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The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-29

In view of the hostile feeling OF
most railroad magnates toward the
present administration and its effect
upon railroading in this country the at
titude of Benjamin F. Yoakum, chair
man of the Rock Island-Frisco system,
is worth repeating. He says: 81 am
not in favor of government ownership
of railroads. L do not believe that I'M
der our existing political system it is
practicable; but l do believe in the
ownership of the railroads by the peo-
Pile. If every man who held property
along a line of railroad held an inter
est, however small, in that line, and
its control was in the hands of men
whom it was built to serve, instead of
in the hands of a clique of manipula-
tors, the railroads would be run for
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-29

Monday is April l. Had the fisher
men of Windham county had their way
the open season on trout would begin
at that time. How many fish would
have been caught next week or the
week after had the change been made
is a matter of conjecture but it is safe
to say that the streams hercabouts
would not have been dangerously de-
pleted. Yet many anglers would have
taken advantage of the excuse offered
to get out into the open and inhale
days offering Of fresh spring atmos
phcre. and if their creels had not been
burdensome on the hOmeward journey
the outing would have dulled the
keen edge of their fishing fever and
made them bit less anxious to 60
again Immediately. As it is, six weeks
must elapse before. it is lawful to go
forth in Vermont in quest of the fon-
tanalis, and the balmy weather that
is likely to come during that period
will so stir the fshermen's desires that
May 10 will witness a veritable phi
crimage to the various streams in this
section. And by that time it is ex-
trcmely likely that the streams will be
in Just the right condition to yield an
unprecedented number of their inny
population. Good fishing you say Z
Yes. for a few who are lucky enough
to be the very first ones on the brooks
The rest will have their trouble for
their pains, and those who do not
know will wonder what has spoiled
trout fishing.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-29
Railroads
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In effect October g, 1906
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M - 4.23 .. m,
Daily. Daily except Sunday tnaHg ea-
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via Bellows Falls. c Montreal only.
Detailed information and time table, may L :
tanned az ticket Offices.
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The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-29
Enthusiasm Dulled.
(Boston RecOrd,)

Admiral and Mrs. Dewey have a per
feet right to move out Of their house
in Washington which was given TO
Dewey by a grateful and hcro'worship'
ping nation. But If the two prefer the
former home of Mrs. Dewey as their
residence, II would seem fair not TO
lease the gift house furnished, simply
as source of income, but to sell it
and return the proceeds TO the former
hcro,worshippers, the edge of whose
enthusiasm has Enthusiastically dulled.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-29

The New Hampshire legislature has
at last passed bill forbidding the use
or solicitation of free railroad passes
by all state officers, and hereafter the
governor will contract with the roads
for such free transportation as is
deemed necessary. The Granite state
solons certainly hated to take such a
radical step but it was wise one If
nothing but their political futures are
considered
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-29
Wants What He Hasn't Got.
lSt. Adams Messenger.)


Here is correspondent in The Han
over N. H. Gazette, expressing great
dissatisfaction with the scheme Of repre-
sentation in this state and saying, Give
us, like Vermont, the township organlza
tion as the unit Of representation and
we will have the most practical ana
economical state legislative form known.
Respectfully referred to The st. Adams
Messenger. Mortified News.
The thing we want is the thing we
haven't got. in more senses than one
Man never is, but always to be, blest'
Ask the New Hampshire man II he be-
lieves in popular government based upon
the proportiOnate representation OF ~
citizens in the making OF its laws. ii
he believes in a government OF the ma
iority. if he believes that government de
Tives its Just powers from the consent OF
the governed" he must say yes. linen
tell him that our town system OF repre-
sentation does not afford the people that
have to live under the laws OF Vermont
proportionate representation IN the max
ing of them, and, in the sense that the
renresentatives of the minority of the peo-
ME can absolutely control legislation when
they undertake to do so, it Is not a
government that derives its Just powers
from the consent of the governed. Tell
him that the majority Of votes in the
house of representatives is controlled by
2l per cent. of the population of the state,
We know something about taxation with
out representation" right here in Vermont
today. even if George III. is dead:
Tell our New Hampshire friend that the
only fair and square idea Of govern
ment of the people, by the people, Tor the
people is to apPGrtoq1 npGe"tnn an d
NOT according to mere arbitrary town
lines. 1t is the people that have to live
under these laws, not woodchucks and
stonewalls and mullenstocks and highways
and sunsets and chokecherries and other
scenery.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-29
(St. Adams Messenger.)

