The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-01

aroused among the folks at home, and
restrictions will undoubtedly be evaded.
SO long as Italy is what it is and the
United States is what tits, we must ex-
pect more or less immigration. This
view of the situation, however, should
not deter our government from adopt
ing restrictions as rigid as can be
thoroughly enforced.
THE Free Press says "Not one of
our Vermont exchanges comes out
squarely in favor of an extra session of
the Legislature in relation to the direct
tax" Our contemporary exchange
list, then, does not include some of the
leading Vermont papers, like the Wood
stock Standard, whose editor is inspec-
tor of finance, and who favors an extra
session for covering this sum into the
state treasury. We have not given the
matter particular attention, but, in run
ming over our exchanges, we recall
number which favor the extra session,
and for good reasons. Washington
county's senators favor the extra SEES
sion, and so did the board of agricul-
ture when convened here last week; so
do men of good judgment in all parts of
the state. Some 100000 will be
brought into the state at once-and
that is desirable. There is no reason
why the legislature should be together
more than day, and no likelihood that
the session will be unreasonably pro-
longed.
THE WATCHMAN has long been an
advocate of practical forestry as
means for recovering to profitable in
dustry large part of Vermont's I'M
profitable domain, part unfit for
either tillage or pasturage. A corre-
spondent gives in another column for
chile illustration of the methods and
profits of reforesting unproductive and
untillable lands. What that man did
may be done by thousands of others,
and with other kinds of timber than
the maple. When this matter of for
estry is brought up it is quite generally
received with a sneer or a shrug of in
difference. Timber is growing now,
the answer will be, faster than it can
be cut. To be profitable, forestry, like
stock breeding or any other branch of
agriculture, must be pursued with
study, care and system. Select the
timber to be planted, prepare the
ground, plant with care and protect
the young trees till they can take care
of themselves. We hope the consider
alton of this subject will be revived
and that it will receive the attention
its Importance demands.
THE Argus and Patriot is still tear
ing its hair over the extravaganza
of the fifty-frst congress and is in a
phrenzy of pious wrath against L" Ear
Reed" When congress met, shrieks
our contemporary, there was surplus
of one hundred million dollars in the
treasury. This has vanished" Well,
1866 100000 of the national debt has
also vanished :" since Harrison's ad-
ministration began. President Cleve-
land maintained that this surplus was
ga menace" March l, 1888, this
"menace " aggregated S191 ZOO, 900.
1t was drawing no interest, and $685.
000,0 900 of it was deposited in national
banks upon which those institutions
were fattening, while the government
was paying four per cent and four and
one-half per cent on its bonds.
Throughout the democratic admins
tration an idle surplus, averaging about
S15O,00O,000 annually, menaced
the country, although the laws directed
the president to apply this money to
the extinguishment of the national
debt. The republicans have so applied
it, and so the country is saved an in
terest tax of millions. This is how
the surplus has vanished"
III. MoHLER, secretary of the Kan
sas state board of agriculture, notifies
us that he has sent us by express,
charges prepaid to destination, one
copy of the seventh biennial report of
the Kansas state board of agriculture.
We do not refer to this as matter of
personal distinction. Very likely every
newspaper in the state has been SINH
larly honored, and it is more than
probable that copies of the document
have been literally scattered over the
East. The board has an eye to BUSH
ness. 1t is one of the ways in which
Kansas is advertised" doomed" in
the vernacular of the day. We refer
to the matter merely to point a COM