The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-23

viduals, have to live, sleep and often
work in suites" of single room.
In 5000 of these rooms there is neither
stove nor fireplace. One-fourth of
their tenants are poor dodgers. Twenty
five thousand families live in cellars,
under sanitary conditions that are char
acterized as absolutely shocking.
THERE is excellent authority for
stating that by its recent purchase of
one-half the stock of the Central YER
mont the Grand Trunk gains no voting
power in the company, says the Boston
Advertiser, and every certificate bears
an Endorsement to this effect. Sir
Henry Tyler's statement to the Grand
Trunk stockholders, at their semi-an-
nual meeting, that the company had ac-
quired control of the Central Vermont
is believed to have had no other founda-
ton (and that is probably all he in
tended) than the offensive and defen-
sive traffic alliance formed last summer.
SENATOR ALDRIcH of Rhode Island
believes that the hope of the republican
party for future success lies in the
agitation and advocacy of protection.
The labor question is becoming i'm
portant-how the great masses of work
ing people shall be made and kept con-
tented. Through republican rule, with
protection in full execution, they had
good wages and plenty of work. AS the
country has swung back toward the
democratic party, things have changed.
The people need education in the princi-
pie of protection as sound doctrine of
craftsmanship. The republican party
must push it to the front and make it
the issue of issues"
DIR. TEIGEL said to Tribune re-
porter: 81 hold that two things are
necessary for a cholera epidemic. First,
there must be favorable meteorological
and geological conditions, and there
must also exist the virus The pres
ence of the latter alone cannot cause
epidemic, neither can sanitary iniquity
alone. The virus may remain latent
for years in some countries and then be
developed when the right conditions are
realized. l proved this in Japan.
Cholera appeared in some places where
there had been no importation for years.
| always advocated cremation of chol-
era victims; it is the only safe and
proper method of disposing of them"
THE Philadelphia Press, in note on
the Presidents message, says of its ST.
lence about the colored people: " No
where in his long message did Presi-
dent Cleveland find room to say word
about the colored people or to encour-
age any of the movements made to fur
Their their welfare. He could devote
as much space as a presidents message
usually occupies to foreign relations
discuss the Chinese question, the indie
pendent state of the Congo and natural
ization frauds, but he had no concern
about Z 200, 900 of people whose future
is one of the most intricate problems
the nation has to settle. Such profound
silence is significant, and it will be in
terpreted as meaning that Mr.. Cleve-
land shares the prejudices of the demo.
cratic party against the colored race.
THE knights of Labor are indignant
because some manufacturers conclude
that they will not employ the members
of any labor organization, and there
fore discharge from their employment
all such members. But these men forget
that this is just the end to which their
own course naturally leads. They for
bid, when they can, the employment OF
persons who are not members of theiI
labor organizations. 1t is inevitable
that, as reply, some employers will
be inclined to refuse employment to
any who are members, when they can
do so consistently with their own inter
ests. This is great fault of many
labor organizations. They do not
recognize that all labor, whether within
or not within their organizations, has
an equal claim to consideration and an
equal right to freedom and protection
They do not recognize that labor and
the employer of labor are both equally
freeto choose where they will and whom
they will.-I'ribme.