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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-29

rum evil in Vermont. Brace up, o
We of little faith Times eternal
ages are on your side. 1t is only
fifty years against some six thousand.
If there is sense or reason at all in your
remedy tor fifty years of assumed fail
ure of prohibition, extend your cure
all, also, to the sins. crimes and evils
against which sixty centuries of pro-
hibition, reinforced by human law,
the thunders of the church and every
agency of good, have not entirely pre-
vailed
The Herald's scheme of educational
reform is not entirely new and is entire
ly meritorious, but in this connection
it has very much the appearance of a
subterfuge. spillway, a means of
egress from a somewhat difficult stu
alton. But in what university should
this education go on? In one presided
over by King Alcohol, in which sa-
loon keepers are the professors?
But inlrespect of this delusive local
option theory: The Herald says the
Journals idea is that it wants Cabot
to control her own liquor policy and
Barrels too. t" Well there is something
in that. 1t wants Cabot and the 245
Barrels liquor policy. That is to say
it wants the State to control the rum
traffic. 1t sees neither sense nor rea-
son in referring to local option the
traffic in the article which is produce
tive of more crimes, and more misery,
the cause of larger public expense than
any other-not to say all others COM
bined-article of commerce. It's use
and the traffic in it are the most fit
subjects for the control of the supreme
power in the State government, at
least, and, in course of time, per-
haps the national government AS
well leave to local option the ques-
ton of school and highway admins
tration; matters pertaining to the
public health; let each individual
savings bank be a law unto itself in
all matters pertaining to the manage
ment of its business; permit each
railway to manage its affairs without
State interference; grant local option
right and left; let the towns and
cities and corporations manage their
affairs, on the principle that is made
the fundamental argument for local
option in the liquor traffic, that each
knows best its own conditions and
what it wants. Local option may be
plausible but it is, we repeat delu-
sion and snare
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-29
AS TO LOCAL OPTION.

After fifty years of so-called prohib-
ition and with the saloons running
in full blast in Barre and Montpelier,
the Journal objects to local option,
because the thirsty from Cabot can
still go to Barre and get a drink If
the Journal will be satisfied with any
law that will not prevent the man
from Cabot from going where he can
get a drink, it will never be satisfied
with any law, prohibition, or local
option. The trouble lies deeper. 1t
is the man that must be reformed.
You must educate him, not "legis-
late' him. You may have all the
prohibition you can crowd inside the
statute books and if he can't find IA
rumhole in his town he will in the
next. If he couldn't get liquor in the
State he would send outside for it.
Rutland Herald.
The foregoing is from an editorial
article traversing some recent COM
ments by the Journal on the practical
working-that is to say, the imprac-
ticability-of local option allied with
license as a means of regulating the
sale and use of liquors for drinking
purposes. 1t is with local option and
license somewhat as Lincoln stated the
case between slavery and freedom ;
GA house divided against itself can
not stand. Society in Vermont can
not endure permanently half rum and
half temperance. 1t will boone all
one thing or all the other. Under
local option rum will be alike preva-
! lent in all parts of the State, in the
no license as well as the license towns
and cities. License in Rutland is
| free rum in all the region round about.
! So also in every other center of popu-
! lation and business throughout the
State. This proposition ought to be
clear-even to the redeyed contempor-
AIRY of the tombstone city.
"After fifty years of prohibition
has become a favorite fling of the Ii
cense takers and writers. Like its
twin corker, Prohibition doesn't
prohibit" the light hearted license
logicians appear to regard it ms en-
tirely conclusive They hide theu
heads i'm the sands of their superhcia
reasoning and forget chat the hulkine
body of their senselessness looms above
the desert After some thousands o
yers Of the Ten original prohibitions
! supplemented by human laws aud pen
alties, there are still murders, thefts
adultories coyetous reachngs out TO
other mems goods and chattels, an'
violations of all the other prohibition
of the decalogue. And still the con
temporary is discouraged becaus
"after fifty years of trial prohibi
tion has not utterly extinguished til
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-29
1G1INST THE LICENSE ACT

