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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-10-07
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.


The undersigned. having been appointed nv
the Honorable Probate Court Cor the District
OF Bennington. COMMISSIONERS. 10 receive,
examine and adj the claims aud demands Of
ell I PERSONS against the estate OF Efish
Dewey tate of bennington i'm said District.
deceascd. and all claims exhibut-i in Offset
thereto. hereby give us,fice thai W VII meet
Tor the purpose afors.s1ii nj the store of Burt
Brnthers in the Village OF Bennington in
said Dis net. on the 3tn day of October and
18th day II March next. from O'Clock y. m.
until fo'clock y IA "a each ~ sid DAYS. and
that siv rnnuths from the s5'h aav ~ Sent.
A d. 1879. j. the tine Il uiied b. saai Court for
sid creditors 20 present their cizims % rs Cor
eNaminaf ion and nj owancs.
Dated II nenuington. Vt This 2sti day uf
sept. A. -. 1914
~ CRAWFORD
,. OLIVER Burt
I. T. GIBSON
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-10-07
NOTICE

To the Tax Payers q the Village OF
Bennington:
A Rate Bill has been placed In my
hands for collection as follows:
so cents on the dollar for the WI
lage Tax. 20 cents on the dollar for
the Highway Tax on the Grand List
OF 1914.
! hereby demand payment OF said
taxes. and notify you that will at
tend az the Bennington County saw
ings Bank from 3 O'Clock a. m. until
o'clock p. m.
There will be a discount OF 4 per
cent on Village tax II paid within 80
days.
c. II. Dewey, Treasurer.
Bennington, VT. July 10. 1914.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-10-07
notice.!
To the Tax Payers OF the Town OF
Bennington:
Tel. 29I-w

To the Tax Payers OF the Town OF
Bennington:
a Rate Bill OF the Town Taxes OF
1914 has been placed In my hands
for collection as follows; so cents
ON the dollar for the Town Tax. 90
cents on the dollar for the Town
Highway Tax. so cents on the dollar
for the Town District School Tax.
hereby demand payment of said
taxes. and notify you that will at
tend at the Bennington County Saw.
ings Bank from 8 o'clock a. m. until
4 O'Clock p. IN.
There viii be a discount OF per
cent on Town tax II paid within 80
days.
c. II. Dewey, Treasurer.
Bennington. VT. July 10, 1914.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08

upon hesitation and makeshift and formulate a genuine policy of use and conservation in the best senee of those words. We owe the one measure not only to the people of that great west. ern country for whose free and sys- tenattc development, as 1t seems to me, ouf legislation has done so little
 but also to the people of the nation as whole. and we as clearly owe the other in fulhliment of our repeated promises that the water power of the country should in. fact as well as in name be put at the disposal of great industries which can make economical and profitable use of it, the rights of the public being adequately guarded the while and monopoly in the use pre- vented. To have begun such measures and not completed them would indeed mar the record Of this great congress very seriously. I hope and confidently believe that they will be completed
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08

z a of dEstribueion. We are wiling. but we are not fully able We have the wish to serve and to segve greatly, gen eEo1sly. Buf we are not prepared aa we should be. We are not ready to mobilize our resources at once. We are not prepared to use them immediately and at their best without delay and without waste
 To speak plainly. we have grossly erred in the way in which we have stunted and hindered the development of our merchant marine. And now, when we need ships. we have not rot them We have year after year debat, cd, without end or conclusion, the best policy to pursue with regard to the use of The ores and forests and water powers of our national domain in the rich states Of the west, when we should have acted, and they are stf1I locked up The key is still turned upon them. the door shut East at which thousands of vigorous men, full Of Initiative, knock eIamorously for ad- m1ttance. The water power of cur nav tgable streams outside the national domain also. even in the eastern states, where we have worked and planned for generations, is stu not used as it might be. becanse we win and we won't: because the laws we have made do not inteIligentiy balance en coura cement against restraint We withhold by regulation.
 have cone to ask you to remedy and correct these mistakes and onnis- eioIls, even st this short session of a congress which would certainly seem to have done all the work that could reasonably be expected of it. The lime and the circumstances are ex traordinary, and so must our efforts be also
 Fortunately two great measures. fine ly conceived. the one to unlock. with proper safeguards, the resources f the national domain. the other to encour age the use Of the navigabIe waters outside that domain for the genera ton of power. have already passed the house Of representatives and are ready for immediate consideration and ae, tion by the senate With the deepest earnestness l urge their prompt pas sage. In them both we turn our backs
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08

