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Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02
DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL ADVERTISING.

did 9 years ago, one that will be AZ
once fairer TO the law.obeying seller
and switer and severcr in its punish,
ment of the lnw.breaker, one that VIII
consistently and logically carry out the
fundamental principles Of the system.
one that will provide efficient means OF
administration and will make il an OBJ
ject for every community, yes or
mo, to see that the law is well en-
forced, instead of virtually filming it for
doing so, as the prohibition Republican
politicians sought and partially succeed
ed in doing-and one that will embody
the lessons of experience in other states
and lands and give to Vermont the best
real temperance law ever enacted.
Whether such bill will have any
chance of passage depends upon the
mandate that comes from the people
September 9th.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02
TRUTH ABOUT THE TARIFF.
And the Policy to Which Democrats
Are Committed The Wholesale
Extortion Under Republican Policy.

watching closely the Republican
pewter" that has appeared, though
stingily, in the state press the past
month, it is found to consist of warn
ings against Democratic free
trade
OF course the gentlemen who put
forth this stuff know it is pure hum
bug and that what the Democratic
platform and Judge Parker's explicit
declaration pledge, is moderate ana
conservative revision of the taflII'
looping off the protection that no.
body denies to be excessive and care
fully conserving every honest interest
under it.
They know that large tariff is nee
essarv to meet the revenue needs of
the government and that within this
limit there is more than room enough
for all the protection any industry
needs. They know that the tariff
their party stands pat for-far the
highest the country ever had-is a
tariff for trust robbery.
Their talk that this excessive tariff
is for the protection of labor is TOO
stale for this generation, because no
intelligent man fails to know now
that. measured by what it does and
produces, American labor is the
cheapest in the world. Even MI.
Blaine admitted it, in his report as
Secretary of State, on the Cotton
Trade of the World, when he frankly
said that the higher wages received
by American operatives was fully
offset by the larger amount of work
they did. The same thing has been
proved by the consular reports and
comparisons-all investigations con-
Quoted by the Federal government it
self-in the iron and steel and wooden
and many other industries, IN fact IN
every one where the comparison is
officially made. The trusts them
selves are proving it every day when
they undersell foreigners in foreign
markets. at prices about third less
than by the aid of the tariff, they
charge consumers at home.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02
WASTE KEEPS STEP WITH RE-
PUBLICAN MAJORlTIES.

How the swelling of state expenses
has matched that of Republican ma
jorities is we'll Illustrated by the
year 1890.
In that year. all will remember
the majority was cut down to about
$4,000, the lowest it has been for so
years, and the state expenses went
down to 1896, S55.52-BARELY HALF
what they are now under maJorities
twice as large.
And yet nearly all the legislation
the insane poor act, the court house
and jail statutes, the county examiner
system that are made the excuse for
the great growth of these expenses
was enacted prior to that time, and
any high-water mark that can have
any semblance Of legitimacy, ought to
have been reached then.
At the very best that can be said,
the DOUBLING since has been a pure
matter of RECKLESS and PRoFLl-
GATE WASTE.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02
TWENTY TIMES WORSE THAN
THE WORST.

One reason why the American peo-
pie are going to vote the Roosevelt
administration out of power is that
in milftarism, colonialism, extrava--
gance and jobbery it has increased
national expenditures nearly FOUR
TIMES as fast as population has in
creased-or Ga per cent against
II per cent-since he was sworn in.
Republican ring rule in Vermont, In
pure waste and petty pilfering in the
past 90 years has increased state ex-
penses over 90 TIMES AS FAST as
population has increased.
Bad as present day Roosevelt Re
publcanism is. the Vermont article
by the same standard is over TWEEN
TY TIMES WORSE.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02
Same Things on Larger Scale in Vermont

