The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-18

politan grocers; and the average city
consumer does not believe he has the |
4" real thing" in the way of maple
syrup unless it has the barbed-wire
twang of the city-m Ide article. The
Herald scribe apparently knows more
about the article made in the purlieus
of Printing House Square than of the
product of the maple groves of Yer
mont. The latter he would very likely
condemn as the fraudulent production
of those "derned Vermont farmers"
Such are the const quences of vitiated
tastes. -
REPRESENTATIVE SIMPSON, the alli-
ance member from Kansas, made
speech at recent alliance meeting at
Washington, which is attracting good
deal of attention. He thought the
transportation question more important
than that of money, and he showed
himself in sympathy with the George
idea when he declared that land not in
use should be taxed up to its rental
value. He is in favor of the fore
closure of the government mortgage on
the Union Pacific and the operation of
the road by the government, but only
as an experiment, and not until it has
been demonstrated success would he
have any further government manage
ment of the transportation business.
The republican party he considered
dead, and the two great parties in the
future would be the democratic, into
which the conservative element OF the
republican rarty would drift, and the
alliance or liberal party. He said one
of the aims of the alliance was to re-
unite the North and the South. His
views probably come as close to the
principles of the alliance as do those OF
any other one man. Heis right in regard.
ing the transportation question as OF
very great importance, and his PROPOSE
ton to foreclose the mortgage on the
Union Pacific railroad is not as wild as
it may seem at first thought. 1t is 6
, good chance for trying the experiment
of government ownership.
THE murder of the Italian prisoners
, at New Orleans of course has two sides
to it. One is that the city has vipel
by the name of the Malta in its bosom
, that this viper has been directing it,
fangs not only at private individual
but even at the head of the police force
that, when the murderers of the chic
were arraigned for justice, corruption
+ fund was placed in the hands of de
tective and justice was in this way
thwarted, that the release Of these IS
sassius would have at once given free
rein to murder and general lawlessness
The other side is, that the usual process
of law has been defed, when no suffi
cient evidence was given to prove tha
2 the courts would not eventually have
melted out substantial justice. 1t wa,
entirely possible to have convicted the
jury of bribery, if bribery existed, anG
to have then tried the Italians agair
for the murder of Chief Hennessy ant
to have convicted them. 1t would have
taken time for the law to effect all this
but, while the guilty would have had
their deserts, no innocent blood would
have been shed. The life of even
vicious Italian is sacred thing. But
to judge this case fairly, one should
know all the facts. 1t is conceivable
that things had come to such pass in
New Orleans that rising of the PEG.
pie had become necessary. Yet the
people of the North will not be ready To
accept that view. TIE hot southern
blood probably boiled too easily, and
an outrage against law, order and civil.
ization resulted. 1t is diffiettlt, how
ever, to see what the government can
do in the way of reparation, except to
make pecuniary compensation. When
ed of this kind is approved by a
community, legal proceedings of any
force are not possible.
MIR. PARNELL has issued an address
to the Irish people in this country,
which is designed to make the recep-
ton to his delegation of representatives
warm, cordial and conducive to gener-
GUS financial support. 1t has ring of