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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04
Notes and Opinions.


Mr.. BLAINE expects to finish the
second and last volume of his book by
the holidays.
THE ninth annual meeting of the
American Humane Association will be
held in st. Louis November 18th.
THE Brattleboro Reormer is another
state paper that commends Mr. Wal
toms suggestion in regard to annual
legislative sessions.
IT is announced in apparent good
faith that henceforth the President will
not see oflice-seekers or their friends,
even though they may be congressman.
HUMAN nature, says a Washington
correspondent, works as strongly in the
United States senate as anywhere else
in the world. Senators have their petty
spites as well as their great ambitions.
THE election campaign seems to be
growing warmer in Great Britain.
There are an abundance of speeches
being made, but no new development of
policy that is especially marked. The
Irish difficulty is still the main point,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04
General Mcclellan.

The death of General George B.
Mcclellan, which occurred from heart
disease at Orange Mountain, N. j.,
last week, came with quite a shock to
the country, as it was not generally
known that he had not been in his
usual good health for some time. He
was born in Philadelphia in 1926, and
after studying at the University of
Pennsylvania, entered the Military
Academy at West Point, from which he
graduated, second in his class, in 1916.
He served with considerable distinction
in the Mexican war; and from 1S47 to
1855 he was engaged mainly in engi-
neering works in different parts of the
United States. In 1856 he was, as a
captain of artillery, member of the mill
tary commission visiting the seat of
war in the Crimea. The next year he
resigned his commission in the army to
accept the position of chief engineer of
the Illinois Central railroad, and in 1860
became president of the st. Louis & Gin
cinnati railroad. On the outbreak of the
rebellion he was commissioned as ma
jor-general of Ohio volunteers, and was
placed in command of military depart
ment comprising the states of Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, and parts of Pennsyl-
vania and Virginia. He was commits
stoned maior-general of the regular
army May IA, 1861, and commanded in
several successful engagements in West
Virginia. After the first battle of Bull
Run he was called to Washington and
placed in command of the division of
the Potomac, and on the resignation of
General Scott in November, 1861, he
was appointed general-in-chief of the
armies of the United States. He took
the field in March, 1S62-having in the
meantime been relieved of the COM
mand of all except the Army of the Po-
tomac-and opened his campaign by
besieging Yorktown, which was aban-
doned by the confederates as soon as
his batteries were ready to open fire.
He then advanced toward Richmond,
moving slowly and reaching the Chica-
hominy about May 20. His campaign
was brought to virtual close by the
battle of Malvern Hill on July l, and
falling back to Harrison's Landing, he
intrenched himself.
In the meantime General Halleck had
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04
PerniciOus Literature.

We have been gratified to see that
there is no disposition among those
who have taken the matter well in
hand to back down from their warfare
against pernicious literature. 1t is,
however, subject that should be con-
sidered in the light of reason rather
than Of prejudice. 1t may be difficult
to determine where the line should be
drawn between books and periodicals
that are only seemingly Objectionable
in moral point of view, and those
that are of doubtful morality and I'M
doubted vulgarity. A good many in
teresting and instructive books possess
some Objectionable features, and yet
it might not be proper to exclude such
works from our libraries. 1t is largely
a question of degree in such cases. But
there ought to be but one opinion re-
garding the disgusting publications that
promote impure and vicious habits and
sentiments: these should be repressed.
The familarizing of crime--its haunts,
its language and profanity, and its
achievements-by means of story-papers
and dime-novels, is a matter for the
clergyman, the journalist, the father
and mother, and for every lover of
moral order to look after The law
should look to this pernicious literature,
which is easily recognizable, if the pre-
vention is better than the cure of vice
and crime. There should be no more
hesitation about suppressing a class of
literature that is reeking with all man
ner of indecencies and vileness than
there is to the duty of removing a nui-
sance, quarantining an infected house,
or checking a conhagration. Beyond
this, perhaps, the civil power cannot
safely go, for it is an extremely diff
cult task to appraise the moral quality
of doubtful, or seemingly doubtful,
publications. In reference to such
books, there can be no authoritative
censorship exercised by any one man
or body of men. Public opinion and
public sentiment must govern in such
matters, and the virtue of society must
be its own protection. There is reason
to believe that the flash novel and its
associates are losing ground; and that
the publication of the best literature in
cheap form, which was only begun a
few years ago, has had wonderful in
fiuence in promoting this change for
the better. The works of the best
authors can now be so easily obtained
that they are proving formidable rival
to the flashy, clap-trap fiction which
has cursed the country for generation.
There is much that is trashy, if not
positively pernicious, in the cheap Ii
braries of to-day, but there can be no
doubt that in some respects they have
a far-reaching influence in refining and
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04