Under Grover Cleyeland's first admin
istration appropriations for the nations
expenses of all kinds averaged $3.50 ,4O2,-
073 a year
In 1890, after the Republican Party
had returned to power, it had raised
them to S5ll sol, lS4 and the country
rebukcd it with the overwhelming de-
feat of that year.
Last year Republican rule raised them
again to $7Sl,574,629.
Under Democratic rule they we're
1884 for each average family OF four
and nine.tenths persons. -
Under Republican rule they are S93'9l'
Increase s6437 or 1923 per cent.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02

porations and inheritance taxes,
Doesn't Il know that the people pay
substitute taxes for all that comes
from corporations, due to the tact
that railroad property, savings bank
deposits (under $4,000 and corporate
property OF all kinds, and the seeur-
tiles representing II have been taken
from local grand lists and the entire
collection transferred to the state!
Moreover doesn't II know that the cor
porations, also collect from the pup
lie in their charges for service every
dollar of taxes they pay?
This argument that because tne
money comes from the corporations
IL is all right TO waste il Is a good IL
lustration of the craftsmanship that
oflicts Vermont
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02
THE FINAL WORD
Of Democratic State Committees
to Good Citizenship.
TRUTH ABOUT STATE EXPENSES
Warning Against Republican Attempt
to Fool the People, So Late as to
Be Safe from Exposure Some
Sample Items,

1t was announced a fortnight ago
that the Republican State Committee
would attempt an answer to the ex-
posture made in these columns of the
enormous, unjustifiable and unparal-
lelled growth of state expenses in
the past 20 years Of great Republican
majorities.
Knowing that no such answer can
be made, without Justification, that
will in any considerable degree justi-
fy or excuse this growth, we have
watched carefully for the promised
appearance, in order TO meet it with
the truth from the official figures. 1t
is now evident that if made at all, 1t
is to be made in the last issue before
election of this paper, so as to be be-
yond reach of reply. Such action of
itself ought TO be seen by every intel
ligent citizen to be CONFESSION
OF GUILT.
We purposely made our first arti-
Gle in this talk with the people that
about state expenses so as to afford
the other side plenty of time to reply
If it dared. because we knew the more
the matter was discussed and anal
yzed, the more complete and decisive
would be the verdict against Repub-
lican msrule.
Articles have appeared in one or
two state papers, for which perhaps
the state committee may not be re-
sposible, which are, nevertheless,
samples of what may be expected in
defense. They assert that the state
highway and school taxes, to the
amout of $235,526 are included in
the $738,368.95 of state expenses in
1903. Whoever is responsible for
this statement, could hardly have
failed to know, as even the Free
Press admits, that these taxes
merely pass through the state treas
ury and do not enter into state eX-
penses at ALL" They are included in
the $1601 30729 which Treasurer
Bacon reports to have passed through
his hands during the year. His ac-
count is perfectly plain and business
like, showing auditors orders, CLASH
fed according to law, to have been
drawn for state expenses SS21OO1.64
With Legislatures Deben-
lures .................. 52O1O.6O
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02

A Russian imperial decree directs
in commemoration of the czarevitchs
birth a sum of money shall be as
signed from the imperial privy purse
to found 100 scholarships for children
of deserving soldiers and sailors killed
or wounded in the war. II also di-
reefs that the annual interest from a
million dollars shall be used for the
support in the name of the imperial
family of the families of soldiers and
sailors. preferably for the education
of their children.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02

Rrattleboro might honor Itself py
giving IA unanimous vote to Fred W.
Chlds for judge of probate because
ne is peculiarly we'll fitted for the po-
sition.
II Is an error to suppose that it is
necessary for the judge of PROBATE 10
be lawyer-an error developed out
Of the long rule that has come to alb
sorb about everything in the way OF
offices for lawyers. Not half, hardly
4 third, Of the probate judges in the
older and better days in vermont
were lawyers Bennington county and
Bennington especially elects otner
than lawyers to the Office as do sew
eral other counties in the state.
The law duties of the office are few
and simple, mainly matters OF statute
that can be easily mastered by any
one of good intelligence. The impor-
tant qualifications are sense OF JUS
tice. courtesy, understanding or the
practical duties and relations to me
clear and ready business Judgment
executive ability, and particularly
knowledge of men. These Major
Childs has in a rare degree.
He proved, as postmaster of Brat
tlehoro. his remarkable faculty OF
serving the public efficiently, intro
ducing more improvements, many
times over. than were ever introduced
in like time before or since, winning
recognition at washington as one of
the men full of progressive ideas for
fine service. and doing his duty so
we'll so courteously to all, high or
low. so pleasantly and efficiently that
republicans, by large majority wnen
their party came in, demanded ms
continuance in office, though some of
the most popular men in their own
party were also aspirants
His opponent-undeniably a good
lawyer. one of the best in the state
certainly is not pre-eminent for any
of those other qualities. or for the
royal large heartedness that deserV-
eddy makes Maj. Childs so popular;
And certainly no great injustice
would be done if the law firm OF
which Judge Waterman is member.
should hold one less office.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02

