Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-05-21
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Pu.s Smith Out of the Race.

Pu.s Smith Out of the Race.
The election of Hon. C. P. Smith as
one of the directors of the New
England Telephone and Telegraph
company eliminates him from the list
of 'mentionad',' for governor. =
Morrisville Messenger.
Compliments Judge Miles.
The weakness of the state case in
the murder trial of julius Wells of
Swanton. who was acquitted, was in
failure to show the purchase or posses
sion of poison on the part of either
Mr.. or Mrs. Wells. After Mr.. Wells
was discharged Judge Miles ordered
the case against Mrs. Wells mol
pressed, thus saving the large expense
of another trial when there was no
probability of convection
Reformer.
Why Not Five Per Cent in Small Places.
In commenting on the Bennington
Banners statement regarding the new
tax law that several banks, in order to
meet competition by individual lenders,
are beginning to make loans at five
per cent, the Burlington News says
that in that city loans on real estate
| have been made for years at the five
per cent rate. This is also the case in
Brattleboro and no doubt in most of
state. So, as the News says, the
banks can hardly be said to be "be-
ginning to make loans at this rate
/ Brattleboro Reformer.
Japan Will Answer.
| Governor Johnson's signature to the
alien land bill in California won't
settle the question. We shall still
have Japan to deal with, and Japan's
pride has been touched by the virtual
announcement to the world that her
subjects are not only unworthy Of
receiving the right of citizenship in
the United States. but can't even hold
lands when they have the price to pay
for them and the seller is willing.
For a nation which has lately humbled
one of the greatest powers on earth to
submit to such an insult is hardly in
keeping with Japanese honor or
japanese tradition. And on our part
she may regard it as very poor
honest of all our honeyed words.
Doubtless Japan is deeply aggrjeved
and people so ready to take ofense
will not be tardy in finding an answer
that will count. Herald and
| News.
| This Is Your Town:
Here are a few observations and a
! little advice applicable to any town
i The way some people knock, you
| would think that this is somebody
else's town.
But it ism tit is their town all the
while.
You would think that, if there is
something lacking, the town is to
blame for it,
But it isn't the town that is to
blame-it is the people in the town.
And the knockers are part of the
people.
When they knock the town they
knock themselves.
What they ought to do is not to COM
plain merely but also to correct.
If this town has anything the matter
with it;
If it needs Improvement;
If it needs to do more of its buying
at home;
If it needs home pride, more of com.
munitv spirit;
If it needs to develop its resources,
Then we, the people, must do it.
Let's get together and start some.
thing.-Bellows Falls Times.
What Are Progressives?
Many Vermont newspapers have
, been naming over several candidates
for the office of Governor on the
Republican ticket. But not a single
Progressive has been mentioned
Truly, this is very considerable. 1t i,
= not likely the Progressives are groom
E ing any particular man as their nom
inee-that will be left entirely to tn,
delegates to the state convention.
Essex Syndicate.
Q The Essex junction contemporar,
f has watched the development of tn,
: new party and the record of the oil
: ones long enough to know that tn
: label on the package does not Away
y give an accurate idea as to it's con
tents. Not all the progressives ar
enrolled in the Progressive party an
: the voting record on several importan
. bills at Montpelier during the session
Q is sufficient evidence that OCCASIONAL!
r man wearing the name of the ney
q party was reactionary at heart
Progressive is what progressive does
e not what it shouts aloud on the stree
n corners for two or three weeks whe
an election is pending. By the wa
one of the men mentioned for governo
. is Guy w. Bailey of Essex Junction
:! His record for the past few years ha
s been fairly well known to the peopl
It fof Vermont. Does the Essex pape
wish to be understood to declare tia
Mr.. Bailey isn't progressive, whateve
i his party label?-Bennington Banner.
Fifty boys from different parts G
Brandon set out one morning recentl
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