The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-05-27

| ing towards race suicide through the
enervating effects of overindulgence IN
| luxurious modes of travel But some
Of the cars have been painted and the
| wheels have been nicely squared, sc
that on the whole one gets ones money:
worth of gymnastic exercise lodging
| the play of the wheels when she is 81
the track and the running long jump
when she is off. The passengers en-
| Joy standing around and looking at The
paint when the car il being lacked VI
onto the track. All told, our electric
road system, in the completeness 81
| its equipment, ia its care for the com
fort and convenience of the public es
pecially the hundred or SO of workmer
who travel on the footboards between
Jones Brothers and the city--and fol
general all round perfection, Is great
institution. Take it for all in all we
may never look upon its like again.
Alien Workers in Britain.
The last dying wriggIe of the present
British ministry is to introduce an
ALIENS BILL 1T has not caught on
with the British workmen, however. One
paper says OF 1t, 1T will exclude none
of the cunning exploiters who are the
bane Of the east end, nor any of the
vicious panders that swell the vice Of
the west, but only the most pitifuI of
the victims Of Russian oppression in
Poland, such as the fugitives from the
May Day massacre of Warsaw. Britain
viii not shut out the sweater, She
only proposes to abandon her proud POI
sition as the refuge Of the oppressed
Australia, the United States, and now
Britain, shutting the door in the face of
the yellow man, and the poverty strick-
en- workers Of Europe ii worth thinking
over. 1t il a significant sign of the
times as showing how small the world
ii growing and giving the most striking
proof of the fact that ii the workers
don't receive enough for their labor to
allow them to purchase the commodities
produced by what we call our industries,
those industries are liable to become
much less profitable to the money lords
who run them.
In South Africa.
In view OF the Forthcoming harbor
board retrenchment and further govern
ment retrenchment the position Of the
unemployed is serious. Numbers of
clerks and tradesmen are out of en-
ployment and the most influential mer-
chants discourage immigration from
Europe.
The government there has just in
troduced workmens compensation for
accident bill which grants compensation
unless gross carelessness can be proved
on the part of the workman himself.
In Vermont it Is the other way about
and the workman has to prove careless
ness on the part of the employer.
hope the legislative committee Of
our State Federation OF Labor will take
note Of those things and stir up the
corporation lawyers in Montpelier again
next session Of the legislature.
/ may be foolish in this, but It APP
pears to me that such matters are al
most Of as much importance as the
size Of trout that may be caught or
the question Of selling something to
eat in q barroom, or even the all inn
portant question OF hanging, drawing
and quartering a man who may take
one drink more than enough.
Bad Man Tolstoy
For the second time the German gov
eminent has confscated the writings of
Tolstoy. This time it is an article adj
vising Russians not to fight.
Emperor Bill has put thirteen extra
curls In his upper lip on account of it.
ALEX. ROBERTSON.