it change under our very eyes In these last few menthsS
 But I turn way from the subject. 1t Is not new There is no new need to discuss it We shah not alter our attitude toward 1t because some among us are nervous and excited We shall easily and sensibly agree upon policy of defense The question has not changed it's aspects because the f1mes are not normal Our policy will not be for an aoccasfons Ii will be coneeiv ed as permanent and settled thing which we will pursne at ali seasons without haste and after a fashion per fectly, consistent with the peace of the world. the abiding friendship of states and the unhampered freedom of all with whom we deal. Let there be no misconeeption The country has been mis1nformed We have not been neg Hgent of national aefense. We are not unm1Bdfni of the great responsibility resting upon us. We shall learn and profit by the lesson of every exper1- ence and every new circumstance. and what is needed win be adequately done
 close, as l began. by reminding you df the great tasks and dutses Of peace which challenge our best powers and invite ns to build what wili last. the tasks to which we can address our selves now and at ali time with free hearted zest and with all the finest gifts of constructive wiadom we pos sess- To develop our life and our re sources. to supply our own people and fhe people of the world as thelr need arises from the abundant plenty Of our fields and our marts Of trade. to enrich the commerce of our own states and of the world with the products Of our mines, our farms and our facto- ries, with the creations of our thought and the fruits or our character this is what will hold our attention and our enthusiasm steadily now and in , the years to come as we strive to show in our life as a nation what lfb- erty and the inspirations or an eman- cipated spirit may do for men and for societies. for individuals. for states and for mankind.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08


 @entatfves of a great people whose. 1taought Is not of Ha. but of wiaa.t Amer asa owes to herseN and to all mankind ln such circurnstances as these upon av Il1ch yFe look amazed and anszious
 War has interrupted the means of trade not only, but also the processes of product1ons In Europe it Is destroy Ing men and resources wholesale and upon ecale' unprecedented and ap- palling. There is Eeasou to fear that the time is near. if it be not already at hand when several Of the countries of Europe will find it difiicult to do for thear people what they have Hitherto been aaways easily able to do-many essential and fundamental things At any rate, they win need our help and our manifold services as they have never needed them before. and we should be ready. more it and ready than we have ever been
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08
POWERFUL NAVY IS AMERICAN POLICY.

United States win Continue to Remain
 Strong on the Seas.
 A powerful navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest But who shali tell us now what sort of navy to bufldf We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas in the fu- ture as in the past and there will be no thought of offense or of provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks When will the experts tell us just what kind we should construct. and when will they be right for ten years together. f the relative efficiency of craft of different kinds and uses continues to change as we have seen
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08
PRESIDENT OPPOSED TO
 BIG STANDING ARMY.

Speaks Plainly and Directly en Ouss-
 tion of National Defenses.
 The other topic l shah take leave Go mention goes deeper into the prin- ciples Of our national life and policy. 1t is the subject of national defense.
 It cannot be discussed without first answering some very searching uues- lions. It is said in some quarters chat we are not prepared tor<war What is meant by being prepared? Is it meant that we are not ready upon brief no 1ce to put nation in the field. a ma. ton of men trained to armsr Of course we are not ready to do that, and we shall never be in time of peace 90 long as we retain our present poiit. icaI principles and institutions And what is 1t that it is suggested we should be prepared to do-so defend ourselves against attsck1 We nave ali ways found means to do that and shall find them whenever 1t is neces nary without calling our people away
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08
No Standing Army, but a Trained CItlzsRTy For Wal.
 "WB Have Not Been NeglL gsnt of National Defense. " A Powerful Navy Needed.
 "But Who Shall Tell Us What Sort of Navy to Build?" To Learn and Profit by the lesson of Every Experience.

