The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
Notes and Opinions.

THE mendacity of the Burlington
Free Press nowadays is astonishing
beyond measure.
ONE way out of this labor trouble is
to put up the bars at Castle Garden for
awhile. Cincinnati Telegram.
THE tariff thinkers are not so hand
some as they were, but they know a
mighty sight more.-Philadelphia Press.
THE guard around General Grants
tomb is to be removed June 30. That
around Garfeld's tomb has been re-
moved within few days.
THE Washington Post (democrat)
says that d" General Wheeler's attack on
ex-Secretary Stanton will cost the demo-
cratic party tens of thousands of votes"
Mr.. GARLAND's explanation that
grief keeps him from social parties
would go down better with the public
if it kept him from poker parties. -
The State.
PERHAPS it is unfortunate that there
are not offices enough to go around. If
there were, then everybody would be
measurably satisfied and we should
have sort of political millennium.
"THE republicans of Vermont de-
clared tothe country yesterday their con-
fidence in Senator Edmunds. "-Albany
Journal. As Senator Edmunds' name
was not mentioned in the convention,
the Journal will please explain.
CARL SCHURZ has been making a
speech on the subject of the progress
of reform under the Cleveland admins
tration. For obvious reasons it was
one of the shortest addresses that he
ever delivered.-St. Louis Globe-Dent-
ocrdt.
THE Boston Pilot expects that in the
coming popular contest over home-rule
in Ireland Englishmen will get new
vision of I" the relations of the 30 900
lords and landlords to the $4,000 900
of Britons whose land they hold and
whose affairs they control"
WE are informed that Senator Ed
munds has written to one of our citi-
zens that he is in favor of the oleo-
margarine bill, and that he voted for
its reference to the committee on
finance because that was the only con-
stitutional way of dealing with it.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL's cleo
toral manifesto may aptly be called re-
markable. He stigmatizes the home
rule bill as insanity trafficking in
treason, pardoning crime, exalting dis
loyalty, abusing loyalty and a mon
strous mixture of imbecility, extrava-
gance and political Mysteries"
LAST year Yale's graduating class
comprised fifty-eight free-traders, forty
four protectionists and twenty-one I'M
decided. This years graduates COM
prise fifty free-traders, sixty protec-
tionists and thirty-twO undecided, the
protectionists making handsome in
crease and the free-traders a decrease.
"AFTER some delay Frank Plumley OF
Mortified was elected temporary chair
man and wasted much valuable time in
tiresome rehearsal of the record OF
the republican party. st. Johnsburg
ColedOnidn. Nothing seems more dis.
tasteful to mugwump paper than to
have the grand record of the republican
party dwelt upon at any length.
"THE dragons teeth sown in strikes
and boycotts are already springing up
in the shape of poverty and destitu.
ton. "-Baltimore American. There is
no doubt that a new discovery of gold
such as that which occurred in Cali.
fornia and Australia in 1889, would
put an end to this suffering and restore
prosperity. But can such miracle be
expected?-Sm.
FROM an article in the Boston Her.
aid by w. II. II. Murray we make the
following extract by way of prophecy
81 foresee the day when a thousand
pleasure yachts shall whiten these blue