The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-10-15
Press Notes.

ored with most brilliant vindicatiOn
by his neighbors. The republican
party carried Portland with a greatly
increased majority. Saturday, the city
of Covington, where Mr.. Carlisle lives,
held its municipal election, and for the
first time on record went republican,
Chicago Inter Ocean.
THE reason why Vermont has not
kept pace in prosperity and numerical
strength with other states is because
she cherishes a spirit of innate hostility
towards every newcomer into the state,
who is looked upon as an intruder; as
witness the opposition to the introduce
ton of the Swedes and others; and in
stead of cooperative invitation to
new men and new enterprises to help
build up the state and her industries,
we greet them with frowns and re-
Bluffs. Huntington Earth.
THE quiet assertion of Senator Ed
munds that the federal election bill will
be passed at the next session of con-
gress naturally causes dismay among the
opponents of that measure, both in ard
out of congress. For one thing, it vr-
tually carries with it the assertion that
the proposed change in the rules of the
senate, which will give the majority of
that body the power to transact bust
ness, will be carried through. Such
change is clearly demanded in the in
terests of good government and the or
derby transaction of the public bust
ness.-NeIc York Tribune.
Now, there has been considerable
fault found with the new law, but it is
not on account of its ineffectiveness in
giving better schools on the average,
nor in the fact that schools have been
more regularly kept, but because some
of these old rich farmers and old fogies
think that there is too much of it, and
that it is too expensive. They might
have added, by reason of schools being
kept running the legally prescribed
number of weeks in the year, it is an
noying to their pleasure and pocket
books. That is about the size of it. and
the only real objection that they have
against the law.-Rutldnd Telegram.
In the original plan of the Mormon
church polygamy was not regarded as
necessity, and it can be set aside
whenever the Mormon leaders say so,
without interfering with their ecclesias-
tical system. While the people may
look with favor upon plural marriages,
it would seem as if the leaders had al
ready decided to yield to the govern
ment and abandon polygamy. The
interesting feature of Mormonism to-
day is the watching of the settlement
of this issue among these people, and i,
Notwithstanding Governor Thomas
statement in his annual report to the
government, it looks as if the death
blow had been struck at polygamy.-
Boston Herald.
REPORTS from the Swedish colony in
the town of Peru, Vt, are very encOur-
aging. The colonists seem satisfied
with their land and with what they are
doing. They have found that they
were not wrong when they refused to
trust the agents of some of the west
ern states who represented the land in
Vermont as so poor that " a rabbit had
to take his luncheon with him if he
was going to cross a field" That the
Swedes are accounted desirable settlers
may be inferred from the efforts which
the western people are making to di-
vert them from the eastern farms Of
fered to them for almost nothing by
the states of Vermont and New Hamp-
shire,-NeW York EUening Post.
IT will be remembered that in order
to secure the quorum constitutionally
required for the passage of this bill
Speaker Reed counted the democrats
present and not voting. Because of
this fact, every decision classifying
worsteds as woolens has been contested
by the importers on the ground that the
law was not constitutionally enacted.
a long and exhaustive opinion on this
point was rendered on Saturday by
Judge II. w. Somerville OF Alabama,
member of the general board of APP
praisers. The text of the opinion was
not made public, but the New York
Times (dem.) states that it sustains the
ruling of Speaker Reed, and cites au-
thorities in support of it. The Times
also reports that the board is a unit in
upholding the constitutionality of the
law.-BOSton journal.