AN article contributed to the Scien-
tJfc american by John G. Goodridge,
Jr., considers the possibility of chang
ing the temperature of the Atlantic
States by closing the Strait of Belle Isle
between Newfoundland and Labrador
and thus cutting off the Polar, or Lab
rador current, which flows between the
Gulf stream and our Atlantic coast.
The result would probably be that while
Block Island and Cape Cod would be-
come winter watering-places, England
would have a climate similar to that
now existing in Labrador. Mr.. Good
ridge thinks the closing of the strait a
possibility in engineering, as the rocks
from one hundred to two hundred five
feet high-bordering the strait would
furnish the material for the dam. The
cost of the proposed dam is estimated
at S40,000,000. The reason why the
Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to
New Jersey gets so little benefit from
the Gulf stream is because the cold cur
rent flows between the coast and the
warm water.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04
Facts to be Remembered.

In mastery address on national is
sues at Petersburg, Virginia, last week,
Senator Sherman effectually disposed
of the fallacy, somewhat prevalent at
the present time, that there is prac-
tically little difference between the two
great parties of the country in respect
to principles and policies. He said
very truly that the democratic party
proposes nothing, it does nothing, and
is nothing except an encumbrance on
the national life of our country.
1t is well not to forget the past
achievements of the republican party.
During the twenty-four years of its
control of the national government, it
crushed the greatest rebellion of mod
ern times; blotted out the system of
human slavery; revived our PROSTATE
manufactures by the policy of protec-
ton; added untold millions to the ma
tional wealth; gave to the country the
most perfect financial system ever de-
vised and stable currency; raised the
national credit to the highest point
ever reached; reduced the national
debt very largely, and the burden of in
terest from S172, 100000 annually to
less than 100000, 900; extended the rail-
road system to the Pacific, and pursued
an enlightened policy in regard to all
p,affars n ffontinr tha no4io,o1
On the other hand, the democratic
party during the rebellion quite gener-
ally opposed every measure calculated
to bring the war to a successful issue,
and often declared in its platforms that
the war was a failure; opposed the
freeing of the slaves and comforting the
right of citizenship and suffrage upon
them; opposed the protection of Ameri-
can industries; favored an irredeem-
able paper currency for time; opposed
the system of revenue by which the
payment of the national debt was made
possible; opposed the national banking
system; INSTRUCTED all the measures of
the republican party for the protection
of the ballot; and it has opposed every
republican scheme that was in the line
of progress.
The difference between the two
parties is none the less marked to-day
than it has been during the past twenty
four years. The republican party adj
heres to the principles and issues which
are vital to the country's welfare. The
democratic party has nothing to offer
to the country that gives it any claim
to public confidence. Thus far the
democratic administration has accom-
plished little that is creditable, because,
as Senator Sherman has explained, it
has no affirmative principle and is I'M
able to propose anything or do anything
for the common good.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04

become general-in-chief and ordered
General Mcclellan to return with his
whole army to Fortress Monroe and
Yorktown. After General Pope's de-
feat at Bull Run, August 20 and 30, Cen
eral Mcclellan was put in command of
the forces in and about Washington.
After the confederates had been re-
PEELED in their invasion of Maryland
there was much dissatisfaction with
General McClellan's slowness in fol-
lowing them, and on November 18th he
was superseded by General Ambrose
E. Burnside. Ordered to Trenton, N.
j., he took no further part in the war,
and on November s, 1864, he resigned
from the army. In August, 1864, he
was nominated at Chicago as the dem
ocratic candidate for the presidency,
but received but twenty-one electoral
votes-those of Delaware, Kentucky
and New Jersey-the remaining two
hundred twelve being cast for Abra-
ham Lincoln. OF the popular vote, a
little more than fifty-fve per cent
(2,213, $500 were cast for Lincoln, and a
little less than forty-fve per cent q ,S02,-
237) were cast for Mcclellan. He re-
signed his major-general's commission
on the day of election, November s,
1864, and soon after visited Europe,
where he remained till 1868, when he
returned to the United States and re-
sumed the practice of his profession as
engineer. He has since had the super
vision of the construction of important
public works, and was elected governor
of New Jersey in 1877. He was the
author of Manual of Bayonet Exer-
cise," a volume of government Gre
ports on the Pacific Railroad Survey"
" Report of the Organization and Cam
paigns of the Army of the Potomac"
and of quite frequent contributions to
the leading magazines on military SUBJ
jects and on travel.
Probably few of the commanders of
the civil war have been the subject of
more severe criticism than Mcclellan;
but he was generally popular with the
soldiers who served under him. In his
"Twenty Years of Congress Mr..
Blaine has this to say of General
Mcclellan: "The opinion of majority
of intelligent observers, both civil and
military, is that he was man of high
professional training, admirably skilled
in the science of war, capable of COM
handing a large army with success;
but, at the same time, not original in
plan, not fertile in resource, and lack
ing the energy, the alertness, the dar-
ing, the readiness to take great risks
for great ends, which distinguish the
great military leaders of the world. For
a commander of armies in an offensive
campaign, his caution was too largely
developed. He possessed in too great
a degree what the French term the de-
fensive instinct of the engineer, and
was apparently incapable of doing from
his own volition what he did so well on
the bloody field of Antietam, when
under the pressure of an overwhelming
necessity"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04
The Truth About 1t.

