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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-25
THE GREAT FLOOD OF 1869.
Montpelier History Related by Il Chic
ago Correspondent Land and
Irrigation Exposition.

To the Editor of the Journal:
l was much interested in reading
the history of the Pavilion Hotel. 1t
carries me back to 1869 when l was
a guest of this well-known and homo
like hostelry under the management
of Colonel Boutwell,, who was a host
himself and first-class landlord and
having his business we'll in hand and
an eye open for the comforts of his
patrons.
/ well remember the flood of 1869
when l had to climb over a Concord
| coach to the rear Of the house to get
beyond the reach of the high water
so as to make a call upon Miss Helen
F. Redfield { now my beloved wife)
up State street. The water was a
foot deep in the front room of her
| fathers house, and the street was a
roaring swift current, pigs, boxes and
debris generally were floating down
the body of the Winooski-it was a
great sight.
At this time my old friend Mr.. Sib-
| ley was clerk, and the stories and
fun we all had sitting around man.
moth fireplace which was large
enough for four-foot wood, was enjoy
able indeed.
Stephen A. Douglas (the little giant
was born in my native town, Brandon.
the house still stands and looks as
natural as it did years ago. / hold
in high esteem my native State.
Montpelier. and it's inhabitants and
| always enjoy visit there.
Thinking an account OF the prepar-
ations for the Land and Irrigation
Exposition at the Coliseum, commenc-
ing on the Goth instant and lasting
two weeks, under the auspices of the
Tribune, will interest your readers,
l append the papers account of same.
The Westerners are brought from the
far West at less than half rates.
amid the clash and clatter of
hammers, big and little peach trees
and cotton plants are blooming in
riotous profusion under the steel Cir
ders of the Coliseum, where today ar
rangements for the Land and Irriga-
ton Exposition under the auspices of
The Tribune are nearing completion.
with all OF the floor space allot-
ted exhibitors from every point
the compass began moving their dis
plays to the various positions Satur-
day afternoon. Carpenters and de-
corators have completed their work
ahead of the schedule tim and those
in charge of the various exhibits will
have uninterrupted possession from
today until next Saturday, when
thousands of bulbs will flash with the
electric current and the great piano.
ramic pictures of land stretches and
irrigation projects are thrown open
to the public.
MANY of the displays are in place
These are exquisite examples of the
work OF scenic artists and papier
mache experts. Pictures of beautiful
valleys delight the eye while the eff
feet of snow-capped mountains and
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-25

cago Record-Herald on New England
fruit growing, and other Western pa
pers are discussing the possibilities
of this region.
The Journal is firm in its belief
that the time is ripe for a great adj
vance in the development of YER
mont's resources. 1t believes that the
suggestion of a State convention with
particular reference to an increase
in the summer tourist business in
Vermont is a feasible one. With the
interest already aroused in this State
such a State wide movement immedi-
ately would challenge the attention
of the general public, and the inev-.
table result of the publicity that
would follow would be more business.
We need greater interest on the part
of our own people and wider knowl-
edge on the part of the great tourist
class. Such a convention would aid
materially in securing both these
things
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-25
PUBLICITY FOR VERMONT.

Newspapers in other sections of
the country are beginning to take no.
tice of new spirit stirring in Ver-
mont. For example the Troy, N. Y,
Times says in a recent issue:
"Allusion has been made to the
great revival of industrial activity in
New England, as indicated by the new
establishments and additions to old
ones, all involving an outlay of many
millions of dollars, in expectancy of
getting satisfactory returns from
such investments. This development
has especially impressed those who
were inclined to the belief that New
England had reached the zenith of in
dustrial advancement and that hence
forth other regions were more like
ly to show conspicuous expansion
The belief does not appear to have
been well founded, for there is con-
slant assurance from New England
that there is still wide field for ex-
ploitation, and that New England
enterprise is equal to the task
Our neighboring State of Vermont
is feeling the impulse, and it will not
be surprising to see it attain high
rank as a manufacturing district. The
Burlington Free Press recently had an
article of much significance, pointing
out the opportunities for utilizing the
power which is abundant, through
the numerous streams and waterfalls
The utilization of such power means
great additions to the States produc-
tiveness, and there is a decided
movement in that direction. The
Bellows Falls Times enumerates va
rious ways where power can bt
turned to account and industries es
tablished, and urges liberal invest
ments in such undertakings. TIL,
Free Press approves the suggestion
and argues that our own capita
should build up our own communi
ties to as great an extent as possible.
This is an age of conservation, an(
conservation and utilization of Yer
monts water power would bring tina
State well to the front as an indus
trial centre"
In yesterdays Morning Journal al
article was reprinted from the Chi
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-25
CANNON'S WANING POWER.

