The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18

want without nghtlng than ngnt With |
out getting it. The knights have
chosen the latter course, and after their
organization has broken itself in vain
struggle we hope that wiser one will
be formed whose management will
take not the wrong but the right way
to secure the rights of labor on rail-
roads or elsewhere. p Philadelphia Press.
EUROPE is staggering under load
of national debts so appalling that the
most hopeful inancier of the Old
World sees no prospect of their re-
moval in this generation or in any
succeeding generation, save by the
iniquitous process of reputation. The
people of Europe are paying annually
in interest the sum of $500 900, 900 on
800, 1000 900, 900 of national debt. They
are crushed with taxation and nowhere
is there hope of relief. The state
linanciers rather are constantly in
search of new sources of revenue to
make up the deficiencies in their
budgets.
MANY negroes in Georgia, as in
other parts of the South, in the recent
elections voted against prohibition, but
this was not done by any of the colored
people who have come under the infu-
ence of the schools or churches es-
tablished by missions from the North.
There is nothing more distinctive about
the dominant influences in the Atlanta
University or the Fisk University and
our other schools in the South than
the prominence which is given to in
struction in matters pertaining to tenn
perance and the zeal with which all
who go out as teachers carry their
temperance principles into their school
work.-Chicago Advance.
APART from his rebellion record"
says the Albany Ld,0 journal, Secre-
tary Lamar has no suitable judicial quail
ifications for place on the bench of the
United States supreme COURT" and the
Journal voices the general sentiment
when it says: "To put upon this
bench secessionst who is not even
repentant and who can not see that he
did wrong is a dangerous stretch of
leniency and violent shock to the
patriotic feeling of loyal people. Mr..
Lamar said Davis was no traitor, and
of course thinks the same of himself.
If that is his way of arguing he is an
unsafe man to Judge of what is treason
and an unsafe man to be entrusted
with the sacred duty imposed on him
by this office"
THE Il. Y. is apparently in much
distress lest the republican plan for or
ganization and the coming convention
of republican clubs in Montpelier may
in some way rebound to the advantage
of Mr.. Blaine and smash the little
political machine of the r. Y. and its
! friends. AS we understand the situa-
ton, the republican movements which
! give so much concern to our mug
wumpian contemporary are simply de-
signed to strengthen the party for the
coming contest, irrespective of prefer
ences as to candidates. The trouble
with the r. Y. is that it realizes that
the republican party in Vermont can
not be used to promote its particular
hobbies and the interests of its particu-
lar candidates and is not in sympathy
with its profound dislike of Mr.. Blaine.
In its views of republican organization
and of Mr.. Blaine the II. Y. is in full
accord with the democratic press,
THE interstate commerce commission
is soon to have case before it that in
wolves fine point in law and million
dollars in money. The big beef COM
panies that furnish and load their own
cars claim that for them to pay the or
binary rates of transportation is mani.
festly unfair. They ship their goods
under special conditions and claim that
they ought to have special rates. They
have been paying the other rates now
for some months and want back the
$3.50 900 extra they have spent in the
meantime. The case is important, not
only because of the amount of money
directly involved in it but because OF
the principle at stake. If the beef
packers can get special rates then per-
haps men engaged in other specia
lines can do the same thing If they
can not get the special rates it may af.
feet the price of meat all along the At
lantic seaboard and even in England
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