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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-18

since the Mills bill retains the enormous
internal taxes which alone are nearly
sufficient for the support of govern
ment; and regarding their boosted
civil service reform Mr.. Edmunds de-
clares: {" 1t may be safely asserted that
there has not been, since the founda-
ton of the government, more sweep
ing and persistent and political removal
of citizens holding minor offices and
employments than under the present
administration. Thus the very de-
partment, the boast of reform in which
gave them the reins of power, has been
more debauched than at any time since
the adoption of the Constitution.
Speaking of the claim made by the
southern political leaders that it is for
the social welfare of all that the cleo
tons be managed by those who consider
themselves the intelligent classes, he
very pointedly says:
But this is the very essence of the plea of
intelligence is better than ignorance, and
that affairs can be better managed by those
who are Skillful and capable than by those
who are not. But no Just test has been
found in human experience for determining
the practical application of these principles,
and liberty and real social security have
always found their only refuge, in the long
run, in the full and free participation by
the whole body of citizens in the manage
ment of affairs. An ignorant voter is just
as dangerous in New York or Massachu-
sets or New Jersey as he is in South Caro-
lima or Louisiana or Texas, and if the no.
tions that are set forward in defense of the
practices which blot out the votes of great
class of the community in one state are de-
feasible there they are equally defensible
in every other state.
Coming to the present position of the
party, he states some of its aims to be
the increase of public education in poor
communities by grants of money from
the national treasury; the revision of
the tariff upon the broad and funda-
mental basis of the constant protection
of every American production, industry
and labor; the diminishing of excessive
revenue by the abolition of internal tax
alton; the establishment of the United
States, commercially and socially,
in the rank to which it is entitled by
reason of its position, resources, politi-
cal character and power, and the reform
of the civil service.
If every state could furnish such
champions of repubicanism as Vermont
has provided the political situation
would not be one of uncertainty. In
Senator Edmunds' opinion, it may
be safely affirmed that the republican
party still stands, and will continue to
stand so long as it is worthy its name,
upon the fundamental principles on
which it was founded-namely, the
fullest defense and promotion, at all
times and in all places, of equal politi-
cal and civil rights of citizens of the
United States"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-18
A "Crazy Assertion" Indeed.

Ever since President Cleveland's re-
markable message On the tariff the
Springfield Republican has been max
ing persistent efforts literally to "pull
the wool over the eyes =" of its readers.
The wool tariff is the particular object
of its adherence, and the status of
the sheep industry the subject of its
very fragrant Misrepresentation. Re-
ferring to the debate in the house on
the free wool claim of the Mills bill, the
Republican says of the course of the
republican members:
Nor have they volunteered to explain
why it is that the number of sheep in the
eight great wool-growing states of twenty
years ago fell off from 29,0OO,OO0 in 1867,
when the high wool tariff went into
force, to 100000 in 1SS2-a loss of nearly
one-half The importation of all the dogs
in the world could not have caused such
slaughter and disappearance as followed
the enactment of that highly benehcent
wool tariff No wonder that congressman,
when they have such facts as these to con-
tend with, resort to the crazy assertion that
100000 farmers clothe and feed them
selves from 40,OO0,0OO sheep.
Lies " well stuck to' seem to be the
sole reliance of the Republican in its
desperate advocacy of free-trade, for it
has so often repeated the glazing mis-
statement which forms the core of the
above extract that it can no longer be
regarded as piece of misinformation
culpable even in an obscure country
journal.
The "eight great wool-growing
states to which the Republican refers
are New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin and
Michigan. In 1869 these states had &,
according to the census reports, a little
less than 16, 100000 sheep, and the ag-
gregate number of sheep in all the
states and territories was rs, AT ,951-a
number smaller than that the Repub-
licdn assigns to its eight states. In
1860 the eight states enumerated had
II ,430, 210 sheep, and in that year
there were in all the states and ter
ritories 22,471 1915. They must have
swarmed like the locusts of Egypt to
have increased to " 20 900, 900 in 1867 "
in the eight great wool-growing states
of twenty years ago" And what ter
rible fatality reduced the number " from
29,000000 in 1867" in the states in
question to 1896, 161 in 1S69-two
brief years? Grub in the head? The
grub is in the head of the Republican.
In all the states and territories of the
United States in 1867 there were not
so many sheep by several millions as it
assigns to only eight great sheep
growing states" of that period. To
such gross Misrepresentation does the
Republican descend in order to point
the moral and adorn the tale of the
great national benefits to be derived
from free-trade. Who "resorts to
crazy assertion" to sustain his case?
No stronger argument for protection is
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-18

