Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-12-26
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Col. Dick Bright of Indiana has been to
see Mr. Cleveland and has come away inn
pressed with the idea that Cleveland is a
/ f -,
that there will be nothing like clean
sweep. This will tend to increase the
Democracy's doubt as to whether they
have drawn an elephant or Il whole circus.
The Chicago Socialists have issued an
address to the workingmen giving them
the pleasant advice to make themselves
familiar with dynamite in order to be able
to use it in the inevitable w4r between
labor and capital. Luckily workingmen
who will take this advice are likely to get
killed in famliarizing themselves with
the explosive.
The divorce reformers have IA powerful
ally in Pope Leo. His Holiness has issued
pontiiical letter in which he strongly
denounces divorce as Il fragrant violation
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vigorous language is directed against the
divorce bill now under discussion in the
Italian Chambers, but it is very certain
also to influence the minds of his flock
throughout the world.
The special exhibit to be made at New
Orleans is in charge of ex-senator Bruce
of Mississippi, who says that although the
exhibit has been hastily prepared it will be-
surprising proof of the immense progress
made by the race which only twenty-one
years ago was held in bondage. He be
lieves that it will show II greater advance
than was ever made by any other people
under such circumstances in the same
time.
The New York TribUnC makes Il fresh
calculation of the vote for President, dis
tributing the Butler vote in the several
States where there was Il fusion ticket as
accurately rs may be, and makes II plu-
rality for Mr.. Blaine in the whole country
of 1856. 1t says that if there could have
been u free and fair vote and an honest
count in all the States the vote of the
country would have stood about like. this.
Blaine 5000, 900 Cleveland 1900, 600 all
others 100000.
The Willimantic Thread company. the
large Connecticut concern which employs
thousands of operatives, has recently been
compelled to cut down their wages ten per
cent, and yet it appears by an authorize
tive statement made by the company, that
with wages thus reduced the operators get
double what they did twenty-five years
ago from the same company, and the
same sort of thread sells for less than halt
what it sold for then, All this happened
under the operation of IL high protection
tarll, which the free traders tell us does
not increase the wages of the producer
while it enhances the price to the CON
sumer
Captain Bedford PIN, II. n, comes out
as the promoter of Il scheme to build I
railroad from Cheyenne, Wyoming Terri
tory, to lludson's Bay for the cattle trans
pOrtatiOn service to England, the Unitet
States and England each to guarantee one
aud half per cent interest ON the cost o
building the road. Captain PIN is alsC
trying to secure the lease of three million
acres Of land forcattlc raising in Montana
On that acreage he could raise seVera
hundred thousand cattle II year This
new road would be used to take Them to
England, and the United States would be
made to pay for the privilege of carryin4
Captain Pins .cattlc for the benefit Of
Captain PIN and England.
The Baltimore sun (Dem) has the fol
lowing information; "A prominent Yer
mont Democrat says the Democracy o.
that commonwealth will not be exceeded
in the vigor of the wild hunt for Office by
the Democracy of any other State. Their,
are not many fat Federal offices in Yer
mont, but the Nermonter says this make'
no difference that the clamor for every
place down to the petty pOstoflcc that
pays s. year will be immense and inor