The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-04-25

seen in reputable state paper in our
editorial experience of twenty years.
We forbear further comment; the dele
! gates and others who attended the state
convention will supply all the comment
that is needed.
AMONG the men available for vice.
president at Chicago / rank William
Walter Phelps very high upon the list.
Not only does he come from a state
confessedly close and even doubtful,
but he is exceedingly strong in that
state. His popularity extends to all the
republicans and would bring to the
ticket decisive vote from the indie
pendents, wavering and unattached.
My judgment is that his name on the
ticket would take New Jersey out of
the list of doubtful states and aid us
greatly in New York.-Colonel Gros-
uenor Of Ohio.
THE year 1888 seems to have some
thing in it to disturb the normal balance
in weather and atmospheric economy
Its record so far is probably beyond all
modern parallels, as New York is at
any time prepared to qualify with the
utmost confidence. 1t has been the
severest winter in Europe in the mem
DRY of the present generation. In east
Prussia there was recent fall of snow
of fifteen to eighteen and twenty feet
(not inches), and the inhabitants are
anticipating far greater calamities from
the thaw than the fall of this unpar-
alleled and understanding avalanche
Courier-Journal.
PRINTERS must be tough citizens, for
it is said that by reason of the nature
of their work or from some cause they
are proof against yellow fever and
cholera. The Lima (Peru) PrenSa calls
attention to the fact that when the
yellow fever epidemic created con-
sternation at Lima in 1868 the Typo
graphical Union lost only two members
by the disease. And now it records
the same thing with regard to cholera,
which has been epidemic in Chill.
According to the report of the president
of the Typographical Union of Val
paraiso, not one of the one hundred
members of the union has been at
tackled by the malady.
"DOEs the democratic party desire the
nomination of Mr.. Blaine?" Chicago
Inter- Ocean. Evidently not; the per-
sistent efforts of democratic and mug
wump papers to dispose of Mr.. Blaine
as a presidential candidate, and their
labored and specious arguments to show
that he can not now accept a nomina-
ton "with honor" even if it should
be unanimously rendered by the ma
tiOnal convention, can only be inter-
preted as indicating their profound
dread of Mr.. Blaine as a candidate.
If they really believed that Mr.. Blaine
was a weak candidate for the republic
cans they would not seek to place
obstacles in the way of his nomination.
MINISTER PHELPS, since his arrival
in this country, has given utterance to
this statement: " English people are
rapidly becoming convinced that free
trade in America would be bad thing
for England. They fear that they can
not compete with American manufac-
turers in the markets of the world. ="
With this in view, it is singular, very
singular, that the English Golden Club
and English interests generally are so
earnestly engaged in distributing free
trade documents in this country, and
the English press continually hold out
to the working-men of England a more
, prosperous future, dependent upon the
adoption of free-trade in this country
Hartford Post.
IN your travels through the coun-
, try" says an Englishman, in speaking
= of the United States, "you are con-
stantly running across two classes of
people-the hifalutin' boosters, who
, think they can whip all creation, and
the apish imitators of European ways,
who spend their time in apologizing for
their country. But it is only fair to say
that the vast majority of the people be-
long to neither of these classes. I'm
fortunately, however, a visiting En-
: glishman is much more likely to meet
the two classes spoken of than the
larger class of self-respecting Ameri-
Y cans who really represent the genius
of the country. And so he goes home
with false impression of the people,
, THE success of the United States in
{ material development is the most illus
: trious of modern time. The American
nation has not only successfully borne
and suppressed the most gigantic and
, expensive war of all history, but imme-
diately afterwards disbanded its army
: found employmentfo for all its soldiers and
? marines, paid off most of its debt, has
given labor and homes to all the unem.
y ployed of Europe as fast as they could
arrive within its territory, and still by
+. system of taxation so indirect as not tC
. be perceived, much less felt.
4 Because it is my deliberate judgment
y that the prosperity of America is mainly
: due to its system of protective laws,
4 urge that Germany has now reached
that point where it is necessary to imi
a tate the tariff system of the United
: States. Bismarck in 1882.
y Newspaper Hybrids.