Editor Daily Journal. The license
local option referendum act is the work
of cowardly politicians, who. i'll their
endeavor to please everybody pleased
nobody, and made a law that cannot
be commended or defended from any
praisworthy standpoint.
The people are asked to throw away
the existing law, that required fifty
years of the best thought of the State
to make it effective in regulating the
liquor traffic, and substitute there
for something that the Governor of
the State was obliged to ask the judges
of the Supreme Court if it was any
thing and whether he ought to call
an extra session of the Legislature to
make it something.
The judges, after thoughtfully CON
sidering the matter twice, without
passing upon the validity of the law,
advised the Governor that the inten-
ton of the Legislature was manifest
and it was unnecessary to call it back
to further consider the law.
The existing law has done grand work
in Montpelier, in the last few years, and
it is capable of doing it for other
places. The recent demand, rs sud
den as it was great, for liquor at the
town and city agencies in the State,
where, if the agency is properly con-
Quoted, the sales are lawful, shows
that the existing law has been fulfill
ing its high mission in curtailing UNI
lawful sales.
a dozen years ago Montpelier had
little use for its liquor agency, Will
| thirty five or more well known sa'
looms, her hotels and drug stores all
selling Intoxicating drinks. 1t coulc
make we'll nigh no sales Its location
was hardly known and the agent him
self had to veud other wares for en-
ployment. Now the saloons are al
gone, the hotels and drug stores re
fraiu from selling Intoxicating drinks
and the sales of liquor at the agency
the only known place where liduo
can be obtained, has increased man,
fold
The great improvement in the con
dition of Montpelier in the last few
years has been so marked that it is I
subject Of comment not only among
its citizens, but by people who come
here for business or pleasure. The eX
listing law with its good record shoulC
not be snapped Off for an experiment
al one with no record.
T. j. Deavitt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-29
AS TO THE POOR MANS CLUB.

In the subjoined article, published
in the Chicago Advance, with his
accustomed vigor and conclusiveness
Rev. @. M. Sheldon attacks the
specious proposition that the saloon
as the poor man S club, and that as
means of humanity the institution
has ample justifiation:
1t may be stated as an axiom that a
thing that is evil in itself cannot be
of any real benefit to anybody. The
saloon is evil, and only evil. 1t has
not one single redeeming feature. 1t
is in the business of destroying life,
That has been its record ever since it
had any organized existence. The sum
total of its history proves the fact,
and there ought not to be any room
for debate over that statement.
The assumption has been made by
those who champion the saloon in any
form as a Poor Mans Club, that the
poor man must have recreation OF
some sort, meeting ground for social
necessity, but when it is taken fol
granted that the saloon is this vehicle
for furnishing necessary mental and
social refreshment, the jump is toe
far from the premise to the conclu-
sion. A statement of plain facts may
not be out of order for the advocates
of the saloon for any purpose, to con.
slider
(D The great majority of men,
whether they be poor OF rich, go tC
the saloon to get "a drink, regardless
of any social feature of the place.
(2) If the poor man is founC
oftener in the saloon than any othe
place. it is not because, in most cases
there is no other place to go to, bu
because he prefers to go where he can
get a drink of liquor instead of som'
other place. There are good many
Christian poor men, who live in TIN
same locality with others, who neve
go into a saloon They find all tn
social recreation they need elsewhere
This is true even in the heart of tn
worst slum districts. If a poor ma
wants to find recreation in good places
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-29
he can find it, with very rare excep-

