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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-22

"WHAT bothers us, and we have before
called attention to this, is that while it
now costs us about 500 100000 to import
the tin-plate consumed in this country
under the present duty, it would cost us
about S2S,000000 to manufacture it-a
difference of 100000. Somebody has
got to settle this difference, and it seems
to be paying dearly for maintaining an
industry that cannot possibly stand on its
own feet. 1t is absurd to say that the
price of tin.plate would be reduced.
Price is determined in measure by cost
of production, and below that it cannot
permanently fall. As these estimates are
made on what is said to be the actual cost,
no reduction in price can result unless
improved processes of manufacture are in
troduced." Thus says the New York
Herald. What bothers the Herald with
respect to the making of tin plates in this
country has bothered free traders gener-
ally-and still bothers some of them,-
with respect to the manufacture of iron
and steel, cottons and woolens, and long
list of other articles in the production of
which, during the twenty years of the ex-
istence of protective tariff, this Nation
has become independent. Local competi-
ton, improvement in machinery and skill,
the development of the arts and sciences,
have in the main been sufficient to reduce
and regulate prices. The tariff originally
contemplated ample protection and encour-
agement for the tin,plate industry. By a
gross misconstruction of the law in the
interest of importers and the canning in
dustry, Secretary Fessenden changed a
duty of two and one.half cents pound to
one and one-tenth cents. This made the
duty on tin plates SO much less than on
thin grades of sheet iron that tin can be
imported and sold in this country at a
lower price than the sheet iron from
which it is produced, whether of foreign
or domestic manufacture. Had not a
glazing and unjust exception been made
in the case of tin plates and had this ar.
ticle been placed upon the same basis as
kindred articles, nquestionably this coun-
try would to-day be producing the great
bulk of the tin it is using, giving employ
ment in this industry to large army of
laborers and making use of domestic coal,
iron, etc. As the case now stands, some
$l7000,0O0 are annually sent to England
for tin plates, and in the years since Mr..
Fessenden's forced construction of the
law struck down this industry, nearly
5000, 100000 have been sent out of the
country for the tin Americans use for
kitchen ware, for canning fruits and
meats, and for roofing their buildings.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-22

THE Cincinnati Enquirer has had its
finger on the democratic pulse in Indiana
and Illinois and finds it beating stoutly
for the "old ticket" Out of five hun
dred inquiries made in each state, four
hundred and eleven answers were returned
from Indiana and three hundred and
seventy.eight from Illinois. These re-
plies purported to represent the demo-
cratic preference in the localities to which
they were addressed. Three hundred and
ninety.eight responses from Indiana were
for Tilden and Hendricks or for Hem
bricks, and twenty for Mcdonald. Hi
nois was quite unanimous for Z" the old
ticket" Towards sentiment rather than
craftsmanship "the party of Jefferson 1"
seems to be drifting in its search for
acknowledgements in 1884. The nomina-
ton of some man like Hewitt would
indicate desire for practical and bust
ness.like administration of the govern.
ment or like Bayard, for able and con-
sentative craftsmanship.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-22

the time that the new work was begun"
Thus the Brattleboro Reformer. "The
republican maladministratio steadily
ran up state expenses from 1867 to 1880,
almost doubling them" etc. A lie we'll stuck
to seems to serve the Reformer all the
ends of truth. The tenacity with which it
clings to this particular lie about the
increase of state expenses is an i'm
parchment of its mental balance. Ma.
tional democratic maladministratio ran
up" the state tax during the rebellion
to one hundred and twenty-five cents on
the dollar, and burdened the state with
heavy war debt. In 1866 the state tax
had dropped to fifty-fve cents on the dol
lar, and from that time, year by year, it
receded till in 1876 it was only twenty
five cents, and for the four years proceed
ing 1880 the average was thirty cents an
nually. Besides regular current expenses
the state during this time paid off 81, $780,
900 in war bonds, leaving the state out of
debt, and in the latter years of the Pc
Rod appropriated more than one hundred
thousand dollars annually for education,
agriculture and other public purposes.
This is the way republican maladminis-
tration ran up state expenses" The
logic of these facts is of can impregnable
kind" In 1880 the democratic squad
camped on ground occupied by the repub-
licans two or three years before, and made
great "racket" over ga campaign is
sue" that had been raised and settled be-
fore they caught on to the significance OF
it. On their issue" they were driven
into their holes by the force of 25 600
majority, and practically disappeared from
the legislature that devised and passed
the tax law. Will the Reformer kindly
print these facts in connection with any
remarks it may make upon this subject
in the future
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-22
Fast Time.