GONE OF THEM" summons the
veterans of the campaign of 1910 who
are now living in or near Montpelier
to a meeting at the courthouse in
Montpelier on Saturday next. At the
meeting of the republicans yesterday
much interest was manifested in the
enumeration of the men of the days of
Tippecanoe who are now living in the
several towns of this county, and the
desire was expressed that there be held
county convention of these voters of
ga former generation" We hope
arrangements will be made at the local
meeting announced for gathering of
this kind.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-18

REFERRING to the position taken by
the English in American politics in the
past and to English disparagement of
General Harrison, the New York Press
says: In spite of England's sneers
slavery was destroyed, in spite of
England's sneers Ireland will yet win
its national independence, and in spite
of England's sneers Harrison and Nor
ton will be elected and the American
principles will be adopted by those who
believe in the American system and
who oppose the British system"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-18
Wake Up, Old Washington!

The attention of the republicans of
the capital county of Vermont is d.
rected to the report of the meeting of
their Representatives at Montpelier yes
terday. The county committee has
promptly complied with the recommen-
dation of the meeting. Their action
does not end here. They personally
enforce upon town committees the i'm
portance of an immediate compliance
with the letter and spirit of the printed
recommendation. Let the republicans
in every town of Washington county
where no formal organization exists
constitute a club, without delay, fill up
their ranks and muster at Burlington on
the Goth The old clubs should dill
gently recruit their organizations for
the opening of the campaign, for there
will be business on hand from the word
90 to the last hour on the day of cleo
ton. Washington can be the banner
county at Burlington. Let her bestir
herself,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-18
The Burlington Meeting.

The republicans of Vermont will
hold a grand mass ratification meeting,
under the auspices of the republican
league, at Burlington on Thursday, the
Goth day of July Speakers of ma
tional reputation will address the meet
ing, and it is proposed in every way to
make it the most notable political
gathering ever held in this state. Low
rates of transportation have been Sc
cured from all parts of the state and
special excursion trains will be run to
and from Burlington on the day of the
meeting. Ex-senator Warner Miller
of New York and Benjamin Butter
worth of Ohio are among the speakers
announced. Train arrangements will
be duly announced in all the towns of
the state. A procession will be formed
at the railway station in Burlington, so
that it is important that the people
should be marshaled by towns and coun-
ties, and should speedily perfect their
organization into clubs. They should
carry their flags and banners and be
accompanied by local bands of music
where they exist. A notable feature
of the demonstration will be an organ
ization of the veterans of the Tippe-
canoe campaign of 1910, who will be
under the command of Colonel Rolla
Gleason of Richmond.
" Ho, all to the borders, Vermonters, come
dOwnlr
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-18
The Tariff and Wages.