ns flae source as well as the expression of life; how better could we demon citrate our own self possession and steadfastness in the courses of justice and dtsinterestedness than by thus go- 1ng calmly forward to fulfill our prom. ises to a dependent people, who will now look mora anxiously than ever to see whether we have indeed the fiber ality, the unseIfshness, the courage. the faith we have boasted and profess ed3 cannot believe that the senats VIII let this great measure of construc- tive justice await the action of another congress. It's passage would nobIy crown the record of these two years of memorabIe labor.
 But think that you will agree with me that this does not complete the toll of our duty. How are we to carry our goods to the empty markets Of which I have spoken if we have not the shfps3 How are we to build up great trade if we have not the certain and constant means Of transportation upon which all profitable and useful com n1erce depends2 And how are we to get the ships if we wait for the trade to develop without them7 To correct the many mistakes by which we have discouraged and all but destroyed the merchant marine of the country. to re- trace the steps by " hich we have, ik seems almost deIfberately. withdrawn our flag from the seas, except where. here and there, ship Of war is bidden carry 1t or some wandering yacht dis. plays it. would take long time and involve many detailed Items of iegis- lation, ana the traSle which we ought immediately to handle would disap- pear or Ind other channels while we debated the Items.
 The case is not unlike that which confronted us when our own continent was 10 be opened up to settlement and industry. and we needed long lines of hallway. extended means of transpoF- tat1on prepared beforehand if develop ment was not to lag tntoieFabIy and wait fnterIninably We lavishIy sub sidized che building Of transconti. mental raiIreads We look back upon that with regret now. because the sub atdies led to many scandals of which we arc ashamed. but we know that the railroads had to be built, and if we had lt to do over again we should of course build them. but in another way. Therefore I propose another way Of providing the means Of trans, HOECAL4O " NIGH kAk1sL PFGG[91Ss 00s tardfly follow the development Of our trade with our peighbor states of America It may seem reversal of the natural order of things, but it is true, that the routes of trade must be actually openedbys many ships and regular sa1ltngs and moderate charges --before streams of merchandise will How freely and prodtably through them
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08
ceptance of it
COASTS OF ALASKA
 SHOULD BE SURVEYED.
Present Dangers to Navisation Ought
 to Be Removed by charts.

Present Dangers to haviSation Ought
 to Be Removed by charts.
 There is another matter of which | must make special mention, if l am to discharge my conscience, lest it should escape your attention It may seem a very small thing It affects only a single item of appropriation. But many human lives and many great en- terprises hang upon it. It Is the mat ter of making adequate provision for the survey and cbartinG Of our coasts It is immediately pressing and extgent in connection with the immense coast line of Alaska, a. coast line greater than that of the United States them selves. though it is also very impor- tant indeed with regard to the older coasts of the continent
 We cannot use our great Alaskan domain, ships will not ply thtther. If those coasts and their many hidden dangers are not thoroughly surveyed and charted The work is incomplete at almost every point Ships and lives have been lost in threading what were supposed to be well known main chan nels We have not provided adequate vessels or adequate machinery for the survey and charting We have used old vessels that were not big enough or strong enough and which were so nearly unseaworthy that our inspectors would not have allowed private own CTS to send them to sea This is a matter which, as have said. seems small. but is in reality very great It's importance has only to be looked into to he appreciated
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08
SAYS SHIPPING BILL
 IS VERY IMPORTANT.

