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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31
A DANGEROUS BILL.

On Tuesday the Senate of the State
of New York passed bill which is
startling in its proposition for revolu-
tionizing the principles and practices
of criminal law. A bare majority
voted for measure to force men
guilty of criminal practices, but not
indicted for them, to testify against
themselves, when assured that they
shall not be prosecuted In oti. er
words it is bill to force men to turn
States evidence, upon promise of not
being prosecuted, in order to secure
the conviction of other men. AT pres
ent man may testify against himself
If he chooses and may in the discre.
ton of the court be let off from the
full punishment. The bill proposes to
force the State to promise immunity
instead of leaving it discretionary.
This bill is dangerous to the rights
of the people. 1t is one of the founda-
ton principles of Anglo Saxon juris.
prudence that every man is presumed
innocent until he is proved guilty.
The law of some other countries,
Frame, for instance, is different.
There, an accused man is presumed
guilty unless he can prove himself in
pocent. Surely no American would
care to make the change to the French
principle. But this bill, should it be-
come law, would in its essence be
doing just that. If the State should
have the power to force a man to tes-
tify against himself or give evidence
which would incriminate himself, it
would be in effect giving to the State
the power to adJudge a man guilty
and then pardon him without the ao-
cused having an opportunity tor tria,
by his peers. No man should be forced
to testify against himself and the
State should not be forced to grant
immunity to any man upon his prom
Use to testify against himself and 9TH
ers. To do so would be to imperil the
basic principles of this republic.
The special purpose of this bill is to
secure the conviction of gam bier Can
field of New York city, through foro-
ing Reginald Vanderbilt to testify as
to the enormous sum of money which
he is reported to have lost in Can.
fields gambling house. 1t might be
Convenient for the State i'm this case
aud in many other cases but it would
be dangerous step to take-one which
criminals would be quick to take ad-
vantage OF in other cases to relieve
themselves from prosecution at the ex-
pense of other peonle The law would
probably be declared unconstitutional
if passed upon by the courts, bat lay.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31
n MERE TOUCH.

If in the night, when all is still,
You suddenly awake
With such universal chill
AS sets the earth aquake;
If then fever siezes you
And burns your very bones
Until in Mercy's name you WOO
The fate of Davy Jones;
If in your dusty, plush lined mouth
You feel you have the peer
OF ancient Egpyt's killing drouth,
And taste its yellow scar;
If every pore emits pain,
Each worse than all the others,
And every breath you draw is vain,
Since breathing merely smothers;
If hope is dead and life is such
You'd gladly let it rip,
Cheer up, old chap; it's nothing
much
A slight attack of grip.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31
ABOUT THE STATE.

Vermont has good quota of new
rural free delivery routes going into
operation April |. These include a
route out of Newport, Orleans county,
serving 445 persons; an additional
route out of Richmond, Chittenden
county, that will serve 472 persons !;
an additional route out of AlburQh.
Grand Isle county, to accommodate
1856 persons; and an additional route
out of North Clarendon, Rutland
county, that will serve 454 persons.
These carriers and substitute carriers
respectively have been announced for
Vermont routes: Richmond, John N.
Richardson and Andrew Berry; New
port, Arthur Wells and John r.
Wells; Poultney, Seth B. Woodwork
and II. d. Fenton. Benson, Fred E.
Meacham and John Strong; Middle
bury, Julius o. Seeley, Jr,, and Harry
G. White; North Clarendon, Charles
E. Pitts and ida M. Pitts,
The recruiting stations from Fort
Ethan Allen in this State which were
established about two months ago,
have been closed, and the various de-
tails have returned to their organiza-
lions. Those at Montpelier and st
Adams were discontinued about a
week ago, and the remaining ones at
Brattleboro, Bennington and Rutland
have just been closed. Only a very
few men havs been enlisted in this
State, and in order to get recruits for
the reorganization of the third squad
ron. 18th Cavalry, stations may be es-
tablished at points in New York from
this post. Lieutenant 1. S. Martin,
10th Cavalry, is recruiting officer for
that part of the regiment which is
now here.
OF the injured in the railroad wreck
near Cambridge on Saturday morning
all but three were able to go their
several ways by Saturday afternoon
and evening. Henry Stinson, of Cam
bridge junction, who was injured
about the hips and back, was able to
be taken home Sunday forenoon. Mrs.
George II. Biokford, who suffered
concussion of the brain, was much
better Sunday and accompanied by her
husband returned to her home on
Tuesday. As soon as Mr.. Bickford
received word of his wife's injuries
Saturday he procured a special train
as far as Cambridge junction and
drove here arriving soon after noon.
Mrs. Henry Lee, of Middlebury, is still
at the American house in the care of
a nurse, and is doing as we'll as could
be expected. Mr.. Lee arrived by train
Saturday evening and has been with
his wife since.
Judge E. L. Bates OF Bennington
on Wednesday held the De Forge
brothers, charged with assaulting
John Watson, of Bennington, March
81 in 81, 600 each for alleged assault,
and also in 1000 each for alleged as
sault on Deputy Sheriff Fred God
frey. Robert Bonn, charged with be-
ing implicated in the colt poisoning
case, was held in 50, 500.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31
TORNADO SWEPT.

