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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-30

poor men with families are left in mid.
winter in distress. Last fall these same
men were told they must vote the republi-
can state ticket or they would be discharged,
and they were made to sign roll for the
republican league. They were then com.
PEELED by threats to give their free ballots(D
to help elect Harrison, and now they are
out of work, like thousands of other labor
ing men all over the country. There were
more failures the first week in January,
1889 than ever before in one week. What
glorious victory for the laboring man
i. i. White of North Duxbury, in
the Free Press, brushes up the sable
hu of our contemporary picture, and
puts in the following enivening colors:
FtrSt-There is no lumber concern shut
down nor are there any poor men with fam
lies thrown out Of work and left in mid
winter IN distress. The poor men in this
place all nave good, comfortable houses to
live in, plenty Of wood plenty of all the
good things to eat and drink, carpets on
their floors, Sewlng-machines for their wives
organs and good schools for their children
and some of them have from $500 to 81 500
in the savings banks of Montpelier and
Burlington; and, taking them altogether
they are as cOntented~ and happy a lot of
men as ever were seen.
iSecOnd-lt is not true that these men were
tod last fall that they must vote the reDuh-
lican state ticket or they would be dis
charged, nor were they made to sign roll
for the republican league or compelled, by
threats or otherwise, to give their free bal
lot to elect Mr. Harrison II is true that
last fall ] circulated roll for the republ-
can league, and am very happy TO note
that quite a number of od-lne democrats
signed it and said they were going to vote
for Governor Dillingham;; and both the Sep
tember and November vote shows that a
good many did vote for the republican
tickets.
was compelled on account of the bad
winter for numbering to let few men 90,
but they were young men without families,
and | retained the only democrat in my
gang, and he will tell you now that he was
not compelled to sign the roll for the repub-
lcan league, or even asked to sign it, and
suppose he voted for the lost cause.
Like the Milesian, the Argus never
opens its mouth-particularly on tariff
and related matters-without putting
its foot, and often both feet, into that
expansive void
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-30

THE Argus and Patriot is weeping
bitter tears over the injury to American
industry inflicted by the tariff, and the
schemes of republican statesmen to ex-
tend the application of protective du-
ties. Two weeks ago our contemporary
revamped its campaign nonsense about
the prosperity of Peck e Cummins
and Carroll S. Page being due to the
fact that there is free-trade in hides,
which enables these dealers to buy the
foreign product cheap. This argu-
ment" was thoroughly exploded at
the time, but the Argus has got the
fragments together again, and they
appear as bran new creation. The
facts are Peck e Cummins buy do
mestic hides only, and the very day
of the Argus publication of its
patched-up fallacy refused an offer of
Canadian hides at a lower price than
they were paying for domestic. In a
general way the same is true of Mr..
Pages business. An insignificant part
of his extensive purchases are from
Canada. His books will show that the
bulk of his purchases are domestic.
Hides are secondary product. Cattle
are not raised for their skins, no more
than for their hoofs or horns. Were
hides primal product like wool-if
the success of cattle-raising depended
on the value of the skins of the animals,
as the prosperity of the sheep industry
does on the price of fleeces-there might
be point to a comparison between
free hides and taxed wool. AS the
facts are, the Argus position is entirely
irrational and the facts educed from
local industries have no tangible exist
ence. Equally absurd and unfounded
are the premises and conclusions in a
column article in the issue of last week
on the manufacture of tin plates. 1t is
curious enough to see our contemporary
seeming a job" in the prop osition to
raise the duty on tin plates to the pro-
tective point, when every well-informed
person understands that the plain in
tent of the tariff of 1867 to tax i'm
ported tin plates two and one-half cents
a pound was evaded by successfully
managed job put up by the canning
industries to add few dollars to their
profits. Had the tariff on tin plates
been maintained, this country would
now be making the bulk of the i'm
mense quantity now imported and fol
which 100000 are annually sent tc
England, just as we are making the
bulk of our iron and steel, and provid-
ing home market for the products OF
the soil.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-30