he can find it, with very rare excep-
tions.
(3) One thing that helps to keep
any man poor is his patronage of the
saloon. If he continues to spend his
earnings in the saloon, it will con-
tinue to deprive him of any kind of a
decent home.
(4) If the saloon is necessity for
the poor man, it is just as much of a
necessity for the poor woman and the
poor child. Yet the experience of
history plainly shows that where
women with men and children have
used the saloon as social center there
has inevitably followed the worst pos
sible degradation and breaking up of
the home life, poor as it might have
been, and, in short, the destruction of
all refined and redeeming qualities.
(5) No one rejoices more than the
saloon keeper, the brewer, the distill-
err, when ministers, bishops and men
of influence in the religious world
declare in favor of the saloon for any
purpose whatever.
(6) The only club for a poor man
that is worth considering, year i'll
and year out, is a decent home. A
man who is working at any honest
labor, who is in a position to save
even five cents day, owes it to his
family to put every cent of that earn
ing into his home. If he is not a
married man, he is under no less obli-
CATION to preserve his manhood. his
moral and physical life. by keeping
as far away from the saloon as posi-
BILE.
In brief, to sum up, good cannot
flow out of evil. The saloon exists
for the purpose of making money, no
matter what the cost in the ruin of
homes, the beggary and misery OF
little children, the broken hearts OF
mothers and wives and the complete
wrecking of the man who spends his
earnings in the place. This is simply
automatic. History proves it. Grim
inal records defy any other conclusion,
and the individual and collective his
tory of poor men all over the country
proves beyond the shadow of a doubt
that if what has gone into the saloon
had gone into the home, we should
have today all over this land sat
isfactory social environment for
multitudes of poor men who today are
poor. whose wives are in despair,
whose children are neglected, whose
house is a miserable tenement. whose
future is blank-all because the
saloon has absorbed not only the man S
leisure, which belongs to his wife and
children but the little earnings which
would have made possible the best
club on earth.
Write it over the chair of the Soci-
illogical professor and the apologists
for the saloon:
There is no club worth consider
ing, for poor men or rich men, equal
to the club of decent home.
and write under that again:
No institution has done so much
to rob the poor man of his home as
the saloon.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-29
GARDENS OF DELIGHT.

When our English and Dutch aDces-
tors first arrived in the New World,
among the first things they longed for
after they had built their homes
were gardens. They longed to trans.
plant the fragrant garden patches of
the old world to these bleak shores,
and before long every humble dwell
ing had its little patch of flowers and
bushes. Among the plants grown in
these beginnings of American gardens
were spearmint, featherfew, white
satin, lander cotton, pennyroyal,
smalledge, gillyfiower fennel, holly
hooks, annis, asparagus, English
roses, peppeiw wort, and =" tansie. In
Pennsylvania William Penn encour-
aged his Quakers to plant English
flowers, and in the early days North
and South Carolina gardens were ex-
quisite. The garden at Mount YER
non, probably the oldest in Virginia,
is still preserved in its original shape
and at the time of the Revolution
there were already many famous and
beautiful gardens in America. Today
while we have not the superb ances-
trail estates and historic parks of Eng
land there are, through the country,
many beautiful examples of gardens,
formal and informal. Old fashioned
New England gardens, with sunfiow-
ers and "four o'clocks, featherfew,
hollyhocks, and geraniums; Italian,
Dutch and English gardens-these,
and even notifications of the japan
ese effects, are to be found and the
fast growing love for country life is
exemplified in the growing zest in
gardening among Americans, -Agl.
Epitomist.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-29

1t is unlikely that King Edward
will ever allow the sentence of death
pronounced on Col. Arthur Lynch of
the Boer army, to be carried out, but
should he be hanged it would be the
first time in centuries since an elected
member Of the British Legislature has
been put to death for treason. The
last case at all similar to Col. Lynch s
was that of Lord I.ovat, who assisted
Stuart in the rising in Scotland in
1745. He was put to death for treason
in the Tower of London, where Sir
Walter Raleigh and many other his
toric characters, including some of
the wives of Henry VIII, were be-
headed. Lord Lovat's execution was
the last to take place in the famous
tower.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-29
Revolution Imminent