Fx-Sultan Murad V of Turkey died
Monday. Aug. 90. at Constantinople.
Murad V was born in 1910 and as
cended the throne in May. 1876. He
was dethroned in August of that year
on the ground that he was insane.
and the present sultan, Abdul Hamid
III took the throne 1t has been
claimed that he was not insane.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02

George S. Boutwell,, the grand old man
Of the Republican party in its better
DAYS, speaks for thousands of his ass So
c;ates in those times when he says we
must 'Iook to Parker as the hope OF
tbe country" against imperialism.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02

Eli II. Porter was member OF the
legislative subcommittee that re-
ported the Democratic Local Option
bin of two years ago.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02

Judge Parker is reported to be receiv-
ING an average of 200 letters daily from
Independents and Republicans pledging
him support.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02
THE ALTERNATIVE

The Democratic party, on the other
hand can be trusted to unitedly present
and support an even better bill than y
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02

From which is to be de-
Quoted receipts from
County Clerks, Probate
and City Courts, States
Prison, House of Cor
rection, Reform School
and other institutions
and agencies, or all not
in the nature of taxes
amounting to ..........
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02
GENTLEMEN FROM VERMONT

Visiting Boston will he welcome at the rooms
Of the Vermont Association, at The westmin-
ster, Copley Square, Boston. Open daily from
nine a. m. until ten p. m.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02
WHERE THE MONEY GOES.

As necessary part of the out
rageous increase of state expenses
the worst, proportionately OF any
state I'm the whole Union and worse
than imperialism, colonialism ana
militarism has brought to Uncle sam
-spois politics have been carried 10
the utmost extreme in the grossly
one sided partisan misrule OF YER
mont
In 1865, just after the war, with the
multifarious duties its closing en-
tailed and with population within
four per cent of what 1t is now the
executive officers of the state were
just 10 in number.
In 1870 the number had in
creased 10 .......''''''.' 80
In 1880 the number had IN
creased to ,..............' 90
In 1890 the number had IN -,
creased to ................ 10
In 1900 the number had in
creased to .....,..,.''..' Nv
In 1902 the number had in
creased TO ,..'.'....''''.' 100
Since 1860 only two out of &c judges
elected to our Supreme court nave
been Democrats.
When the Democratic party was in
power, it was careful to give its OPP
ponents a full representation on the
bench, knowing that thus was to be
obtained the best balance and poise
and breadth of ideas for judicial ser
vice
Even the Wings followed the same
policy in some degree and some of
the abest judges they gave us, like
Luke p Poland and Daniel Kellogg,
were Democrats when elected.
Though our bench since has gem
orally been able and clean, the spoils
tactics of the Republican party have
done their best to make it otherwise.
The Gospel of Nermont-Constitu-
ton. Chapter 2, Section Essays on
salaries. Whenever an office through
increase of fees or otherwise be-
comes so profitable as to occasion
many to apply for it. the profit ought
to be lessened by the Legislature"
1t is time TO place the party of the
Constitution where it can compel
some attention to it,
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02
y,,YNo "Bir stick" Buster.

