Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-07-11

Both men have had legislative ex-
perience, Mr. Black having been clerk
and assistant clerk of the house of
representatives for ten years and Mr..
Morse has seen service in both the
lower and upper branches. Both men
belong to the legal profession and
they no doubt will receive endorse
ment from pastlegislators and promi-
nent friends throughout the state
Montpelier Argus.
Very Different Advertising.
Who would not prefer the kind of
advertising this. community got last
week to what it used to get in the old
license days when it was notorious as
a booze center from one side of the
country to the other? This is prob
ably the only community in Canada
which has sent out a purely business
delegation to testify as to the bene-
fetal results of no-lcense. The ap-
pearance of two delegations in Comp
ton county aroused a great deal Of
interest and created much favorable
comment. The law should be so en-
forced that people may continue to
hold up their heads and make their
voices heard. The sale of booze helps
no one and the drinker fares worst of
-Stanstead (P. o. Journal.
Peculiar Demonstration of Democ-
racy.
The anti-socialist riots in Boston
and the anti-negro riots at East St.
| Louis are not very creditable to ma
| ton that claims to be trying to make
the world safe for democracy. The
! foundations of democracy are free
| speech, free labor and free assemb-
| lage. To attack these is to strike a
blow in favor of autocracy and op-
preston. It is not laws and consti-
buttons that bring liberty and free
dom to the world but popular educa-
ton and the right of the Individual to
work out his own destiny nnmenaced
and unoppressed, SO long as he does
not interfere with the rights of 9TH
ers. Until some reasonable act is
committed or suggested, until some
| public or private wrong is done or
undertaken, no true friend of the
! United States, no servant of popular
freedom, no child of true democracy
should permit himself to strike a
blow. To take the law into ones own
hands to enforce ones own partisan
ship is a crime against the liberty of
a free people.-Bennington Banner.
Vermont VIII Be Strong at the Finish
We have done our best to think UP
adequate reasons why Vermont has
failed to do her part in the three re-
! cent tests of patriotism, volunteer en-
1istments, subscriptions to the Liber-
ty loan, and to the Red Cross ''Mercy
Fund" The fact, the unpleasant
fact, starp's. She has fallen far short
| OF her proportion in each case. Ger
tain cities and towns have equaIled or
exceeded their quota, but the state as
a whole lags. In most cases it is the
larger communities that have re-
| sponded best. The rural sections fail
behind. The eXcuse-and excuse it is
rather than reason-must be that
these sections, which make up the
greater part of Vermont, are slower
to wake up. Or perhaps it would be
more accurate to say that in the scat
| tered communities there is not so
! good an opportunity to organize and
push the propaganda effectively.
| Experience shows that in these mat
ters work counts toward results. The
! disposition may be ever so favorable
to do and give, but the people will not
as a rule come forward of their own
free will. They have to be called up
| on and labored with. Many do not
| yet fully comprehend the situation
and especially many have not taken it
home to themselves. It would be
| gratifying of course, If Vermont had
arisen quickly. Her characteristics
are slowness-an constancy. When
other states are "tuckered out" Yer
mont viii just begin to take hold
Randolph Herald and News.
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