Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-03-08
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Still the Stuff Is Licensed.

Still the Stuff Is Licensed.
When we turn to the social and
economical aspect we have charged
up against the liquor traffic Is per
cent of all poverty, SO per cent of all
crime. As per cent of the neglect and
desertion of children. Is FER cent of
the insanity, and large proportion
of divorce, i'll health. vice, political
corruption and various forms of
suffering and degeneracy.- Brattle-
boro Phoenix.
Coming Back to Vermont
The back to the-soil movement is
we'll illustraed in the town of Char
lotte, where farming has been taken
up by people coming from large cit
les. For instance. it may be noted
that a Cambridge, Mass, druggist
has been farming in Charlotte; a
Boston man has just purchased a
farm Chicago man owns four hun
dred acres, and he himself spends a
good share of the year on the farm a
Michigan man has rec emily bought land
and has come to Vermont for perma
nent home; Boston dry goods mer-
chant owns large farm which is
being conducted in modern fashion.
Perhaps others could be mentioned.
Of course, Charlotte is favored
farming country, and city people
might be attracted there sooner than
to some other places in Vermont; yet
the tendency to return to the soil
is also noticeable in other parts of the
state. 1t means much for the devel.
opment of Vermont Barre Times.
More New Eng and Developments.
On account of the provisions of the
AneW law enacted by the last legisla-
ture providing that town officers shall
be chosen from among the legal yot-
ers, not inhabitants or citizens, will
bar many competent women from
the town clerkship In this county
Mrs. Alice Raymond. who succeeded
her husband on his deaf to the clerk
ship of the town of Stowe, comes un-
der this law. Stowe has had some
excellent town clerks, but none better
and many not as good as Mrs. Ray
mond. 1t will be loss to that town
60 be obliged to substitute a man in
her place. The same law affects
town treasurers and Mrs. Henry Hall
OF Gilmore, most competent official,
will have to retire. What the legis-
lature was thinking of when it enacted
such law is beyond our comprehen-
sion. And to think such a bill was
made a law by our alert governor.
Hyde Park News and Citizen.
"Poor Whites" in Vermont.
We are pleased to note that Sena-
tor Dillingham; has introduced an i'm
portant bill in Congress that will i'm
pose some needful restriction on i'm
migration. We trust that this meas
ure will pass, as the immigration
problem is serious one. A glance
at the papers will show that three
fourths of the crime in this country
is by foreigners or by those with for
eiqn name5.-Poultney Journal.
This is certainly not true of Yer
mont, although there appears to be
more or less common popular notion
that the greater part of the crimes
committed here are by people with
foreign birth. AS a matter of fact
the last report shows that of the in
rates of the state prison at Windsor,
1876 were born in the United States
and only 90 abroad, while in the house
of correction at Rutland the native
born number 206 and the foreign born
only 81. And Of these 206 native born,
141 are Vermonters, men and women
reared alongside of the little rec
schoolbousn and the little white meet
ing house!
Pretty much the same lesson is
learned from the census statistics O.
illiteracy in this state. The FREEDOM
nance of illiteracy is among the ma
tive born, not among the stranger
that have come to make their home
with US.
The fact is that we are developin
something Of a "poor white" populs
ton here, and are carelessly ignorin
it while it grows.-St. Adams Mes
senger.
MIR. Cree on Reciprocity and Railroa
Moves.
The Stanstead Journal of Thursda
said, "Mr. George w. Cree, assis
ant superintendent Of the Passumps
Division of the Boston & Maine raj
road. arrived at Rock Island Tuesde
night. Answering the journal
query regarding the attitude Of tt
railroad on the question OF reclproc
ty. MIR. Cree said ooh, of course tt
railroads want reciprocity 1t Wou
mean more business loI 'heLi'
"How do you think reciprocity won
affect prices?'' he was asked. oon
think we would notice the change a
ter very short time; prices won
he eoualized. The Canadian is n
going to sell his produce any lie
than the American; he will simp
rocket the difference "Will the a
0pisition of the Rutland Railroi
stock by the Boston & Maine interes
affect the Montreal Boston passeng
business?" MIR. Cree was aske
sNo, the Canadian Pacific will co