Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-09-08
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

VITAL LIE al ENO CA1.
''While other would-be candidates
for the governorship are hanging
back hoping for assurance of support,
DR.. Mead is making hay. and it is tru-
ly surprising to see the amount of
strength the Rutland man is develop
ing. He appears to have enthusiastic
friends in every town and it is already
evident that his strength with the old
soldiers. the farmers and others is bear
ing fruit. The other candidates will
have to be up and doing soon or they
will start long distance in the
rear. Bloomington Banner.
We do not believe the visiting Nor
mons at South Royalton would bite
Governor Prouty and other state off
tion said to have been rendered them
and join the party there. The people
of this section have ceased looking for
the hoofs and horns of Mormon pill
grims. Their course and conduct
have been such as to warrant the good
feeling that exists toward them.
Whether the state should officially
welcome body of prominent church
men of any denomination is a matter
of taste and opinion, largely. The
Mormons have certainly created
beauty spot at their Smith shrine
we'll worth a long journey to see, at
an expense of probably $4,000. and
they contemplate doing much more.
Nobody in Vermont has been
harmed thus far, and there is little
prospect of moral blight resulting
from their advent. Randolph Herald.
The press of the State is busy Just
now discussing the Sunday law and
what an.usements or work are proper
for Sunday. The first trace of Sun
day law in all the history of the
world. Scriptural or secular, is one
made by the pagan emperor, Constan-
tine, March 7, A. D. 321. Constan-
tine was one of the most bloody and
| depraved men who ever occupied the
Imperial Roman throne, and was a
sun worshipper. Consequently his ia.
nous law speaks of the day as the
Venerable day Of the Sum-" It
was rather loose affair and permit
ted almost any kind of work and
amusement, so long as one complied
with the ceremonies prescribed by the
church trust which he was then organ
izing. This law was copied into En-
glish law from the Romans, was
brought to America by the Colonists,
and is the original Of all modern Sun
day laws. A study of this father of
our present law would be edifying to
modern reformers. Green Mountain
Press.
Our Lyndonville. (Vt.) correspon.
dent writes: Lyndon institute, a,
Lyndon Center, is one of the first, il
not the first, Vermont high school tc
offer an agricultural course. A com
plete laboratory apparatus and agricul
tural library have been purchased
and the instructor is graduate OF
the New Hampshire Agricultural col
lege and has done two years special
work at Amherst. This is good
news for Vermont, for agriculture
and for New England, and we hope
this pioneer work will bear quick and
satisfying fruitage in the way not
only of more schools offering agricultu
raj courses, but of young men anc
women with correct knowledge anC
corresponding love and respect fol
farming. The high school or the sep
arate special school for agricultural
training is the proper agency for the
kind of instruction, rather that the
primary schools. The general funda.
mentals, the essentials of education
of all kinds, are sufficient tax upor
the minds and time of young growing
children, without the addition of any
special branches. But when they
have learned to read and write, have
mastered the principles of arithmetic
and become familiar with the geogra
ply of the earth, then teach the chill.
dren Of the farms, and as many other
as care to learn, something about ag
riculture, the earth's greatest indus
try. The agricultural course in tn
high school is step ahead and we re
joice to see Vermont taking it.
, Vermont was thrifty enough to Id,
up over four million dollars in tn
savings banks of the state in the pas
: fiscal year. Save one, this is tn
!, best record made in any year sine
state supervision began. When tn
question of adopting the local optio
liquor law was before the people, ou
' friends that opposed it urged wit
Y much earnestness that one of thu
: first effects of the new statute woul,
be observed in the shrinkage of de
: posits in the savings banks. Thi
was favorite argument, as mos
readers will remember. AS matte
of fact. the deposits in the saving
banks and trust companies have bee
steadily increasing since 1903, and il
creasing in a higher ratio than be
" fore that date. To be sure, The Me.
= senger would not be so foolish as I
!. attribute this gain to the diret
;. effect of reformed liquor law, hov
ever much foundation there may /
for the opinion that the liberalizatic
of the statute may have had more
J: less beneficial influence upon busine!
r and social activities generally. But
,, is evident that the bank deposits il
crease in spite of the law, anywa
p And the relation of this fact to tt
e extravagant arguments of our neig
bors six years ago is all that TT
Messenger cares to suggest at tn
time.-St. Adams Messenger.
Ia In it's anxiety to demonstrate I'll
- beauties of the license system in We
e mont, the Messenger is ingenious, bl