Chicago. March 25.-Six people are
believed to have lost their lives and
scores of others injured in severe
tornado which swept over Chicago
and the country surrounding early
last night. When communication is
restored a number of fatalities are
expected to increase. The property
loss was estimated this morning at
nearly 50, 900, 600. The telegraph and
telephone lines are down in all direc.
tions and Chicago is virtually cut off
from the outside world. The tornado
was terrific in it's intensity and struck
this city from the northwest accom-
panied by downpour of water which
lasted two hours. In the city prop
er the damage is comparatively light
only few chimneys being roppled
over and several houses unroofed.
Striking the town of Hammond the
tornado tore through Indiana harbor,
south and east of Chicago then swept
along toward Grand Rapids, Mich.
In Indiana hahor the damage was lost
severe. Several buildings were demol-
ished and score of people injured.
part of the steel plant of the Re-
public Iron and Steel Company were
blown down. A report from Indiana
harbor this morning says six persons
were killed there. A two story build
ing was blown down and l.. Barker,
merchant, and five others were report
ed killed. Several are said to be miss
ing. From all directions come reports
of heavy damage to property. The
trolly wires on the electric lines in
south Chicago are all down this morn
ing and the cars are at standstill.
In Thornton frame house was demol,
ished and e. Gardner and wife serious.
ly injured. Loss of life was reported
at Thornton but the report has not
been verified.
Chicago, March 25.--At Indiana
Harbor eight buildings were almost
totally destroyed and thirty-two I'M
rooted, At Washington heights sew
| eral persons were injured ana houses
blown down or unroofed and it is
feared more serious results will de-
yelop today. IN Morgan PARK and
Fern~ God number of honses were
.uproo ed and the Rock Island tracks
Tblock d hy the debrs. Almost every
house in Burusides was damaged Tue
situation ia Dauphine Park is serious.
Many acres Of land are under severul
| feet of water,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31

The Boston Evening Record con-
tains the following comment on the
results of recent Washington county
court case: ga jury award of 81, 600
damages to a hazed student at the
Montpelier Seminary will discourage
incipient mob law practices more
than any number of explosions, Max
ing the hazers pay for their outlawry
is as just as compelling the leading
citizens of the south to support the
family of man who has been
lynched, and the courts are wise in
refusing to draw any fine distinc.
tions. -
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31

Sweden is having an anti-pstent-
medicine war. AT present no druggist
will handle any patent pill, bottle, or
preparation. The whole drug bust
ness is controlled by $50 men who are
organized for the fray. IL would be
suicide for American druggists to bar
out patent medicines. for large part
of their trade is in such goods. But
if nobody else could sell the patent
medicines it would be another propo.
sition.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31

natives Of the island are not given to
work to any extent not absolutely
necessary. A large proportion of the
natives get their living from little
patches of land which require but
slight cultivation. Loafing is the
favorite occupation.
Laborers of the right kind are hard
to get. But very few whites go there
who are content to become common
lsborers, although great effort has
been made to induce them to do so.
The result is that industries have
difficulty in securing enough laborers
are practically the only laborers who
can be hired and depended on. They
are thoroughly industrious wherever
they go. They cut their living ex-
penses to much below the ordinary
expenditures of white and so are
willing to work for small wages
when they cannot get more. This
Boston merchant believes the Chinese
should be admitted to the Philippines.
He argues that they would not injure
the native Filipino any because the
natives work but little and can be
practically counted out of the labor
problem. They would not hurt the
American white laborers, for the
whites will not go to the Philippines
to live. He says then that the Chinese
would supply the needs of the islands
for labor and would supply it we'll
The American lsborer, and the lab
orers of Australia and Canada object
greatly to the incoming OF the Chinese
working population. This is because
the Chinese will work for lower wages
than the whites are willing to, and
also because socially the Chinese are
an alien race. A Freuchman or
German or a Russian soon after he
arrives in this country is an Ameri-
can. A Ohinaman is always China
man. AS the Chinese grow more
plentiful in any locality they form
colonies and continue to live accord
ing to their own ways. They do
not adopt American ideas but live
according to manners of their an
cestors in way that would be inim-
ioal to our best development
England, however, has decided that
Chinese shall be admitted to the
Transvaal and in fact imported. They
will be taken in by bands and kept
more or less in confinement for term
of years under contract They will
be practically slaves, though not so
in name. They will not be the best
class of . Chinese laborers. The
Chinese who desire to get into this
country and into the Philippines are
of higher grade.
They are free immigrants DESTROYS
of lettering their conditions and who
are in no way to be classed as servile
laborers. 1t would seem as though
Congress should seriously consider
the needs of the Philippines and as.
certain il it would not be we'll for
them and no worse for the American
laborers to admit Chinese within
their borders.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31

