The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28
Notes and Opinions.


brella.-Messenger.
IT is now expected that Liberty will
begin to enlighten the world from Bed
loe's Island in New York harbor about
September Sd.
QUEEN VICTORIA, in accepting Glad
stones resignation, omitted the usual
courtesy of asking his advice about the
choice of his successor.
TEMPERANCE men are as much to
blame as anybody for the non-enforce-
ment of the law, since they are a great
deal more prompt to declaim than to
prosecute.-Newbmyport Herald.
IT would be good thing if there
were no Immigrant railroad attorneys
in the United States senate. 1t would
be better thing if there was no tele-
phone attorney in the cabinet.-Sm.
THE Sheldon anti-Edmunds men in
Rutland county, having got seven hun
dred signatures to petition asking him
to run, have decided to hold mass con-
vention the 4th of August to put him in
nomination.
THE only way to restore the political
equilibrium is to divide the State of
New York into two states. The bal
ance of power now held by New York
is menace to the peoples rights and
American liberty.-Jounal.
WHILE it is utterly impossible to
fathom the immediate designs of Rus
STA, the constant activity of that power
in real or simulated threats as against
other powers is proof of her ultimate
purpose.-Providence Journal.
THE trouble with organized labor is
that it has placed in too many instances
indiscreet, injudicious, unreliable and
Enthusiastically men in control, and the
working masses have not found this out
until harm has been done to their in
terests. ALBANY Journal.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT no longer
enthuses over Edmunds as presiden-
tial candidate. He says frankly that
he was disappointed in Edmunds'
course after Blaine's nomination. The
woods are full of republicans who
feel as he feels.-Plattsburgh Telegram
(rpubHcaD.
WE violate no confidence in stating
that when band marched past the Of
fees of the United States legation in
London on the Fourth of July, playing
Yankee Doodle" Ed. Phelps asked a
duke who happened to be standing on
the front steps what tune it was
Philadelphia Times.
THE Washington correspondent Of
the New York Commercial Adrertise,
reviews what he is pleased to call the
decline of Mr.. Edmunds' chances fol-
the presidential nomination. He re.
ports the sentiment at the capital to be
that Mr.. Edmunds will never get any
higher than he is now"
THE Era cannot but feel sense OF
pride in being singled out as the only
paper of the state press that Senator
Edmunds, in his wise discernment
should feel constrained to buy up in or
der to further what appeared to be {
dead cause, his reelection to the United
States senate.-F'dir Hduen Era.
EDWARD EVERETT HALE says thai
low spirits are sign of poor training
and not always the result of lack o.
physical effort. If people could be
trained not to worry about things they
can't help, what comfortable wOrlC
this would be. Those who worry abou
things they can help are simply foolish
WASHINGTON is reported as the
hottest city in the country and the
sufferings of the congressman are in
tense. 1t is impossible to feel any
deep sympathy for them. They are
reaping what they have sown. Through
the winter and spring months they dial
lied with their work.-A lbdny ErpresS
THE Chicago Tribune thus refers t.
one result of the English elections
Gone of the saddest things in connec
ton with the defeat of Gladstone il
that several newspapers in Texas hav,
made it the occasion for inserting roos
tiers at the head of their frst-page col
umns. They regarded it in some sor
as democratic victory"
WE believe that the republican part,
is ready to adopt uncompromising hos
tility to the saloon in polite" as on
of its cardinal principles. But the at
tempt to limit the expression of thi
hostility to single form, as if tn
: method were everything and the prin
ciple secondary, will only weaken an
dissipate forces which ought not to b
wasted. Boston journal.
, THE price of silver is still dropping
, Just now the coin in four standard si
= yer dollars is worth just three gold dol
: lars. We tolerate the silver dollar be
| cause we suppose that the United State
will back it up, but with congress work
. ing hard to get the surplus out of tn
treasury, how long can the governmer
sustain the face-value of dollars thu
are worth only seventy-ive cents? TIL
: question is bound to force itself upo
G us.-Sprinqfeld Union.