The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-02

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that they cannot get in without paying
still more come on with rush.-Sln.
THE free-trade journals are felicitat-
ing themselves on the presence at the
recent Chicago pow-wow of a number
of manufacturers. Their presence is
easily explained. They are men who
want to reduce the wages of their work
men to the English starvation standard
and those who see that they can make
more money if the duty on raw mate
rails should be abolished.-1oledo Blade.
THE Congregational churches of Con-
necticut have taken action looking to
the abolition of Fast day. They have
appointed committee to report to the
state conference next year on the ex-
pediency of suggesting to the governor
the discontinuance of the annual proc
lamation of Fast day. The cause of
this action is because the day has lost
its distinctively religious character and
become holiday.
THE bloody shirt hasn't been waved
yet in this country, but if the democrats
really want it waved they can be ac-
commodated. They will wish it had
never been called up if they do demand
it. The two great republican princi-
Piles are protection to American indus
tries and an honest, fair vote. If we
drop these we might as well all become
mugwumps and vote on one side or the
other, as fancy dictates.-John Sherman
MARSHAL SERRANo, ex-dictator of
Spain, died last week, aged seventy
five. He entered the army at an early
age, and was promoted to high rank
during the civil wars. He had been
minister of war, captain-general of
Cuba, president of the senate, COM
mander-in-chief of the armies, and was
regent after the fight of Isabella, in
1868, until Prince Amadeus accepted the
Spanish crown. In 1883 he was Spanish
ambassador to Paris.
THE story comes from Birmingham,
Alabama, that two Christian ladies who
recently went from Illinois to labor
among the colored people were COM
PEELED to search a whole day before
they could find family that would
board them, the objection to them
being their mission. They were at last
taken in by family from the North.
They were given to understand that if
they were going to interest themselves
in the negroes they should seek accom-
modations among them.
JUSTICE MILLER of the supreme
court holds that Senator Edmunds is
still president pro tenn. of the senate,
inasmuch as the tenure of office of the
president of the senate is not limited
by single session, for the senate is a
body IN perpetuO, not expiring by linn
itation, as does the house. 1t is re-
ported that large majority of senators
dissent from this view, and maintain
that the presiding officer does not hold
over a change of vice-presidents, or
from one congress to another.
elf the Independents really want to
see George F. Edmunds elected presi-
dent of the senate, why can't they keep
their mouths shut? The Vermont SEN
ator is a great man and there are a
great many reasons why he should be
taken to succeed Hendricks, but it is
doubtful if he can carry such load as
the mugwumps are piling upon him by
their support. "-Manchester On. H.
Mirror. The Mirror is right about
this. Nothing is more fatal to the
chances of candidate for office this
year than the support of the mugwumps
and their newspaper organs.
THE Northeastern Lumberman is
fearful that there will be much trouble
from smallpox in the logging camps the
coming winter. With an epidemic of
that disease in Canada, it thinks it is
highly probable that the contagion will
be introduced into Michigan and Wis
consin camps-more especially into
those of Michigan-by Canadian work
men. 1t has been proved that logging
camp makes good foothold for small
pox. The men are huddled together,
are not clearly in their habits or care
full about exposing themselves.
Miss ELAINE GooDALE, in letter
in the Boston Advertiser, points out an
incidental evil of the present system of
paying auuullleS 10 tne luulduS III
goods, which is self-evident, indeed,
but which we have not before seen
noted in the discussions on this topic.
The Indian by this process is left with
out money, and therefore without
means to pay for the product of other
Indians labor. Accordingly, "the boy
who has learned his trade at Hampton
or Carlisle finds it practically useless
for lack of a market for his wares"
Mr.. JUSTICE FIELD of the supreme
court of the United States, in stating
the policy of the law with regard to the
Sabbath, recently made the following
observations: claws setting aside Sun
day as day of rest are upheld, not
from any right of the government to
legislate for the promotion of religious
observances, but from its right to pro-
tect all persons from the physical and
moral debasement which comes from
uninterrupted labor. Such laws have
always been deemed beneficent and
merciful laws, especially to the poor
and dependent, to the laborers in our
factories and workshops, and in the
heated rooms of our cities; and their
validity has been sustained by the high
est courts of the states"