The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-06

awful slaughtering of democratic chair
men statesmen.
IT is humiliating to be told by SEN
ator Jonathan Chace that if we "only
keep the white man away from the
Indian he will become civilized" but
it is the truth all the same.-Provi-
dence Star.
GEO. WILLIAM CURTIS says Blaine
will not do as the republican presidential
candidate in 1888. That settles it; of
course the 100000 republican voters
in the country will let the mugwump
Curtis run the republican party! We
think we see them-not-doing it.
CONSUL TANNER of Chemnitz re-
ports to the secretary of state that the
beer production of Germany in 1885
was l,l00,000,000 gallons, enough "to
form lake more than one mile square
and six and a half feet deep, or it would
make a running stream as large as one
of our rivers"
CHAUNCEY M. DEPEw, president of
the New York Central railroad, who
has just returned from Europe, says
that he noted marked change for the
worse in the condition of the laboring
classes there. The average of wages
paid in his country is seventy-seven
per cent higher than in England.
SOME real progress is now being
made in bringing the Indians into civ
ilized relations, if not into a state of
actual civilization. The former must
precede the latter. When the Indians
become, as rule, individual land
owners, their tribal system will be
broken up and they will stand in the
relation of individual citizens to the
law and the government.
THOSE who are never so happy as
when they can make point against
New England state are rejoicing in the
apparent increase of iliteracy in YER
mont and Maine. If they cared to look
IA moment for the cause, they would not
find it in any failure to provide the
means of general education, but in the
fact that thousands of French Cana
dams who can neither read nor write
have become residents of these states
and appear in the census reports
Journal.
THE activity in the demand for iron
still continues and has resulted in an
average advance in prices over those
prevailing at the same time last year of
of ln
arc busy and preparation is making to
increase the capacity of many of them
to meet the growing demand for their
product The most tangible evidence
of increasing prosperity in business is
the active demand for the steam-making
fuels. Both anthracite and bituminous
coal are in better demand than ever be-
fore and the supply is absolutely made
quate to meet the demand. Tribune.
THE Chinese are having their in
nings now at home. AS they are not
permitted to dwell peacefully in the
United States in pursuit of their lawful
vacations, it seems to them proper that
missionaries from this country be driven
out of China. SO we receive stimuli
upon the missionaries and destruction
of their property. Retaliation of this
sort was long ago predicted by mem
bers of the Chinese embassy at Wash
ington, and the movement will prob
ably extend to molestation of Ameri-
can merchants and travellers in the
tlowery land.
ID. n. RICHARDSON, a Vermonter
and great traveller, and one of the ed
itors of the Davenport, Iowa, Demo-
crdt, in one of his interesting letters
from Russia, writes that there the very
barren hills and plains are clad with
forests. In the southern country great
tracts of pine and spruce are raised.
These people robbed their land years
ago of all their lumber trees, Just as the
American is doing to-day. Now they
raise timber as they raise grain. Slow
business to be sure, but, in the first
place, they were obliged to do it or die
and next they find it pays in that it
brings rain and purer air, wood for
fire and shelter and for making many
useful things. CdledOnidn.
IT seems to have escaped attention
that the farmers convention in Min
nesota refused to indorse free trade
ideas and did declare for protection.
The free traders were on hand with
their stock arguments designed to show
the farmers that they were being taxed
and oppressed in the interest of the
manufacturers, but to these the farm
ers' convention turned deaf ear. The
farmers, as rule, have looked the
ground over and have come to the con-
clusion that whatever policy encour-
ages and stimulates classified indus
tries near at home creates the markets
which alone are of value to them.
They also see that free trade, which is
based upon the theory that IA people
shall produce only those things which
are easiest for them to produce, and
should never enter into competition
with those who can for any reason pro-
duce cheaper than they can, would
turn thousands who are now engaged
in other industries to agriculture as a
pursuit, at once depriving the present
farmers of large body of patrons and
increasing the produce of the farms to
an extent that it would have no money
ue.-BOSton Journal
THE next eruption of Virgins will