The New York San (democratic) does
not follow the president and the party
press in their crusade against American
industry and the wages of American
working-men. The Sun recently pub
lished the following significant facts
and figures:
There is only one country in Europe
in which the wages of labor are within
half of what they are in this country
That is Great Britain. Wages in Ger
many, France, Belgium and Switzer-
land are not one-third of what they are
here. Those of Italy are not one
quarter.
One duty of government is to protect
the labor of its citizens. Last year
foreign labor was imported into the
United States in the shape of manu-
featured goods to the value of $685.
319,76S. This was great wrong to
American labor. In that immense
amount of imports, permitted by our
insufficient and defective tariff, the
labor of women employed in the Man
chester (England) cotton mills, whose
wages do not average $50 year, came
into competition with the higher-priced
labor of our southern and northern
cotton-spinners. In that mass of i'm
ports was the labor of German factory
workmen, averaging less than S1l5 a
year, and that of women, averaging less
than $50 year.
Munich is gallery and center of art.
German women with as many as six
children saw wood in its streets for Is
cents day. May merciful God sink
the United States ten thousand feet
under the sea before the hideous spec
tacle shall become an incident of our
civilization
Nearly seven hundred million dollars
worth of the starvation labor of Europe,
in the form of manufactured goods, was
imported into this country last year.
That which came from Belgium in bales
and boxes represented the wages of %
cents a day for women and Az cents
for men; and the highest-priced labor
in loose cargoes of Belgian steel and
iron represented wages less than so
cents day. Compared with these
the wages of Carnegie's men at Brad
dock are the incomes of princes.
Italian labor in Italian merchandise
was imported into this country last year
in competition with American labor at
prices that should fill sensitive souls
with horror and alarm the thoughtful
for the future of the human race. The
pay in the cotton factories of Naples is
20 cents day; of the Neopolitan
marble and granite-cutters, from 40 to
so cents day, according to skill; of
coachmen, 30 cents; of women in lace
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-18

THE last act in General Boulanger's
career of jingoism is a duel fought
with the French premier, M. Floquet,
in which the general was severely
wounded. He had demanded a dis
solution of the chamber of deputies in
furtherance of his vague scheme of
constitutional revision and was de-
feated. He called M. Floquet an impu-
dent liar, left the chamber in rage,
was challenged and bled the next
morning. Quarrels in the congress of
the United States blanch before such
gore
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-18

lions HERALD, the leading paper
of the Methodists in New England,
speaks as follows of the republican
nominee for president: We notice
that several religious journals that re-
fused to support Mr.. Blaine four years
ago speak enthusiastically of General
Harrison. The Independent states with
no little confidence that he will be
elected. The microscope does not re-
veal any qualities in the man or facts
in his life which put the party upon
the apologize. He is man for whom
there will exist in the church natural
utilization and fellowship. His Chris
tian life is not an afterthought nor a
technic for convenient use. He is not
a man of negative qualities, but of
strong and courageous convictions.
He will be right on questions of moral
reform because he has been right. He
is typical American, self-made, and
therefore in close sympathy with the
great mass of the people. On the mat
ter of temperance reform he is aggres-
sive and outspoken. The significant
facts on this line are the principles and
character of the nominees more than
the declarations of the platform" The
Herald is equally outspoken in its en-
dorsement of Mr.. Morton and saws the
ticket, as whole, is " strong, repre-
sentative and unobjectonable."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-18

THE Concord Monitor very unfeclingly
heads an editorial column with the fol-
lowing from an ante-convention issue
of the People and Patriot, democratic
organ in the Granite State: "Of all the
silly campaign yarns in circulation at
present, that to the effect that con-
certed movement is under way for the
nomination of Hon. Allan G.. Thur
man of Ohio for vice-president on the
democratic ticket is certainly the most
senseless. Mr.. Thurman is about
seventy-fve years of age and physi-
cally debilitated by rheumatism. His
acceptance of such nomination is
utterly out of the question"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-18
The Political Situation.

