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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-09
VOTERS DECIDE QUESTION.

Whether or not the Democratic
voters of the city desire to have held
an election In which party nominee
for the Corporation Court judgeship
shall he named will be decided in the
legislative primary on June 20. BE.
cause one of the candidates for the
House of Delegates had not agreed to
abide by the result of judgeship
primary, resolution providing efor
such n primary was not adopted by
the city Democratic committee last
night, and the committee disposed o!
the matter by adopting resolution
authorizing the placing on tho ticket
for tho Legislative primary, the ques-
tion-"Do you desire that primary
shall be held to select candidate
for judge of the Corporation Court"
No very great demand for Judge
ship primary has come to the notice
Of The Daily Press, and as the State
party organization has not seen fit
to provide for such primaries, 1t
would seem that the city committee
took the proper course in declining to
order an election upon It's own initia-
tive. If the people want an oppor-
tunity 10 express preference In the
judgeship race. all they have got to
do is to say so; then the committee
will have its cue.
The argument that II would be use.
less for the committee to order n
primary for June 90 unless all OF
the candidates for the Senate and
House would agree to abide by the
result. was good one. With the
primary ordered by the committee
without other authority than its own,
and possibly, q small and much d.
vided vote on the question being cast,
the candidate for the judgeship re.
ceiving the largest share of votes
might find that his election by the
legislature was not certainty.
On the other hand. il the people
demand primary and one is held
later in the summer, the man select
ed by them will be the Judge. Even
If the candidate for the House who
has not consented to be bound by a
primary should be elected. and should
have the nnheard of temerIty to re-
fuse to listen to the expressed will of
the people, the voice of the senator
from this district and the influence
which could be brought to bear with
the primary returns would undoubt.
edly make the delegate pswerless
from preventing the man chosen by
the people from being made Judge.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-09

The Knox presidential boom re-
sounded yesterday through PennsyI.
vania, but it doesn't sound very loud
outside the State.-Boston Globe.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-09
ut the Newport News, Va.
postofflce as second-class matter.
SUNDAY, JUNE .. 1907.
BEEF TRUSTS LATEST MOVE.

f. ~.
One thing the American public
should understand by this time, and
II 1t does not, 1t will someday, for
1t is receiving one lesson after an
other, and that is, that whatever 1t
wants 1t can have, but It will have
to pay for it. This, 1t may be said,
appears to be eminently proper. The
latest lesson has come from the beef
trust. When the clamor against the
alleged combination of packers was
at it's height these same packers
calmly Informed the public that 1t
would have to pay the bills. so they
did not care how much inspection
they got. Notwithstanding tho muck
rakers, the packers did not object to
the government inspection, but more
ly to the form of paying foS it. If
the packers paid the inspectors they
would have to increase the price Of
their products aId the people would
have additional cause for complaint.
Therefore they wished the cost placed
on the government, where the peol Ia
would still pay. Lrt would nor feel
1t Is keenly. and many OF them might
think the packers We're paying. Their
plan was successful and instead OF
paying an additional cent :, pound or
can for the insocction, tia consumer
I pays the cost through the tariff aud
y internal revenue.
But there was tne place where the
shoe pinched. The packers bought a
lot of cattle and after they were kill.
ed certain carcassus would be con-
demned by the inspectors. Although
they were paid for at the price Of
good beef on the hoof, they are then
only good for the hides and tankage,
soS their value shrinks to about rs
cents or dollar per hundred weight.
Casually surveying the situation the
Beef Trust could see no good reason
why they should bear the shrinkage
IN value after inspection, so the mem
bers have announced that hereafter
all cattle will be purchased subject
TO q post-mortem examination. In
y other words, If the inspectors condemn
carcass, 1t Is condemned as the
property of the shipper and not OF
the packer. BY this ingenious pro.
cess the situation is now satisfactory.
~ cleared up, as far as the Beef Trust
is concerned. The public, ont of it's
Treasury, pays for the inspection au,,
II the inspectors condemn anything
I the loss falls on the shipper and not
on the trust. Naturally enough, the
commission men and others who han
die live cattle. are up in arms. In,
spection was all right as long as the
loss fell on the packers, but when /,
\ 1alis on the producers or middlemen
1t is different. AS matter of fac,
the new regulation OF the Beef Trus
should result to the advantage OF the
s consumer, for II the Trust no lonee,
loses on the condemned carcasses. il
can well afford to reduce its prices
on the finished produce. However. ms
the Trust has not been especially not
ed for kindly treatment or the public
a reduction In prices from this cause
sis not regarded as probable.
II the reports arc to be believed
me loss Will fall most heavily on tho
farmers. Only about one.fifth to one
fourtl, Of one per cent. OF cattle
slaughtered at Fort Worth, Texas. are
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-09

