The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-04-18

country.
THE country is in revolt against
pancake batter politics. The days of
the hapdoodle are numbered Strad-
ding is no longer heroic. The man
who thinks getting into Office is the
aim and end of parties will have to saw
wood for cold meat while we have
contention of principles Fran
cisco Alta.
THE silly and desperate attempts of
the II. Y. to show that the Blaine
demonstrations in the state convention
had no special significance are eX-
tremely ludcrous. The II. Y. is az
onzing over "lost cause" hence its
painful contortions. If it keeps on in
its chosen career of mendacity it will
soon rival the Free Press in that respect
THE Boston Journal recalls the fact
that in June, 1S47, the late Abbott
Lawrence made donation of $4,000
to Harvard College, larger sum than
had ever been bestowed in this country
in one gift from living benefactor
Mr.. Lawrence was enabled to make
this gift owing to the protection given
to manufactures. Now they teach at
Harvard that protection is robbery.
THE Springfield Republican continues
to pirate about free raw materials and
cheaper necessaries of life" Its neigh
Dor, the Union, has the following:
Resolved, that not sixty persons in
the sixty millions in the country can
tell how much they are oppressed by
the iniquitous protective tariff. 1t is
Just about as much a burden to a man
as comfortable overcoat is on a cold
day, and no more"
GOVERNOR RUsK of Wisconsin says
that many former shareholders Of the
South have preserved lists of their
slaves and are quietly waiting to claim
indemnity for them when the demo-
Gratis have full control of the govern
ment. This accords with the statement
recently made by a Georgia paper
and quoted extensively throughout the
South to the effect that it was time that
the shareholders presented their claims
for recompense.
THE family and personal friends of
Mr.. Blaine have seen the dispatch in
the New York Herald of a recent date
regarding Mr. Blaine's health. They
ridicule the statement, and letters and
kilograms received from the family in
Naples state that Mr.. Blaine is in his
usual vigorous health and that he will
not shorten his trip. His family
physician has made public a statement
declaring Blaine to be entirely free
from organic disease.
Is it not time to make these leaders
who order strikes legally responsible
for the results of their acts? Five years
in the state prison would be just
punishment for the men who ordered
the strike on the Reading. How long
will the people submit to the damage in
flicted by executive committees meet
ing in secret and, without legal au-
thority, deciding in secret to arrest
trade over sections of the country as
large as empires?-ChriS. Intelhgencer.
In his recent tariff speech Senator
Wilson of Iowa took the ground, in
such favor with republicans, that the
internal revenue tax should be taken
off from whiskey and the subject of
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states. His argument is one for tenn
perance, as he considers that if the
government becomes dependent for
revenue upon whiskey the eradication
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surely working will become much more
difficult.
To say that because Chauncey NJ.
Depew has been the successful presi-
dent of a great railway corporation he
is unfit to be president of the United
States is equivalent to saying that be-
cause a man has proven himself to be a
great lawyer-the successful manager
of great cases-he is unfit to be Judge.
Such talk is absolutely senseless. 1t
would be unworthy of notice if it were
not repeated by men and papers
credited with some nse.-National
Republican,
MIR. PowDERLY has come out de-
cidedly and unequivocally against
strikes. He regards them, as usually
conducted, mischievous and unprofit-
able. He sees in them a waste of hard
earned money. Last year the knights
of Labor spent 100000 in the striking
craze. Their chief thinks that this
sum can be better expended this year
in educating them to truer conception
of their duties and responsibilities and
to obtaining their ends by wiser and
surer methods.
A NATIONAL anti-saloon republican
conference is called to assemble in
New York city May I'd, at eleven
O'Clock A. NJ. and to continue in ses,
sion two days. This invitation is
addressed to call republicans in the
United States who sympathize with this
movement and purpose, and to al
members of other parties and unat
tached voters who are willing to act
with the republican organization so Ions
as it shall honestly stand for the homes
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