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

HE re-eleCIlOH OF MT. CarllSle as
speaker of the national house of repre-
sentatives seems to be assured.
A New YORK democratic paper nom
mates President Cleveland for re-elec-
ton in 1888, and Governor-elect Lee of
Virginia for vice-president.
A New YORK lawyer says it will take
the United States supreme court one
hundred thirty-three years to get even
with business at the present rate of
progress.
CINCINNATI is said to be rapidly los
ing its trade on account of the political
corruption that reigns there. Some
large houses have already removed to
other cities, and others will do so within
the next few months.
THE practice of burning instead of
burial of the dead gains rapidly all over
the land. The newest crematio-' So
ciety is the New England, at Boston,
which has just been incorporated with
a capital stock of $4,000.
To allow or submit to the fragrant
breaking of the sanitary laws necessary
to preserve public health is a crime
only trife less heinous, and fully as
terrible in its effects, as the direct and
deliberate breaking of the laws. Chris
tan Union.
THE Boston Herald has the true
mugwumpian way of dealing with the
southern question. 1t admits that
southern outrages are probably wrong,
but it insists that the remedy is to be
found in keeping in power the party
that commits them and profits by them.
This is the view that the Southern
bourbons themselves take Concord
Monitor.
Mr.. BLAINE's candidacy certainly
repealed good many voters last year,
and this year Mr.. Davenport's can
didacy brought them back. But the re-
turns would seem to indicate that Mr..
Blaine's candidacy also attracted a
good many voters whom Mr.. Daven-
ports candidacy did not hold. In fact,
it seems to have attracted three or four
times as many as it repealed. Tribune.
If there is one thing more than
another that the labor organizations
need to take to their hearts and heed
it is this one warning: Beware of agi-
tators. The most of them are men
who will not work, but are determined
tolive at the expense of others who are
too honest and too industrious to take
from any one else what they have re-
turned no equivalent for.-Ioledo Blade.
IT is now stated that the Presidents
order refusing to receive persons who
come to ask or recommend others for
office will be construed literally. 1t is
intended to keep out the crowd of ire
responsible applicants, but congress-
men and their friends will be received
as before; also those bearing suitable
introductions and others who call the
day before and obtain an appointment
for an interview through Secretary La
mont.
LITTLE DENMARK is the scene of an
intense political agitation, bordering on
revolution, at the present time. The
lower house of the legislature, elected
by the people, has insisted for years on
certain reforms, which are opposed by
the king and the upper house, COM
posed of mobiles. AS result of the con-
fiict, the representatives of the people
have refused to pass the usual appro-
priations, or to levy taxes for the sup
port of the government.
VERY few republican clerks in the
departments at Washington went home
to their states to vote. Their confidence
in civil service reform under demo-
cratic auspices wasn't strong enough to
warrant taking the chances of voting
for republican candidates. The demo-
cratic clerks, however, generally went
home, and Higgins spent the time for
which the government pays him in
working at the polls in Baltimore in the
interest of the democratic ticket
Troy Times.
THE question as to the probable atti-
tude of the senate towards the appoint
ments of President Cleveland is being
much discussed, but senators them
selves, with few exceptions, are reticent
in the matter. Senator Plumb of Kan
sas, it is thought, pretty accurately eX-
presses the general republican senti-
ment when he says that there will
probably be no refusal to confirm the
Presidents nominations, except on the
score of untitness, and it is reported
that the President himself is less APP
prehensive over the matter than he was
six weeks or two months ago.
IT cannot be denied that the satisfac-
tory solution of the Chinese problem is
full of difficulty. Were we in the stu
alton of the jewellers on the Pacific
coast, looking with dread upon the inva-
sion of horde of foreigners whose re-
ligion and civilization and manners and
customs were so unlike ours, we might
well be puzzled to know Just what to
do. The thing, however, which is
being done to stay the incoming tide,
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