e iIt Should Be Passed to Profit by Open
 ed Gates of Trade.
 Hence the pending shipping bill, dis eussed at the last session. but as yet passed by neither house h my tudg- ment such legislation Is Imperatfvely needed and cannot wisely be postpon- ed The government must open these gates of trade, and open them wide. open them before it is altogether profit able to open them or altogether req sonable to ask private capital to open them at a venture. It is not question of the government nonopolizing the field It should take action to make 1t certain that transportation at Raa- sonable rates will be promptly pre- vided. even where the carriage iss not at first profitable. and then, when the carriage has become sufficiently profit able to attract and engage private cap 1tal and engage it in abundance. the government ought to withdraw. very earnestly hope that the congress will be of this opinIon and that both houses win adopt this exceedingly 1m- p3-taHt bill
 The great subject of rural credits still remains to be dealt with, and it is matter of deep regret that the diff. faculties of the subject have seemed Co render 1t impossible to complete a bill for passage at this session But 1t can- not be perfected yet, and therefore there are no other constructive meas ures the necessity fer which I will at this time call your attention to, but would be negligent of a very mani fest duty were I not to call the atten- tion of the senate to the fact that the proposed convention for safety at sea awaits It's confirmation and that the limit fixed ia the convention itself for its acceptance is the last day Of the present month The conference in which this convention originated was called by the United States The rep resentatdves of the United States play ed a very influential part indeed in framing the provisions of the proposed convention. and those provisions are i'll themselves for the most part admira ble- It would hardly be consistent with the part we have played in the whole matter to let it drop and go by the board as if forgotten and neglect ed 1t was ratified in May last by the German government and in August by the parliament of Great Britain Ii marks q most hopeful and decided ad vance in international civilization We should show our earnest good faith in a great matter by adding our own ae
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08
GATES OF TRADE MUST BE
 OPENED.

he government must open these gates of trade, and open them wide. open them before it is altogether profitable to open to ask private capital to open them Af venture. # iB not a questfen of the eoyernTBert mo- liopeiizinq the field. It should take action fo make it certain tssaf transportation at reason able rates will be promptly pro- xicseds even where tire carriage is net at frnt sprofitab bles and then, when fiae darriaee has be- come sufficiently profitable 10 att tract and engage private capital assd engage # iH abundanee5 the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08
AMERICA FACES NEW
 MARKETS FOR TRADE.
Merchant Marine Aaust Be Euis Up to
 Meet ortsSnBty.

Merclant Marine Maust Be Euik Up to
 Meet Opportlnbty.
 It 1s of equal consequences chat the nations whom Europe has usually sup piled with tnnuInerable articles of man u3aeture and commercesof which they are fn constant need and without which Ehe1r economic development hafts and stands still can now get only small part of what they formerly imported ana eagerly look to Us to supply their alT but empty markets This Is partic- hlaEIy true of our own netghbors. the etates, great aEd small, of Central and South America. Their lines Of trade have hitherto run chiefly athwart- the seas, not to our ports, but to the ports of Great Britain and of the older con tInent of Europe. l do not stop to in quire why or to make any comment on probable causes What interests us just now is not the explanation. but the fect and our duty and opportunity ln the presence of it Here are mar kefs which we must supply. and we mast find the means Of action The United Stafes, this great people for WszEz He speak and act. sa0u5d be ready as never before to serve itself and to serve mankind, ready with it's rascurces, It's energies. It's forces Of production and it's means of disribu- tinn
 Ik 1s very practical matter, mat SHr Of ways and means We have the reBnurcess but are we fully ready to me them7 And. If we ean make ready what we have. have we the means at hand to dlstribute fiji WA are not fMilE ready; neither have we tie means
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08
OCEAN TO OCEAN AUTO
 OF UNCLE SAM STOPS HERE

A red automobile with Mitchell Ranger, U. s. War Department" /" in golden letters on. both side. of the en- zine hood attracted much attention as it stood for few minutes in Fair field avenue before the offices Of the Weed Chain Tire Grip co. Captain Stanley Huntley Lewis, formerly of the Arizona Rangers. military car toonfst and soldier of fortune, was in charge of the car. The captain was wearing the uniform of an odicor or that rank in the U. s. cavalry, The
 Ranger the captain said, was the first automobile ever used of8cially by the U. S. War Department. It carried the famous ocean to ocean dispatch from Gen. Leonard Wood at Cover nor's Island to Gen John F Westcn at San Francisco. The captain said he was on his way to Boston and eaZ- pected to make a stop in Bridgeport on his return trip. He stopped here to have new Weed chains fitted to his tires
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08
esAfE NEED safPe; WE HAVE
 NOT GOT rlsEaA."


