The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-29
of certain dinner that everything was
sour but the vinegar Democracy's rec
ord on freedom is equally brilliant"

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HARpER's WEEKLY ;" The sneer that it
is not the business of government to 90
into business is only silly, because the
government has gone into business. In
the postoffice it has often deliberately
gone into losing business, because the
convenience and prosperity of the people
are more important than the cost of the
service to the treasury. A general strike
Of the telegraphs and railways would in a
very short time cost the government and
country very much more than the con-
struction of telegraph. The operation
of such work should of course be placed
beyond the interference of trading politi-
clans. But it is clear that the expediency
Of postal telegraphy has become press
ing and important question"
GENERAL WILLIAM G. WIcKHAM, who
has accepted Democratic nomination for
the senate of Virginia, made long speech
at meeting in Hanover Courthouse on
Wednesday, explaining why he opposes
the readjuster coalition party, and in the
course of it emphatically denied the story
that he had ever said that he wept at the
sight of the old flag or been wanting in
fidelity to the cause that he espoused du-
ring the war. He called upon his old
comrades who stood around him to know
whether in any of the cavalry charges
that they had made with him there had
been any time for weeping over the flag
of the enemy. He challenged any man to
point to any act of his that would prove
him unfaithful to his old comrades, and
said that the wounds he bore would prove
his loyalty to his state.
New YORK TRIBUNE: "It may be set
down as 'hard-pan fact in politics
that the republican party is not going to
pieces, so long as the old democratic party
remains in existence, with its ancient ira
ditions and black record, to seize the gov
eminent at the first opportunity. If the
republican party had no other reason for
being, it would be an all sufficient reason
that those who rebelled and sympathized
with rebellion cannot safely be left to
maintain the fruits of the war; that
those who resisted equal rights and specie
resumption to the end cannot safely be
left to preserve equal rights or public
honor; that those who have never ceased
to denounce and assail protective tariff
cannot safely be left to enact a new tariff
or to administer the one now in force"
HOTEL walters in the New Hampshire
summer resorts are having good time
At one of the hotels recently two gentle
men were discussing the derivation of q
Latin root, and so absorbed the attention
of the waiter, who was a close student
that he was engaged in an animated dis
cussion when the head waiter suggested
that the rest of the table required som,
dinner. At seaside hotel in Maine, con
several evenings an extremely agreeabl,
young man, who was one of the best dan
GERS there, whose face seemed so familia
l that he was finally asked if the writer hac
! not seen him before. "Why, I wait OF
your table," was the reply. Such wal
. ter was worth having, who could wielc
the napkin and add to the social gazette
of the place at the same time.
New YORK TRIBUNE: civilian II
l Vanderbilt did graceful and generou
: thing in handing his check for $1,000 t.
= the proprietor of hotel in the Whit
, Mountains to be distributed among tn
J thirty college boys who are acting a
walters there. This is one of the way
b adopted by poor young men in New Eng
/ land colleges to make little money 70
the following year at the same time tina
g they are getting the benefit of vacation
}. 1t is not an easy part to play-that O
# gentleman and scholar and waiter at tn
l same time and, indeed, great man
d young men would rather not try it. Blu
C Mr.. Vanderbilt's gift was prompted, it
l said, by the self-reliant spirit and gentle
9 manly bearing of these young men. Thi
" is proof that they were highly successfu
l is this difficult role, and is remarkabl
C compliment"
The Columbus (Ga) Enquirer thu
IT forcibly illustrates the growth of the Ne'
South. Thirty years ago, in the heyday c
e the slavery regime, the total value of tn
IS southern crops of cotton, tobacco, ric'
n hay, hemp and sugar cane was 1885
l, 723. The census report of 1880 shows tn
IL Southern farm products were, in the las
!" census year, valued at 100000 900, on,
1t third of which was the value of cotto
r products, which remains the great stapl
d of the South, whose standing in th
'r markets of the world had not been a
y fected by the East and West Indian, tn
ID Brazilian and the Egyptian cultivation
a. Instead of sending all the cotton to Ne
England and Old England, the South t,
n. day is looming up at the seat of a gre,
:, cotton manufacturing interest, so that tt
~ cheaper or coarser grades of cotton clot
e are readily made for home consumptio
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