The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-31

Blaine, written in 1880, which wa
the hands of third party The
bune makes il clear that Mr. Edmu
did not offer to speak in favor of
Blaine's election. His many frie
throughout the country will be glad
have their faith in him confirmedn
WHAT we do not understand is
the supporters of civil service MOTTO
while apparently not blind to the
that only small part of the democrs
party or of the republican party fav
the separation of the offices from D
tics, still insist that the President star
on solid ground sticking to that poll
and that in some mysterious way
people will back him up. What Ind
as yet can there be for a reform VIII
neither of the great parties wan
What use can there be in trying
force upon the country reform it d.
not want?-Ne,C York SIN.
THE Montpelier WATCHMAN is al
ious to know where the PhGnir star
on the congressional question. We "
tell it. On the extreme point of trepid
ton. 1t expects Colonel George
Hooker, whom it called in the spri
OF 1880 a " Tammany politician "
promised to fight always, will be a cd
dldate again, and it dare not oppose hi
as it wants to. OF course it will eat
words and support him, as it has
peatedly done in the past six veal
But it is to be said in extenuation of
charge that its old master and ide.
S. NJ. Waite, disappeared from lod
politics in 1SS0.-BrdHleboro Retormd
THE right of laboring men to orga
ize and combine for the purpose
regulating the terms and condition
upon which they will sell their labor
undisputed. But the right of any nun
Der of men to make a price not on
for their own but for other people
wares cannot be admitted withoII
striking at the foundations of person
liberty The law is overridden and d !
fled when single person is denied
right to sell his labor by the violenC
or threats of any other person or con
blnation of persons; and when tn t
state of things is countenanced or Ell
couraged by public opinion we are ur
der mob rule; there is practically al
end of social order. -BoStOn Advertise,I
WORKINGMEN have the right to com
bine to secure for themselves fail
wages and reasonable hours of laborI
and may, by all honorable and rationd
means, aid each other in a commoI
cause, but they have no right to do
wrong to one or many in order to EN-
force their demands upon somebodI
else. In resorting to general strikes, il
violently interfering with persons and
property and creating public disorder
in using the formidable weapon of boy
cotting against those who have done
them no wrong, they are employing
methods against which society will bl
compelled to defend itself. The in
jury they do is not confined to capita
or employers, but involves workingmer
themselves. The real interests of CAPT
tai and labor are one, and only need
fair adjustment to work mutual bene
fit, but this adjustment cannot be Sc
cured by unjust methods. -NeW Yorj
Times.
In executive session of the senate
Monday, Senator Morrill, moved tina
the injunction of secrecy be removed
from the report of the finance commit
tee in the case of Internal Revenu,
Collector Spear of Vermont as an &C
of justice to eX-Colector Stearns. TIL,
motion was carried. The report in thu
" hctn oil Il.
majority of cases of internal revenue
collectors, is said to declare in term
that the committee has learned from
authoritative sources that there wa
no other reason for the removal of Col
lector Stearns than that he was a re
publican, or for the appointment of hi
successor than that he was a democrat
The same action was taken in regard t,
internal revenue collectors in othe
states. 1t is reported that the nomina
ton of McGettrick for postmaster a
st. Adams was rejected Monday even
ing, because he had failed to disprov,
certain charges made against him.
THE mugwumps howl when they reac
what Senator ingalls, said of them il
his speech last Friday. We take tn,
following from press report:
He 0ngalls) was not one of those who be
lieved in non-partisanship in politics, and h
had no patience with men who believed it
badge of virtue not to belong TO any politca
organization, or that it reflected glory on
statesman to affect independence of hi
party. When the people decided on chang
of administration, that implied that Their
should be change of agencies through
which the administration might be made EFF
fectual, unless the president was to be
mummy swathed in clothes that would rem
der him absolutely impotent. He must hav
powers commensurate with his duties. Al
ter the election the democrats expected t,
get III ana the republicans to get out. Blu
new genesis had come about, and the elias
OF political philosophers who believed tina
non-partisanship was a panaCea for all tn
evils that afflicted the republc--men VIII
decried the operation of the American
system, as they called it. This new part
had been recruited from the republicans
III there was any genuine civil service re
former who had deserted the ranks of tn
democracy, history did not record his name
Neuter gender, ingalls, said, was not popula
either i'll nature or in science.
THE New York Times of Mohda,
has an interesting article on the dis
puted boundary line between Massa
chusetts and New Hampshire, which
also affects the State of Vermont. After
reciting the history of the long contro
versy. il is claimed that great blum