To one weary of partisan turmoil the
article of Senator Edmunds on the
issues of politics, in the Forum for July,
is exceedingly refreshing. Refraining
from appeals to the sympathies or
prejudices, the records, achievements
and professions of the two parties are
discussed with candor and that peculiar
force and clearness for which Mr.. Ed
munds is distinguished. 1t has been so
vehemently insisted upon by the dem
ocrats that the past is dead issue that
it is usually with an air of apology that
many republicans refer to the party's
history, and that, when this is done,
it is often more as matter of pride or
inspiration than as a guarantee of con-
tinued wisdom, faithfulness and patriot
ism in the administration of the govern
ment. Mr.. Edmunds, however, be-
lieves that parties, as we'll as men,
possess characters, and that those char
acters must be taken into considera-
ton in an estimate of what may be ex-
pected from either men or parties.
He says:
To intelligent people it is almost a truism
that an appeal to the public judgment and
public confidence by either or both of the
great political parties of the United States
must rest, first, upon their history and char
acter; secondly, upon the character of the
measures of legislation or administration
Al L., Al.
sideration of the people; and, thirdly, upon
the intelligent belief of voters that such
measures will be sincerely and vigorously
carried into effect.
Upon these three fundamentals he
builds his argument. Read them care
fully. The whole field of honorable
political discussion lies within those
propositions, and whatever is outside
them may be thrown aside as imma-
terial. Adhering to this outline, Mr.
Edmunds sketches the history of the
two parties since 1861. The repres-
sion of the rebellion, the amendments
to the Constitution, the act pledging
the payment of our debt in coin, the re-
sumption of specie payments were all
championed by the republican party,
while they were as strenuously opposed
by the bulk of the democratic party
and, with the exception of the suppress
sion of the rebellion, by that party
almost as a unit. Thus in all those
measures of national importance which
are now, irrespective of party, &C
knowledged to have been wise, the
bulk of the republicans have been OPP
posed by the bulk of the democrats and
have prevailed against them.
Mr.. Edmunds attributes the success
of the democratic party in 1884 to the
assertion of three propositions: First
that the corruptious of the republican
administration needed correction; sec.
ond, that the republicans, while pro.
Tossing to help American labor by the
tariff, were in reality injuring it, and
that tariff was required for revenue
only; third, that there should be civil
service reform. AS for the corruptions
charged, like snakes in Ireland, there
were none. Their tariff for revenue
! only has been found to be hoax
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-18

A BETTER illustration of the malady
known as " fool-in-the-head " than the
following from the Boston Herald is
seldom seen: "The Louisville Courier
Journal printed President Cleveland's
message on tax reduction on its front
page on the Fourth of July. 1t took
the place of the immortal Declaration
for this occasion and it filled the bill
pretty we'll"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-18

For the congratulations and cordial
expressions of goodwill, oral and
written, by individuals and journals,
called forth by the recent consolidation
of the Vermonter and WATCHMAN
under the VermOnter management,
we make our grateful acknowledge
ments. 1t will be our steadfast aim
and purpose to retain the generous
confidence expressed by our friends
and to justify their favorable judgment
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-18
A Nut for PrOhibitiOnists.

To illustrate how senseless is the at
tempt to put an anti-temperance con-
struction on the hypothetical clause in
the Chicago platform, the Mail and
Cypress gives that and the more de-
cisive clause in the prohibition plat
form side by side, thus:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-18
Republican Nominations.
NATIONAL TICKET,
HARRISON and MORTON.
STATE TICKET,
Dillingham; and Woodbury..

THE attention of town committees
in all parts of the state is called to the
requirement of number sixty, section
two, acts of 1884, relating to elections.
Look it up and see that it is carefully
complied with.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-18

INV ~ Va
THE BANNER:
Come, freemen now's the time,
Choose We now your banner;
Shall it be the stripes and stars,
Or the red bandana?
The first for years has gaily waved,
A nations pride and glory:
The last will tell about free-trade-
A sad and fearful story.
Come, freemen, etc.
The first now tells of vict'rie won
By men devoid of fear;
The last will tell of rebs in front
With worse foes in their rear.
Come, freemen, etc.
The first proclaims to working-men
Good wages and cottage;
The last in shanties they must dwell,
With scarce mess of pottage.
Come, freemen, etc.
The first proclaims a nations fame
And triumph DER all foes;
The last now tells the power of snuff
On Humans Roman nose.
Come, freemen, etc.
The first on every battlefield
Floats DER the honored dead;
The last receives the foul discharge
From Humans snutf-tilled head.
Come, freemen, now's the time,
Choose we now your banner;
Shall it be the stripes and stars,
Or the red bandana?
The Toronto (Canada) Mail says
g If Mr.. Cleveland be reelected the
protectionist system in the States can
not long survive"
THE democrats have at last found ar
" out " in the record of General Har,
rison. AT meeting at Mt. Vernon
Ind, recently, a speaker of that per-
suasion declared that Harrison had con-
nived to convict democrats charged
with violating the election laws.
On the trip of the Connecticut dele
CATION to Chicago the story was tolG
of quick-witted young Hartford law
yer who was one of the party. He haG
been speaking of Chauncey M. Depev
to democrat and remarked that he fell
sure Depew could carry Connecticut
" Depew," said the democrat; "ht
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-18
Political Notes.

