The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-23

followed by prolonged drouth, the
grain and potato crops were almost
total failure. Rice was the sole sup
port of life, and the supply was rapidly
getting exhausted when public meet
ing was called, and it was resolved TO
send boat to Mauritius, four hundred
miles away. -Four men volunteered to
undertake the perilous voyage. They
narrowly escaped destruction in the
stormy sea, but at last they reached
Nautilus, and 300 bags of rice were
at once sent in steam tugs to the
suffering people, who were found al
most on the brink of starvation.
CONGRESSMAN CIRCUIT delivered a
tariff speech in the house last week.
He said he would reduce the surplus
by making an annual appropriation of
| $4,000, 900 for the defence of the great
seaboard cities and no longer leave
them at the mercy of any nation which
might send gunboats into their har-
bors. He would make an annual APP
preparation of S10,000,000 for the edu-
cation of embyro American citizens
who could not read or write. He would
increase the pension rolls $4,000 900
by passing the dependent pension bill
and other pension legislation. He
would then reduce the tobacco tax, re-
wise the tariff and the dangers of the
surplus would vanish He compared
the farming interests of Vermont and
Kentucky, quoting statistics to show
when the population of the two states
was compared the eastern state was far
in advance of her western rival. The
only thing Kentucky had more than
Vermont were illiterates, saloons,
mules and asses.
IT takes the Boston Herald to ad-
vance the following plea: If it is
true that every ninety-nine persons in
one hundred who eat oleomargarine
think they are eating genuine butter, it
seems almost pity to spend a great
deal Of energy to dispel the illusion, so
long as appetite is satisfied and nobody
hurt" So is it that people will breathe
hour after hour the foul air of room
without being aware of the fact, but
the journal which would infer from
this that it makes little differenc e what
kind of air one lives in deserves to per-
ish. 1t will take more than the Boston
argument to convince people with a
civilized taste that grease butter is
quite the equal of the kind made from
healthy cows. The Herald writer is at
liberty to eat the dirty stuff called
oleomargarine if he pleases. There is
no accounting for tastes. But nine
hundred ninety-nine out of a thousand
persons prefer clean, sweet, pure but
ter, and attempts to substitute for ii a
fraudulent compound merit the severest
penalties.-1roy Times.
THE question of the small stocks of
wheat in the country, in view of the
short crop prospects, is matter of SUI
preme importance. The crop last year
was 456 100000 bushels and the amount
carried over popularity estimated at
II 900 900 bushels of wheat and about
100000 barrels of flour at the prin-
cipal points of accumulation; total of
533 100000 bushels. The food of
go 900 900 people at four and one-half
bushels would be 279 100000 bushels,
and the exports from both coasts up to
this week have been 10 000, 900 bushels,
so that with the seed, SO 100000 bushels,
total of 442 900, 900 has been accounted
for. If the exports for the two months
of May and June are say 100000
bushels, the supply disposed of is
457 900, 900 bushels, leaving about the
same stocks to carry over as last year.
A reduction in the yield of spring and
winter wheat by the extreme bull es-
innate of 100 100000 bushels, or, to the
crop of 1885, 357 900, 900 bushels, would
leave an export surplus of only 25,-
100000 to 35 900, 900 bushels.
IT so happened that Mr.. Cleveland
was the agency through which the
hungry democracy escaped from the
wilderness and came into the land of
milk and honey. If he were golden
calf it would be all the same. The
question of what he is or what he was
or what he may be has very little to do
with it; the main thing is that he is,
and that he is in the white house. The
democratic eye likes to gaze out and
see that there is somebody at home
somebody who has the key of the store
house of good things and who may
open up and let the boys in now and
then. The democracy will make any
sacrifice of principle or self-respect in
order to succeed. 1t will crawl in the
dust before the potentate of the white
house. 1t waits from him the word Of
bidding like dog waits the bidding
of its master 1t fawns wbiningly at
the feet of him who it feels and knows
not to be in hearty sympathy with its
traditional practices and aims. 1t plays
the sycophant to the president in order
that it may enjoy the presidents re-
4 wards of place, power and gain. If he
were to smite it on one cheek, so lost
is it in every sense of independence
that it would willingly turn the other
National Republican.