St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-07-28

to do--Manchester Union.
Cannot Fool The Country.
Marse Henry Watterson reckons
that 1.-The country will not be blinded
certainly the South will not be
blinded-by the dazzling billion-dol-
lar total of this years foreign trade
balance. Quite right. The country
knows by this time that our huge ex-
ports are made up of food products
which are sent abroad to feed armies
and peoples in countries where war
fare has supplanted industry, and of
war munitions which produce huge
profits for a few manufacturers in a
limited area of the country. The eff
feet of all this is to increase the cost
of living to Americans through a de-
creasing of the supply of food mater
ial available for home consumption,
and to emphasize the general lack of
prosperity in communities where war
factories do not exist but where sta
pie industries have been crippled by
the folly of Democratic tariff legisla-
ton. Mr.. Redfield and the other
Sunny Jims of the Administration
will doubtless try to blind the coun-
try with 1.-The dazzling billion dollar
total" but the country, like Marse
Henry Watterson, has it's eyes wide
open.-Manchester Journal.
Eliminate Saloons Now.
Local option advocates, in the abb
sence of any strong reason why the
saloon should be legalized anywhere
in Vermont, are laying stress on the
one contention that if statewide pro-
hibition is ordered conditions will be
the same as they were under the old
prohibitory law; and they are siren
uously endeavOring to persuade the
people of Vermont that such will be
the case. Nobody should be deceived
in this matter. Our friends on the
other side of this important contro-
versy are begging the question, and
are not quite fair in adopting this
method of making capital for their
cause. We respectfully submit that
in painting word pictures of condi-
tions likely to prevail if statewide
prohibition again become the order of
the day, they are drawing upon their
imaginations and forecasting a state
of things that would not be possible
! if they themselves would lend their
aid to the impartial enforcement of
the law. The friends of statewide
prohibition do not for a moment de-
sire a return to conditions which ex-
! listed under the old law. They believe
that if the proposed change in the
| liquor law is voted next March the
results will prove satisfactory; not to
the liquor interests, whose revenue
would suffer materially by the change,
but to the people at large who want
the state freed entirely from the dom
ination and baneful influence of the
saloon. In an article favored with in
clination toward a continuance of the
present system, the White River
Junction Landmark includes this
! significant paragraph:
Local option gives the voters a
chance every year to record their
verdict, and the result has been a
| steady decrease in the number of Ii
censed towns throughout the state,
bearing out the contention of local
Optionists that in time the people
would see fit to eliminate entirely the
! saloon in Vermont
We have argued that the steady de-
crease in the number of no-license
towns indicates a desire on the part
of the people of the state as a whole
for the elimination of the saloon in
Vermont. 1t strikes US that the pres
ent is as good a time as the people
will have for this process of elimina-
ton; only it has not occurred to US
that the local optionists were espec-
tally strenuous in contending for this
elimination, as indicated by the Land
mark.-Vermont Tribune.
No Yellow Correspondents.
AS the head of the publicity de-
partment of Caledonia county, St.
Johnsbury is fortunate in having
newspaper correspondents who are
unwilling to sacrifice complete &C
curacy of their word pictures to a de-
sire to paint the lurid and the ex-
tremely sensational. If that town
had been less fortunate in its cor
respondents, the newspapers of the
state and of New England would have
been flooded with stories of desperate
man hunts through the forests and
! jungles of Caledonia county, when,
as a matter of fact, a few deputy
sheriffs were busy trying to find the
man who was alleged to be implicat-
ed in the death of young man at st.
Johnsbury last Sunday evening. The
man sought was soon found; and the
facts of the capture, as we'll as of the
search, were told by the correspond
ents in a matter of fact way. We
congratulate ST. Johnsbury and Gale
donia county on escaping the vel
lows" Of the journalistic field.-Barre
Times.
Be Square With The Boys.
Oregon bankers are trying to in
terest farmer boys in pork production
by loaning them money on notes,
properly secured, the money to be
invested in good breeding hogs. The
plan is an excellent one, not only for
the farmers, but for the banker as
we'll. But while getting the farmer
boy interested, wouldn't it be a good
idea to put him next" to all the
facts in which an American hog rails
er may be interested? For instance,
since it is fact, would it not be best
to be perfectly frank and tell the boy
that in July, 1913, when a Republi-
can tariff was in force, no hams or
bacon were imported into this coun-
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