What is perjury to murderer, de-
baucher of virtue, blgamist and degen.
crate who was faithless to his own
fellow criminals. The testimony OF
Harry Orchard in the Haywood trial
should be weighed carefully.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-09

difflcnlties are swamped Mt boise on
their way East.-liicnmond Times
Dispatch. N&
''If dollar wheat makes 81 flour,
asks the st. Adams Messenger,
where does the great public benefit
comein?' Why, the pupIic mas less
trouble getting rid OF its money, OF
ingtcn Post.
The Knox presidential boom re-
sounded yesterday through PennsyI.
vania. but it doesn't sound very loud
outside the State.-Boston Globe.
San Francisco aeron;.ut who gave
an exhibition in Boston proved the
dtrigibility CT his machine by circi-
ing twice around the Statehouse
dome. The precariousness or the
mechanism was then SHOWN by DRIFT
ing out to sea and pumping into the
water. whence he was soon rescued
by boats that had been following
him, observing his diricultles.--3aiti-
moro News.
j. Ogden Armour says that the
European market for American
meats, which suffered at the time or
tho packing house exposures, has
been fully restored. This probably
accounts, in part, for the advance in
domestic prices.-Buffalo Express
The army worms were reported
last week in Lancaster. The U. s.
pension Office ought ut least to keep
them where they claim TO belong
ON the pension roll-Northern Neck
News.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-09

Press dispatches characterize the
conference on Hartman at the white
House Friday night as notable" 1t
was notable only on account of its
length and Jack of results.
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WITH THE PARAeRAPHERs

Times are certainly changing. A
lot of Georgia colonels have Just held
a coldwater banquet. - baltimore
Sun.
After wading through five or six
columns OF stuff about the English
derby, 1t is rather Irritating to tina
no mention made OF the color OF the
snirt king Edward wore on that oc.
casion-Washington Post.
Accounts of Mayor schmitz's little
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-26

paign. and announce il through the
proper channel, after which we shall rat
ify their decision without a murmur In
other words, as the Republican puts IL:
Rhode Island is pretty much Senator
AldIich in these matters, and the sena'
tor will not be guilty OF premature an.
nouncements," For Rhode Island read
Vermont, and for Senator Aldrioh read
Proctor, and you have the Republican :
estimate Of the situation here. The yot'
ems of this state according TO this propo-
sition are not frcemen; we are cattle,
We are owned, body and soul, and will
be delivered to a new master whenever
our lord makes up his mind TO do so, He
is brains for us, we have no right to
weigh the claims of this or that man,
When he sleeps, we all slumber. When
he is dead to the world, we are dead to
the world. When he is rcsurrected, we
shall also rise with him. When he takes
snun, we sneeze. When he bows the
knee TO the foreordained and predestin-
ated presidential candidate, we fall on
our faces and do obeisance,
To our shame be il said that in the
past there has been too much truth in
the contemporaries indictment, But
there has been of late a shaking among
the dry bones, that augurs i'll for CON
tinuance of these conditions. Vermont
is not peopled with dumb driven cattle:
The dead to the world may sleep on if
they choose, but Vermont will not do
so, When the time comes she will ut
ter her voice, as she has uttered it sew.
eral times OF late, and when that voice
is heard it will be recognized as the
voice of the people, and not the boss, as
the voice of thinkers and not automa-
tons
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-26
WEEK IN THE WORLD.
Great Events and Movements Which
Are Making History.