Shall the attitude Of the United states toward ware,
foreign nations be that of bully with !" big
sJct :, and n chip on his shoulder, or shall we
return to the policy of Washington and Jefter-
son Peace and friendship with all nations,
entangling alliances with none .-mindlng our
own business and expecting other nations 10 90
iho same?
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02

The man who votes for state Ak
travagance and graft need not mere
after complain of his tax burden.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02

Eli II. Porter has always been
sturdy advocate of retrenchment Of
our outrageous state expenses, and
fought hard in the last legislature
for the Democratic bill which pro-
vided for reduction of s225.000 but
which the Republican party voted
down.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02

How naturally party which col
Iected 100000 from the oppressive
combinations for the use of Mark
Hanna In the Mckinley campaign
would engage in the business OF
Trust busting. Was there ever such
gigantic pretense?
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02

The coal trust doesn't have to eX-
plain why il monthly raises prices
while admitting that it has so much
coal on hand that the mines nave To
run on half time.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02

In the great industrial centers of
the country the Trust Combinations
raise wages 10 per cent and then pro-
coed TO shut down one-half of the
time. This is the increased wage
YOU read about.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02

~. a,,niversal necessaries of life, continue to
ransve the protection of sheltering tariff, and
an;ov stil longer indulgence by reason OF their
enormous contributions TO party campaign
funds,
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02

4 Missourian recently died at the
age of 81 without ever having seen
locomotive. That's nothing. Yer
mont has many very old men who
never saw state expenses decline I'M
der republican ring rule.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02

While the wage Garner has worked
on diminished time and for dimin-
ished compensation Charles j. Bell
republican candidate for governor, as
state cattle commissioner and secre-
tary of the board of agriculture
charged the state "a day for 800
1-S days in 1901 and in 1902 Sl;49o.S'
AZ 81 4 day for 374 days. This in
cluded 104 Sundays or II days more
than there were in these two calen-
dar wears. (See auditors report
1912, pages 1850
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02

Your Freeman's Oath, which you took
before your Maker when you became
citizen Of Vermont, binds you:
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02
~ xy,,at will the Filipinos do to us.
X.-"Let Us Have Peace.

Shall we, forty years after the end of the war
and after a complete reconciliation of the once
hostile States, tear assunder by a revival OF
the sectional issue the bonds of fraternity ana
cnncord-and this when the people of the South
have iu 81 secured the nomination of conserva-
tive and sound-money Democrat for President,
and have given repeated instances OF the
strongest national and patriotic feeling!
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02
r1I-Cherk the Corruption.

sbou corruption bred of too long lease oil
S ~ instanced in the half-disclosed posta.
fprrmds in the Iand-ofce scandals, in the pension
abuses, in the sale OF offices and negotiations Of
corrupt public contracts by senators Bletrict
ia ~ Rnrton. be condoned and continued?
Milford chronicle., 1904-03-18
Three Japnnese Journn1..

The standing of the three leading
Japanese journals, according to the
London Chronicle, is as follows: The
jiji-Shimbun, which means literally
timely incident new-hearing." is n
semioficial paper and may be regard
ed as the Times of Japan. The staff is
composed of well to do men, from
among whom appointments are often
made to the chief posts in government
departments. Rumors are never ad-
mitted to the pages of the Jiii-Shim-
bun, and it has a great reputation for
truthfulness and sincerity. The Nichi-
Nichi Shlmbun-i. e., Day and Day
New-hearing, or. as we should say.
Daily Chronicles the organ of the
Progressive party in Japan. while the
hoku-Miu Shimbun ii. e.. Country
Peoples News-which has been calling
for fearful musters and prepared de.
Tense" in its character of the nations
Journal is regarded as a less RESPONSE
bic paper. but is perhaps all the more
interesting for that.
Milford chronicle., 1904-03-18
School Children IndiaDized.

The teacher at the Red Store has a
complaint to make against her pupils.
The Red Store is an Indian trading
post as old as Fort Sill. and the chill
dren who live there have grown up at
tending the mission school with the In
dian children and asSociating with
them in their play. AS a result the
white children have learned the Indian
language, wear gaudy sashes. paint
their faces and put feathers in their
hair. They shoot arrows as well as
young bucks. They are now attending
their first district school and, though
holding high regard for authority, re-
fuse to be taught as civilized people.
They read their lessons aloud in study
and insist on wearing feathers, sashes.
paint and brass earrings and finger
rings in the schoolroom. They iabber
half the time in COmanche and coutin-
ue to run away to the mission school.
where the Indian children are The
teacher has resolved that educating an
lnbroken white child in the Indian Ian
guage is quite as onerous as educating
The real Indian.-Kansas City Journal
Milford chronicle., 1904-03-18
Great bible Classes In Rochester.