Now a Windham county man has
been demonstrating that poultry rails
ing can be made to pay. By and by,
perhaps, Vermont farmers will better
understand that it is in such special
lied undertakings as these that farm
ing must be made profitable in Yer
mont. This state cannot expect to
compete with the vast agricultural re-
gions of the west in the production of
cereals and the great field crops, but
its farmers can make themselves
abundantly prosperous if they will re-
sort to few score and odd sidelines
like this of poultry-raising, for in
stance, with a nearby market for the
product as certain and as advantage.
Gus as the market for any staple.
But poultry raising, like the other
specialized interests of farming, can
not be trusted to haphazard as it has
been for all these generations. If the
farmer expects to make his hens prof
table he must make business of TAX
ing care of them. They cannot be
left to take care of themselves as they
have for all these years, mere roam
ing, picking, scratching, precarious
happenstance property that was inner
tied with the grindstone and the mort
gage, and that is kept because it al
ways has been kept, and for little rea-
son else. The farmer must do for his
hens and his turkeys what he has done
and is doing for his cows, and then
poultry raising will pay.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-29

Brattleboro is among the towns that
intend to test the state S right to call
for the United States deposit money
for use in the permanent fund, and 1t
is likely that much litigation will be
necessary before all of United States
deposit funds repose in the state treas
ury. While it is improbable that the
federal government will never recall
this money it should be borne in mind
that the money was simply loaned to
the towns, not given. Brattleboro has
been having the use of about $4,000
for practically nothing the interest on
the amount going toward the support
of the town schools which would have
to have been supported by taxa
ton in case this money had not been
received. How much this town will
lose by the recall of the funds depends
wholly on how much it receives from
the permanent school fund. The new
law provides that towns holding the
money or paying interest to themselves
thereon may keep the money by pay
ing interest to the state at five per
cent, but few towns will keep it at
that rate. If the trainers of the law
had made the rate four per cent. it is
likely that nearly every town in the
state would have been willing to keep
it's share of the fund. Then the state
would have been saved the annoyance
of litigation and would not have been
put to the trouble of re,investing the
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-29
The sum of $1,000. which was raised

The sum of $1,000, which was raised
among local people in 1902 for the
purpose of surveying the Connecticut
river, is going to be returned to the
subscribers by the capitalists who are
going to build the dam. Why wouldn It
it be good plan to use this money in
iudiciously advertising the advantages
of Brattleboro? Every subscriber
would get good interest on his invest
ment if this were done.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-29
All Agree With Judge Waterman.

Perhaps it is only justice to all con.
cerncd to say that the entire bench Of
the Vermont superior court are agreed
upon enforcing in county court the
same policy Of cleaning up dockets and
cxpcditiug business recently announced
by Judge T.. l.. Waterman in Rutland.
This is one of the best symptoms yet
of the reinvigorated Vermont of the
twentieth century.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-29

The Connecticut deer are now receiv-
ing attention from the lawmakers,
and it looks very much as if the stat
ute providing for an indefinite close
season in that state would be repealed.
In Connecticut the fruit-growers repre-
sent large interests.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-29
1t Will Be Built All Right.

TLOnUUnutfFY oIItTJ
Brattlcboro and Hinsdale can have
a dam across the Connecticut between
these two towns-thus saith the legis'
latures of both Vermont and New
Hampshire. There is one little thing
still necessary. and that is. to build it.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-29
Health, married Brattleboro woman
Londonderry Sitter.

AAAAAAAf AANAAFA %sfNhff""'HN
Londonderry Sitter
Verify there are queer "goings ON
In Braitleboro, 4 big heading In the
Reformer of last week read, Dam Bill
Is Passed. We were aware Of the fact
that the natives occasionally indulge
in some heated contests over local af.
fairs but did not think that any Of
the accompanying euss words would
be allowed 20 creep into the newspa'
pcrs. II is cxcusable, however, after
the exciting and protracted town meet
ing which Brattlohoro has just hn'
ishcd-Vergcnne Enterprise.
Friends of State Fish aud Game
Commissioner Henry II. Thomas are
not becoming seriously alarmed be-
cause of the knocks he is getting from
windham county and II is probable
that the genial commissioner himself is
not living awake nights worrying over
the matter. OF course IL is very un'
reasonable to suppose that the Wind
ham county politicians would like to
have the Office moved to Brattleboro.-
Vcrgcnnes Enterprise.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-29
OUR LEMON CRATE.
Replenished From Time to Time By
Loving Friends.

The new master of the state grange
has organized 20 new oranges since
Jan. oath. Certainly record to be
proud of. And to think that Grand
Master Pierce is not in politics, either.
Montpelier Journal.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-29
A Characteristic Sign.
st. Albums Messenper.

