Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-17
NOTE AND COMMENT.

There are now 130 Republican clubs in
the State.
Major General John NJ. Schofield sue
ceeds Gen. Sheridan in the command OF
the army.
The John g. Whittier Republican club
of Merrimac. n. H., will bald a log cab
in. to be used as a campaign club room.
The Providence Or. L. Journal, re-
cent convert to Democracy, is pained be-
cause English newspapers so freely eX-
press their delight over the Mills bill.
Connecticut Democrats don't know
whether to be pleased or not over the ac-
ces.ion to their ranks of Prot. Baldwin
of New Haven. an out-and-out free-trad-
er. Workingmen are plentiful down
there and they are very much inclined to
bolt Cleveland
1t was Bismarck who said in IA speech
delivered on the l4th of May, 1882 BE
cause it is my deliberate Judgment that
the prosperity of America is due to lis
system of protective laws | urge that
where it is necessary to initiate the tariff
system of the United States.''
The British are singularly unanimous
in calling the attitude of American DEM
ocrats free trade" in the face of the lat
ter's sturdy denial. But if anyone sup
poses that Great Britain, after playing
the hog for centuries, doesn't know pork
when she sees the bristles on it, he better
keep out of the cow-pasture.-TL Ludlow
Tribune.
Gen. Won Moltlle says of the late Gen.
Sheridan: "Gen. Sheridan struck me as
the type of thoroughly American gen
eral, with all the wonderful energy and
fertility of resources that characterize
the nation, and probably no better cav
alrv commander has ever taken the field.
All the armies of Europe have adopted
many of the lessons taught by him in the
tactical use of cavalry
The wool market is growing in activity
at Boston. The journal says in its latest
review of the situation; prices are held
with considerable more firmness, and in
some instances a slight advance has beer
obtained or rather outside quotation,
have been more readily paid. There is 4
total lack of speculation, and desire on
! ha Of tn oil
able offers from manufacturers. for it i,
asserted that any material advance would
cause buyers to stop purchasing, ant
that the market would in that event &C
back TO where it started from" The
fact seems to be that manufacturers are
obliged to have the wool. and the proba.
bility is that they would pay higher
prices rather than 60 without, the Jour
nal to the contrary Notwithstanding.
No man who believes in protection car
consistently vote the third-party ticket
for, true to its real position as Demo
cratic ally, it also favors free trade. 1t
platform favors the removal Of duties ol
potatoes, onions, hay, grain, fruit and
products of the soil generally, as well a!
upon wool. Why should party forme,
to secure prohibition not confine itself tC
this sbiect? The truth is that the Prohi
bition party is simply an ally of tn
Democratic party. The open and avoweC
purpose of its speakers is the destruction
of the Republican party, and it is ditlicul
to see how honest temperance men cal
be longer blind to the fact that in III
destruction of the strongest opponent o
the Democratic party. it would perpetu
ate the rule of the latter LBurlingto
Free Press.