right. independence in journalism out
side of party organization is nowadays
too nearly synonymous with the rowing
spirit of the free lance or the destruc-
tive propensity of the iconoclast.
True journalism not only interprets
the grumblng5, the murmurs, the tu-
mults of crowds" but it puts "the
complaints ill-pronounced, the unintel-
ligible voices" into type in good sea-
son, while there is time and opportunity
to aid and protect the people. The
journalism that finds its voice only after
wrong has been done, that is silent
as the grave while abuses-social or
political, local or national-are Matching
and developing into full-hedged exist
ence, is false to the lowest conception
of the functions of true journalism.
The press of Vermont has been quite
unanimously interpreting the "grum-
blings " of the people since the adjourn
ment Of the legislature. These news
papers knew-or if they did not they
were untrue to their duties as public
ournals-what proposed laws were be-
fore the legislature and what measures
were withheld. A timely iuterpreta-
ton of popular complaints, seasonable
utterance of words of warning by the
local press, might have had its effect for
better or for worse on the course of
legislation. Senators and representa-
tives are servants of the people, and if
the servants were not doing their work
to the satisfaction of their masters it
was the latter's right and duty to say so,
and it was the function of true Jour-
nalism for the state papers to discover
public sentiment, to interpret the
grumblings, the murmurs, the COM
plants ill-pronounced which the peo-
pie, after the laws are made and pub
lished, are forced to make.
Two years ago the press was on the
alert in respect of certain state affairs
that were of great importance, and
popular satisfaction with such legisla-
ton as had been the subject of public
discussion, though not complete-it
never will be till the coming of the
millennium-was quite general. We
apprehend that before another state
election is held state affairs, relieved
of the overshadowing claims of ma
tional election upon the voters atten-
ton, will have very general and par
ticular overhauling by people and press.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-30
The Senate Tariff Bill.

The senate tariff bill was passed by
a strict party vote-yeas, thirty-two /;
nays, thirty. approximations of disaf-
lection from the republican ranks were
not realized. The most important
changes were in the wool and wooden
schedules. The bill originally provided
for duty of eleven cents per pound
on wool of the first and second classes.
AS amended and passed, the duty on
wool of the first class is eleven cents, the
second class twelve cents, and on wool
of the third class valued at twelve cents
or less per pound the duty is increased
from two and one-half cents to four
cents a pound, and on wool valued at
over twelve cents the increase is from
five cents to eight cents. An amend
ment was adopted fixing the duty on
wooden and worsted yarn valued at not
more than fifty cents per pound at
thirty cents, and on yarn valued at
more than fifty cents at thirty-eight
cents pound, in addition to forty per
cent adj UdlOrem; on wooden and worsted
cloths, valued at above sixty cents per
pound. the duty was fixed at forty-fve
cents per pound, in addition to forty
per cent I'D valorem. The same rate OF
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-30
True journalism.

Mr.. Stead of the Pal Mall Gazette,
on being asked his idea of journalism,
answered by quoting these words, which
Victor Hugo put into the mouth of one
of his characters
The people are silent. ] shall be the
advocate of this silence | will speak for
the dumb. ] will speak of the small to the
great and of the feeble to the strong, This
is the aim of my destiny. | have a mission.
| shall speak for the despairing, silent ones.
| shall interpret the grumblings, the muir
murs, the tumults Of crowds, the complaints
ll-pronounced, the unintelligible voices,
and all those cries that. through ignorance
and through suffering, man is forced to
make. | will be the word of the people.
We find the following comments on
the above in newspaper clipping, the
identity of which, we regret to say, we
are unable to determine:
That is true journalism, and it should
be practiced by every public newspaper in
the country. Let evils, wherever they ex-
list, be unearthed; let wrongs which one
part of society upholds to the detriment of
the other be exposed. True journalism is
also against cliques and partisanism in pol
itics and social matters. But then, journal
ism, as it goes to-day, is far from being up
to this standard. Papers are either run for
money-making or party interests-or, what
is even worse, for the purpose Of or at the
will of, money powers and corporations.
But the people are to blame for all this
false journalism themselves. If the all
critical public demanded wholesome Jour
nalism there would be no trouble in Secur-
ing it. Until the moral and law-abiding
people themselves make it possible for
innrnaliqm w a.
some and partisan newspapers will flourish.
There is room here for reform as largely as
in any other phase of American life.
The above is worth republishing, and
it is worthy of the serious consideration
of the people on whose support news
papers-good, bad and indifferent
thrive or maintain an existence. True
journalism, in so far as it is against
partisanism in politics." does not
necessarily require that paper shall be
independent of party organizations. A
partisan is an adherent TO a party
or faction-one who is unreasonable
devoted to his party faction. Reputed
Independent journals often exhibit
very narrow partisanship, very unrea-
sonable devotion to men or factions or
interests which have enlisted their sup
port, while party newspapers sometimes
display real independence by consist
emily laboring, inside of party organ
izations, to put their party in the right
and keep il there, as well as by sustain
ing ii ardently when it is clearly in the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-30

