Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-07
NOTE AND COMMENT.

"Put Yourself in His Place" is sug-
gested as good motto for Republicans
after March 4. How would "Get thee
behind me-" ETC., do?
Harrison's plurality in Iowa is 81 ,721.
This was one of the ''doubtful" States, ac-
cording to the figuring of Democratic
Chairman Brice, we believe.
The champion beggar of America is
said to be President Carter of Williams
college, who has raised 100000 for the
institution since he became the head of it.
One-cent postage is among the possibil-
tiles of the near future. The annual de-
ficiency of the post-office department is
steadily decreasing and when it pays ex-
penses under two-cent postage we shall
probably have reduction.
The daily papers of Monday printed
long yarn, telegraphed from Chicago,
giving the alleged adventures of one
Eddison Vance of Rutland with White
Caps, a sort of "regulators', at Sardinia,
o. 1t turns out that no such man is
known in Rutland.
The English have formed a salt trust"
and the question of legislation against
such combinations has been raised in
Parliament. Somehow this state of facts
does not tend to prove the truth of the
proposition so often laid down in Demo-
cratic sheets before election, that trusts
and all that breed of evils were the direct
result of a protective tariff.
Wisconsin gives Harrison a plurality
6591 larger than it gave Blaine. For just
how much of this Republican increase
Secretary Villas is responsible it is impos-
sible to say, but it fairly warrants the
conclusion that Mr.. Cleveland needed on
ly Connecticut and New Jersey men,
ber in his cabinet to enable his adversa-
ries to carry every Northern State.-
Boston journal.
My conclusion is, that unless we wish
to keep manual labor in a position of
degradation, to close an important field
of activity against our own citizens, and
to belle our democratic principles, we
must elevate mechanical art to the level
of the liberal arts, by establishing in
every city and town in the United States
schools for the imparting of manual
training to every boy and giil, and tech
nical schools for thorough instruction in
all the industrial arts.-[Prof. Thomas
Davidson.
Edwin F. Palmer of Waterbury was
elected State superintendent of education
during the closing hours of the legisla-
ture. The other candidates were Hon.
Walter E. Howard of Fair Haven and
Hon. Loveland Minson of Manchester
Mr.. Palmer is lawyer. What peculiar
fitness he has for the position no one
seems to know. We hope he will at least
60 about the State and show the people
that he is alive. His predecessor has beer
in this county but once during the past
six years, so far as we are aware.
Sam Small, the evangelist, who has
been an ardent thrd-party man, doesn'
believe in the wisdom of the movement
any longer. He said to New York au
dience the other night: III don't believe
in national prohibition politics. Here
after l am going to have something prac
tical about my principles, about my vote
and about what do. Principle is worth
more to me than all the parties that evel
tramped the globe. The liquor dealers
don't care for party. They elect the mer
that will favor their cause, of whatever
party they may be. l don't believe il
letting the DEVILS crowd get ahead of mt
on a proposition Of common sense.