Elsewhere in this issue may be
found a significant interview with
Congressman D. j. Foster, copied from
the Burlington Free Press, in which
he expresses the belief that Speak
er>Joseph G. Cannon is serving his
last term as the presiding officer of
the House, and recognizes the wide
spread demand for a change in lead
ership in that body.
This interview is significant be-
cause Mr.. Foster is not likely to lead
forlorn hope as a protest against
the Speaker, but because it is rec
ogntion of state of mind that ex-
lists both in the East and the West an
tagonistic to Cannonism. The Speak
er is man of great force and I'M
doubted ability. He is not a cor
rupt man in the commonly accepted
use of that term, but he is not in
sympathy with the best thought of
the times, The reform policies of
leaders like Roosevelt, Taft and
Hughes do not appeal to him. He is
the product of an age OF easier polit-
ical virtue, when great corporations
contributed heavily to the campaign
funds of both great political parties
and received very generous consider
alton in revenue bills, few questions
being asked as to methods of doing
business, Those who have heard
Speaker Cannon addresses know that
he dwells much on the prosperity of
the country, the deposits in banks,
the output of American agricultural
and manufactured products, waves
Old Glory very vigorously, but has
very little to say about correcting
national evils.
In the preparation of the Payne
tariff bill, Speaker Cannon was a
pronounced "Stanlpatter" 1t is gen.
orally understood that only the re-
fusal of President Taft to sign the
tariff bill containing an obnoxious
glove schedule, insisted upon by
Cannon for the benefit of his friend
ex-Congressman Littauer, of New
York, prevented the passage of the
bill with the high glove duty as
part of the measure. The
sympathy of the Speaker was plainly
with those elements that in the past
have obtained favors at the expense of
the great body of the consumers.
The time has come when man is
needed in the powerful position of
Speaker of the lower branch of Con-
gress who is In more hearty sympathy
with President Tafts administration
and with the better thought of the
times. If the Republican party
which has shown itself to be the party
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-25
PRESS COMMENT
What the Newspapers of Vermont and
Other States Are Saying About
Topics of Interest to journal
Readers.
THE GOVERNORSHIP.
burlington Free Press.)

ND"i iiH SNV'ii - iNS9'i
Coates and Medd together at a Po-
mona Grange meeting at Marshfield a
few days ago." says the Hardwick
Gazette. What do you know about
it?" We have observed that the guber-,
Material possibilities have taken to
travelling in pairs or in three in some
cases, either designedly or coincid
entity. In any event the inevitable con-
clusion is that keepers of the various
Governor bees are thus enabled to
hold under close observation the
other fellow" The public in the mean
time is afforded an excellent oppor-
tunity to measure the different aspir-
ants and note whether they are up to
the standard OF weight and measure,
as we'll as to reach a conclusion as
to whether the winner has in reality
yet started In the race.
So far as we have observed the vot-
ers of Vermont are in a state of pas
sivity regarding the governorship
They decline to become unduly inter-
ested in the subject. They say it is still
early and they do not expect any
thing in particular to happen until aft
er the beginning of the. new year.
They are more interested as a rule
in measures than in man. They want
to see some energetic action taken to
put our State on a better business ba-
sis and to direct our affairs in a more
progressive channel.
We take it that the man who gets
the public ear with some straight
forward proposition looking to the
Fastening of Greater Vermont will
stand an excellent chance to win the
gubernatorial prize.
| In the meantime the different as
pirants are quietly but none the less
certainly scoring. Mr.. Fleetwood has
announced his candidacy formally,
and is receiving considerable encour-
agement from the younger Republic
cans. DR.. Mead has made no formal
announcement but he promises a
statement of his platform later on
and meanwhile continues to push his
campaign in different parts of the
State: Mr.. Gates who has been dis
cussed in connection with the COVER
norship, is being pressed by certain
Franklin county interests to state his
position, but he is under obligation to
! Col. Merrill, who in turn is await
| ing developments. Ex-Auditor Barber
of Bennington may come into the
! field under certain conditions and in
case of two or more sided contest
near the finish it may be decided to
strike for straight business admin
istration and nominate President
Smith of the Burlington Savings Bank
That is the Governor situation at
present so far as we know it, and it
is about all that can be positively
said on the subject at this time 1t is
evident from this that the governor
ship as whole is in state of abey-
ance tinged with a somewhat lively
sense of things to come.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-25
MARSHFIELD.

