The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-10-08

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English manufacturers are allowed to
continue selling in American markets
certain goods which they have learned
by long experience to make very
cheaply, American competitors will not
have the ghost of chance against them
Because England has had a monopoly
in these goods is no reason for giving
her the privilege of keeping it forever.
A CORRESPONDENT asks for informa-
ton regarding the grade of sugar num-
bered from thirteen to sixteen, Dutch
standard. Only an expert in the bust
ness of refining could give specific
answer, but it is sufficient to say that
No. 16 is about the dividing line
between white and brown sugar.
! Above that number, sugar is more
white than brown. OF course, all these
numbers refer to different degrees of
refining. The partly brown sugar was
once used quite generally, and for most
domestic purposes it is probably quite
as good as are the whittier grades. BY
the new tariff bill, all grades from No.
16 downward are duty-free. If one
does not mind a slight color, he need
not buy pound of protected sugar.
The refiners are in no position to eX-
tort unreasonable prices from con-
! sumers.
VICE PRESIDENT WEBB of the New
| York Central railroad has issued a cir
cular to subordinate officers of the COM
pany, in which he announces that the
management objects to employees being
members of the Knights of Labor.
1.-THE management is satisfied that
membership in this particular organ
ization is inconsistent with faithful and
efficient service to the company, and is
liable at any time to prevent it from
properly discharging its duties to the
public" The issue is thus clearly
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employees. The knights will not yield
their point. What will take place
will be the adoption of unusual pre-
cautions to maintain secrecy as to men,
bership and operations. The action of
Mr.. Webb will bind the Knights to-
gether into a frmer organization than
now exists. BY the way, this course is
hardly consistent with Mr.. Webb's
statement, repeatedly made during the
strike, that the discharge of the objec-
tonable men had nothing to do with
their connection with the Knights.
1t looks as though the road had de-
liberately planned, long ago, to wage
war on the organization.
THE arrival of the Comte de Paris
at New York last week was an event of
national interest. The Comte came
to the United States twenty-eight
years ago to offer his services to the
Union cause as a soldier. AS an Of
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he proved himself not only friend of
liberty but also a gallant soldier. His
disnterested devotion to the cause of
the North bore a striking resemblance
to the career of Lafayette during the
Revolution. And the parallel does not
cease with the close of their connection
with the American army. Lafayette re-
visited this country in 1924, to receive
a welcome of love and respect from the
whole people such as few men were
ever honored with. Now the Comte,
after an absence of some twenty-five
years, returns, and by his old comrades
in arms his arrival is made an occasion
of hearty greeting and reunion. The
group of officers who met him in New
York harbor spoke in effect the well
come of the nation to the Lafayette of
the Rebellion. The sentiment beneath
this pathetic scene is as lofty as liberty
and brotherhood. 1t family indicates
the coming, some day, of international
peace, based on justice to individuals
and nations. Lafayette and Paris are
two of the great souls whose country is
the world.
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