Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-03-28

nominee of a faction of self-pro-
nounced boilers.
The bonded extension whisky bill |
has occupied the attention of the
House for the last two days, and
much eloquence was expended there
on, but it appears evident that the
bill will never become a law, and it
should not. The manufacturers of,
and spectators in whisky knew well
the law and what was expected of
them and they should be made to
comply with its provisions strictly.
1t were better for the nation to-day
to forego the tax, than that the
liquid hell-fre should be manufac-
tured or sold, and its manipulators
should be taught that they can only
manufacture and sell in strict com-
pliance with the law.
No department or bureau under
the government is more efficiently
and ably managed than IS the Agri-
cultural Department, under the ad
ministration of Commissioner Geo.
B. Loring. DR.. Loring has prac-
teal knowledge of agriculture
which gives him an advantage that
his predecessor LeDuc did not pos
sess. 1t is known, however, that
Loring is growing a little FESTIVE in
his present position, and is DESTROYS
of giving it up and seeking re-elec-
ton to Congress from the seventh
district of Massachusetts,, now rep
resented by Hon. /. T. Stone.
The Republican Congressional
Committee have established their
headquarters at the building form
erly occupied by the old Metropoli.
tan Club, on | street, near the Ar.
lington Hotel. Secretary McPher
son is already busily engaged upor
the preliminary work of the com
mittee. No request for contribu
tions will in any shape be made tC
employees Of the government, MOI
will anything be done that will have
the least seeming of violation o.
the spirit of the civil-service law
The Republican National Commit
tee will have its Washington head
) quarters in the same building will
} the Congressional Committee.
} In the debate in the House OF
Wednesday, on the resolutions re
} ported by the Committee on For
eign Relations, relative to the re
turn by the German Chancellor
Bismarck, of the "Iasker resolu
| tions," no remarks, in the opinion o
your correspondent, were more elo
,1s.-"t and patriotic than those O
, Cox, of New York. lie paid a higl
} tribute to Hebrew genius, virtue
pride, and courage, and presented
the American idea of government
: and liberty as the guiding star o
the peoples of the world. In his pc
roration he said: 'But for tn
great standing armies and the i'm
mense power Of blood and iron
; which means taxation and poverty
emigration and discomfort, Their
would have been perhaps earlier, a
there may be in a future day not re
mote, such an upraising Of the OLE
Teutonic element, that liberty il
her elemental grandeur shall becom
as Respondent in the Eastern as il
our hemisphere. I trust that tn,
House of Representatives will tax
no backward step. Let us advance
Why, sir, what have we in Americ
to beg pardon for? For being
born? We were born as a people
protesting in our charters, first witt
our Declaration of Independence
f and then with our matchless Consti
tuition, against just such titled crea
lures Of feudalism, force, and king
craft as now rule, vex, and tax Eu
, rope. Our protest has been main
tanned for more than a hundre,
years. 1t has gone over oceans an,
, under oceans. Did not its electrici
ty make the French revolution
I Did it not. create an insurgency Q
peoples long subject and oppressed
= The grandeur which now encircle
Q the republics Of France and Switzel
land is rejecting the refulgent glor
of free government upon the nation
/ around them; and the peoples o
t the Old World are preparing to dc
throne despotism and enshrine libel
ty. For one | would not, for an
e policy of iron and blood, taxes an
e repression, lower one stripe nor bio
] out one star upon the flag"
1T is generally understood tha