Dr. and Mrs. Wesley Lamberton
and son Stanley Clark are in town
visiting at the Marshfield House over
Thanksgiving.
C. e. Shepard is very sick with
blood poisoning at this writing.
Mrs. Nancy (Nowns) Simpson, OF
Barton, is visiting her brother, B. b
Nowns Thanksgiving week.
b. M. Shepard was in town Monday
to visit his father, C. e. Shepard.
A. e. Lamberton has moved into
his new home on North Main street
Miss Ethel Lamberton is home this
week from Goddard Seminary with
three school friends TO spend Thanks.
giving at her home.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-25
that, in a biennial appropriation of
$4,000, may mean $4,000 to $4,000
of misapplied and wrongly distributed
money. Refor NIT.
Thanks giving.
(Margaret E. Sangster in Christian
Intelligencer.)

(Margaret E. Sangster in Christian
Intelligencer.)
For the days when nothing happens,
For the cares that leave no trace,
For the love of little children,
For each sunny dwelling-place,
For the affairs OF our fathers,
And the closets where we pray,
Take, o gracious God and Father,
Praises this Thanksgiving Day.
For our harvests safe ingathered.
For our golden store Of wheat,
For the cornlands and the vinelands,
For the flowers up-springing sweet,
For our coasts from want protected,
For each inlet, river, bay,
BY Thy tounty full and flowing
Take our praise this joyful day
For the dangers of the Nation,
Warded hence by sovereign love,
For the country, strong and hopeful,
Songs arise to God above,
Never people called and chosen
Had such loving-kindness shown
AS this people, God-defended!
Therefore, praises to the throne!
For our dear ones lifted higher
Through the darkness to the light,
Ours to love and our to cherish
In dear memory, beyond sight,
For our kindred and acquaintance
In Thy heaven who safely stay,
We uplift our psalms of triumph.
Lord on this Thanksgiving Day.
For the quiet, uneventful,
Blessed progress of our lives,
For the love of friends and neghbors
Parents, children, husbands, wives,
For the ever-present knowledge
That our Savior is our own,
On this day of Glad Thanksgiving
Praises rise to reach the throne.
For the hours when heaven is nearest
And the earth-mood does not cling,
For the very gloom oft broken
BY our looking for the King,
BY our thought that He is coming,
For our courage on the way,
Take, o Friend, unseen, eternal,
Praises this Thanksgiving Day.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-25
A FINANCIAL LEAK.
(Rutland Herald.)

One of the most fragrant examples
of inequity in the distribution of
State funds comes in the operation
of the law which provides for free
advanced tuition, at the States eX-
pense, of pupils in towns which do
not support High School. The in
tent of the law was extremely laud-
able, as it designed to furnish all
children with chance to attend a
High School at the public expense In
its operation, however, it has devel-
oped several abuses.
Here is Poultney, for example, de-
liberately disseminating it's High
School and sending it's advanced pu-
pills to Troy Conference Academy,
paid for by the State, at no expense
to the town. Here is Manchester,
sending it's advanced pupils to Burr
and Burton Seminary, the State pay
| ing the expense thereof, while Rut-
land is not only paying some $4,000
year to support her own schools,
but must pay her proportion of the
cost of Poultney's and Manchester
tuition bills.
Take Caledonia county. Here is
st. Johnsbury, a wealthy and compe-
tent town, drawing $2,52356 in the
years 1907-8 for the tuition of her
pupils in st. Johnsbury Academy,
rather than support High School.
| Rutland-every town that maintains a
High Schools paying, not only her
own costs of maintaining that school,
but contributing to st. Johnsbury
school fund.
Here is Danville, perfectly able
town, drowning $4,000 for the tuition
of its pupils in some local institute
rather than support it's own schools
Rutland pays her share of that grab
Take Derby in Orleans county, one
of the wealthiest towns in the State,
perfectly able to maintain High
School of her own, mulcting the
State, which means Rutland and 9TH
er self-respecting towns, of 1882, tut
ton at West Derby Academy, The
same thing is true of scores of 9TH
err towns that are perfectly able ia
support High Schools. They don't be-
cause the law allows them to send
their pupils anywhere, in or out OF
the State, and call upon the State to
pay the bills.
How long will it be before every
town with an adjacent academy OF
institute VIII give up every attempt
maintain High School, when the
law makes it so very easy and de-
sirable to let the "other fellow" pay
the bills?
This law ought to be revised SC
that these perfectly wealthy and able
towns shall be required to pay their
own bills. There is leak therein
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-25

