Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-10-29
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

Joseph Smith, the head or the Nor
mon church, was recently indicted
on a charge of polygamy. The action
grew out of an attempt to legltima
TIE the birth of a child by his fifth
wife. In spite of these facts he has
been re- elected president of the Nor
mon church. This action shows
where Mormon loyalty really rests.
In order to become a state Of the
federal union they professed to abol-
ish polygamy and make it crime.
Now they have become a state they
deliberately violate their solemn
pledges and uphold the practice which
enlightened Christendom everywhere
condemns. They have forfeited their
statehood rights ard should be CON-
PEELED to return to territorial GOV ern-
msnt.-Ex. -
We sometimes wonder if news
paper men generally appreciate tne
old subscriber at his true value. We
mean the old standby who takes the
home paper year after year, through
! evil as we'll as through good
reports and pays his subscription
| regularly just the same as he would
any other honest debt. AS a general
thing the Ole subscriber is patient
and slow to wrath. He will overlook
many little sights from the editor,
| Sights which the man who .borroWs
his readings would not stand for
minute. If one of his calves gets its
| leg broken and the fact isn't mention
ed in the next issue he doesn't seem
to feel the slight in the least, or i. "a
half dozen of his hens die with ch6t-
era morbus and the editor doesn't set
out two dollar ad in order to herald
the news to waiting world, he just
worries righJ along as though. he had
| MT been mistreated at all. He is al
ways jolly-never fails to ask s'how's"
| tricks" when he comes into the Office,
and drops word of praise for the
paper upon taking his departure.
God bless the old subscriber. We
love him; and if we sometimes slight
him in order to give space to come
sapIhead,who isn't worthy to buckle his
shoes, it is because we know that he
is so broad minded and charitable
that he will never mind it.-Lansing
(Ia.) Mirror.
We wonder if the legislature of Yer
mont during the present session will
| find time to legislate little bit FOR
the human family. During the past
five or six meetings of this body,
covering dozen years or SO, fish and
game have been protected until it is
almost a misdemeanor for the far
mer's dog to bark in the fall of the
year. If halt is not called some
where the rural land owner will be-
come a slave, by legislation, t, the
fish and game of Vermont. There is
no doubt about the beauty of a deer
when he stands on pinnacle against
cloudless horiz IN, and at such time
he deserves protection, but when be
is eating the tops off the beets or de-
stroying an oau field the farmer is the
one that needs protection. The pur.
pose of these few lines is not to lesser
protection on deer but rather TO in.
crease the protection for the farmer
and the farmers wife, if such increase
is necessary. The docket of the Sep.
TENDER term of the Rutland County
court contains % divorce cases and
furnishes a great big hint to the legis
lature that protection is needed alons
other and just as important lines al
fish and game. The per capita of di
vorce cases in Vermont annually hal
already become perhaps larger thar
that of any state except Dakota
This is a rank disgrace to the state
of Vermont and the remedy lies will
her legislature. Brandon Union.