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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-14
COUNTY COURT IN SESSION.
Judge waterman Expressed Pleasure at
Coming to This county-Grover $4,000
Damage Suit On Trial.

Windham county court convened in
Newfane Tuesday afternoon and after
the formal opening Judge L. L. Water
man of Brattleboro made a short address.
He said it had not been his lot to hold
court in this county before and that il
was pleasure to him to come back to
the county where he studied and prac-
ticed law. He alluded to the high stand
ing of the Windham county bar and it's
reputation for eXpeditng business and
asked for the cooperation of the attor-
neys. Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday
forenoon We're taken up in calling the
docket and hearing motions Many cases
were entered as settled and discontinued
one being the tax suit of the town of
BrattIeboro against the Hooker Corser
Il Mitchell company. The jury roll was
called Wednesday afternoon. Heretofore
the jury has been called the first day,
nut under a new statute their presence
is not required until the second day.
ON complaint of States Attorney F. E.
Barber, Dennis Jones of Townshend was
arraiSned on the charge of assaulting
Merton Adams March 90. He pleaded not
guilty and was put under bail in the sum
of $500 to appear later in the term
The state claims that Jones entered
Adams's house and pounded Adams while
the latter was in bed
Since yesterday morning the case of
Henry Grover of Grafton against the
Boston & Maine railroad to recover
$4,000 damages for injuries has been on
trial The plaintiff is boy who was
hurt at the Brattleboro passenger sta
tion Sept %, 1907. his injuries necessi-
tatinE amputation of one leg. He alleges
that brakeman put him off the train.
handling him roughly. p. Carpenter
and r. c. Bacon are counsel for the
plaintiff and +. w. Gibson and C. A.
Weston for the railroad.
The next case will be that of the estate
of Elias Prouty of Halifax against II. w.
Nichols OF Guilford to recover the price
of a yoke of cattle in an action of
trover. Judgment for the plaintiff was
rendered in the spring of 1909, but the
decision was reversed by the supreme
court and the cause rema nded,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-14
GuIlEORD CENrRE.

The next regular Grange meeting will
be held Saturday, April 20.
George Clark Of Waterbury visited his
father, A l.. Clark, last week.
w. ID. Thayer went to South Deerfeld
Saturday TO visit his brother, II. Il.
Thayer, returning Tuesday.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-14

Q be ocrmunt Albonlt.
TEN PAGES
BRATTLEBORO.
FRIDAY, APRIL IA, 1910.
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-14
HORSES FOR SALE

Handsome pair dapple grays, 8 and 6
years old 290O pounds; pair years old,
red roam and brown, matched only in col
ors, 29OO lbs; pair bays, 12 and 13 years
old, good workers, 27O0 lbs; pair blacks,
years old, all right single or double, safe
for lady to drive.
Good lot of horses right out of hard
work.
c. S. SMITH, HinsdaIe, n. N.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-14

On and after April 16 dinner at The
Palms will be served for soc,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-14

NNvANTED-An obliging and capable
W girl to do light housework and plain
sewing. Wages $50 per month. Apply 10
Linden Street Brattlehoro. 1i-tf
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-14

XXvANTED-A married or single man
w for farm work as teamster and
general farm work, good pay and steady
work to right man. Send references to
-" Vermont Phoenix. Brattleboro. 10
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-14

NNvANTED-Teacho for WINCHESTER
to begin April Il. Must hold certificate.
Good pay and small school. Write or
telephone. f. II. METCALF, south
Ncwfane. lo-lW
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-14

XTANTED-Family in Springfield. Mass
w consisting Of two adults and child de-
sire girl for general houscwork. Small washing
to do. Good home. Address "T' care of Php-
nix Oflice. l5-lw
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-14

VNTANTED-EXperie cook with
w frst-cass references as to ability
and character, wages $2j "a month. Ad-
dress Drawer "B," Brattleboro, VT. 1S-t
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-14

XXvANTED-Air dried maple, beech,
w birch and oak sawed Is, Is, l3s,
2ls inches. We are also ready to con-
tract for the same kinds of lumber to
he sawed and delivered when dry.
WHITE RIVER CHAIR CO.. Brattlc-
bOrO, VT. lois
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-14

WANTED-To hire good steady en-
w gineer to work at the Cheshire
County Farm. Would prefer mar
ried man whose wife would work as a
cook viii pay $5G76 to a good com
in person or address \. y. WHITMAN,
Westmoreland Depot, ~ H. l5ltf
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20 Reut.