Mrs. A. w. Parmelee of Enosburg
Falls is of the opinion that the report
of violence by English Suffragettes
has been exaggerated. Possibly this is
true, but the reports come from relia-
BILE sources. There is a certain news
value in unusual events, and window
breaking by women happily is an un-
usual event which would be tele-
graphed as news when it would not
be sent if the offenders were men, be-
cause we expect better behavior from
women than from men. This may be
considered by our correspondent as
an unfair standard, but it Is generally
conceded that women show greater
refinement and less violence than
men. The Journal believes, as it has
stated before, that when the majority
of women want the ballot, the hus-
bands and fathers will not be slow to
grant it, The task for the Suffragists
is to convince their own sex that they
desire the right to vote. Until that
work is accomplished the charge OF
tyranny cannot be advanced with much
show of consistency. How many
women who have the right to vote in
school meetings take advantage of the
privilege?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-25
Systemic Catarrh.

massive canons are simulated in
fashion which dumfounds the layman.
Here are peach orchards of south
ern California, rich in colorinA and
worked out with such faithful atten-
ton to detail, that one naturally ex-
poets to catch a faint fragrance as a
breath of air stirs over the picture.
While the bird's-eye pictures are
taking the place of the bare floor,
big expanses of blue sky are reach
ing out and covering steel rafters of
the big room. One hundred men have
put the sky where it ought to be.
Great squares of blue buntinaf
were stretched in undulating way
from gallery to gallery and from y.
end of the Coliseum to the 9th e.
When the afternoon sun slanted it
rays across the big dome on SatV&rda
the effect was of summer sky, b RICH
blue, shading off at, one end as thu Tough
fading away into the gloom of might.
Finally night fell and the eXhibi-
tors were gathered about the \door
ready to quit work over Sunday and
the scene was suddenly changeG.
"A touch of button and a day sky
was converted into resplend0ht pic
ture of the heavens at night Here
and there over the great dome, now
topping peak in the picture of yell
lowstone Park and now glowing
warmly over the panorama of some
southern valley, electric light stars
flashed out.
THE sky bunting is studded with
these bulbs. They are inconspicuous
in the day time and at night take on
the appearance of starlit heaven.
A generous ray CLEANS from what
might be Jupiter, while tiny glow
beside it carries the imagination to
one of the farthest suns.
Newell S. Lord"
Chicago, Nov. II.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-25
THE CORPORATION TAX.

