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VOL. X Sept. 18, 1912 - No. 37 
The Panama Bill 
It has been charged that Mr. Taft 
made an error in signing the Canal 
Bill and that he should have vetoed 
it in order that it should come to him 
in the other form as suggested by 
Senator Frye. According to this 
process the government would have 
reimbursed the American ships. This 
would have been a subterfuge, pure 
and simple. By this method the Unit- 
ed States would practically acknowl- 
edge to the world that it was violat- 
ine the terms of the treaty and knew 
that it could not safely trust its case 
to arbitration and resorted to the 
rye policy to avoid the testing and 
consequent losing of its. case. To 
the contrary the United States re- 
fused that underhand questionable 
method of dodging the issue but 
took an honorable stand for free 
tolls as in accord with the Hays- 
Peunecefote Treaty. Having aligned 
itself in favor of arbitration the Unit- 
ed States will not on its honor shirk 
the responsibility in its own case. To 
have resorted to the subterfuge 
would have been a self-evident fear 
of the necessity and consequences of 
arbitration. Instead of committing a 
diplomatic blunder Mr. Taft has 
G. E. WILLMONTON 
ATTORNEY AND 
COUNSELOR AT LAW 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
signed a bill that is in keeping with 
a code of ethics that is creditable to 
the honor and dignity of the United 
States. lf a call is made by Great 
britain to have its merits tested by 
arbitration the United States will not 
be found wanting. If the United 
States loses its case before a tribunal 
of the nations there are honorable 
ways of obtaining the Justice which 
it believes due to its own shipping. 
No nation or individual can in the 
long run fail by taking high ethical 
ground. 
The Vermont Returns 
The widely varying deductions 
made by the various parties from 
the results of the Vermont elections 
show the folly of such hard and fast 
interpretations. The Democrats 
claim, it means Wilson, the Progres- 
sive Party sees the success of Big 
Bull Moose Teddy, the Socialist the 
inevitable breaking up of the old par- 
ties, the Prohibitionists detect the 
value of their work in the unrest 
in the other parties. As a matter 
of fact it simply tells on the face of 
it that despite the Bull Moose seces- 
sion, the Prohibition and Socialist 
developments, and the Democratic 
gains that the Republican Party is 
still far from being dead. As for the 
weather vane down in Maine that is 
as erratic and will contribute little 
to the problem. Maine went for 
Roosevelt in the Primaries, hands 
down but the National Convention 
went for Taft. Many things can 
happen between now and November 
and the results of Maine and Ver- 
mont are but small factors in the 
great result. The appeal to the fig- 
ures of the past are coincidences and 
not laws. 
The Milk Question 
The residents of the North Shore 
have been spared many of the in- 
conveniences Cue to unsatisfactory 
service in milk and butter in the 
larger cities, particularly the city 
of Boston. The high price of grain, 
the discriminating railroad rates, the 
rigid inspection method of supply 
and production and the steady in- 
crease in the population of that city 
has had a tendency to drive out the 
local state producer of milk and has 
opened the market to ‘‘long haul’’ 
milk. Every one believes in the 
modern sanitary methods demanded 
in the care of milk in Massachusetts, 
W LLMONTON’S AGENCY 
REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE OF ALL KINDS 
SCHOOL AND UNION ST’S, MANCHESTER 
OLD SOUTH BLDG, BOSTON 
but it has opened up the state to 
milk produced beyond the jurisdic- 
tion of the state. But this is no rea- 
son why the modern progressive 
methods should not continue. A 
temporary pessimistic spirit may be’ 
inevitable but the organizing ability 
of some business genius and the co- 
operation of the neighboring state 
legislatures will soon dispell this 
spirit and the City of Boston and 
other cities will receive a pure and 
adequate supply of milk. In the 
meantime a service can be done the 
farmers within the state and the con- 
sumers by passing sane and scien- 
tific laws that will insure a pure milk, 
unadulterated by preservatives. As 
it is now the laws merely regulate — 
the purity of the milk and provide - 
for the percentage of butter fat, but 
no regulations exist relative to the 
use of preservatives or the age of 
milk. These two neglects in the law 
will speedily be remedied to the ad- 
vantage of the producer and _ con- 
sumer. 
The Foreign Problem 
The response made by the Italians 
to the announcement of a lecture pro- 
vided by Miss Loring in the chapel 
of the Beverly Farms church to the 
number of sixty-two opens an ave- — 
nue of approach to these men who 
by their labor have contributed so 
much to the welfare of the Shore in 
doing the rough work on estates and 
constructive work on the roads, that 
augurs well for the future. The time © 
has come to inaugurate and to con- 
tinue a definite community building 
policy. The school systems of our 
towns should be supplemented by 
other social agencies to better the 
conditions of these people. Every 
day of labor by an Italian on the 
shore is shore betterment. He may 
send the money earnings of his labor 
back to Italy but he cannot send back 
the results of his work. These are 
left in sewerage systems, railroads, 
good roads and well ordered estates. 
After all does not the public owe 
them the knowledge that has made 
our modern life wholesome and sani- 
tary ? 
Office for Public Service 
The public may not be justified 
in attacking Mr. Roosevelt, politi- 
cally, for his personal disloyalty to 
Mr. Taft as a man, nor justified in 
accusing him of being a party to 
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