Henry Watterson, of the Louisville
Courier journal proposed the other
day. while lecturing in st. Louis, that
elections be held on Sunday. His
idea is that ON Sundays people have
more time and there would be large
proportion of the voters who would
take che trouble to go to the polls. 1t
is not new proposition by any means.
In France, elections are commonly held
on Sunday and with apparently good
results. OF cour Sc the European Sun
day and the Western Sunday are both
quite different from the New England
Sunday and it might shock the re-
ligious sensibilities of New England
ers to break into the peace of the Sab
bath with elections and other disturb
ances. Sunday is observed in Europe
and the West as a holiday with games
and sports-which the blue laws of
Vermont forbid 1t would take quite
change in sentiment to bring YER
monters to holding elections ON Sur
day, and in fact. it is hardly probable
that st. Louis will make the innova.
ton. They have Sunday base ball
there now but Sunday elections will
wait.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31

President Roosevelt's appointments
of the members OF the Panama Canal
commission were made without regard
to politics or political preferences,
and he says that of most of the men,
bers he does not even know which
party they belong to. They were chosen
purely because of their personal and
professional reputation for integrity
and ability. Good
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31

One of the latest electrical devices
is that which enables music 60 be
felt as we'll as heard, or to be felt
without being heard at all The
method of transmitting the feeling is
by wire arranged something the
same as telephone wire and with
induction coils added capable of
giving "A shock which can be felt
through the body The device is
called 'rebrochord" and can be at
tached to any musical instrument.
People who have tried it say that
they can by its use feel all the har-
mony or discords of gwen piece Of
music, and can readily distinguish
different airs although they be far
enough removed from the musical in
strument itself so that no sound of it
can be heard, This feeling of music
is declared to have wonderful healing
powers aud it is prescribed by its in.
yentor for Insomnia, hysteria, nervous
prostration, rheumatism ana some
other troubles.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31

Active steps are being taken by the
friends of Canadian reciprocity to Sc
cure the enactment of legislation
along the lines of reciprocity. A mon
ster petition is being prepared and
President Henry NJ Whitney, of the
chamber of commerce will be asked
to head the movement. Boston and
most other parts of New England feel
quite seriously in favor of reciprocity.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31

where Charles Cunningham, mil
lionaire stockmsn, and six homestead.
ers procured by him have been in
dicted for conspiracy in connection
with the getting of government lands.
This adds seven more to the already
large number of men charged or con-
victed of frauds in that line. It's
not pleasant work, but let it go on.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31

A st. Petersburg dispatch says that
Japan has done her best to get Swe-
den to attack Russia and take away
Finland from the Russian domirions.
Sweden is said to have declined the
proposition with thanks. In other
words Sweden would have been glad
to do it If she had darst-but she
darsn't'
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31
NESE IN THE PHILIPPINES.

Boston merchant who has re-
ly returned from a long business
to the Philippine Islands, ex-
les himself as thoroughly con-
I'd that before the archipelago
become of much value to this
try great change must be made
e policy which the United States
toward the Chinese. Before they
be developed industrially and
to profit by American enterprise
must be enough wageworkers to
on the increased business. The
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31
This viii Interest Mothers.

