The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-04-09
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
(Brattleboro ReformerJ

Printers, publishers and paper
trade associations all over the
country are uniting to bring to
the attention of Congress the
injustice of the sale of printed
stamped envelopes as at present
conducted. 1t is not the sale of
stamped envelopes that causes the
protest, but the effect on local
printing industries of the sale of
printed stamped envelopes, IN
der circumstances and at rates
with which other. printers could
not hope to compete. It appears
to be an encroachment upon pri-
yate enterprise for which there is
little excuse. The plan is being
subjected to indignant criticism
by all the principal newspapers in
the country, and the question has
been taken up by the National Pa
per Trade association, the Nation
al Editorial association, almost all
the state editorial associations,
the United Typothetae of America
and the international Typograph-
ical union.
(St. Adams Messenger)
Senator Stephen B. Elkins of
West Virginia says bitter things
about New England in the tariff
controversy and openly declares
that this section controls the gov
eminent. Not the first time,
surely, Then he wakes sarcastic
and says 1--WE could set New Eng
land down in the midst of the
Middle West and she would be
LOST All, Senator, there is where
you begin to trip. New England
has been set down in the midst of
the Middle West many and many
a time since the days when the
Middle West was simply a range
for Indians and a wallowing place
for buffaloes, and she has meyer
been lost yet. She has been uset
down there in the persons, of her
children and her children's chill
dren to the third generation, and
she was not lost. She made The
Middle West, Senator, and set1@it
up in business. She sent speci-
mems of her best brains and blood
aud Drawn there for years and
years and they developed the
country and transplanted for it's
foundations the grand old prlnci-
pies of civil liberty and high
minded ideals of society that were
land town meeting. With the
gift of some magic that is only
possessed by the good things that
must not be permitted to perish,
old Mother New England has null
tiplied herself many times in her
children, and there is more and
better left than has ever yet been
weaned.
You cannot set New England
down anywhere and lose her, SEN
ator. You can set her down and
run away. But every place where
she is set down she makes her
own and you will all be glad to
wander back to see her and feast
on her bounties, material and pol
ltical, on Thanksgiving day. If
New England controls the govern
ment, it is because she has the
brains to do 1t with. No, it is
not New England that is lost,
Senator. 1t is a gentleman from
West Virginia.
(Swanton Courierl
We want all the local news, all
the little happenings in the com
the personals, who is
sick, who is getting well, and in
fact every bit of news of interest.
OF course an editor knows whole
lot, but cannot be expected to
know all that is going on. Many
items of interest go unnOticed no
doubt, every week, just because
our attention is not called to
them. Instead of "knocking'
the editor with the remark, well,
that fool editor didn't mention so
and so this week. just take the
trouble to send in the little news
items that may come under your
notice. There is nothing exclu-
sive about the Courier, 50 far as
local news is concerned, the rich
and the poor are alike in all items
of interest so far as we are con-
cerned. We want you to feel
that it is your paper, reader, not
wholly ours, and the best way to
emphasize that is to lend a help
ng hand in contributing all the
ocal news coming to your notice.
suppose you try it, and begin