1t is reported that Secretary of
the Treasury MacVeagh and Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue Cabell are
anxious over the possibility that the
new corporation tax law will i'm
pose tax of one per cent upon the
interest received by corporations from
United States bonds, which would in
validate the act.
There are others who hold that the
law is unconstitutional because in the
last analysis tax on corporation
earnings is an income tax. The New
York Commercial says on this phase
of the subject:
Calling Federal tax on their net
incomes of State-created corporations
an excise measure will not make it
one, no matter how just and equitable
it's levy may appear to be in the eyes
of any American citizen, high or low.
And if this tax is permitted by the
courts to be collected for any consid-
cradle length of time, millions of peo-
pie and thousands of educational, re-
ligious, benevolent and other insti
tutions that see the earnings of their
investments cut down by it will not
agree to the declaration that it is
just and equitable The tariff issue
here in the United States is long,
long way from settled because it can
l,o 1aI NV ha Of oh
device as an income tax"
Charles w. Pierson, a prominent
member of the New York bar, in an
article in the current issue of the
Outlook entitled as the Federal Cor
poration Tax Constitutional" says:
THE right to grant corporate char
ters for ordinary business purposes
is an attribute of sovereignty belong
ing to the States, not to the general
Government. The United States is a
Government of enumerated powers.
The Constitution nowhere expressly
confers~ upon Congress the right to
grant corporate charters, and it is
well settled that this right exists
only in the limited class of cases
where the granting of charters be-
comes incidental to some power eX-
pressly conferred in Congress, e. g.,
the power to establish a uniform cur
rancy, or the power to regulate in
terstate commerce. On the other
hand the right of the separate States
to grant charters of incorporation is
grant the franchise of corporate cap
acity being therefore inherent in the
sovereignty of the States, will not
tax imposed by Congress upon the
exercise of the franchise constitute
an interference with the power? If So
the tax is unconstitutional"
This line of argument is very force
full and when it comes before the
United States Supreme Court, as it
will sooner or later, it will receive
very careful attention.
AS the Journal has declared at other
times, one of the principal objec-
tons to the tax is that whether con-
stitutional or unconstitutional it is an
injustice to enter the field from which
States like Vermont derive so much of
their revenues, when there are other
sources of revenue which the Gov
eminent of the United States may tax.
Double taxation will acquire a new
and broader significance if this new
corporation tax law is declared valid.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-25
0trmont @attllmtan.
ri cHARD WATSON GLIDER.

In the death of Richard Watson
Glider, editor of the Century Mag
azine, America loses one of her fore
most literary men, His poems were
graceful and forceful and his prose
was of a high order of merit He was
an intimate friend of the late ex-Presi-
dent Grover Cleveland, and a delight
full series of his "reminiscences of the
great statesman have been feature
of recent magazine productions.
An attempt was made by the Ver-
mont Tercentenary Commission to
secure Mr., Glider as poet for the
Isle La Motto celebration, but the au-
thor declared that he did not attempt
anniversary poems, writing only when
the inspiration compelled him to
write Mr.. Glider visited Vermont the
past summer as the guest of ex-Gov.
and Mrs. Edward c. Smith, of st. AL
bans, and attended the Isle La Motto
Tercentenary celebration.
One of the riddles of modern Amer
lean life, exceedingly difficult of solu-
ton, is to find a reason for the dearth
of great poets. The present age is poor
indeed, when compared with that pre-
ceding and following the Civil War,
which gave us men like Lowell, Long
fellow, Whittier, and Holmes Per-
haps no man at the present day is
writing better verse than Rev. Henry
van Dyke, of Princeton. Clinton Scol-
lard, Bliss Carman, William Vaughan
Moody, James Whitcomb Riley, Percy
Mackaye, and others have written
some excellent poems, but as yet they
do not rank with the masters of an
earlier generation. Julia Ward Howe,
our own Mrs. Dorr, Margaret E.
Sangster, Edith Thomas, and other
gifted women write occasionally, but
the great bulk of modern mag
azine poetry is p'edivcre stuff, lacking
the faintest ST TX of the fire of
genius.
We need poets in America just as
truly as we need iron masters and
factory builders, bankers and farm
ers. A world without a song is an
abnormal world. From the dawn of
civilization to our own day the song
of the poet has nerved fighting men for
battle, it has lightened the burden of
toll, and crooned by the mother as a
lullaby it has soothed the little chilli
to sleep. Can it be that ap-age in
which industrialism has been the
dominant factor creates an atmos-
phere in which poetry cannot -four
ish? Our lack of great poets is not a
wholesome condition, but England is
not much better off than America
Tennyson has no successor, Kipling
has written "The Recessional" and a
few other great poems, but he has also
poor.
If great poets appear in cycles the
time must be near at hand for the
shining forth of another famous
galaxy of poetic stars of the first
magnitude, and such an appearance
would be welcomed with enthusiasm.
Never has there been a more appre-
ciative and intelligent public to list
en- to the songs of a great writer of
verse and the rise of such a poet
would enrich the life of the Nation be-
yond measure.