Maud S. must go. She yields the palm
to the Free Press courser, in comparison
with whose wonderful exploits the feetest
gait of the queen of the turf is as the
snail's pace. A week ago this " fiery, un-
tanned steed was prancing wildly up and
down the columns of his paper, glazing
viciously at state and national bank ex.
aminers and fiercely snorting, The in
spector of finance must go" But change
came over the spirit of this editorial
Rosinante. 1t seems to have dawned
upon him very suddenly that he had
bounded off before the word ego" had
been given or that some bad boy, at the
instigation of mischievous syndicate,
had shouted "go " and on this false signal
he had been making very ridiculous
display of his powers. 1t was in retrac
ing his course and getting back to his
"home base" that he snatched the greenest
laurels of the turf. There is a not I'M
founded suspicion that the oil of birch
fabricated his launches on this occasion
and accelerated his speed. At all events
we congratulate our esteemed contem-
porary on getting round so successfully at
last and only regret that he did not at
first listen with we'll advised caution to
see if the exhortation to ego" came from
some shyster in the crowd. Like any other
mortal, to drop the smile, under similar
circumstances the Free Press feels like
clicking somebody" as a salve to its
wounded feelings, and so having thrust
some choice taffy between the teeth of
Examiner Hendee and Inspector Dewey,
it gets afoul of biennial sessions and 70.
tation in office. 1t is really pitiful to be-
hold how he whacks and belabors these
inanimate objects of his righteous wrath.
Rage is rarely logical or consistent, and
80 the Free Press does not stop to explain
why biennial sessions should be held re-
sponsible for bad political morals any
more than for the Ely war, the ravages of
the potato bug, or any other political, So
cial or agricultural woe or wickedness.
1t is not quite reasonable to charge such a
vicious political custom as biennially de-
mands new governor and peoples the
legislature with inexperienced lawmakers
upon the sensible and the well-approved
change from annual to biennial legisla-
tive sessions. Two years is hardly too
long time to test the real merits or de.
merits of law. The tax law lost moth.
ing, but gained immeasurably, by two
years unobstructed trial before the as.
piring law-maker got his itching palms
upon it again. So it is with any other
measure, and it is not at all certain but
that the statute book would be the gamer
if the period of repose could be still
further heightened. Our contemporary
seems to have walked up year after the
procession has passed and proceeds to
preach into vacancy homily on the evils
of rotation. Its discourse would have
been to the point year ago, when the
wide-awake papers in the state, backed
by the resolutions of the republican state
convention, were endeavoring to start
reform in this respect Had it taken hole
then with the zeal it has suddenly dis
played, IL might not again have fred it,
gun on Wild and aimless impulse.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-22

StraffOrd.-The young people of the town
have recently given two excellent entertain
ments, the avais of which fully pay for good
Mason Il Hamlin organ for the Congregational
Sunday -school.
WE have now telephone communication with
South Royalton via Tunbridge. 1t is proposed
to extend the line hence to Sc Pompa" depot on
the Passumpsic railroad The STAFFORD office
is at II. c. Hazelton's.
THE hay crop is now secured. More has
been cut than usual, especially from the valley
and meadow farms. Grain ofall kinds is doing
finely. Some of the hill farms are being Sc
riously injured by the grasshoppers. Whole
fields, both of grass and grain, have been
stripped by this pest, leaving nothing to harvest
SOME thirty members of Bishop lodge at
tended the Good Templars v :ou at Norwich
last Friday. The literary SAkcises in the
afternoon were of high order as1were we'll
attended. In the evening were rousing ad-
dresses from George A. Brown, Esq, of Bel
lows Falls and the veteran Neal Dow. Au-
dience about four hundred. Let us hope great
and permanent good was accomplished. The
temperance people of Norwich have peculiar
difficulties to contend with.
CHARLES n COVE has bought of Frank
WEIGH the Priest Young farm and Mr.. Cove
sells the same to Charles J. Linton. n. W.
Denison purchases of Mrs Elizabeth West the
Norton meadow. I'D. Ii. Moore and wife of
Pawtucket, K. l., will make three-weeks'
stay in this their native village. They will re-
tain their pleasant homestead here.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-22