THE commissioners to locate and
erect state asylum for the insane,
according to No. o., Acts Of 1888, on
January Dist visited the asylum at
Brattleboro-alsoth the one at Concord,
n. Hand, after consulting with the
trustees of the asylum at Brattleboro,
adopted the following resolution:
4" In view of the crowded condition of
the asylum at Brattleboro, and of the
expressed opinion of the trustees of
said asylum, it is necessary that it
should be relieved of the surplus pa
tients now there as soon as practicable,
and in view of the declaration of said
trustees that they are unwilling to add
to the capacity of the institution,
RESOLVED, That we deem it for the best
interests of the state that the act of the
legislature authorizing the erection of
an asylum be carried into effect, and
that we proceed to the erection of an
asylum as soon as possible"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-30
GNattbmun T. Suurnal.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1899.

SPECIAL attention is asked to the
announcement and offer on the first
page of this issue of the WATCrOGAN.
1t is the purpose of the publishers to
materially enlarge the agricultural
department. Edited by a Vermont
farmer who takes no stock in theories
that do not pay cash, who is also one
of the most eminent and trusted agri-
cultural writers in New England, and
is assisted by men who are farming on
Vermont soil and in Vermont eli
mate, and making success of farming,
it holds to reason that the WATERMAN,
in its farm department, should be far
more helpful to Vermont farmers than
any outside publication. From those
who are not subscribers we solicit a trial
subscription. In this connection atten-
ton is asked TO our extended clubbing
list, and to the special premium adver-
tised on the seventh page--a premium
that will be very desirable to dairymen.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-30

ments, but by tampering with and over
awing the persons who were inclined to
take the places of the union men. On
this count the damages were assessed
at 81 900. The jury was long in arriv-
ing at this decision. One of its mem
bers wanted to rate the contractors in
iuries at SIS, 900, while others commended
for small sums. Finally, after more
than dozen ballotings, the conclusion
above mentioned was reached. 1t will
have a healthy effect, Tor boycotting
and SANDER are not American methods
of settling the differences between
capital and labor Oppression on the
part of capitalists, under the ruling of
the Cincinnati court, would be equally
liable to punishment.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-30

F. ID. DOUGLASS, the new president
of the Vermont Dairymen's Associa-
ton, is now filling an engagement with
the Maine State Board of Agriculture to
deliver a course of six lectures on agri-
culture at various points in the Pine
Tree State. Mr.. Douglass has been
called at different times to every New
England State except Rhode Island,
and nine times to the Empire State-a
flattering recognition of the value of
his services as teacher of agriculture.
Long may the cold Roman live.
He is good specimen of one of Ver-
mont's leading products-men; one of
the few who has had the courage to
stay at home and to show what intelli-
gent industry can accomplish in YER
mont.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-30