 Tie United Statea. tlafs rreat peopie for whom sse spsak md aoty should be ready as never I5sforo 10 esrse itself and to s6rso naAni<inds ready Nfitk1 It's resources, its energies, its forces cf production and its rsseans of sIisk9iEukion We ara Eloz ready to nsobiiize ear rs- sczroen a& once. We are noE prepared to use them inarne- eiiaeoly and at tf1eir best, Ntitla-s eu4 detny and without swases. Fo speak piainly, we hays 9Fp@aLy erred in tho wsac lrl which we have stusated ard hin- derad tlas cieveisp pmon& of our m1srphanE marine and ncps when we need ships. VIC have not cot kAfnssas
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08

a OEaLOWTNG ia Pres1dent W1i-
 sonss annual message, deliver cd at the beginning of the a7AR sh0rt term of the Sixty third 1 Gent1emen of the Congress- 1T he. ses- n4on upon which you are now enteEtng
 lz1 be the closing seasien of the Six eS-th1rd congress, congress, ven-- kure te say, which will long be reKRem- beeed for the great body of thoslghtful and constructive work which 1t has lene in loyal response to the thought axd neSds of the country. should nlke fn f1,ts address to review the notar s1as record and try tO Daire adequate z0ent Of 1t. but no dOtlbt we k1nd too near the wefk that has been glona and are ourselves too much part ne it to pihy khe part of hSstorians to- l,lEd t
 AGoreover, our thoughts are now more 1E 1le future than of the past While Hra have worked at our tasks oe peace khe clrcamstances Of the whole age have been altered bywar vVhatvFe have 5cne for our own land and our own. 1laple we dId with the best that was in gns, whether 0f character or of 1ntelII-
 ee. with sober euthusfasm and a aence iin the principles upon which l5Fe were actfng which sustained us at swaxy step of the dk1cgllt undereqH- mn. But It 1s done. Its hos passed from ugIF hands. It isl now am esta ba1shed nrk Of the legislati0n Of the country. Hea usefulness, its efects win disclose. MaAnzm8aEwes In experience. What chief m sfxflEeg us now as we look about us knBtng these closing days of year
 eh wfM be forever nemoxabae in the
 ztlry of the world. Is thaE vfe face. maag tnsks. have been facing them eheas aix months. must faces them in zas to come face them without
 lxtlsan feeling. Ike men who have kofa1kten every thing but common duty and the fact that we are repre-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08
TRAINED cITIZENRY FOR
 DEFENSE

We must dePend tss every <aEaas of natIonaI parii 0pen a citizenry traissed and aecsse- toned to arms. We should encourage such training and make it a means of disci- piine winch our young men 0viit learn to value. 1t is right, too, that the national guard of the states should be developed and strengthened by every D1eane which Is not ir. consistent with our obligations to our own people or with ktre este bi.st1ed policy of our ao3- ernnnent.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08
SELF GOVERNMENT FOR
 FlLlPINOs IS URGED.

President Says Senate Should Pass
 Measure Now Before Senate.
 And there is another great piece of legislation which awaits and should re- ceive the sanction of the senate. l mean the bill which gives a larger measure of self government to the peo- pie Of the Philippines How better in this time of anxious questioning and perplexed policy could we show our confidence in the principles of liberty
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08

The United States Christmas ship Jason arrived at Genoa
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08

WreatIls and Laurel Roping
 yOHN RICK & SON
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08

 Inc Chief Executive DepIOres ths Lack Of Ships, Declares Aat the GOvGEaHlsRi Must Opsn the GaisS Of Trade and Urges Passage of the Pend Ing Shipping BiII Rural Gadlls and Safsty at Sea. SeH GoVsFnmGnt For FiIipinOs Again Recommended.

| a oLaLowTgG is Presldent VII ma sons annual message, deliver,
 cd at the beginning of the
 sh0rt term of fhe Sixty third
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08

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