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Stomach, Teething Disorders. Break
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Bowels and Destroy Worms. They
never fail. Oyer 30, testimonials,
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FREE. Address, Allen s. Olmsted
LEROY, N. Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31

Professor Edward Meyer, of the
University of Berlin, in lecture de-
livered at the University of Chicago
the other day, stated that beer bad a
beneficial effect upon the minds of
German students. Now educators
from all over the United States are
firing hot shot at him and stating that
such is not the case with American
students. One professor. however, a
Princeton man, does aocede to Meyer 8
views to certain extent He says ::
:" agree with what Dr. Meyer says.
In the German universities beer un.
doubtedly aids as powerful mental
tonic and promotes to large degree
the accomplishment or successful
work. The German students, unlike
their American brothers, are accus.
toned to gather in intellectual SYM
postum in which beer drinking is al
ways feature and the profitable de-
bate and free expression of ideal in
which this practice results certainly
warrants Prof. Meyers declaration. +"
Evidently it is not the beer but the
associations and debate that the stu
dents profit by. But then. what
would a German be without his stoin
of beer? He certainly couldn't be
German, for who ever heard of Ger
man who didn't drink beer?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31
ABBOTT MISSING.

Boston, March 20. Everett Abbott,
twenty seven, treasurer oflthe Ameri-
can Marine Transportation Company is
missing. It is understood shortage
in the accounts of Sl5, 600 exists. The
American Surety Company, who is on
Abbott's bond, is searching for him.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31

General Miles advises the temper
ance party to make no nomination tor
the presidency until after the big
parties have done so, and not then I'M
less no candidate is fit to be endorsed
by them. They had better put their
votes where they will do the most
good
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31

China now has about 20, 900 troops,
armed with modern rifles and drilled
by European officers. on the frontier
of Manchuria and is sending more
there. Russia does not appear to like
the idea.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31
FOR SALE BYALL DRUGGISTS.

ing that aside, the good common sense
of the New York Legislators ought to
cause them to see how wrong it is in
principle.
Garfield is reported now to be hid
ing abroad so it would seem that he is
sufficiently afraid of the law as it is,
if it be invoked against him. Wander.
bilt is a rich young man, but of no
more consequence than any other
American citizen in the eye of the
law, and the foundations Of Anglo
Saxon Jurisprudence should not be
shaken just for him or any other one
man or score of men. 1t is the great
est good for the greatest number that
our laws should be directed towards,
and the idea of passing law for
when that law would work
harm in the generality Of cases should
not be tolerated for minute. The
New York House OF Representatives
should kill the bill and if it fails to
Governor Odell should veto it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31

The administration is going right
after evetv body who has heen defraud-
ing the government whether the work
was done through the post office de-
parmeut or the land office The
latest development WAS in Oregon
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31

Group instantly relieved. Dr.
Thomas Eclectric Oil Perfectly safey
Never fails. At any drug store.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31

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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-16

No Co Education In india.
" Every fifth boy in India is q
school and only every fftieth EirA
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-16

for protection. It stands for the gold
standard and our currency system.
All these dwell in legislation enacted
under the lead OF the Republican par
ty and against the most determined
opposition Of the Democratic party.
including its leader and candidate.
These being our policies, and having
been most useful to the country, we
have confidence In and love them. II
1t be necessary from time to time that
they should be strengthened here ard
controlled there, the Republican party
stands ready. with loving, competent
hands, ito apply the proper remedy.
/ say remedy, Being our policies, we
will not willingly subject them to
their enemies for slow starvation on
the one hand or to sudden destruction
on the other. nv.
"Since the Republican party was
restored to power, in 1897, under the
lead Of Mckinley. our country has
prospered In production and In com
merce as 1t has never prospered be-
fore. IN wealth we stand first among
all the nations.
Not less plain and positive on the
subject Of vital Importance Of the
protective tariff as an issue was Pres
ident Roosevelt In reply. He did not
hesitate to declare himself In har-
mony with the proposition that pro-
lection Is and must continue to be the
settled, permanent policy of the Re-
publican party when he said:
I'VE have enacted tariff law I'M
der which, during the past few years.
the country has attained aheight OF
material well being neVef before
reached. Wages are higher than ever
before. That whenever the need arises
there should be d readjustment OF the
tariff schedules is undoubted; but
such changes can with safety be made
only by those whose devotion to the
principle Of protective tarin ID be-
yond question; for otherwise the
changes would amount not ITO read
justment, but to repeal. The read
justment when made must maintain
and not destroy the protective prin-
ciple. To the farmer, the merchant,
the manufacturer. this Is vital; but
perhaps no other man IS SO much tn
terested as the wage worker In the
maintenance Of our present economic
system, both as regards the finances
and the tariff. The standard Of living
OF our wage workers Is higher than
that Of any other country, and It can
not SO remain unless we have pro-
tective tariff which shall always keep
as minimum a rate Of duty suffi-
cient to cover the difference between
the labor cost here and abroad. Those
who. like our opponents. 'denounce