VNO RENT-Tenement. II. c. STREET
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-14

EoR SALE-Dry hard wood, stove
Il length, split or in chunks Orders filled
quickly for stable manure for lawns and
gardens, loan for lawns, and sand for
building purposes. Teams furnished for
general jobbing. Have for sale one pair
OF heavy work horses, weight 2900.
IIENRY @. CLARK. Rrattlehoro. VI.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-06-01
By j. ID. WATSON

the State Department has won for American
fnanclers and builders, contracts valued at
more than $200,00O,000.
The items making the huge amount in
clude the contract for equipment for the navy
OF the Argentine Republic participation by
American bankers in the Hukuang loan for
the construction of railways in China, and
participation by American bankers in the
$5O000,O00 loan to China to bring about re-
forms in the Chinese currency system.
And who, in America, has benefited by the
$2OO,000OO0 worth of contracts, etc,
j. 7. Morgan and Co., and the Steel Trust,
IN which Morgan is the dornineering influence.
The equipment for the Argentina navy was
battleships which the State Department per-
suaded the South American country to let the
Steel Trust build.
And SO anxious was Knox to serve his Steel
Trust masters we'll that he persuaded the Sec
rotary of the United States Navy to give our
secrets of battleship construction to the
Steel Trust and the Argetine Republic, an act
that would have caused the courtmartial of
any officer in the navy, and the dismissal of
that officer in disgrace.
The Hukuang loan for the construction of
railways in China was another plum which
Knox, through the Department of State, put
into the hands of Morgan and his crowd Of
Wall Street Bankers as was the $5O,000,000
loan for the purpose of reforming the currency
system of China
And who was paying these agents of the
State Department who were working to turn
these millions into the Morgan crowds peck
cts?
The tax payers.
The tax payers of the entire country have
to pay an enormous amount to keep the State
Department up, and the Secretary of State
has the audacity to boast to the peoples rep
resentatlves in the lower House of Congress
that through his manner of working the de-
partment he has thrown into the hands of the
Steel Trust and the Morgan interests contracts
and concessions worth $200,O00O00.
The Presidents refusal to pardon Charles
W. Morse the New York banker and Ice Trust
king, and John R. Wash, the Chicago banker
and railroad promoter, isn't calculated to give
much hope to big criminals who happen to the
unusual and are convicted in the future.
That Mr.. Taft deserves praise for doing
his duty in spite Of the petition of hundreds of
thousands asking that Morse be pardoned, we
are glad to admit and join in the praise.
That the petition in Morse's behalf was one
of the strongest that an Executive ever had pre-
sented to him in behalf of prisoner there is
no doubt; it was signed by the most powerful
men in every walk of ife-statesmen, poll
ticians, lawyers, business men, farmers, teach
ers and students all asking that Morse be given
his liberty.
And while it was true that the devotion of
Mrs Morse to her convicted husband won ma
jority of the signatures in Morse's behalf, the
plea for pardon was strong y backed, and
Morse was guilty OF no more than hundreds
of other big men who are now at liberty.
But the fact remains that Morse was guilty
of the crime for which he was convicted; that
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-06-01
THE JEFFERSONIAN
PAGE THIRTEEN