The much-discussed question of a
free ballot and fair count in the South,
which the democratic and mugwump
papers treat as dead issue, receives
strong impetus from remarkable arti-
Gle in the Sea Island Ne,cs of Beaufort,
S. c., and which effectively sustains
the republican position. 1t says that
for South Carolina free ballot and fair
count does not exist even in theory;
that the history of elections in that state
for nine years is filed with horrors
which no pen can describe, and that
fraud of every conceivable character
has been practiced openly without re-
straint until it almost seems to be the
order of the land. Murders and out
RACES of the most heinous nature have
been perpetrated, and excused on the
ground of political necessity, and that
necessity has been interpreted as mean
ing the success of the democratic party.
Not a single officer of the elections is
other than democrat; the uries are
of the same class; the elections are now
comparatively quiet only because the
laws have been so changed by the dem
ocratic legislatures as to make election
frauds easy of accomplishment. Coer-
cion by murder and outrage is hardly
necessary at the present time, because
fraud does the work quite as well.
1t appears that in the last election,
when the democrats contrived to figure
a majority of 4S,112, they cast within
II ,055 of the whole white vote of the
state; the republican vote was 97,616
less than the whole colored vote; and
not one-half of the colored vote was
cast, owing to the various distractions
put in the way of their voting. Moth
ing can more clearly show than the fig
ures given that large proportion of
the negro vote was inundated or sup
pressed by democratic violence and
fraud. The NeDs says: There is no
question of war involved in this issue,
except it be the divine right of few
men to rule; and the bloody shirt in
the South means any attempt to have a
fair election in which the masses have
a share in the selection of their repre-
sentatives. Let us alonel' is the cry
along the line of the solid South. 1t a
cry that has been needed too long, until
the loyal men of the South are to-day
under the feet of those who attempted
to destroy the Union. If you speak of
the rights of the negroes and that they
should not be deprived of their votes,
you get learned opinion as TO their ig-
norance, their inability to learn, with
an exaggerated account of what is
being done for the purpose of educating
them. When confronted with facts
they denounce you as bitter radical
speak of the revival of old animosties
and tell you they want no more slavery
that the South is an inviting field fol
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04
Tariff Matters.

