The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09
Notes and Opinions.

sub-let the contract for smashing him.
THE democracy must make net
gain of five seats to have one majority
in the senate of 1887, but they cannot
get that number.
THE Philadelphia Times thinks that
the free-traders in congress will en-
deavor to overthrow every feature of
the protective system.
OF the one hundred eighty-four demo-
dred eight are from the South, and sixty
eight of these were members of the last
or preceding houses.
GREAT BRITAIN has conquered Bur-
nah, and thereby has opened new
foreign market for British trade. There
are not many more markets to open by
that method.-Journal.
THE New York Sun (democrat)
thinks that Land Commissioner Sparks
has been more jealous than discreet in
suspending the entries of nearly 10000
settlers on public lands in the West.
THE treasury officers are not sur
prised that there is no reduction of the
public debt during November. The
pension payments have aggregated over
eleven millions and other disbursements
have been large.
Hon. SAMUEL J. TILDEN has adj
dressed letter to Speaker Carlisle,
strongly urging the Importance of APP
plying the surplus revenues of the
country to repairing and strengthening
our sea-coast defences.
WITH less hopes, apparently, in the
power of bribery and corruption than
most democratic papers have, the Buff
falo Courier remarks that "there APP
pears to be no good reason to think
that Senator Sherman will not be re-
elected"
partisan press strikes the Milwaukee
Sentinel as " rare bit of cheek" con-
sidering the fact that the mugwump Or
gans are more unjust and violent in
attacking private character than the or
gans of any other party.
A DISPATCH says that Vermont demo-
Gratis are Fostering the administration
for office. We thought that every one
of the score or so of democrats in that
state already had an office apiece. Do
they want two or three each? Are they
after the earth?-JOurndl.
"IF Archdeacon Farrar came to Amer
lea for rest, he certainly did not get it.
His three months visit has been almost
continuous round of lectures, SER
mons and entertainments. "-Iribune.
But he is probably well satisfied with
his trip, as his thirty-six lectures real
lied for him more than fifteen thousand
dollars.
THE following notice in the st. Johns
bury Caledonian is applicable to other
newspapers and localities: "There are
good many small bills due this office
which we urgently ask may be settled
at once. Most Of the bills are so small
that we cannot afford to 90 after them,
but the aggregate amount is what we
rely on to pay our bills. If this notice
hits you, you are the one it is intended
to hit"
SEVERAL democratic papers have
found fault because so few emblems of
mourning were displayed here and
there in honor of the late Vice-presi-
dent. Perhaps it did not occur to them
that the republicans, at least, were not
able to forget Mr.. Hendricks unpat-
riotic record during the war and his
rank bourbonism since the war. There
was little in his political career to make
his death an occasion for genuine pub
lie sorrow.
HARPER's WEEKLY, commenting on
the apparent inconsistencies in the
Presidents course in the matter of APP
pointments, suggests that it may be GO a
policy of expediency, and, like every
such policy, is not to be tested by un-
compromising principles. This seems
to convey the surprising suggestion
that the Presidents sincerity is to be
tested on the low basis of eXpediency,
instead of the exalted standard of prin-
ple.-Boston Journal.
THE Northwestern farmers have really
no interest apart from the general
prosperity of the country. Their des-
tiny is bound up with that of America
and not of England The diversified
and rapid evolution of American in
dustry under the influence of the tariff
has opened the Northwest and provided
markets for its products. A regime of
free-trade in America would bring
sad day for western farmers. In the
general setback they could not pos
sibly escape.-Minneapohs Tribune.
THE advice of the London Times to
the tories and modern liberals to bury
the Ratchet indicates that Englishmen
may sacrifice a good deal in order to
curb the growing power of the nation
alists. If the Parnellites have fortu-
nately come to hold the balance of power,
it has been through the differences in
British sentiment. The nationalist
have fairly won their place by judicious
combinations made upon the turn of the
tide, and they are entitled to enjoy it.
Fair play comedies this, but in dealing
with Ira1on6 an1 tho Irish paopla En-