Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-05-23

leann Independent Standard of Nav
IL, 1881, prints an editorial which
sounds 80 much like the tone Of our
papers today, In some respects, and
at the same time gives as 3 Bit Of
imformmAiom am % how the South
loekoa 90 tho Merth in that time. that
She MOnieer esnsiders il Of special IN
eercse eU4Ay. HditoR Earle says:
~P@wm@W @ Orleans, now is the.
tfnae % SAsw year patriotism, indus
try u1& good sense, three excellent
cuaheie@ not always possessed by the
same pww0n. There 10 war In the
hn&; ouR naeion il divided into on
powlng HwRsas, the one endeavorinp to
pun down The fair fabric Of our gov
ernmSuA by the darkest treason, and
the ether 90 preserve il unsullied as
an Inheritance Of the friends of free
dom thF00ghout the world.
The war will be short, vigorous
and Is NAY be bloody. Large armies
will be called into action: two or
three hundred thousand men will be
employed. All these soldiers will have
to BE fed, and on you devolves the
task 81 feeding them. Though the
labor may be none the lightest, the
reward will be ample in the good feel
ings resulting from the discharge Of
P@@KAWSAN 006y @AlQ the receipt OF 81
bOuntlful income OF money. 1t will be
perfectly safe this year to plant
every acre Of spare land, and this is
the season to do it In. There will be
ready market for all that can be
raised. All things point to a success
ful result: the season is early and
thus far promising; everything is far
advanced; nature is profuse of her
blessings; the ground is in an excel
lent state for receiving the seed, a
plentiful harvest, large prices and a
ready market is certain.
while other occupations and
trades will suffer more or less from
the scourge of war, our farming pop
ulation will be comparatively exempt
from the disasters that will visit 9TH
ers. Then let our hard-isted friends
be wise in season and plant every rod
of ground that can be spared from
the meadow and the pasture, so that
war and famine, twin scourges, may
for once be disunited, and our cOun-
try happily be exempt from one of
these horrors.
"Our enemies have been foolishly
calculating upon starvation riots by
the poor, famished, fainting wretches
whom they insist overrun the whole
northern states. We are looked upon
by the cotton chivalry as a race of
paupers and merciless money catch
ers who have no feeling or interest in
common with each other, and as a
community where the rich prey upon
the necessities Of the poor, and where
the poor fitch from the granaries of
beg at the doors of the rich. They
have pictured to their deluded follow
erS the terrible sufferings of the fac
tory operatives in what we have been
taught 70 believe was happy, plenti-
full New England; we have been told
tk@t very seen altar the South should
have kzESt their letters from the
'mercO2aTy NORTH predatory bands
Of m@n with arms In their hands,
and 'gAWnt, shivering famine staring
them il the face would throng the
streets Of our cities demanding bread
or blood at the doors of the rich.
While we cannot believe that this
state Of things will ever exist among
US, it can do no harm to prepare for
the worst possible contingencies that
may arise in the path of our brave
army that is now lowering along the
line that divides loyalty from treason
and anarchy. The earth must yield
its support to those who are now bat
Ting to protect her free soil from the
dastards who now threaten it and are
beleaguering the sacred tomb of
Washington.
"Those armed predatory bands
are abroad as predicted by our
southern contemporaries, but not ex-
actly for the purpose Of visiting the
doors of the rich, but to chastise into
submission those who have trampled
upon the flag of our country. Bread
and blood they must have. Upon the
farmers of the loyal states will de-
volve the necessity Of furnishing the
bread but traitors must supply the
blood
1.-THE free states have shown an
overplus of patriotism and have
rushed to the conflict with an alacrity
that is surprising, when we consider
their peaceful habits. They have.
shown a spirit not unworthy the he
roes Of the revolution. Our volun-
teers are ready to do and to die If
need be for their country, and for the
honor of its flag. But patriots have
as large stomachs as other men and
it requires as much food to satisfy
them as il does other men. Glory
may help TO sustain them for time,
but they cannot live upon glory alone.
Bread drives the bayonet. Then
farmers Of Orleans, be up and doing;
work while the day lasteth;' plant,
SOW; put In a plentiful supply Of seed,
and you will have discharged your
duty in the great struggle for free
DOM"