Reduction of the price of gas to 50
cents a LOCO feet by the Boston Consolii'
dated Gas company, making the fourth
reduction made voluntarily by the cor
poration in the last two years, is the nat
ural result OF the unique law under
which it is operating, By this reduction
the gas company under the terms of the
sliding scale act, may increase its div.
dends to 9 per cent, a year on its l5l, 100
shares, beginning July |, 1908. For the
fiscal year to close this month the com
pany has paid 7 per cent. on its stock
while during the next fiscal year s per
cent. will be paid by virtue of the reduc.
ton made in gas prices year ago to, 50
cents. The sliding scale act provides that
with every full years five cent reduction
in the price of gas the company may in
crease its dividend rate by | per cent. in
the subsequent year should earnings war
rant. The increase in the dividend rate
of the Boston Consolidated Gas company
stock from to 8 per cent. represents a
difference of about 100000 which the
Massachusetts Gas company will receive
in dividends through its ownership OF
the shares Of the Boston Consolidated
company.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-26
Railroads
BOSTON & MAINE RAILR0Al
In effect June "a, 1907
Trains Leave Brattleboro.

Montreal and Quebec, via C. V. and G. 7 RA
+C2.37-tl110 a. m. &C 221 p. n ilAEr
Montreal & Quebec, via Newport and C. HE,
tt2.37-fl1.l0 a. m. +fl0ls ?. n.
Quebec. via Sherbrooke and G. T. ye-ilLAll
4tl0ls p. m. II.
Quebec, via Que. Cent. Ry. -t'2S7 a. n fI4
p. m.
Greenfield. Northampton. Holyoke, Sprif54
-'52s a. m. 1907 a. m. 1l0l5 a, m, --@Fl
'A.25 p. m. sac p. m.
Bellows Falls. Claremont Junction MISE
White River Junction-'2.37 a, N, +5# y
tlll0 a. m. '2.25 p. m. ti,47 P. m. '&AEl
'l0lS y. m. T..
Wells River, st. Johnsbury, Lyondonyi.s-ls
a. m. $40 a. m. lilo a, m. t-'9 -
HOBS p. m.
Newport. Sherbrook-'7.5 a. n. $40 :
flll0 a. m. tl0lS p. m. -.
Boston--Dl. 27 a. m. "A 5.2s a. M, b.LN \. : :
FALLS a. m. tBl.50 p. m. fB2,59 m ~
y. m. =.
sDaiiy. fDaily except Sunday tDaiy g5ss !,
Saturday. SUNDAY only. A via Green,5ea5 |.
via Bellows Falls. C Montreal only -
except Sunday and Monday and dlscoEa'"
after Sept, 80. Ia.
Detailed information and Timetables may S"'
tanned at ticket office. -,,-
d. J. FLANDERS, {. NJ bUkl,
Pass. Traf. Mgr. 0eh f4'2 a
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-26
New England and the Cotton Industry.
burlington News.)

New England is not going out Of cot
ton manufacturing Immediately, There
was time some years ago when south
ern competition looked formidable" says
the Lowell Courier Citizen, chat predic-
tions were made that the end of the in
dustry hereabouts was at hand. 1t does
not look so now. On the contrary, the
way the business is booming in Fall River
is Indicative of its prosperity everywhere
in this section. Mill stocks in that city
have advanced SO rapidly in the
last three years that those lucky
enough to hold them have made consid-
cradle fortunes. Even those who bought
as late as the first of the present year
have made handsome profits through the
steadily rising prices. Naturally there is
now comparatively little trading in the
shares. Investors who hold them know
that they have a good thing and they
hang on. The prospects are that the
stocks will hold their present high level
for a long time to come if indeed, they
do not go higher"
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-26
Massachusetts Game Laws,