THE result of the election in Paris,
last Sunday, was victory for General
Boulanger so overwhelming and COM
plete as to startle even his most ardent
partisans. The general was elected
deputy, to fill the vacancy in the depart
ment of the Seine, by plurality of
81 $50 votes. His majority over all
candidates is "a ,432, out of total vote
of 433,70S. The resignation of the
ministry is expected at once and France
will probably be again thrown into a
political turmoil. Republicanism in
France, and indeed in all Europe, is the
first sufferer by Boulanger's triumph.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-30

If this government shall finally adopt
the policy of substituting, in part or in
whole, bounty for an import tax as
means of developing the domestic
sugar industry, the maple sugar pro-
ducing states will insist that the product
of the maple as well as of the cane
shall be included. This, we have
always maintained, would be simple
justice to Vermont as we'll as to Louis
lana, the great representative producers
of the two sweets.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-30

COLORADO elects f. o. Wolcott, re-
publican, to succeed Senator Bowen, re-
publican; Michigan, James Mcmillan
to succeed Senator Palmer, both re-
publicans; North Carolina, M. W.
Ransom, and New Jersey, John p. Nc
Pherson, democrats, to succeed them
selves. Massachusetts re-elects Senator
Hoar; Maine, Senator Frye; Oregon,
Senator Dolph, all republicans. Min
nesota will send w. ID. Washburn to
succeed Senator Sabin, both republic
cans; and-mirobile dictu!-little Della
ware has broken her record by going
outside of the Bayard and Salisbury
family for a representative in the upper
branch of the national assembly and
further distinguished herself by choos-
ing republican. Anthony Higgins is
the man whom this political revolution
brings to the front in national affairs.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-30

IN these days of dictation on the part
of labor organizations and of boycott
ting by both employers and employed,
a recent decision in Cincinnati has a
special importance. The Bricklayers'
Union, No. l, of that city not only quar-
relied with a firm of contractors for
which its members had been working,
but used rough methods for preventing
their late employers from obtaining
help in other quarters. A jury has just
decided that the conduct of the union
was illegal in two ways. First, the
contractors were charged in widely
circulated handful with doing inferior
work and with employing scabs" and
inferior workmen. For this the SLAM
dered firm was awarded $4,000 Sec
ond, the union was convicted of CO.
ercing, or attempting to coerce, the
plaintiffs into submission, not only by
the publication of abusive printed state
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-30

THE political wiseacres are sure that
Mr.. Blaine, Mr.. Allison and Mr.. Wan
namaker will be members of President
Harrison's cabinet, as secretary of
state, of the treasury and as postmaster
general, respectively. Warner Miller is
somewhat less confidently allotted a
portfolio--possibly of the interior or
navy. The time when surmise will
develop into knowledge is rapidly draw
ing nigh.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-30

duty was fixed upon flannels, blankets
and hats of wool valued at above sixty
cents per pound, and upon women's
and children's dress goods composed
wholly or in part of wool weighing
over four ounces per square yard. A
duty of forty-live cents per pound and
forty.iive per cent nd vdlorem was
fixed on clothing ready-made and wear
ing apparel of every description COM
posed wholly or in part of wool. Pre-
vious to the tariff revision of 1888 The
rate of duty on woods of the first and
second class was ten cents specific and
ten per cent dd rdlOrenl. The legisla-
ton of 1883 took off the dd ydlOrem
duty. The rate now adopted by the
senate on woods of the first and second
classes is somewhat lower than the
rate that prevailed prior to 1888, but
on the third class a higher degree of
protection is given than before that
date for the purpose of encouraging
the growth of carpet woods in this
country. The amendments to the
wooden and worsted schedules were in
tended to rectify existing inequalities
that have worked injuriously to manu-
facturers in this country in competition
with foreigners.
The bill embodies an innovation in
the economic legislation OF this coun-
try. BY an amendment proposed by
Senator Allison, who has had charge
of the measure, provision is made for
a bounty of one cent a pound on all
sugar made from sorghum, beet or
cane grown within the United States,
and the duty on imported sugar is re-
duced from two and three-fourths cents
to seven-tenths of a cent pound.
The rate on tin plates is raised from
one cent a pound, which is entirely
non-protective, to two and e-tenth
cents, which is protective, and which,
if adopted, insures the repetition of
the efforts made some fifteen years ago
to produce this article in this country.
More than two hundred eighty thousand
tons of tin are used yearly on this side
of the Atlantic, every pound of which
is now made abroad. Had not the pro-
lection the tariff of 1867 designed to
extend to this industry been denied to
it by the absurd rulings of treasury
officials, America would be now no
more dependent on Europe for tin
plates than she is for iron and steel.
The senate bill is framed in the interest
of protection to American industry,
and its provisions, it is believed, are
approved, in the main, by the wisest
upholders of the protective principle.
Its formulation demonstrates-if proof
of the fact were needed-that the re-
publican party in congress is pro-
gressive, not obstructive. The party
does not oppose with brute force the
enactment of the Mills bill. 1t meets
that measure with an intelligent propo-
sition, and undertakes to substitute the
latter for the former. Interest in the
measure centers now in the action of
the house. That the bill, or anything
resembling it, will pass the lower legis-
lative branch no one believes. Com
pleted action on matter that has so
engrossed the attention of all the peo-
pie must probably be reserved for the
fifty-first congress.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-30
This Picture and That.

