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VOUSALY 
March 3, 1916. No. 9 
In SoLuTion oF THE SLUMP in summer hotel busi- 
ness which follows close after Labor Day many hotel men, 
especially those down in Maine, want the opening of the 
schools postponed three or four weeks longer. Taney say 
that most of the people who desert the resorts at that time 
of year, when the weather is almost at its best, do so not 
willingly, but because they must hurry back to town to 
arrange for the return of the younger members of the 
family to school. They say that otherwise the season 
would last until the first-of October or longer and that 
during September the finest of the summer weather pre- 
veils. Many people without children plan to leave on 
Labor Day also because the general exodus takes away 
their friends and leaves the hotel with an air of desertion. 
Maine cannery owners have the same objection to the 
early opening of school and college as their help is re- 
cruited from the ranks of the students who desert in the 
busiest part of the season. 
Tat Witp Drer Destroy crops has been the con- 
tention of farmers and hunters—chiefly hunters—for so 
long that we have come to believe that the annual slaughter 
of deer is justified as a protection to the farmer and his 
crops. We have not been exactly successful in attempt- 
ing to justify the annual death toll of men, cows, dogs 
and everything else that looks like a deer to the iran who 
has never seen one, or the one who takes a pot shot at 
everything that moves in fear that he will miss killing 
something. Now there comes to the front, one Walter 
K. Stone, artist, of Connecticut, who has observed closely 
the habits of wild deer and declares that the carius wirgin- 
ionus does not attack corps, but eats the weeds that are 
harmful to the growth of crops.- Now what will we poor 
hunters do for an excuse to slaughter deer at wholesale? 
Tuere 1s A New Brit before the Massachusetts 
legislature relating to the assignment of wages that should 
have the attention of every thoughtful man. In the past 
great harm has been done society and individuals by the 
intrigues that were possible under the old forms of loan 
laws. It is proposed that in the making of an assignment 
the wife must assent, that the employer must assent, the 
assignment must be recorded and that ten dollars of each 
week’s wages shall be free from assignment and the law 
must be printed in plain type on the face of every assign- 
ment. Governor McCall recommended remedial legis!a- 
tion and this bill is endorsed by leading social agencies, 
church federations and labor organizations. It is a good 
bill and it should become law. 
PRESIDENT WiLson ApvocaTEep the largest navy in 
the world in one of his recent addresses, but the adminis- 
tration’s building program would make the nation a poor 
third among the great naval forces. 
March 3, 1916. 
Tux Issurs oF THE ComING national election ought 
not to be a campaign of “individuals,” nor should it be 
primarily a party fight. Parties are not the ultimate goal 
of politics. The primary interests of the nation are the 
sticcesses of our national policies and not the successes of 
our partisan political parties. There are two great tariff 
ideas in America, The democratic party stands for one 
idea and the republican for the other. The national inter- 
ests demand the adoption of either policy. New England 
must always favor an adequate protective tariff. This 
form of tariff legislation has always been fathered and 
promoted by the republican party. In other years there 
has been a strong argument in favor of a high protective 
tariff, for protection primarily and for revenue only 
secondarily. ‘The vital issue is the maintenance of our 
industries free from the menace of foreign competition 
and its consequent deteriorating effect upon manufactures. 
This year with the probable menace of a form of foreign 
competition unequaled in the history of trade it will be 
absolutely essential that America protect itself from the 
trade dumping that is certain to follow. If the Allies 
win it is likely that Germany will be hampered in her 
trade with the principals of the Entente and their colonies. 
Germany will then be forced to seek a market in the 
rich neutral United States, and what is America to do? 
It would seen as though the very exigencies of the war 
aad demonstrated the necessity of a protective program,— 
and that means the policies of the republican party. 
A NewspapPer Canvass of the state of Vermont re- 
veals the wish of a large number of republicans for the 
candidacy of Justice Hughes for president. The signifi- 
cant feature of the canvass, however, is the large number 
of Roosevelt supporters uncovered in the republican party. 
Practically all are united for the Colonel in case Hughes 
declines to be a candidate. The announcement of Ver- 
mont’s leaning to the Colonel contains the revelation that 
the recent Roosevelt propaganda in Massachusetts in- 
fluenced sentiment in the Green Mountain state. Gover- 
vor McCall had a large following in Vermont until he 
tnited with the anti-Roosevelt forces and then his support 
weakened. Roosevelt supporters are well known for their 
unrestrained enthusiasm and it is always safe to divide 
by two the volume of noise generated in support of the 
ex-President in order to find out the real strength of the 
Colonel’s backing. 
Tur Democratic ComBINation that sought to force 
the President’s hands have had time enough to regret their 
folly. Fortunately the President has a clear-cut policy 
and does not purpose to be brow beaten by the ill-directed 
activities of democratic members of the House. As a 
party movement it was a discreditable failure and places 
the leaders of the party in the House in disrepute. Strange- 
ly enough the situation resulted in the republican members 
sustaining the democratic President. The President knows 
what he is about even if he has trouble abroad and at 
hone. How can the President surrender the great prin- 
ciple for which neutrality must ever stand, the freedom of 
the seas. 
Iv Witt, BE Wet To RErieEcr upon the results of 
the democratic tariff program. America has been indus- 
trious and there have been good times, so-called, but it 
has been due entirely to the unusual demands made by the 
foreign war. If it were not for the present war America 
would have been writhing in the forces of a period of 
business depression equal to that of the Cleveland admin- 
istration; the war conditions have prevented the financial 
crisis. But this is not a tribute to the party policies of 
the democratic party. 
