The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14

a conspicuous case, TO do Uiolence TO hi
conscience by supporting candidate
his party for president whom he did no
believe to be fit or safe man for tina
position. --Boston Herald (mug,cump)
The italics are ours.
THE Rutland Herald pretends not tc
know to whom the WATCHOfAN re-
ferred in abiding to certain poker
playing and whiskey-guzzling states
men in Washington" "Where ignor.
ance is bliss, It's folly to be wise" Thd
Herald should read Encouragement
Garland's testimony in which he con-
fesses his poker-playing proclivities
also the congressional junketing bills
in which liquors of various kinds are
itemized; and it can probably get the
names of good many of the sort of
" statesmen to whom we referred on
application to any well-informed Wash
ington correspondent.
THE National Temperance League of
England issues statistics showing APP
palling mortality among men directly
concerned in the liquor trade. The
average death-rate in the country is |
1000 in GA ,64l males. The relative
death-rates in different classes are as
follows: Clergymen, 556; farmers and
graziers, 63l; agricultural laborers, 701 Il
carpenters, $50; coal miners. S91: ma
sons and bricklayers, 969; plumbers
and painters, / ,203: brewers, 1861 /
inn-keepers, publicans and saloon-keep-
ers, 1,521; public house and hotel
| rha e
these figures is unmistakable.
THE evils complained of in the jury
system have been mainly brought about
by the almost universal repugnance of
the better class of citizens to Jury
service. In order to be relieved from
the attendance at court every known
excuse has been made available by pro-
fessional and business men, and both
the civil and criminal panels have been
left to be filled in a great degree by
those who have had either no excuse to
offer or who have had no preference
between their work and Jury duty.
But, with all of its shortcomings, the
jury system blazoned the way to per-
sonal freedom and we must continue
to trust the iuries. A little sacrifice of
time and convenience on the part of in
telligent men now and then would 90
far toward improving their personnel
Philadelphia Record.
FORBES writes to the Boston Journal
in regard to the hay crop in Vermont
as follows: "The grasshopper plague
seems to be less prevalent this year
than last, but the white daisy more nu-
merous than ever The area of i'm
proved land devoted to the hay crop
does not materially vary from last year.
About l,lOO,O acres are utilized for
grass-growing, and the average yield
per acre is about one ton. Some farm
ers report the yield in their vicinity to
be less than this, while others state it
: to be more. In Rutland, Addison, La
noble, Chittenden, Washington, Wind
sor, Orange, Orleans and Franklin
counties the increased yield this year
over last is reported to be all the way
from fifteen to thirty per cent. In Es-
: sex, Windham, Grand Isle and Gale
donia counties the crop is reported to
be little less than the average
IN an address to the New York
Clerical Union Thomas g. Shearman
said the real cause of the difference
= of wages is the difference in pro-
ductive power, and statistics show that
productive power is invariably increased
5 by education. In six states, where the
proportion of those unable to read or
write is over thirty-three per cent, the
{ average wages per month are under
! SD; whereas in six contiguous states,
l where the average of those unable to
read or write is below five per cent, the
average wages are from S24 to S25 a
9 month. In New Mexico fortv-eight
. per cent of those above twenty-one
years can neither read nor write, and
= the wages average SD. On the other
/ hand, only five and one-half per cent of
the population of Colorado are wholly
! without education, and the wages aver
age over $50. This cause operates with
} more uniformity than any yet assigned.
THE Newport Erpress Indignantly
denies the statement of the North Troy
Palladium that the Edmunds resolu-
ton passed by the Irasburgh conven-
I ton was " slid in at the last moment,
= when all but dozen delegates had left
VIC HAIL. lHc E|pTtSS says IL is Il
''gross Misrepresentation" Where
: upon the Rutland Herald feels con-
strained to remark that the "anti-
a Edmunds papers" will probably not
\ treat the "cause" or their readers
! fairly by making the proper correction.
D 1t comes with poor grace from papers
/ that are suppressing unpleasant facts
/ about Mr.. Edmunds to charge other
: papers with disposition to conceal the
truth. How many of the Edmunds
papers have published the scandalous
e fact that Mr.. Edmunds has endorsed
= Pan-Electric - Garland as san up
O right and just man?" How many of
= them (Which have dwelt upon the al
legged fact that Mr.. Edmunds is the foe
n of corporations and all forms of job
II berry, have informed their readers con-
: corning his intimate relations with the
= land-grant railroad corporations since
!. he has been a member of the senate?
Il How many of them have made any al
y fusion to certain other unpleasant mat
: tiers connected with Mr.. Edmunds' per-
: sonal and public life? The fact is, the
l. Edmunds papers know that they are
n carrvino n heavy load and they try tO