Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-03-05

Gratis and Republicans is becoming
rivalled in Importance by the fight
between free traders, tariff for rev.
enue and high tariff men, and the
way the special organ of the latter,
the Protectionist, or Pirate Technist"
as it is called by punning opponent,
has been working up public senti-
ment, is annoying. 1t is presumed
the paper has some pretty heavy
backing, in view of the fact that it
has been getting up expensive public
meetings, and circulating several is
sues of late of 10000 copies. Our
prime producers seem to be tending
to free trade as against our Eastern
manufacturing interests. 1t does
seem hard that farmer should pay
$40 for suit of clothes that an Eng
ishman or Canadian pays $40 for,
but if the duties were taken off the
people whose wages run up the prices
of domestic goods would be starved
out, and if they all went to digging
potatoes or raising corn produce
wouldn't bring as much as it does
now, and the farmer would find it
just as hard to pay $40 for his clothes
as he does to pay $40 now. Benev-
olence is all very fine, but charity
begins at home, and for my part /
want my folks to be comfortable,
and perhaps they wouldn't be if we
got cheap Cody labor, whether here
or in India OF China, to make all our
goods for US.
Gorringe, the Naval officer and
engineer who brought over the ODE
lisk and set it on end, and who, on
the Pinta in the winter of 1873,
brought over news that the Spaniards
had knuckled down about the survi-
vors of the. Virginius massacre in
Cuba, very solid man, with a
smooth, benign face, has resigned
his position, not unmingled with dis
agreement with Secretary Chandler,
and is going into iron shipbuiiding.
He wants his materials free and then
says he doesn't care that wages here
are high-he'll try and make them
higher-for with American grit, gen.
ius, improved labor-saving machines
and hand and brain-work applied
just where they will do the most
good, he can compete with the ship
builders of the Clyde or anywhere
else, and get the best of them too.
Gorringe is a good fellow. Long
may he wave! 1t is understood a
number of capitalists with very big
bank accounts are backing him.
As you are probably aware this is
a season to be observed with great
quiet by numerous religious people,
But everybody doesn't keep Lent
and the maddest, widest ball of all
that of the Arion Society, came of
the other evening. There were 20.
900 present and the expenses, direct
and incidental, were estimated a
S250,000 Many of our ''highest
society" were there, it was said
under close DISCUSSES, and decorou:
matrons and discreet damsels man
aged, just out of pure curiosity o.
course, to see great many curious
things, and if they stayed late M
doubt got quite too awfully shocked
Fashionable breakfasts the next da,
were late, and refreshing little pick
me-ups were found quite necessar,
by way of restoratives.
Now we have so many rich among
us, people who think nothing of pay
ing 100000 for a house, as mucl
more for the furniture, and as mucl
each year for feast, frolic, fine feath
ers, fruit and flowers, where ''Ger
mans" and dinner parties, suppe
parties, riding parties. breakfast ant
lunch parties, theatre parties, after
noon teas, lawn tennis, scramble
and what not abound, the chief en-,
of all of which seems to be Irritation
platonic or otherwise, in the mos
deliberately expensive way. Wed
dings, which used to be the chief O
all grand parades for brides, ar
tending toward a modesty of cele
bration that is remarkable by th
contrast. The latest neat thing j
to slip out with bosom friend G
two and get quietly spliced in som
out-of-t he-way church without any
body, being the wiser till, after
week or two's sojourn in some luxr
rious hotel, the status of the happ
couple is made known in the news
papers. There have been severs
examples of this sort of thing @