The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17

terror of a Quincy ledge could be moved
by recital of the landing of the Pill
grims. The mugwump of the " eastern
bird " stamp had as leave befoul the
political nest in which he was last rested
and warmed as any other spot. He has
no enthusiasm and no memories save
disliking most of those whom he last
leaves.-Ihe State.
ONE of the marked features of the
prevalent labor troubles is that the dis
content seems to be general, cropping
out in almost every department of in
dustry. In many cases this discomfort
is explainable on good and sufficient
grounds, but in others it is unreasona-
bic. Wage-earners have not been in
all cases content to wait for the assur-
ance that a revival in the branch of
business in which they are engaged is
permanent before they have demanded
increase of wages.-Irdveller.
CERTAIN congressman in Washing
ton are pushing resolution providing
for constitutional amendment to make
the presidential and vice-presidentia
offices elective by popular vote, which
they say they hope to have passed
through congress in time to be ratified
by three-fourths of the states before the
next presidential election. This, they
claim, would give the presidency to the
South or West, and take from New
York the balance of power which that
state holds under the present system.
THE Washington Republican confirms
what the WATCHMAN has asserted in
regard to the increase in the number of
war claims before congress. Disloyalty
of the claimants has been held to be
bar against the allowance of their
claims, but the further we get away
from the war the more difficult it be-
comes to prove disloyalty. Besides,
several members of the house COM
mittee on war claims hold that dis
loyalty during the war should have
nothing to do with the allowance or
disallowance of this class of claims.
WHY is it that gold-piece is as rare
now as it ever was at high-water mark
in the greenback deluge? Unquestion-
ably it seems to me because the simple
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Gresham's law, which teaches a man to
hold on to that which is more and to
part with that which is less valuable,
provided he can accomplish the same
object, is already beginning to work.
Gold is not yet at premium, but you
may depend upon it there are hundreds
and thousands of men who are hoard
ing it up against the day when it will
command a premium. - Congressman
Lindlay Of Maryland.
THAT extreme depression in the
prices of all products prevails through
out the world no one disputes, but I'M
questionably there is less suffering here
than elsewhere. Modern improvements
in machinery and the universal appli-
cation of steam-power appear to have
produced a surplus of manufactures
among all the leading nations, and all
are more anxious to sell than to buy.
The reduced cost of transportation
brings the harvests of the remotest
lands into all ports and all markets.
India, Africa, Australia and New Yea
land are neighbors to all mankind, and
their products must now be counted
The great Powers of Europe, hungry
for the ungathered scraps of trade to be
found lurking among the rudest tribes
of men, are making war for colonial
empire, for the islands of the sea or for
petty provinces, and spending millions
upon millions abroad as the price OF
protection to manufactures at home
which some of them there ostentatiously
pretend to refuse. Ourpolicy, on the con
trary, is altogether peaceful, and it does
not, with hostile armies, invade peace
full communities; but we prize the home
market, with its fifty millions of pros
porous people, so highly as to be un.
willing to surrender it to any kind OF
foreign invasions, civil or military
Senator Morrill,.