Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-08-24
A Chance for Fame.

What member of the coming legis-
AZURE will aspire to fame in being
the first to introduce a bill restoring
the per diem of the members of the
assembly to three dollars?-Randolph
Herald and News.
Time to Act.
The express companies are likely
to have more or less trouble, as the
matter of exorbitant rates has now
been called to the attention of the In
terstate Commerce commission. The
express companies seem to have es-
capped thus far in the general over
hauling of monopolies which has been
going on for the past few years. In
this state the express business has
been not only the most monopolistic but
the most defiant of any corporation.
Whenever an attempt has been made
to touch it with regulative legislation
it has either openly defied the state or
proceeded to raise it's rates in retail
alton; and thus far it has seemed to
have things pretty much it's own way.
The charges for small packages for a
short haul to local points is simply
outrageous; and patrons stand meekly
around and allow the robbery to go on.
The Barton Monitor understands that
a complaint was filed with attorney
general Sargent nearly year ago re-
garding certain rate changes and it
pertinently inquiries, why has no
hearing been held? Has this been
News.
AS to Marriage.
The time will surely come when we
must throw stricter safeguards around
marriage. 1t strikes us that this is a
far more important matter than that
of limiting divorce, which is one of
the stock subjects for newspaper and
pulpit discussion. A notable contri-
button to the literature of the subject
is made by a western writer. He
thinks that in the treatment of crime
and disease an ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure. He de-
clares that the young generation
rush headlong into marriage without
thought as to consequences. Any
body apparently can get mate. He
relates an instance where a girl who
has been an inmate of a feebleminded
institu tion for ten years went to the
home, married and the same institu-
tion is caring for three of her off
spring. A man, discharged from an
insane asylum, is now occupying a
room in an asylum adjoining two oc-
cupied by his sons. Criminal parents
beget criminal children. Twelve hun.
dred descendants from one criminal
family and eight hundred from anoth-
er attest this fact. -Burlington Daily
News.
Sure Crops in Vermont.
Seedtime and harvest are guaran
teed the human race, but not all owe,
the earth at the same time. Their,
is always plenty to eat, but it is no
always evenly distributed.
Vermont is fortunate enough to b,
located in a region in which seedtim
and harvest as regards all of it's stapl
crops follow each other with create
regularity and certainty than are ex
perienced in almost any other sectio
of the country.
When we speak of the tremendou
advantages which some parts of tn
West have over our own state, we fol
get how often the farmers of tina
section have their seedtime only to b
disappointed in the harvest, as is tn
4 case in some parts of the America
and Canadian Northwest at the pres
ent time.
Certainty of crop results is valu'
BILE and important asset that is M
fully appreciated, and it is one of tt
factors Of THE farming situation
Vermont which should be strongl
emphasized.
Farming in Vermont is rapidly cor
ing into its own where modern metl
DDS are adopted, and thorough cult
walton and fertilization are coming
replace larger farms as watchword
Burlington Free Press.
Voting a Duty.
In Vermont and other states whel
one or the other party has a lars
majority a sentiment prevails that
is of little consequence whether OF
votes in the off years. Acting upt
this idea some citizens manage to G
Interested in political matters on
once In four years, and at 9th
y times practically neglect their poll
8 cal duties. This is a mischievo
e sentiment. 1t is bad custom viii
/ allows good citizen to excuse hir
. self from discharging a public dut
e The man who desires good Cover
8 ment should make it a duty to vo
e at every election held where he is
!, voter. This is an off year, and O
: hears people predicting light vote +