ONE of the veterans of 1910, Mont
pelier boy" supports a muse, which,
though white-baired and eighty, re-
tains the "go" of the impulsive times
of Tippecanoe and Tyler too. Here is
how it sings of
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-18

obtainable than is found in all the real
facts of the sheep and wool industry.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-18
PROHIBITION PLAT
FORM.

For the immediate
abolition of the in
ternal revenue sys-
TEN whereby our ma
tional government is
d eri in G support
from our greatest ma
tional vice.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-04
Beating the Brotherhood

AMSTERDAM, N Y. April 3.-Thomac
B. MCGUIRE, o neral executive
board of the Knights of Labor, was
asked to-day: What do you think OF
the railroad troubles in the west?"
The Burlington engineers are virtu-
ally b aten, "he:replied, land there is no
use in their prolonging the conflict. 1t
is the Knights of Labor who have
beaten them. Our people have been
getting even with the Brotherhood for
its course 10 the southwest and Reading
strikes
'Do you think that their defeat in
this strike will be fatal blow to the
Brotherhood
mo; this may be a good thing for
the Brotherhood; it may teach them a
useful lesson. think that the end
will be that the Brotherhood will either
come into the Knights of Labor or will
enter into some kind of contract with
f6opo -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-04
BANKING.
MCCORMICK & Co..
3 a N n E r q
SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH AND
HALEY, IDAHO.

CareiuI attention given to the sale of Ores
and Bullion. We solicit C0nsionuento
guaranteeing the Highest Market Prices.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-04
In the matter nfths estate OF Joseph Gasksll
Romney, deceased.
Notice of time and place for the hearing of
petition for admission to Pro-
bate of Win.

PURSUANT TO AN ORDER OF SAID
L Court in said matter, notice is hereby
given that Monday. the 10th day of April,
Court House in Salt Lake City, Utah Terri
tory, in the court rom of said court, has
been appointed the time and place for the
hearing of petition of Jane Wilson ROmney
and Joseph NJ. Romney, praying for the ad-
mission to probste of a certain document
purpOrting to be the last will and testament
of Joseph Gsske1 Romney, deceased, when
and where all persons interested may APP
pear and oppose the probate of said will, or
the granting of letters testamentary to them,
as prayed fer in said petition.
Dated at Salt Lake City, March 80. 1885.
JOHN G. CUTLER,
Probate Clerk, Salt Lake County
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-04

NOTICE. THERE ARE DELINQUENT
IN upon the following described stock,
on account of assessment levied on the 31st
day of January, AID. 1888, the several
amounts set opposite the names of the re-
spectiVe shareholders, as follows:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-04
Good for SpreckeIs.

PHILADELPHIA, April SIT is stated
by reliable authority that Claus Spreck.
els, the California sugar king, now in
this city, has decided to build a refinery
in Philadelphia, and that the purchase
OF the site for it on the Delaware River
front, will be consummated to-day. 1t is
understood that 100000 capital viii
be put into the enterprise, all to BIS sup
piled by Spreckels himself, and that
contracts for the eree ton of machinery
etc., will be placed in few days. The
capacity of the proposed refinery is put
at 900 barrels or 1000, COO pounds pei
day. The cost of the plant has beer
stated as So, 000, 900, and the annual out
put as $35, 10000