deposits. Two exceptionally large loans
stand in the name of other members of
the Brainerd family. Aside from an ex-
cessive loan to Plattsburg firm, the
great bulk of the funds of the trust com.
pany, directly or indirectly, is in the
hands of the Brainerds. The company
seems to have been used as financial
machine to forward the enterprises of
that family. The Argus, in its last
issue, says it had been customary for the
bank to carry similar amount of Nor
wood paper during the summer, and that
Mr.. Dubois, the late inspector, had found
no fault with this custom. This, we UNI
derstand, is an error; that the largest
amount of lumber paper Mr.. Dubois found
there was about $147, 900, and this was a
year ago. The treasurer of the trust COM
pany is authority for the statement that
Mr.. Dubois did find fault with this
loan. The explanation of its extent was
that it represented the high tide of the
years business, before marketing the lum-
Der, and that by the proceeds of sales the
amount would be brought within reason
able limits. Inspector Dubois called at
tention to these abuses in general way
in his reports, and repeatedly and earnestly
recommended legislation that would place
check upon this way of doing business.
So far his course is worthy of all COM
mendation. Had he supplemented his
general recommendations by hanging out
danger signal at the door of this or any
other similar institution SO that those on
the outside might give it wide berth
and those on the inside could have made
their escape, if they elected to do so, there
would be little room for criticism so far
as he is concerned. We think he could
have found in the "war powers " of the
statutes, if not elsewhere, authority for
stating specifically in his report of the
condition of this or any other bank in
what respect its management was endan
gering the safety of the deposits. Had
he done this, we do not believe he would
have been impeached, even if he were un
able to justify his action by plain pro
vision of law. In the days of the old
state banks the commissioner who did his
duty was in the habit of stating in his re
port in what respect this or that bank had
trespassed upon the laws, and the effec'
was very salutary. An ounce of this kline
of prevention saved many pound of cure
We hope the present inspector will bt
faithful and candid in this respect. 1t il
averred that every trust company ant
more than half the savings banks have
violated some provision of special or gen
eral law. Let the public have the detail
hereafter, Mr.. Inspector, and if in conse
quence there is a run on any bank, thu
responsibility be on the offending institu
ton and not at your official door.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-22

THE New York republican state COM
mittee has called the convention for the
nomination of such state officers as are to
be elected this year at Richfeld Springs,
September 10th. All the members met
on terms of good natured and cordial
party fellowship. Stalwarts, half-breeds
and independents seem to have lost their
significance as terms of political distinc.
ton. There was not ripple of feeling
to tell the tale of last falls bitter resent
ments and fierce antagonisms, and, in
this respect, the committee, it is conceded
was an index of republican feeling and
desires throughout the state.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-22

"THE Montpelier Watchman's logic is
of an impregnable kind. The republican
maladministration steadily ran up state
expenses from 1867 to 1880, almost doub.
ling them-the democracy made economy
and tax reform campaign issue-the
very next legislature began the work of
reform and retrenchment, and it is still
going on-so the reduction of expenses,
reform of all kinds, is the result of moth
ing in the world but unadulterated repub-
lican goodness, and has been carried out
in the teeth of democratic opposition.
What could be plainer2 The chain of
argument is complete, and made so by
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-22