The proposed institution of that 81
100000 power plant at Vernon is a
characteristic sign of the New Yer
mont.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-29

Any subscriber whose subscription was
paid in advance for the remainder of the
year 1907 before our jamestown contest
started is entitled to use the 25-vote cou.
pom on page without charge.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-29

More Brattleboro renown! The Rev.
James H. Wiggin, who claims he helped
Mother Eddy to fame by revising the
early edition of her book, Science and
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-29

senior Corea, the Nicaraguan minis
ter Mt Washington, received word Mon
dav from President Zelaya of Nicar-
aqua announcing the capture and DC.
cupation of Tegucigalpa, the capital of
Honduras. The fall of the Honduran
capital was predicted Sunday when
news was received of the capture OF
Choluteca. the most strongly fortified
town in Honduras, and the flight of
President Bonilla of that country. Rep
resentatives of the United States and
Mexican governments are using their
efforts to restore peace in Central
America and it is not unlikely that an
arbitration will be brought about soon.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-29

The first distribution by the general
education board of New York since it
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-29

The celebrated Constantine Pobicd.
onosteff. formerly procurator general
Of the holy synod Of Russia, died in ST.
Petersburg at clock Saturday even
ing He was the most unbending, con
sistcnt and able defender of despot'
ism in government which Europe has
known in our time. He was sin
cercly convinced believer in the Rus
sian autocracy as the best possible
form of government, and he opposed
with all his strength. so long rs his
influence was in the least potent with
the ear, the revolution toward CON
stitutional and parliamentary state.
He passes away, logically enough, with
the old order in Russia, but even the
most determined radicals can pay him
the tribute which his intellect, homes
ty and sincerity call forth. He was
born in Moscow in 1921
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-29

received John H. RoekefelleT's most
recent contribution of s32,000,000 was
made ut meeting of the board Tues
day, when conditional gifts totaling
/ sGa5 0ln were made 10 i've educational
Institutions. The money was divided
as f0llowsi Yale university, sau0,0Nni
Princeton university, 100000; Bow
doin college at Brunswick, Ne, $50,
600; Colorado college at Colorado
Springs, 100000; Millsaps college at
Jackson, Miss, $4,000, After making
these appropriations the board voted
10 give a total OF $40, 800 10 cOlored
schools, the names of which We're mol
made public lest the help of the board
should tend 10 discourage gifts TO these
schools from other sources. With the
five principal gifts is the condition
that the institution shall raise speei-
fed sum, of which the board : appro'
priation shall be part. Yale anil
Princeton are each to raise S2,0o000u,
Colorado college 100000, Bowdoin
s250,000, aud Millsaps 100000, These
subscriptions were decided upon after
the board had considered applications
from about 800 institutions,
The total estimate of the valuation
Of the national wealth in 1904 was
sl07.l0I. 1910. according TO a special
report just issued by the census bureau
on wealth, debt aud taxation, which
represents an increase in the four year
period from 1900 to 1901 Of $ld,5sd,.
ss5,635. This advance in national
wealth has no parallel in the history
Of the United States except the decade
from 1850 TO 1860, In 1850, when the
first estimates of the national wealth
were made, tho figures were only ST..
l35Ts0.22s. The most potent cause for
the increase from 1900 TO 1904, it is
stated, was the reaction from the low
prices of the period of depression from
1898 to 1896. The annual increase of
wealth per family from 1890 to 1904
was Sls2,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-19

the proper time comes. and then 50 As. to
injure no American industry. would make
the party ridiculous. The country Is con-
WINGED that the time has arrived; and
everybody understands that the republican
party is not warning on American in-
dustries.
The standpatters are maneuvering for
terms. They know that something win
be done, but their hope is to hold down
the revisionists as much as possible after
the work begins With this end in view,
and only this end, they continue their blum
about do-nothing policy, about the dis
loyalty to protection of the republican adj
vocates of revision, and what will happen
to business IL the schedules are overhauled
while prosperity remains. They play their
game very well. but have played it too
long. 1t is about played out And when
revision has been completed and no dam
age to business appears as the result of 1t,
nobody will look pleasanter. or go his
way more industriously, than the average
standpatter who today is predicting thunder
and lightning and eternal smash If the
tariff is touched.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-19
findings Keepings."

That there is still some faith in the truth
of the old-time Juvenile dogma findings
keepings" is occasionally attested by cases
in which the finders of lost articles COM
plain bitterly over the size of the rewards
offered to them upon the restitution of the
goods to their owners. Now and then a
New York messenger boy is proclaimed. in
the prints as the finder Of pocketbook
containing papers and checks of large value
for which the owner is willing to give only
a small sum in return. The suggestion Is
held out that injustice is done to the hon
est boy by the meagerness of the compen-
sation. Somehow or other the truth does
not effectively establish itself that re-
ward is a gratuity. not right, and that
there is no possible course for an honest
finder save to restore the property to its
owner. If finding things is regarded as
legitimate line Of trade. the finder must
take his chances for getting sufficient
recompense to pay for his trouble
An instance of this doctrine leading its
holder into trouble has just come to view
in the dispatches from southern city
which tell of the arrest of an employee in
a waste paper establishment who declined
to surrender certain letters which he had
found In the scraps purchased By the firm.
These letters had never beer delivered by
the postal authorities and were technically
in the custody of the United States govern
ment. When the porter declined to give
them up unless rewarded he was promptly
put behind bars, anu there he remains,
wholesome object-lesson for those who con-
tend that there is virtue in the theory that
findings keepings.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-19
Red Plots in Russia.