UEGAA nAnAC OAAAnEA ~ A~oNH~H%~~%
The mems Bible classes of ROches-
ter, n. Y, have long been famous. The
most noted of them is the so called
Alling class. which at times has borne
over a thousand men on its rolls and
which has put its stamp on the whole
group. There are thirty-nine others.
In the Hubbard class of the Central
Presbyterian. church. conducted for
thirty years by W. A. Hubbard. Jr.,
prosperous manufacturer of Rochester,
over 10000 young men have been en-
rolled. In the Baptist church is the
Hubbell class, named for its teacher,
one of the leading lawyers Of the city,
identified for years with the Eastman
Kodak company and its tributary en-
terprises. The Methodist class is
taught by Erwin E. Shut. a well
known business man. These consti-
tute what might be called the Big
-Four, though there is another large
class taught by Mr.. Montgomery in
the Lake Avenue Baptist church and
still others that elsewhere would be
regarded as of special Importance
Church Economist.
Milford chronicle., 1904-03-18

There is not one tardy church mem.
Der in thousand who would show the
implied disrespect in not keeping an
appointment with an earthly ruler
which they frequently show to their
Heavenly King. Suppose we should
take n trip east and stop in the capitol
at Washington. Suppose while so.
jOurning there one of the California
senators or congressman or a member
of the cabinet made an appointment
for US with the president of the United
States. Suppose that a polite note was
sent to us by the presidents private
secretary informing us that we might
be received tomorrow morning at the
White House at II o'clock. What
would we do? Would we sit ND tonight
until very late. as some of us are ac-
customed to do every Saturday night?
Would we arise very late tomorrow
morning, about half past 8, and have |
breakfast about 10 o'clock, as some of |
Milford chronicle., 1904-03-18

IN such a spirit great deal Of the r.
reverence exhibited by some of our
modern congregations would forever
cease.
Behaving oneself Alright in church
implies not only due respect to the
four walls of the edifice or to the hab-
itation Of the divine presence. but also
dds respect to Gods ministers who
preach in the sacred pulpit and due
respect to Gods musicians who sing il
the church chOirs. When the men,
bers of a church choir arise to sing
the praises Of God they become part
of that mighty host who in every
Christian land on earth and in the
heavenly mansions are occupied with
the same theme. When the minister
rises to preach he comes as a messen-
ger from God to utter the words that
the Holy Spirit has commissioned him
to speak. The truly cOnsecrated Chris
tian minister is a representative of the
Most High and is entitled to the defer
ence that was paid to the representa-
tives Of the European kings when they
entered the United States senate and /
were given the foremost seats, as l saw !
them file in when Vice President Gar /
ret \. Hobart took the oath of Office .
preceding the Inauguration Of Presi-
dent Mckinley. They were not wei
coined as mep. They were honored in
their official capacities as personal
Of the British. the
German. the Italian. the Russian and
The Austrian thrones. Never forget
when you critlcise the preachers mes
Iage that you may be criticising the
cry words that God has given him to
leliver to you.
Milford chronicle., 1904-03-18

Returning Steamer will leave PhiladeIphta
rom yer 3, South Wharves First Pier above
Chestnut street, as follows;
Milford chronicle., 1904-03-18
A Peculiar VIII

The entire fortune of Moses B. Glenn
ents Of Portland. Me-. amounting to
about 100000, has been left to trus.
tees, who are directed to distribute If
to benefit society. relieving distrec.
and assist worthy and deserving reli.
gious, charitable and benevolent asso-
Citations, objects and individuals" The
matter Of distribution IS left entirely,
to the discretion Of che executors. the
only restriction being that they shall
nave disposed OF the entire estate in
the manner indicated within ten years.