COrinth.-Stillman Virgins is getting out
lumber and contemplates building a barn.
Mrs RODNEY WARD, an aged lady Of seventy
five years, died August 18th.
In the law suit item last week it should read
Samuel Durgin." The case goes to a higher
court.
BARRE teams have been drawing granite for
curbing to the Dearborn monument at the
meadow.
THE ten-dollar suit last Friday between Bryan
OF Boston and Richardson reminds us Of the ia
BILE of the cats and monkey.
SEVEN dollars in greenbacks healed Royal
Vests wounded feelings for five sheep of EliaS
Avery's running through his India wheat. |
Mr.. WOOD formerly of this town, but for the
last ten years clerk at the Ely mines, is visit
ing friends here. P. N. Hastings, who fell in
a tit recently, is improving. f. P. Eaton is
repainting his buildings. Mrs. Chapman Of
Manchester, n. H., is visiting friends here. {. .
Elias Avery is spending a few weeks at
Saratoga.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-22

THE telegraphists formally announce
the failure of the strike and have returned
to their keys-as many as the companies
have chosen to receive back. As was APP
pretended at the outset, the Western
Union was the rock on which the brother
hood split. The operators are more
skilled in receiving and sending messages
than in fighting, in its own familiar kind
of warfare, the Western Union with its
own weapons.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-22

BradfOrd.-Rev. J. W. Osborne, a clergy
man of the Christian denomination from Mas
sachusetts, is visiting friends in Newbury, and
preached in the church at Goshen one week.
ago last Sunday. u
MRS. MARY ANN WATERMAN died Saturday
after very brief illness She was all her life
a resident of this town, and was the last sur
vivor of large family. The Waterman fam
lily had lived in the old homestead on North
Plain for about one hundred years. The
funeral was from the house Sunday afternoon,
and was attended by a large number of rela-
tives and citizens.
HENRY WINsHIP has returned from his trip
to California. He combines the elements which
make an entertaining traveller. He saw, re-
members, and can tell it. Quite number of
favored ones in Bradford are now supplied
with bark from one of the big trees -. Several
gentlemen of artistic tastes and benevolent
inclinations have greatly improved the grounds
in front of the Methodist parsonage. Rev. A,
s. Markham of Hartland rode through town on
two-wheeed vehicle mot BICYCLE the other
day. "A brother of John Norcross from Bos-
ton is making him visit William Cove les.
his best horse Friday.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-22

Tunbridge,-E. IL. Spiller and wife OF West
Fairlee made short visit here the first of the
week, MIR. Spiller is about selling out his
drug store in West Fairlee, and will go
West for his health. Mrs. c. w. Rolfe
and her visiting relatives left last Satur-
day, to visit sister in Springfield.
Friday evening many visited the telegraph
ana telephone office at DR.. Fisk's to try the
new telephone line which was found to be in
perfect working order. Mr.. II. @. Hazelton at
the Strafford office with several others, treated
the listeners here to fine instrumental
concert, Post Whitney has a regular meet
ing Saturday evening. =. The new bridge near
NJ. X Griffith's is said to be too low to allow
the stage-coach to pass through
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-22

Gaysville. Mrs. L. Harrington, from Phil
adelphia, and Mrs Rand from Providence, r.
l., were thrown from carriage on Tuesday of
last week and both injured, Mrs. Rand seri-
ously So although, it is hoped, not fatally.
DENNIS BOURNE and wife can say as was
said in olden times Unto us a son is given"
A new Towne has also been added to our pros
porous village, said Towne being under the ad :
ministration of Mr. and Mrs. Ii. +. Towne. 1t
is nice large girl.
OUR postmaster has returned from his sea-
side trip, Gertie Thorn'on is sick with a
fever, Egbert Sheldon has bought new
Prescott organ for his daughter Alice. Wal
den White is on the sick list. Nelson Cav
and Postmaster Deane start for Saratoga the
Goth.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-10-27

opponents, The highest euloges have
been pronounced upon him from pull
lpits in which he was once reylled; and
his life no less than his word has been
held up rs a model for imitation where
his character rs man was formerly IN
cuded in the depreciation of his achieve
ments rs n philosopher Those
who know Charles Darwin most intm-
ately are unanimous in their apprec.a-
ton of the unsurpassed nobility and
beauty of his whole character. In him
there was "no other side" Not only
was he q philosopher who had wrought
4 Greater revolution in human thought
within quarter of Il century, than any
man Of our time-or, perhaps, of any
time-and has given what is proving
the dcathbow to theological systems
which had been clinging yet more tena-
cously to mems shoulders because of
the efforts he made TO throw them Off
but, Is man. he eXcmplihcd in his
own life that true religion which is deep
er, wider, loftier than any theology.
For this not only inspired him with the
devotion TO the truth, which was the
master passion of his great nature, but
made um the most admirable husband,
brother and father, the kindcSt friend,
ncighbor and master, the genuine lover
no. only of his lrlioW-man, but OF every
creature.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-10-27