A sign of approaching revolt and
serious trouble in your system is ner-
vousness, sleeplessness, or stomach up
sets. Electric Bitters will quickly dis
member the troublesome causes 1t
never fails to tone the stomach, regu-
late the Kidneys and Bowels, stimu-
late the Liver, and clarity the blood
Rundown systems benefit particularly
and all the usual attending aches van
ish under it's seal ching and thoroughly
effectiveness. Electric Bitters is only
SOC, and that is returned if it don t
give perfect satisfaction Guaranteed
by @. Blakely Druggist.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-29

scription makes weak women strong,
sick women we'll. 1t establishes regular
ity, dries weakening drains, heals inham-
nation and liberation, and cures female
weakness. 1t tranquilizes the nerves and
induces refreshing sleep.
ain the fall of 1897, was troubled with nerv-
BUSINESS, headache, heart trouble and female
weakness" writes Miss Blanch NJ. Bracey of
Sala Oswego Co, N. " uLast summer wrote
you and you advised me to try your Favorite
Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery
/ did so and began to improve rapidly. Con-
tinued taking the medicine, half dozen each of
Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical
Discovery for the space of FIVE months, and in
less than year had regained my former health"
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets clear the
muddy complexion.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-29
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
a years subscription in advance. One
or more of the publications may be
ordered, but the money for each, at
the club rate, must invariably accom-
pany the order, with all arrears .(if
any due on either paper and full
year in advance. To the "Club Rate"
add 81. 80 for the Waterman, or So. 90
for the Journal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-29

W hic h only a
rich woman can
afford to indulge
in. Nervousness
has cost many a
woman her po-
sition. So IN e :
times when wom-
en- run nacliiii-
cry the price of
nervousness is
mutilation,
finger lost or per-
haps the whole
hand crushed.
Nervousness in
women is COM
m o My but a
S y III p t O m of
womanly disease.
1t is useless in
such cases to
" doctor " for the
erves alone.
Cure the diseases
which attack the
delicate woman
ly organism and
nervousness will
be cured also.
DR.. Pierce's
F avo rit e Pre-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-29
FREE BLOOD TEST.

Stebbins, "and I'll talk this matter
over with every one of my neighbors
and I'll read that law from Dan to
Beersheba.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-29
THE NATIONAL LIFE.

The action taken by the policy
holders meeting and the board of
directors of the National Life on
Tuesday discloses a policy of con-
servatism and constructive admins
trative work. The first class of di-
four representative men of the highest
type of experience and work, the Hon.
Charles Dewey, president of the First
National bank, the Hon. William p.
Dillingham;, Senator from Vermont,
the Hon. John g. Mccullough, Gov
ernor of the State, and DR.. w. Seward
Webb, capitalist and railroad presi-
dent. The new director elected is ex-
Governor William W. Stickney, rep
resentative lawyer, financier and man
of affairs and one, me recover, who
stands for the best type of enterprise
and character in this State.
The old board of officers was re-
elected, with the addition of Hon.
f, A. Rowland of Montpelier as
in the prime of life, of large eX-
perience in business affairs, of high
standing at the bar and of unus-
ual attachments as scholar and
worker indicates a policy of making
due provision for the care of the con-
stantly increasing business of the COM
pany and all Of its requirements. 1t
is strong appointment, subject to the
sole regret that it probably signifies
the dissolution of the old and we'll
know law firm of Dillingham;, Huse &
Rowland Mr.. Rowland will devote
/ his whole time to the service of the
company, which would naturally re-
quire a specialist in both law and life
insurance.
1t thus appears that, with the sole
exception of Vice President Phelps,
the other seven officers, from Presi-
dent DeBoer down, are all men under
fifty years of age, and several under
forty, constituting young and strong
group of life inusrance officers, a COM
bination of capacities well designed to
handle vigorously and skilfully the
large interests entrusted to their care.
The satisfaction expressed at these
meetings with the progress and pros
perity of the National Life is re-
echoed here. The company is dem
onstrating, in fact has demonstrated
by its history covering iifty-three full
years, that it is possible to build vi
and maintain in a country town, fal
removed from the centers Of finance,
strong, large financial institution
which in all of its aspects sustains the
claim OF being representative of it
class in all that is strong, progressive
and good This may be somewhat il
opposition to certain views of politi
cal economists but itis n demonstrated
fact, as the figures for income, assets
new business done and outstanding i'm
surance attest
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-29
RHEUMATISM CURED IN DAY.