There have been but fifty-two years
of free-trade in this country since the
Inauguration of the first president of
the United States. Almost as soon as
our country was freed from the domina-
ton of England, protective tariff was
adopted as means of securing our re-
lease from industrial dependence upon
the same power. From 1901 to 1912
the policy of the fathers of the republic
was departed from, leaving our home
industries without the stimulus of pro-
lection during that period. A protec-
tive tariff was adopted again in 1912,
only to be repealed in 1916, re-enacted
in 1924 and again repealed in 1885. In
1910 protection was again adopted and
maintained to 1S47, when the cele-
brated free-trade epoch was inau-
gurated and continued until 1860.
The present epoch, from 1860 to 1885,
is the longest period of a settled tariff
policy the nation has enjoyed.
The financial history of the country
shows that it has made its greatest
progress under the protective policy.
The time has not yet come when this
policy can safely be dispensed with.
The present industrial system ought to
be permitted to ripen unmolested, ex-
cept that tariff rates should sometime
be put on a more equable basis, until
the country can enjoy the assumed adj
vantages of free-trade under a condi-
ton of indisputable commercial SUI
premacy. In every period when the
country has tried the free-trade system,
our industries have been unsettled and
their growth and prosperity retarded.
The stock argument of the free
traders is that the tariff system works
injury to the great mass of people for
the benefit of the comparatively few.
This is disproved by a multitude of
facts. 1t is only necessary to mention
that to agriculture the protective policy
has secured a home market for its
products more constant and remunera-
tive than it could get without. The in
crease of manufactures brings the
farmers market close to his own doors.
The free-trade policy would deprive
these manufacturing industries of all
protection and open the country to the
manufacturers of all the rest of the
world to compete with our own. 1t is
true that the cost of living in this coun-
try is about ten per cent higher than in
England, but as wages average from
twenty-five to fifty per cent higher
here than there, it is evident that our
people would have nothing to gain by
the adoption of free-trade. The condi-
ton of the working classes in this coun-
try, under protective policy, is not all
that it should be, but it is so much
above the British level as to be mat
ter of just national pride. A general
revision of the tariff is probably needed,
but it should be made at time when
the country is enjoying an era of pros
perity, and not when it is Just be-
ginning to recover from long period
of business depression.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04

AT recent address in Boston on the
subject of preparatory schools, Presi-
dent Porter of Yale College expressed
the opinion that whatever uniformity
there is between college and prepare
tory school methods is mainly fostered
and promoted by the fact that the teach
ers in the preparatory schools are gen.
orally college graduates, and so bring
with them the college methods. He
believed that there ought to be differ
ence between the quality and quantity
of studies for those high school pupils
whose education is to end in these
institutions and those who are to enter
the preparatory schools and colleges.
A boy who could go no further than
the high school ought, in the higher
classes of that school, to be taught
classical and modern languages, for in
stance, in a somewhat different way
from one who was to enter the pre-
paratory schools and colleges.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04
elevating the tastes of the reading


THE recent prison reform congress
at Detroit discussed several topics of
grave Importance, among them the
management of prisons and reforma-
tories for women. In but two of the
states. are there separate prisons for
men and women; in all the rest female
convicts are confined in the state prisons
for men, in small quarters either in the
basement or attic, which are generally
ill-ventilated or ill-arranged. The close
relations into which they are often
brought with male keepers are fraught
with evils of various kinds. While
there is a matron for their immediate
care, she is not much more than serv-
ant under the warden's direction, has
no financial responsibility, and conse-
quently no power to establish educa-
tional or industrial training. In Indi-
ana and Massachusetts there are sepa-
rate reformatories for women and girls,
conducted and controlled by women.
In the Indiana prison instruction is
given in sewing, cooking, laundry work
and various other departments of house,
work, and homes are provided for
such discharged criminals as will accept
them, as most are glad to do. AS the
time of release approaches, especial
care is taken to prepare each inmate
for the home and work to which she is
going, and an oversight of her is main
tanned after her discharge. The result
of this paternal method is that over
eighty per cent of the criminals who
have passed through this reformatory
are now doing well.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04

THE Indianapolis Journal notices the
fact that twenty graduates of Boston
grammar schools were examined few
days ago, with the purpose of finding
some one fit for the position of general
clerk, and that not one of the candi-
dates passed, and comments: "Boys
and girls of former generation, whose
entire schooling was comprised in half
dozen three months terms, learned
to spell and write and cipher with an
ease and accuracy which many chill
dren do not now attain after a ten
years. course in the schools. Under
the old system the pupils did not listen
to so much instruction in geology,
botany, physiology, astronomy, nor did
they devote much attention to music,
drawing, German and French, all of
which are dinned into the ears of even
the babies now; but what they did
learn was of immediate use, and an ex-
cellent groundwork for the practical edu-
cation which must come in later life"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04

all who desire to invest, providing they
have no political opinions, or, if they
have any, that they are democratic"
What is true of South Carolina is
hardly the less true of Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Did
Senator Sherman utter too strong a
statement when he asserted that Presi-
dent Cleveland was elected by fraud9
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04

THERE'S nothing half so sweet in life
Next to the Joys of home and wife,
AS fragrant breath and pearly teeth
With hard and rosy gums beneath
And see, these charms of which we sing
Have from sweet SOZODONT their spring.
IRREPRoACHABLE.-No one word of CEN
sure can justly be uttered against SOZO-
DON'T. No other dentifrice makes the teeth
so white, and yet none is so entirely free
from every Objectionable ingredient.
be put asunder.