for the opposition but even Mr. Roots shrewd
mind of long legal training will hardly accom-
plish the end he desires against the overwhelm-
ing demand of the people.
MIR. Roots contention that the Senate will
deterloate If Senators become elective by the
people isn't very forceful, neither is the view
that the Constitution will be torn up because
it will take away the legislatures of the sew
eral different states right to prescribe the man
nef of electlAg Senators, as provided by the
Constitution.
AS good men have held Offices, elective by
popular vote, as any United States Senator
that Legislature ever elected, and as GOOD
Senators will be elected by direct vote of the
people as any Senators who now grace that
body
The Senate may deterioate if its members
become elective by the people, but it will de-
terioate from Mr.. Roots point of view and
from the corporations point of view, instead
of from the peoples point of view.
That the power and authority of Congress
to protect itself will be overthrow in favor
of the states by electing by direct vote of the
people is absurd
&NNss are elected by direct vote of the people,
yet that body itself has the last say as to who
shall and who shall not sit as members.
So why will not the Senate remain the final
Judges OF the qualifications of it's members,
Just as the House of Representatives now is, of
its members?
But even if the Senate should lose this
power, which it will not, what other power
could qualify a worse man than the Senate
itself qualified when it qualified Lorimer?
And how could the Senate deterioate more
that it has already deterioated?
Lorilner, the briber and boodler; Guggen-
helm. 9 brother Of no DIN, ,ro,,cr occoo
lated with J. ?. Morgan in stealing the miner
al and timber lands, as well as railroad and
water rights of way in Alaska, and who
bought his place IN the Senate too; Reed
Smoot, the Mormon, Payne Aldrich ally, to
say nothing of a number of others of lesser
light, who force Us to repeat the inquiry to
Mr.. Root:
Glow could the Senate deterioate more?"
The overwhelming sentiment of the people
against Lorlmers continuing to remain in the
Senate IS making those Democrats who voted
for Lorimer last winter sorry for their action.
Public condemnation and rebuke is making
Senators Fletcher, of Florida, and johnson Of
Alabama, squlrm and long for an opportunity
to vote against Lorimer in an effort to right
themselves before the people.
And even Lorimer's chief defender, Bailey
of Texas will take less prominent part in
the investigation that will soon begin; Mr..
Bailey having expressed the belief that the
Senate was Faithfully deceived" at the former
hearing.
And while these gentlemen may declare that
new facts have been brought to light that
change the looks of Lorimers claim, it is the
public scorn that they have up against that
has made them open their eyes and see the
light.
That and the fact that Senators ara surn to
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-06-01

So determined was Morse to be Ice King
that the winter before, when the ice harvest
ing season drew near, he leased nearly every
ice house along the Hudson River that could be
leased, and instead Of filling them with ice for
the summer trade, he locked the houses and
kept them empty so there would be scarcity;
when the ice fields were frozen over and he
had harvested about as much as he thought his
trust could handle at an exhorbitant price, he
sent boats to the ice fields to break the ice to
pieces so 1t could float away where no one else
could harvest it, and prevent the famine and
high prices.
And that summer conditions were as he
calculated they would be; there was scarcity
of ice, and the price was exhorbitant to the
poorer people who needed it most.
Morse would not sell niczles worth and
dimes worth would hardly last until it could
be carried from the ice wagon into the tene-
ment-house.
All diseases that come from contaminated
milk and food in hot weather swept the citv,
killing infants by the score, but Morse did not
cut his profits to increase the size of the ten
cent block of ice
In no famine swept, crowded, foreign coun-
try were conditions ever more pitiable than
they were IN the poorest and most crowded sec
lions OF Morse's home city, where he was living
in his mansion in luxury and raking in his
immense profits at the expose of the suffering
poor.
The appeals Of heart broken mothers and
the walls of dying babes didn't soften Morse's
heart when he was free Ice King, and was
helping death collect the heavy tool from the
poor of New York City.
1t every misery that this monster caused
could be recorded they would outnumber, by
thousands, the thousands of names signed to
the petition asking that he be given his free
dom.
just how many deaths were caused directly
and indirectly, by Morse's greed for gold, God
only knows, but they would reach into the
hundreds
And Mr.. Taft undoubtedly remembered this
when he refused to pardon the murderer of
infants for violating the banking laws.
Senator Albert B. Cummins, of Iowa, pre-
diets that within ten years we will have an
adjustment of the problems that now con-
front us-either by law or by the method that
has been vogue for two thousand years
bloodshed.
Senator Cummins is not alone, among
statesmen, in the belief that the problem upon
which our republic will be wrecked is con-
fronting us to-day-that conditions and the
feeling of the people is very much the same
as that which has preceded other bloody rev.
olutions
The concentration of wealth in the hands of
few at the expense of the many; the strang-
ling of competition by monopoly; the grew
ance of the people who honestly believe that
Justice is not being done; the manner in which
the big Corporations are allowed to treat the
law with contempt and 90 UNPUBLISHED, are
causing deep under current of rebellious feel
ing that one step too far by the oppressors may
cause to burst forth a torrent of revolution,
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-06-01
Entertaining the Crowd ON July 9TH