Government agents in Russia are still
active In arresting plotters against the life
of the car. Eleven persons were arrested
the other day in Finland on suspicion Of
being implicated In a Conspiracy. Bombs.
1t is said were found in their quarters.
Meanwhile in st. Petersburg an investiga-
ton Is being conducted into the circum-
stances of the so-called palace plot. recent
ly frustrated: 1t is now the belief of the
police that the design of the reds was not
only to take the life of the car. but also
to destroy Premier Stolypin and Grand
Duke Nicholas. One proposed method was
TO murder the car on the railway while
moving from Tsarskoe-Selo to Peterhof next
week. Another was to enlist the services
of a milkwoman who often meets the en-
peror on certain road and have her throw
a bomb at him.
Despite the discovery of these plots, it
is said that there Is the graveSt apprehen-
sion In ST. Petersburg lest the terrorists
may accomplish their purpose 1t is known
that an enormous quantity of murderous
material has been prepared lately in and
around the capital. The police have un-
earthed hundreds of bombs. and it's be-
lieved that many thousands are now scat
tered throughout the red centers, of which
there are scores. 1t Is now the official
theory that the assassins are preparing for
grand attack upon the summer palase
similar to that which was frustrated the
other day at Tsarskoe-Selo.
This danger seriously complexities the
work of the real reformers In Russia and
is certain to delay the solution of the des-
perately difficult problems that confront
both government and people. Nothing is
to be accomplished by assassination. If on
the one hand the police are embarrassed
by the fact that whenever they manage to
cut off one conspiracy several others crop
forth. on the other hand the radicals should
realize that II one executive head falls an
other appears in its place. Nothing short
of the complete destruction of the entire
imperialistic regime can cause a reversion
Of the government to the hands Of the ter
rorists
Russia must be reformed by constructive
and not destructive methods. 1t Is assured
that the civilized powers would never con-
sent to the growth and continuation of an
archistic conditions In the czag;s realm
Intervention in the name of humanity by
the allied nations of Europe would inevita-
bly, follow an outbreak of triumphant ter
rorisn. for which these plots are des gned
to pave the way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-19
The Wild WEST FEVER.

This Is the anxious period for every loving mother.
She's forced to keep her two eyes on son Johnnie
For every youth imasines the whole town is q
prairie, -
And Indians are swarming round in costumes
rather airy.
He sees the wary red man in his troubled dreams
Emits a long drawn howl expressive Of delight.
Mother knows the symptom-its sign that cam
not fail.
Her sleeping son imagnes he at last has hit the
trail.
He's camping In the open. beside a running stream;
He never one standing. but then It's all a
dream.
Before him In the distance he see them
A band of Wild Apaches spread out before his
gaze.
He buckles his armor grabs his trusty rife
A Thousand red men, more or less, to him are just
u tribe.
He lays about him right and left, his saddle like
soup,
Until he hits the bedpost, which wakes bad
Johnnie up.
He's really not bad boy, no worse than most the
rest
But simply got the fever when he the real
wild west.
He's Just a wee bit FESTIVE, taken a freak.
He'll be his good self once again in just about a
week.
Brooklyn Times
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-19

Kinley made. 1t brought q man Of the
highest personal character and q lawyer
of a very large equipment to the bench,
much to the qualification of all the people
OF that circuit No better appointment
could possibly have been made.
And yet, at the time, the anti-imperalists
would have it that the office was bestowed
as a reward solely for Judge. then Senator.
Grays vote for the taking over OF the
Philippines. Senator Gray as a member Of
the Paris peace commission had originally
been opposed to that policy, but after
reaching Parts and examining the whole
case had changed his mind. President Nc
kinley changed his mind on the same SUBJ
ject. as did other men of prominence. but
because Senator Gray was a democrat and
accepted office at the hands of republic
can his motives. in the fierce feelings OF
the moment. were questioned.
AS idle and as worthless as this talk was
then. and wholly without effect as it has
been since on Judge. Gray's career on the
bench. 1t would yet inevitably be renewed
in case of his nomination for the presi-
dency. and especially if the platform upon
which he stood declared for the relinquish-
ment of the Philippine archipelago. Then
we should have the whole Paris business
rehashed, and served up with a dressing
That Is politics. And what had cut no great
figure in a minor relation might provoke a
bitter snarl in a major one.