St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-05-24

Mr.. McCreary. But we believe we
have prOspered SO well with protec-
ton that without the robbery which
protection brings we would be more
prosperous. But 1 deny that your fig
ures and comparisons are correct.
Mr.. GrOut. The figures are taken
from the Tenth Census. Those relat-
ing to the relative corn, wheat, and
oats crop come from the agricultural
department.. There is no escape from
the fignres.
Vermont's per cent. of illiterates is
S.6S; Kentucky's, 1919. In Vermont
there is one saloon for every CO.. popu-
lation ; in kentucky one for every AS.
Vermont has 298 mules and asses
Kentucky, 1l6, 153. Laughter and
applause.
| can also show that with one-fifth
the population Vermont has more than
one-half the capital in manufactures.
And yet she is an inland, mountain
state, with neither coal nor iron. Give
her the one-hundredth part of the coal
and iron of Kentucky and she wOuld
show what could be done with it. Think
of it! Ten thousand square miles in
one coal field. A larger area than all
Vermont, and 1000 in another. This
ought to make Kentucky mistress OF
the Southwest. Some n has said
that coal is empire, and on this for
mula, that coal is heat, heat is power,
and power is empire. Let but Ken
lucky set herself about the develop
ment of her iron and coal and the crea-
ton of home markets for the sale of her
agricultural products, and a more than
regal crown awaits her in the day OF
her industrial activity, now near at
hand. Indeed, the light is already
breaking on her hilltops and she is
stirring herself for the morning. She
already has three republican members
on this floor who are staunch believers
in the doctrine of protection as taught
by that great K~entuckian, Henry Clay,
and the returns are still coming in.
[Applause. Another thing shown by
this table is that the per capita wealth
of Vermont is $27O in Vermont and on
ly S2I3 in Kentucky.
But attention might be called to 9th
er fields, in which Vermont would not
suffer in comparison with Kentucky.
Take, for instance, the other end of
the capitol, where the little State of
Vermont, i'll the persons of her sena-
tors, is at the head of the two great
committees of the senate. The one,
finance, presided over by the distin-
guished author of the Morrill, tariff, by
which his name has become imperisha-
bly, set in history, and who, full of
years and full of hOnOrs, can look back
through IL third of il century of honor
able service at this capitol, the last
twenty-seven year of which, under
the tariff of his name, presents the very
brightest chapter in all our history.
The other, the Judiciary, first in i'm
p~ortance in that judicial body, presid-
ed over by the first lawyer in this
great country, whose great ability,
great learning, and great good sense
easily make him the admitted chief,
the noblest Roman of them all. So
much for Vermont in the United States
Senate. In Il scale of one hundred
Vermont claims 100 points. How
many does Kentucky claim ? Here
again the test is one of quality, not of
quantity.
Mention might also be made of
another great Vermont lawyer, whose
great name so recently brought him
dangerously close to the highest judi
cial honor in the land. And the only
hope of Vermont is that the one select
ed may bring to that high seat the
learning and culture and judicial sense
which so distinguishes the gifted Yer
monter, whose only fault is that he is
IL democrat. But the motto of Yer
mont is to do even a bad job well, and
she turns out irst-class democrats,
and the minister at the court of st.
James is first of his class. Applause.
If o going back too far, [ would give
the gentleman from Kentucky the
name of Ethan Allen, whose statue
Vermont has placed in Memorial hall,
and who, with Il handful of Vermont
ers, to the surprise of military men the
world over as to how it could have
been done, as we'll as to the garrison,
captured from the British, in 1775,
Fort Ticonderoga, demanding it's sur
render in the darkness of night by the
light of Il burning taper sin the name
of the great Jehovah and the Cont
mental Congress-"
Here again it was quality not quaint
ty. | would also give him the name
of Stannard, who, with his brigade of
Green Mountain boys, in the very nick
of time fell upon the flank of Pickett's
charging column at Gettysburgh and
the tide of that great and de-
battle in the late terrible strug-
gle for the preservation of the Union,
over the blessings of which all tongues
are now eloquent. [Applause.] Let
me also here call attention to another
fact, namely, that in that bloody con-
test for the supremacy of the old flag,
Vermont laid upon the altar of her
country Il larger sacrifice than any 9th
er state of those killed in action, which
is the supreme test of devotion i'm that
supreme moment when battles are lost
or o In other words, the per cent.
of her troops killed in action was great
Ell than that of any other state. The
per cent. between Vermont and Ken
lucky is as follows: Vermont had
one killed for every thirty-two and
men in service; Kentucky
had n killed for every fifty-four men
in service. But this estimate includes
troops. If white troops alone
are taken kentucky's per cent. would
be one for every thirty-seven, which
caves Vermont four and one-third
ahead. Mr.. Chairman, l do not
are to pursue this comparison further, |
md will leave with my friend, the
from Kentucky, who is a
good judge of facts and figures, to say
whether he thinks Vermont is, after
I'll, very much behind Kentucky. ZAP
BLAINE INTERVIEWED AGAIN.
He Thinks Depew VIII BE Nominated