The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-04

well, all things considered.
THIS is what the London Daily Tele-
graph said few days after the defeat
of the democratic " horizontal reduc-
ton" tariff bill in 1884:
I" bill to establish in America what the
English call free-trade has just been de-
feated in the house by the narrow majority
of four The measure ,oos Of enormous i'm
portdnce for English manufacturers, as it
would have enabled them to export goods
to the States without the crushing tariff
now imposed, and its fate was watched
with intense interest by Englshmen. We're
IL passed, IL lCould hare been north e10O,O00-
900 per annum to British manufacturers.
LAST week we took compassion on
the II. y, because of its apparent I'M
happy condition, and gave it some free
advertising. That amiabe sheet ex-
hibits no gratitude for the distinguished
favor, but instead filings at us some of
the stale emanations of its prototypes,
the Richford Gazette and Londonderry
Sitter. This is shockingly poor re-
turn for our benevolent interest in the
welfare of the n. r., and for the pres
ent we must decline to give it further
advertising except at our regular rates.
UNLESS some very distinct change
occurs in the attitude of leading men
it seems inevitable that Mr.. Blaine and
Mr.. Cleveland will be the respective
candidates for the presidency next
year. The latter's candidacy is avowed
and practically unchallenged. Mr..
10; n, r,;o -, hot ha 10 ;,,1;f
ferent, but their whole action shows
determination to again place him at
the head of the ticket, and if this course
meets his approval there is little ques-
ton but that he will be selected. Dos
ton Advertiser.
THERE are almost as many sheep in
this country as there are persons, say
100000 less in round numbers.
There is more than one whole carcass
of mutton for each meat-eater. Each
of these sheep will furnish one or more
suits of clothes for every person, be-
sides giving fifty or sixty pounds of
mutton, and leather enough to make
one pair of shoes, one pair of gloves
and bind one book for every person in
the country. Free wool will destroy
the sheep industry and make mutton,
shoes and gloves more costly.-Hart-
ford Post
A BROOKLYN crank by the name of
Kranskoff got Senator ingalls, to pre-
sent in the senate a memorial and bill
requiring the United States government
to go into the newspaper publish
ing business. His plan calls for the
establishment of journal to be called
the United States Mail Press, which
is to be established first in the large
cities and subsequently extended to
every post-office district in the country.
Kranskoff claims that private news
papers exert too much influence, have
too much power, do not tell the truth
and charge too much for advertising.
IN the New York Tribune of Deem
Der 9th appeared communication
signed d" H. c." in which the writer
argued strongly against the nomination
of Mr.. Blaine this year. But in the
Tribune of December 18th the same
writer says:
Things have changed since the presi-
dent gave us his old-fashioned essay on free
trade. l rather think now that it will be
unwise for the republicans to nominate any
one else and that the other fellows-those
in the party opposed to Mr.. Blaine--are the
ones who are now kicking against the
pricks. The air is cleared, the issue is made
| and Blaine is our man, whether we VIII
or no. With him we must either win in, or ,,
lose. Who kicks now would lose. with
harmony, hard work and good management
we shall WIN"
WHEN the patentee of the big raft
conceived the idea of sending such a
mass of timber to market in one bunch
he doubtless exulted over the brilliancy
of the thought that had struck him. 1t
did look like an economical method OF
getting 81 900 trees, containing 2,2OO,'
600 feet of lumber, from the Bay OF
Fundy to the Bay of New York. II
would have needed seventy large
schooners to have carried ii, weighing
as it did II 900 tons, and the freight
would have amounted to pretty penny
But before the owner gets the raft
back again he will probably conclude
that the old method is the safest and
cheapest at this season of the year al
ast.-Philddelphia Press.
THE forty-seventh congress reduced
the ad ralorem duty on pearl buttons
from thirty to twenty-five per cent
Prior to that reduction the pearl button
industry was fourishing one il Newark
and IN New York city. To-day the
Newark factories are closed and the
plants worthless and the New York
factories have ceased to exist. Austrian
pearl buttons came in and drove Out
the American industry. The Austrian
pearl button-maker earns 1888 pei
week. The American pearl button
maker did earn from Sl2 to SIG pei
week, but he is now idle, or has been
at great expense to change his occupa
ton. And the surplus was not re-
duced by the reduction. 1t was in
creased by the influx of goods which
willingly paid the duty.
THE Greenfield (Mass.) Gazette ana
Courier, which was vouched for by the
CT Jobnshurv CnIe1oninn n few weeks