"Mystic Cure" for Rheumatism and
Neuralgia radically cures i'm to days.
Its action upon the system ia remarkable
and mysterious. 1t removes AT once the
cause and the disease Immediately disap-
pears. The first dose greatly benefits. 70
cents and S1.00. Sold by Harry A. Slade,
Druggist, 10 State street.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-29

BY some sudden sound she drops the
vase upon the floor. She is nervous and
may be told that nervousness is luxury
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-29

From Victor /, Spears statement
that applications for testing 1000 COWS
had been received by the cattle COM
missioners, it is apparent that even if
the compulsory test was abolished by
the new law, the farmers of Vermont
are anxious to have tuberculosis ex-
terminated.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-29
Mrs. II. E. Young, 81 Ferry Street,
Everett, Mass, enthusiastically said:


blood Wine" Is as necessary to the aged for
their health and comfort as food and clothing. IL
gently warns and stimulates the vital organs
that from long use have become faded or over.
worked; civ es sense of soothing comfort, es-
peclaily when retiring, giving almost immediate
sleep and refreshing rest. 1t wards off disease
as well as curing 1t, creates an appetite and
makes one feel strong.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-12-13
IMMIGRANTS WILL HAVE
A REAL CHRISTMAS TREE
Plans Under Way for Entertaining For
eigners at Ellis Island.

NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Plans are I'M
der way at Ellis Island for Christmas
entertainment to be given for the bene-
mt of the immigrants who may be de-
tanned there on Christmas Day. The
missionaries from the various missions
abodt the city who work among the i'm
migrants have the matter in hand. Sew
eral solOists have volunteered to sing
at the entertainment. and the vested
choir of st. Paul's Chapel also will help
with the program.
One of the features of the celebration
will be a giant Christmas tree. which
Will be loaded with presents and sweet
meats for the children. The presents
for the tree are being contributed by sew
eral charitable people. Local ministers
OF various sects will address the immi-
grants. A souvenir program has been
prepared for distribution to those pres
ent, on the cover of which is pictured
the immigration buflding, while on the
inside are the Christmas carols which
will be sung by the vested choir.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-12-13
DEER JUMPED into BED
THEN WRECKED ROOM
An Early Morning Episode ir Cam
bridge Apartment House.

BOSTON. Dec 12-Deer are becoming
so plentiful in Massachusetts that
Arthur White and Elmer Z. Blackman,
occupying rooms on the first story OF
the apartment house at 456 Massachu-
sets Avenue. Cambridge, had a fright
because of the frantic attempts of a
full grown doe to climb into bed with
them.
White was asleep at o'clock when
he was awakened by what sounded to
him like the laborious efforts of an in
toxicated man to mount the stairs. The
next moment his door was burst open
with a crash. and a large deer bounded
in and made a dive for the bed. White
used his bare feet in an attempt TO
ward off the attack of the animal, and
then re-enforcements came in the form
of his friend Blackman. Together they
made an effort to get the deer into a
corner. but the strength of the animal
was too much for them.
The struggles of the man and deer
completely wrecked the furnishings in
two rooms. Finally. with the aid of out
siders who came to the rescue the doe
was penned in a closet. where it
wrought havoc with Whites clothing.
Later the animal was locked in a
stable 1t had been chased along Mas
sachusetts Avenue for a mile before
seeking safety in Whites bed. The deer
evidently came from the Middlesex
FellS.