The rapidly increasing use of the
electric current rs an ,Luminant, and
the favor with which each additional
installation is received, have gradually
made imperative the close study of the
cost as compared with that OF gas.
With the general consumer, the inan-
cial question ranks first in importance,
the quality of the light furnished being
secondary consideration. In certain
isolated eases where quality is vital to
success, or is at least Il factor in the
problem, tie cost is OF no moment. Ii
is not even necessary that the electric
light Should be furnished at Il price be-
low that of GAS in order to secure its
universal adoption, but the two rates
must be nearly equal; slight excess
on the part of the first will only delay
the date at which it will be in the as
tendency.
The whole question vii! hinge on one
point the cost Of producing one candle
power Of light. The practicability OF
the electric light is already u conceded
success, and may, therefore, be laid
one side For the electric light the
question of cost may bedividcd into the
following classes: Coal for generating
steam; attendance; interest on plant,
and dcleriora,ion The exact cost Of
making Il quantity OF Gus yielding one
.candlc-pOwcr for any given time can he
easily a>ccrlained, aud varies in differ
.cnt localities with the price of coal and
tine efficiency Of the apparatus. ToEcth-
Ter with the other expense items. tins
makes n total cost below what gas Is
sold for, leaving large profit for the
companies. In the electric light 1t
seems to be impossible to find a reliable
estimate of one of the items, The cost
of the plant and of attendance are
known. but the quantity of coal con
sumcd for each dynamo cannot be ob-
tanned, and without this no accurate
idea can bc formed. A comparison OF
the rcmainT items with those OF gas
shows result decidedly in favor of
electricity. Recognizing the promin-
enCc of tine steam question, one OF the
electric LIGHT companies has equipped \
station with the best machines and IS
keeping close account of every eX-
pcnSc item and of the candlc-power of
light obtained. Such 4 plant will give
results which will increase our knowl-
edge of a much-diSputed point We
shall carefully watch the experiments,
and n their conclusion hope TO present
comparisons in figures, which always
carry conviction and make 4 verdict
final. Electrical World.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-10-27
The PROGRESS Of New York.

In l771 the population OF the city OF
New York was little over u, 900; and
in 1856, three years after the close Of
the revolutionary war, it had %, GA in
habitants. The several censuses taken
during the past 100 years exhibit the
marvelously rapid strides which New
York has made toward her present i'm
perial condition. In 1890, however, the
population was little more than it was
in 1771; but by 1900 it had risen to Co.,
515. The remaining censuses are thus
given: 1910, 96,373; 1914. 95,51S; 1920,
1913, 706; 1925, 66,0S6; 1880, POP, $50;
1885, 27O, 0S9; 1910, 312,710; 1915, 371,-
223; 1850. 5l5, 547; 1885, 629, 906; 1860,
Sl3, go; 1865, 726,3S4; 1870, 942, 292:
1875, 1,0u,SS6; and 1880, l,206, 299.
On only two occasions has the enumer-
atfon shown n decrease from the fig
ures of the preceding census. The first
time was after the war of 1912, and the
second after the civil war. The popu-
lation of New York City has doubled
six times within a century-doubling,
on an average, once in every II years.
In other words, the New York of to-day
is 81 times as large rs the New York OF
100 years ago. The rate of increase in
the country at large is insignificant
beside that of the metropolis. in 100
years the population OF the United
States has multiplied itself by l6; but
the population of New York has in
creased ut four times that rate. At the
rate OF increase shown by the last %
! l.
decline of American commerce and the
influence of the civil war-there are
children now nursing who will behold
Il New York City containing no less
than 10000, 600 inhabitants.