The Argus and Patriot of January
l 6 contained the following:
One of the lumber concerns at North
Duxbury has stopped work, and several
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-30
Dress Goods This Week.

It is absolutely necessary that in order open up
early mporatons in Spring Dress Goods present stock
must be greatly reduced. About Feb Is will display
novelties for early spring wear that have only about
three weeks to get present stock down proper pro-
portions dress pattern that would cost lady $40 few
be purchased for 49, So pattern for ST. So and so on
throughout entire Dress Goods Black Goods and Silk
Departments will these unparalleled reductions be found
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-30
BANKER BLEICHRoDER.
great Wealth and Unsuccessful
00Hoat Against Race Prejudice.

r., "paiIu ana OnSuCcesStQl
Aoat Against Race Prejudice.
II From Berlin Letter.
iue son Of Herr Won Bleichroder the
9. "sa,.nlest man of Berlin, will soon depart
~. MEXICO to attend TO his fathers interests
80 80 The banking house Of Bleichroder
ct, 1 slO"n much as did that Of the Roths-
r LIS Its tourder was a poor man. but
eba s,essel OF that indomitabe energy so
pI ia, ai(erlstic Of his race, which r6Didly
+ 49,. MN upon the road to wealth and
once l9 os' The little house in which he
and ia ged money was RACED long since
strass. ma shihcent palace in the Behrsn.
Ent - - 10" The scene of his transactions
ann NJ. ms career has been frauzbt with dis.
ATTACHMENTS. With wealth came social
paior ,'' W. and with social ambition a cam
cans ~ VI l9l eats. IL is difficult for Amari.
Heb-eo,.I realize the barriers in the wav of the
senGn,"-t IN Germany. The anti-Semitic
aristooonnt IS widespread and violent. The
patbv ,.,.H classes are thoroughly in sym.
lain StItsu Tue movements OF G ,urt Chan
nob6i.I.l,cAer and the drawing rooms of The
and ', NY are closed to the Hebrew bankers
from aii relatives. They are debarred
are arr an society other than thar o,y, tho1
jsdio g51{Gluded from certain Offices IN ne
-'|'1i career aud rejected as candidates
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salt Rheum,

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wonderful power over this disease. 1t puri-
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skin heals without scar. Send for book
many statements OF cures, 70 "
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Morn cAeJs uF4wlaR Capital Prizes are not
enttlei T. Terminal Prizes.
tF-FoR CLUB RATES or any further nforma-
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clearly stating your residence, with State,
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mail delivery will DO assured by your enclosing
al envelope bearing your Iuli address. =,
Send POST NOTES, Express Money
Orders or New York Exchange in ordinary let
ter Currency by Express tat our expense) ad-
dressed ID A. DAUPHIN,
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