The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-08-14
Entered at The Postoffice, Benning-
ton, VT, Dec. II, 1903, as
second class mail matter
BENNINGTON. VT, AUG. 10, 1913
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| While the common sense Of Vermont
| would naturally register no to each
| Of the primary projects at the coming
| referendum, hope springs eternal in
| the breast OF the human and hard
working newspaper man. Will not the
| voters temper their common sense
| with mercy and give the newspapers
| chance at the pork? "-Windsor Jour
| nal.
Not TO get unduly excited over
| charge of this kind we are inclined to
think that the mentor of the Windsor
Journal is, TO say the least, trfe un.
| just. The newspapers and their pub
| fishers are no different from other
folks. Some are good some arc bad
| and most OF Them average up along
| with the rest
Let us lock at, The question Fairly
and wtliout heat or prejudice. The
| Windsor Journal is nowadays suppos-
! cd to be inspired by the Evarts fam
Ply The head of this family is Max
| Evarts, millionaire corporation law
yer, counsel for the Hartman lines
and OF aristoeratic birth and training.
| From this source, if we are correctly
| informed, comes the charge that the
| newspapers of Vermont are clamoring
Tor primary election law because it
might bring them more business.
Now ii doesn't need any evidence
from us to prove that the big corpor-
aticns and their attorneys and agents
are trifie peevlsh over the tendency
| of the people lately to insist on hav-
ing some part In their own govern
| ment Primary election laws are one
of the weapons that the rank and file
are getting hold of to manage their
cwn affairs. Naturally the corpora
tons are moi friendly 10 primary elcc-
ton laws.
Owners and agents and attorneys OF
corporations are just as honest and
| decent as other people, but they are
inclined to see things through their
own glasses. They have made 4 sue
cess in life and they can't possibly
see why anybody should want a
change. People can take their views
If they want to but some way they
are not doing 1t as much as they used
tc.
AS matter OF fact the newspapers
of Vermont are not clamorng for a
primary law. The Banner alone of
Vermont newspapers has for more
than ten years urged a primal.
law. During the past three or four
years 4 half dozen or so of other p-.
pers have joined in tho agitation, but
more than half of the newspapers of
Vermont are either opposed or are
hesitating which side to take.
Also as matter of fact primary
election law would not add one dol
lar to the income OF Vermont news
papers that they will not get without
II. The editor of The Banner has in
troduced two primary bills into the
Vermont legislature which. if they
had become law. would have cut of
some revenue that newspapers now
receive. The Journal mistakes ovo-
luton for effect
The gradual progress of the people
in taking the government into their
own hands and away from corpora
ton lawyers has resulted in moro di-
rect appeals TO the people themselves
and in the nature OF the case much
OF this is done through ;hc columns
OF newspapers which the people read
II has been gradually going there
without primary election law and II
will continue TO in tho future either
with or without such n law
The paragraph from the Windsor
journal printed al the head of this
article is simply one more nah Of
straw. ono more desperate attempt 10
scare The people from taking their
own business into their own hands
The charge is false and We believe
the motive behind IT to be selfish. For
these reasons we do moi believe 4
will have any effect or influence ON
the voters OF Vermont
We do not mean by this to accuse
the Journal or MIR Evarts. IL he did
| inspire the nriicle. Of any conscious
Interior MOTIVE IN this matter Brh.
education aud environment. one or an
OF them gives TO the Journal and its
mentor wrong view Looking for
the mote IN the eye OF the primary
advocates they fail TO realize the bis
beam OF selfishnoss that dis;orts their
own vision.