Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-11-24
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

There is significance in the change
of method by the government in adj
vertising for men for land and marine
service. Heretofore it has used post
ers and the bill board and now it will
use newspapers for the purpose.
New York theatre managers have
also discarded the bill boards and are
using newspaper advertising exclu-
sively. More and more is the news.
paper coming to be looked upon as the
medium through which to reach the
public and this is borne out by the
fact that these two great agencies are
adopting its columns instead of con-
tinuing the poster method, to get re.
sults.-Hardwick Gazette.
This gupernatorial candidate talk
seems Altogether out of season and
too early, but, like Banquo's ghost, it
will not down, and like toadstools
on the lawn, pops up persistently and
must be raked off. or somebody is
liable to slip and fall. Just now
Gates and Merrill are, that's all !;
Fleetwood is optimistic: and Mead is
abused. Last week it vas reported
that the Rutland man got left at
Essex Junction. We think this would
have been to his credit. However the
story was out of whole cloth. This
week DR.. Mead is accused of selling
land to a railroad that cost him 500
for $500 an acre, when, in fact. he
doesn't own a foot of land within
three miles of the railroad in ques-
ton. And so it goes. DR.. Mead is
too old to be fooled with and too young
to be monkeyed with in this way. If
things keep on, anyone with a guber-
material North Pole story will have to
produce his Eskimos or he will be
promptly discredited.- st. %Johnsbury
Republican.
The Barre Times says that it will
be necessary to have a formal com.
plant against express companies for
making exorbitant charges put before
the public service commission before
the board a take cognizance of it.
The board sits as a court, not as g
prosecutor. and cannot directly init.
ate proceedings; at least, such a steI
would be considered unusual. AS the
state board only has jurisdiction Ovel
business beginning and ending within
Vermont, it would not amount to (;
great deal toward correcting the wors
abuses, though a lower small parce
rate for short hauls certainly woult
he some advantage. 1t costs as mucl
now to ship a small bundle between
two adjoining stations as it doe
i. however, is the advance charge, o
there is a chance for two or more ex
press companies to get a bite. the
each take a mouthful, charging a
, much as they would to carry the pal
6 eel through over their own lines, wit
l the result that the shipper or cor
signee finds the multiple rate piled u
8 against him. The railroads have t
toe the mark, but the express con
panies seem to be a law unto then
{ selves, with little restriction or reg,
o lation. The reason for this Is pro)
ably that the extortions come sea
tered along in a small way among il
dividuals. There is plenty of kicl
: ing over it, but nobody feels al
grieved quite enough to take the ma
. ter up. When it is done, the expre'
: companies will probably put up
T hard luck story, as corporations a
ways do when they get yanked. v
recall a few years ago, when a bi
= making a slight increase in their tt
rate was before a legislative commi
tee hearing, the express companie
n by officials and attorneys, came
t. Montpelier in large numbers. Thu
showed how much money they We
actually losing by doing business wi
lie such a backwoods district as We
ty mont. Finally, one member of tt
;s committee asked why they didn
,o draw out. No answer. Another ca
~ ually inquired how the company
t. stock was quoted in market. Mo
III silence. The rate went up.-Ra
&c dolph Herald.
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