We have been asked whether we would ac-
cept contributions toward the expenses in
cident to our Fourth of July celebration. We
ashore" would
While we will not request cooperation, in
that respect, we will cordially accept it.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-12-03
TRUTH ABOUT OKLAHOMA.

Tho following extracts are from an
address delivered by Charles n.
Gould. director OF the Oklahoma geo
logical survey, before the southern
commercial congress at Atlanta Geor-
gia;
You don't have to lie about Okla
homa--lf you tell half the truth peo-
pie won't believe you.
NO Equal area that the sun shines
upon, during recorded history. has
made such rapid material progress as
has the state Of Oklahoma. during the
last decade. Her history reads like
romance. Those Of us who have been
actively engaged in aiding this de-
velopment as well as those from 9TH
er states who have watched the pro-
gress Of oklahoma. often stand aghast
before the wonderful latent possibill-
ties Of the state
1T Is not easy to attempt to con-
dense into a single paragraph O state
ment Of the wonderful resources OF
Oklahoma and their development.
Some idea OF conditions may be
gained by reference to the govern
ment census reports recently issued
in which 1t is shown that during the
past ten years. among the sixteen
states represented at the southern
commercial congress, Oklahoma ranks
as follows:
First in percentage Of increase Of
population OF the state. 10 per cent.
First in percentage of increase in
population Of two chief cities. Okla
homa city having SAC per cent. and
Muskogee 494 per cent.
First In percentage OF increase Of
value Of farm crops. 242 per cent.
First in percentage Of increase Of
wheat raised, 56 per cent.
First in percentage of increase OF
cotton raised. 176 per cent.
First In percentage of increase OF
railroad mileage, 1874 per cent.
First in percentage Of Increase Of
lumber cut, 901 per cent
First in percentage Of Increase in
corn raised, 921 per cent
First in percentage of increase In
bank deposits. 1893 per cent.
First among the southern states IN
the amount OF petroleum produced
duFing the past four years.
First in the amount Of natural gas
In sight
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-12-03
WANTS GENUINE. PERM ANFNT
TRIUMPHANT VIRTUE?
J. q. Osborn Refuses 10 Join Ranks
Of Militant Reformcrs-Pokc.
Fun at Graffius, et al.

Editor World-Grafnus j. w? I
never heard OF him as Mr. Law En-
forcement or Mr.. Moral Upiat, and
why should I ropor, 90 him, even II
] could succeed in driving my tears?
Resides ! am not cf the Reformers
Militant-mine is 10 watch triumph.
or bewal or condemn when the De
mon Rum. or the other civic evils
seems 10 have gained the ascendancy.
II Mr. Graffius IS the commander
in-ehief Of the forces that mako for
good. let him raily his forces rather
than try "a gain new recruits. let
him help the honorable mayor 10 find
the hatchet which Is lost; lct him call
together in mass meeting all the 9th
er members OF the local uplft. and
let them an 'resolute" as Of yore
Chat Is II the World Is correct in
stating that things are not as they
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-12-03

