The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-10-07

the returns OF the town m0deratOrs.
No doubt this course could have been
adopted long ago if disposition to
demand justice instead of party sue
cess had characterized the two parties.
When controversies of this kind occur
it is always the habit of each side to
insist that it is right in all particulars
and to refuse any compromise. The
fact almost invariably is that each side
can make out respectable case for
itself and that the truth is somewhere
between the extreme positions. The
people of Connecticut are at last anX-
ious TO know just where the truth is in
their particular difficulty.
A LETTER in the american Wool
Reporter says of the "boomo town,
Cardiff Nearly every person has
left Cardiff; the buildings are falling
into decay, and the whole town pre-
sents the appearance of a desolate
waste and deserted place. A large
number of houses were begun, and
only foundations and frames mark the
places where it was intended to erect
fine edifces, The buildings that were
completed are falling to ruins-no one
to care for or look after them" Let
every one who is disposed to invest in
these growing" Southern and West
ern towns read the above quotation
over two OF three times, and he will be
pretty sure to be financially saner for
time at least. OF course there are
places that are certain to grow steadily
and even rapidly, but an investor who
does not satisfy himself that the wave
of population is bound by natural law
to roll toward particular town is TAX
ing too many chances when he puts
money into that town. A few of the
new towns will be chosen, but more
will be left. -
DEMOCRATIC papers have been con-
slant and constituencies in their asser-
tions that tin plate had not been made
in any quantity in this country. The
wish is evidently father of the thought
with these allies of British manu-
facturers. One finds it difficult to infer
anything from these papers but de-
sire that no tin plate be made in this
country. Can such well-wishers of
Great Britain and ill-wishers of the
United States call themselves Ameri-
can citizens without blushing? What
interest have they in this country out
side their own personal business ? The
object of these people seems to be to
get as good market as they can for
their own products-if they have any
and then, as consumers, buy in the
cheapest pauper-labor markets of the
whole world. This is the policy of
Choking out for No. 10 The idea
is for each person to look out for HIM
self first and his country next. What
ever the name due this policy-free-
trade, competition in the worlds
markets or individualism-it is not
Americanism, and it is well to have that
fact understood. The most recent lie
about tin plate is that the tin badges
worn at great meeting at Piqua, Ohio,
which was addressed by Major Nc
Kinley, were of iron dipped in solu-
ton of which lead was principal con-
stituent. Investigation shows that this
tin plate, which was made at Piqua,
was genuine. In spite of the wishes of
the British manufacturers and their
friends in this country, tin plate is be-
ing made, and the quantity and quality
will increase right along, while the
price will go down. The history of
iron and steel will repeat itself in tin.
GENERAL BoULANGER, the most
prominent man in France in the past
five years, committed suicide by shoot.