of
repeating the constitutional amend
meut has not been under discussion of
more or less serious turn. Just now
several southern congressman are be
ing quoted as determined 90 make a
! fight on the matter in the next Con-
gress, and it will be interesting to
note just what strength the movement
has developed if indeed it comes to
the test.
In the National Magazine. Senator
Tillman writes on the subject in an
swer to the request that he express
an opinion as to whether in the life
! of the present generation we shall re-
, peal the constitutional amend ment
| ganting suffrage to the negro.
The South Carolina Senator is
hopeful that the day is coming when
the whites and blacks will be placed
on an unequal footing politically and
he gives his reason for his belief IN
characteristically stroLg terms. Says
Mr.. Tillman: 81 would not be willing
to make a guess as to when this will
be done, but my Judgment is, that as
it was the first great blunder in deal
ing with the race question after
emancipation, there can be no ameli-
grafton or remedy for existing evils
which are recognized by all until it
is repealed. There is nothing more
certain than that the whites of the
south will never submit to negro
domination in any form yet in the
two States of Mississippi and South
Carolina the negroes outnumber the
whites 1858, $40 in the first, and 224. 702
in the second, while in the six States,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana,
the relative numbers at the last CEN
sus were 4, 40S, 29S whites and 4, 43S, 1888
colored.
The amendment is now pullified
and has been for upwards of twenty
five years Recent amendments to
State constitutions in the South have
given only temporary relief. The
white race is ~ ling against the law
of gravitation AS represented by the
constantly increasing number of ne
groes eligible to vote. There are
more negro children going to school
in South Carolina and Mississippi
than there are whites. When enough
negroes are educated to obtain the
right TO vote to outnumber the whites
who can vote, then what?
1t is doubtful whether a race wal
will be postponed so long as that 1t
certainly cannot be if northern fana'
tics and greedy politicians continue tC
urge the policy now being pursued
IL the door of hope is to be kept oper
to the negroes it means that it mus
be shut on the whites. Absolute
quality before the law would meal
negro domination in ewo States at
least, and that is something which
will never be permitted. [, therefore
do not hesitate to assert that thu
amendment will be repealed, because
do not believe there are enough fan
atics in the north to force the othel
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-01
RIVERS BROS.

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much for even placid, easy going Ver-
monters to endure.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-01

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Arizona republican., 1903-05-22
PRESBYTERIAN COUNCIL
The Gathering of the General Assem-
 ply ct Los Angeles.

Los Angeles. May 21.-The 115th as- sembly of the Presbyterian church of the United States convened at Emman- uel Presbyterian church this morning. Two sessions were held during the day, the morning being taken up with the annual sermon of the retiring moderat- or, Rev. Henry Vandyke of Princeton university. and the entire afternoon to the election of moderator for the en- suing year.
 Rev. Dr. x. Coyle of Denver, Colo. was elected on the second ballot In the evening the administration of the Lords Supper occupied the time of the commissioners. Rev. Dr. Vandyke pre- siding.
 It was a notable assemblage that pr. VGndyke called to order at II o'clock this morning. Six hundred and seven- ty commissioners, representing both the conservative and liberal clements of the Presbyterian church, occupied seats in the auditorium of Emmanuel church,
 Moderator VanDyke's sermon, which occupied about one hours in the deliv- cry, was a notable effort. His subject was Religion in Relation to Human Happiness" and he urged his hearers to preach simplicity of religion in place of metaphysical doctrine.
Arizona republican., 1903-05-22
BEARING ON BAER
To Make Him Answer Inter
 state Commission
Determined to Have Replies to Ques- tions and See Hidden Documents
 if It Has to Go to Highest Court.

Washington, D. C., May 21.-A vigor- ous effort is to be made by the inter state commerce commission to compel President Baer of the Reading Coal & Iron company and the Reading railway and the officials of the other anthracite coal carrying roads to answer certain questions and produce certain docu- ments which they refused at the recent hearing before the commission in New York.
 The particular documents, the origin als of which are demanded by the com mission, are alleged contracts among the coal carrying roads limiting the production of coal. After considering the refusal of the officials to present the contracts to the interstate commission, the members of the commission re- quested Attorney General Knox to di- rect General Burnett, district attorney for the southern district of New York to present the case to the United States circuit court and ask for an order to compel the officials of the coal carry ing roads to appear before the commis- sion, to answer the questions and pro- duce the documents.
 .. same day Attorney General Knox gave the necessary directions to General Burnett. In cooperation with the at torneys for the complainant in the case William k. Hearst, General Burnett has prepared the petition to be pre- sented to the circuit court. It was re- ceivcd by the interstate commerce com mission today. AS soon as it can be ex- amined, it will be signed. probably to- morrow, and returned to the district at torney.
 The possibilities are that it will be presented formally to the circuit court next Monday. It is understood to be the determination of the interstate commerce commission to insist upon an order from the court to the officials Of the roads to answer the inquiriessw which they declined by the advice of counsel to answer at the recent hearing and produce for the commissions examina- tion the books and contracts which they heretofore refused to produce. If ne cessary. the commission will carry the case to the United States supreme court.
Arizona republican., 1903-05-22
BOTH SIDES GAVE WAY
And the Strike at Denver Was Brought
 to An End.

Denver. Colo, May 21.-The strike which for several days has practically paralyzed the business of the city, in- volving 10000 men and women and threatening to force into idleness twice that number of union members, was settled at o'clock this evening through efforts of committee from the cham Der of commerce and one from the focal typographical union. Though both sides made concessions, the victory seems to be with the laboring men.
 The agreement entered into between the general executive committee of or ganized labor and the executive com mittee of the Citizens alliance, whose membership embraces nearly all the employers of labor in the city, conceded the right of employees as we'll as en- ployers to organize; permits employ CTS to choose their employees regardless of their membership in unions; forbids the discharge of employees on account of their utilization with unions; pro- vides for the arbitration of the present differences by a board to consist of five each of employers and employees di- rectly involved in the present trouble, with, if necessary, an eleventh man who has not been so involved.
 The findings of this board to be bind ing upon all members of the Citizens alliance and upon all unions represent ed by the general executive committee; all strikes, lockouts and boycotts are declared off; the men now out are to be reinstated as rapidly as their ser vices can be utilized; all suits for in- functions are to be withdrawn.