We are entering on the fuel Of
era. Coal as the great fuel OF the
world Il passing 10 the rear, IN,
very Interesting report Of Dr. David
T. Day. head OF the petroleum dlyis-
ion Of the United states geolog cal
survey published In the World Fri
day morning, viii make a profound
impression, not only by reason Of the
marvellous growth shown h tho pro-
duotlOn OF petroleum in the United
states during the last few years. but
IN the equally marvellous increase IN
the demand by railroads and ships
for fuel oil.
The report is for the year 1910, and
It shows that the railroads Of the
country alone IN that year used "a
JsG,lOS barrels Of fuel OIL The con-
sumption IN 1909 was lg,g89.39i bar.
rcls, showing an increase in u single
year Of i,64G,714 barrels
Al this rate Of Increase the railroads
Of the country win be using ffty mil
lion barrels Of fuel oil IN five years
from now. Dr. Day thinks We have
reached the maximum of petroleum
production which was something moro
than 200 million barrels In 1910. This
year is expected to show a decline.
The increase Of the consumption Of
fuel oil IN the United states navy Is
no less marked than that by the rail.
roads All the new battleships are TO
be oil-burncrs Merchant ships are
also becoming oil-burners as fast as
the necessary changes can be made, !
What then. does this signfy2 !
simply this: with the production
past the maximum, and with an enor.
nous growth Of consumption, better
prices to the producer as well as TO !
.he refiner are certain 10 follow,
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-12-03
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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The Dclirium of Death

Joplin Globe: II may be noted that
the name of the man who invented the
electric chair is not known to the pub
lie, as the names of other inventors
are known. In this, surely, is proof
OF the fact that no man is monster
enough to permit his name to be men
toned in connection with an imple-
ment or device which fills the mind
with horrid pictures and leaves gen
tie people palid with dismay
Men do not subject dumb beasts to
exquisite form OF torture when they
have made themselves menace to
the world. Yet the two forms of
capital punishment known in Amer
lea are the most grewsome concep-
tions possible. The hangman is a
relic Of the dark ages; the electric
chair belongs to the cold and heart
less atmosphere of the mechanical
laboratory.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-12-03

FIRST IN the total amount Of ayall,
able fuel
First in the total amount OF as
1 phaiL
First in the total amount OF glass
sand
First IN tho total amount OF syp'
sum
First In the amount Of salt.
First IN the total amount Of min.
eral products.
First in the total amount Of wheat
raised
And first In the number Of acres
Of fertile son lying idle.
II you exclude Texas. our burIy
neighbor on the south. with an area
hearty four times our own. ana old
Missouri. with an area nearly as large
and with nearly 100 years of develop.
ment Oklahoma ranks:
First IN corn.
First in oats.
First in cattle
Excluding Texas, Missouri and
Georgia, the empire state Of the
south, Oklahoma is.
First IN hogs.
First in miles Of SAs~ d.
And excluding Texas. Missouri and
West Virginia. she IS:
First IN assessed valuation.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-12-03

Kansas city Journal: OF the recent
meeting in the Y. NJ. G. A. auditorium,
to discuss the social evil. It is re-
ported that police, churchmen and
laymen were present, but II .s a mo-
ticeable fact that no women were
there. Had women been invited, had
women been present, women old
enough TO have experience and wis
dom for the basis of their sugges-
tions, it is possible that some new
light might have been thrown upon
the subject; possible that the police
department might have been shown
that to raid and fine is simply to
grant city license that to segregate
I'm one locality means to congregate
in other localities; and that this is
only changing the active point Of the
battle, still giving the city's license,
ana that, except i'm isolated cases, the
resorts IN question are in good build
ings. leased to the occupants 10y men
In good social standing.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-12-03

In Virginia they executed a man
who shot his wife, so that he might
be unmolested in his attentions to an
other woman. In Colorado they ac.
quilted a woman who killed her hus-
band so she might be untrammeled
IN the associations with another man.
In New York they acquitted woman
who killed her husband to Save his
soul" What state should a man 20 to.
should ne want to kin his mother-in-
law?
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-12-03

Plano Star-Courier: Some fifteen
men who tarred and feathercd young
lady IN Kansas recently want n
change Of venue. claiming they can
not get justice where the assault oc-
cured The trouble with the low
down towards is that they are scared
TO death for fear they will get justice.
They ought to be brought to some
North Texas county for tr al We
will guarantee they would get justice
and get Il quick.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-12-03

Oklahoma stands supreme in the
southwest, on the football field. The
bunch Of fighting football players,
gathered together at the state uni
versity this year, might well be said
TO have carried a broom at their
masthead. Kansas, Missouri and
Texas fell before their progress and
then they sighed for more worlds to
conquer.