The Massachusetts Fish and Game
Protective association has issued circu
lar calling attention to important change:
in the state laws relating to hunting and
fishing Notice of trout fishermen is
called to the fact that the season now
closes Aug. |, instead of Sept. as here
tofore. The season for killing gray SPUR
rels is now from Oct. to Dec. /, instead
of from Oct. to March |. The killing
of gulls and eagles and of looms on fresh
water is prohibited. Birds classed as
birds of prey, the killing of which is
permitted, include only sharp-shinned
hawks, Coopers hawks, goshawks red
tailed hawks, red-shouldered hawks, duck
hawks, pigeon hawks, barred owls, great
horned owls and snowy owls.
The killing of deer is only permissible
by the owner or occupant on cultivated
land when the deer are destroying crops
or fruit trees, and then only with a shot.
gun. Nonresident hunters, unless as.
sessed on real estate in Massachusetts
valued at $500 or more, must procure
from the fish and game commissioners a
license to hunt, costing $40.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-26
John Barleycorn's Ghost.
81. Adams NIessenger.)

N1As =AlNhAiH =iNo7NhENAsf
What a comment on the survival Of the
spirit of the blue laws when mans
chances for the presidency may be imper'
illed by such a thing as a Martini cock
tail! 1t could not happen more opposite
~ on the Fairbanks OF the Passumpsic.-
Montpelier journal,
Meaning of course, st. Johnsbury, the
Sacred City of the East Sders. And yet,
like many a smirling peroxide chorus
girl, even the capital OF the Lily-Whiters
has its past, its bitter memories OF days
before the scales had fallen from its
eyes and it had been led to see the bet
ter weigh. And now and then in the
quiet sunset hour when the selectmen
daily call the voters together on the vii
age green for evening prayer, and even
the customary tinkle OF the cowbells IN
the streets is mshed in solemn expect
ancy, some patriarch, stricken with re-
morse. rises with tear-choked voice to
sob out the one great confession that
wrenches the very soul OF st. Johnsbury
even in these days of conscious rectitude.
A man in st. Johnsbury once took a
drink of liquor.
And il was considered a good joke and
laughed at by the people that saw him
do it.
For it is written that when the frame
structure of the first house OF public wor-
ship in st. Johnsbury was raised in
1904 after the good old-fashioned manner
of the fathers. one Zibe Tute, a village
character. assembled to one Of the raiters
stood on his head at the end OF the ridge
pole, thence, after emptying the contents
of his flask, descended with head down
ward to the ground! =,
Weep. o daughters Of Caledonia!
Mourn, We that dwell within the gates
Of the City of Just Balances! For His
tory with fidelity immutable has told the
sad secret of unholy thirst to the mock
ing centuries. \ house Of worship chris
tened with rum!
The fathers have eaten sour grapes
and the childrens teeth are set on edge.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-26

many of the older men on that road who
have been long with il do not like to APP
pear 10 take an active part in opposition
to the wishes Of the company and so do
not openly dispute the contention OF
their employers, However we believe
they will be able to bear up under the
shock II they are Obliged" TO receive
their wages once week. Come to think
Of il, about the only shock that could be
expected to seriously upset Central
Vermont employee would be TO see a
train ON time and getting over the road
without any mishaps,
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-26

not convince his readers that the state
Is actually in as bad n condition as his
predatory remarks would lead them to
believe. The subject of Mr., Putnam s
next attempt at undertaking is an
nounced ms Vermont, Thrifty and In
eorruptible, Model State. Considering
the title we shall be interested to read
what he has to say in regard to our
"rotten borough system" Of represen'
tation and other matters in which we
have not considered our state sufficient
" far advanced to serve MS n model for
the rest of the country.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-26

lAlontpelier Journal.l

If the veracious interviewer tells the
truth. Chief Justice David j. Brewer Of
the L. S supreme court is not disciple
of the strenuous life. He admits induIg-
ing in walking as an exercise, but says
he neither hunts nor fishes. He also puts
into the mouth of former Secretary OF
the Treasury Leslie NJ. Shaw the story
that Senator Proctor will go off in ca
noe at daylight and return in the evening
without fish. And the scholarly chief
Justice does not hesitate to allege that
SHAW SAYS its dangerous, too, because
if Proctor should change the tobacco
from one. side of his mouth to the other
he would upset the canoe and drown"
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-26
AS Go the Proctors.
Rutland Herald.)

The Springfield Republican has been
looking over the New England field in
an attempt to sound the depths of the
Taft boom in this section and comes tc
the conclusion that there is nothing do
ing. Our contemporary says: There is
no evidence that the Taft sentiment is
enthusiastic, uproariouss, hysterical and
all that sort of thing" New England
as a whole seems to be calmly looking
on quietly waiting, firmly disposed, in
short to pick presidential candidates only
in presidential years" So far the Repub,
lcan is probably nearer right than the
newspapers which pTematurely seek tc
stampede commonwealth in favor OF
Secretary Taft or some one of those who
have been mentioned" After conclud-
ing that there is "some sentiment here
for this man. some other sentiment there
for another man, and no overwhelming
sentiment anywhere for any man." the
esteemed contemporary goes on to size up
the situation by states. 1t says:-
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont
are not easily placed. A certain torpor
affects them in the matter of preferences,
which may exist, yet are slow in coming
out. In these later days. not little in
dependence, or party offishness, is exhib-
tied IN Name ana goes uhfeDuheu, une
mere mention of Senator Hale's antrim
perialism and Congressman Littlefeld's
emphatic vote against the railroad rate
bill indicates the torn and distracted
condition of Names political sympathies.
New Hampshire has the b. & NJ and
Gallinger-which is quite enough to say.
Vermont will not become interested in
presidential questions until the Proctors
begin to be concerned and. in this mat
ter, the entire Proctor family seems
dead to the world
This is a pretty severe indictment of
Vermont. The people in the Green
Mountain state are not supposed to have
any ideas of their own, or any prefer
ences as to presidential candidates. We
are to placidly wait until the Proctors
have a resurrection, decide on whom Yer
mont will support in the coming cam
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-26
Happy Hapgood Of Peru.
Montpelier Journal.)

Similia similbus curantur. Happy
Hapgood of Peru has made up his mind
that Joseph Battell is absolutely correct
when he declares that the automobile mas
no common law rights on the highway.
Now these two excellent enthusiasts may
get together condemn the coal oil coupe,
condemn the Sunday fisherman and
shooter man, condemn the law that
makes an open season for deer and amuse
themselves by discussing Morgan horses
to the queens taste, such being their in.
alienable right under the constitution,
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-26
What Would Shock G. V. Man.
bennington Banner.)

The Central Vermont which has not
been accommodating good repute very rap
idly late years and is now trying to
squeal out of paying its men weekly as
provided for by law, is very solicitously
inquiring if it is to be compelled to pay
prefer to draw their pay monthly. We
do not believe there are dozen men in
the employ of the Central Vermont who
would not prefer to be paid weekly but
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-26

Mason S. Stone, superintendent of
education, has a right to feel encour,
aged by the way the towns throughout
the state have taken advantage of the
new law providing expert school super,
vision. While some Of the smaller com
munities of the state have been unable
to benefit by the law for the reason
that the number of schools required for
district is too large the towns that
have combined will get better training
for their children through skilled SUI
pervision and the educational standard
of the state will be enhanced material
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-26
A Timely Warning.
st. Adams Messenger,)

Look out for an organized attempt at
the next session of the legislature to re.
store the bounties on noXious animals,
The press agent is getting in his work
here and there about the increasing de.
structiveness of various kinds OF beasts
that used to be profitable hunting under
the old law. Strange, however, that moth
ing is said about the natural common
sense of man hunting them little on
his own account for the projection of his
own property, whether the state offers
him bounty to take care of his own
or not.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-26
War Against Consumption.

All nations are endeavoring to check
the ravages of consumption, the white
plague" that claims so many victims each
year. Foley's Honey and Tar cures
coughs and colds perfectly and you are
in no danger of consumption. Do not risk
your health by taking some unknown
preparation when Foley's Honey and Tar
is safe and certain in results. The gen.
uine is in yellow package. Sold by Al
Druggists.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-26

People who say that the Brattleboro
board of trade is doing nothing know
not whereof they speak. While the or
ganization may not be accomplishing
gigantic feats at present its work for
the betterment of Brattleboro is steady
and fruitful. Through its activity a
new Saturday night train will leave
Brattleboro at 1890 for Vernon, begin
ming tomorrow. Local merchants will
feel the benefit of this arrangement.