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

THE st. Johnsbury CalsdonioR ssYN
that the new ballot law worked so wells
in the ten towns where it was followed
at the March meetings last week 81 that
the next Legislature should extend it's
provisions to every town in the state"
Before the legislature takes any such
action it would be well for the friends
of the new law to show wherein the
new is an improvement on the old and
just what earthly use the intelligent
voters of Vermont have for the Botany
Bay system anyhow. If few of the
large towns have ignorant or corrupt
voters who need it, that is no reason
for imposing upon the whole state
something they neither want nor re-
quire. Middlebury Register.
THE farms of Vermont support,
though in greater comfort, smaller
population than they did in 1870 Her
manufacturing and quarrying indus
tries have grown enormously, and the
wild streams of the state have been
harnessed to mill wheels. The first
state to join the Union is the one most
slowly growing in wealth and popula-
ton, and larger proportion of people
born within its boundaries have left it
than have gone from any other. Nearly
half of the natives of Vermont are liv-
ing in other states and territories where
they have acquired, perhaps, more than
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tilted in insisting upon it strenuously.
But admitting that, it does not follow
that our government can rightfully
assume the responsibility of pre- entng
these breaches of good morals. They
are committed on the high seas, and
the high seas are legally common prop
erty, rather than the property of no
state. As property common to all
maritime states, they must be subject
to rules agreed upon in common. Sow
ereignty rests jointly in all the mari
time states. 1t is no answer to say
that there are no common rules as yet
which guarantee protection to the seals
that fact does not justify our govern
ment in making rules of its own. Oul
only recourse is to take as rapid steps
as possible toward securing the ap
proval of proper rules by the otheI
states.
1t is now quite evident that the who'll
dispute is to eventually be given owe
to arbitration. On this happy issue GU
of the perplexities of the case we ma,
congratulate ourselves and Great Brit
ain, while both states may unite in con
demning Canada for her contemplate
policy of endeavoring to get Grea
Britain to support her in her poaching
If good temper and sense of justic
characterize the further negotiations
there is little doubt but that satisfac
tory settlement will be effected. T.
resort to arms over a case of this sol
would be disgrace to both states an
the age in which we live.
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Advertise Vermont.

1t is reported that the board of agri.
culture has between 500 and $500 left
from its appropriation for this years
work after having fully complied with
the legal requirement to hold a meet
ing in every county of the state. The
meetings of the past season have been,
for the most part, well attended. The
board is constituted of able men, and
its ministrstions will be productive of
much good 70 those farmers who have
attended the MEETINGS in the spirit as
well as in the body. The members of
the board have directeA their attention
particularly to the great economic prob
lem which has lately SO much Sngrossed
the public mind. There are good bust
ness men on the board, men who are
public-spirited and patriotic, who
greatly wish TO see the tendency to
abandon farming for other vocatious ar,
rested, and who would like to place
permanent settler on every deserted
farm in the state. Now it is suggested
that the unexpended balance at the dis
posal of the board be devoted to some
well-considered means for procuring
the resettlement of these farms, The
sum is not large, but, jndiciously ex-
pended, much may be done with it. II
may be made to accomplish a great deal
after the beginning made in the Lass
two years. In no more legitimate way
can the function Of the board, "the
promotion of agriculture, be exercised. |
We trust the powers that be will see |
no legal " lions in the way" of this
proposed expenditure of the balance to
the credit of the board. If more money
is wanted and can be acknowledgements
expended, we have no doubt that
wealthy and patriotic Vermonters would
vie with each other in their contribu-
tions to so good a work. The employ
ment of the board of agriculture in this
important work will, we are sure. com.
mand public confidence and insnire
popular enthusiasm. The failure of
the legislature to provide for the con-
tinuance, in some form, of the indus
trial bureau was quite unanimously re-
GREETED, and-we speak advisedly--by
none more than by many who were not
entirely in sympathy with Commissioner
Valentines views and operations, but
who, nevertheless, heartily approved
the purpose of the law establishing the
bureau. All regret even the temporary
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suspension of this bureau-for we deem
its re-establishment in 1892 in some
form as certain as anything in the flu
ture can be. If now, through the board
of agriculture, the work and expendi-
ture of the past two years can not only
be rescued from utter loss, but resumed
along such lines as shall be agreed upon
after careful deliberation, we believe
the people will approve and will ask
that it be done, and that beginning
be made at once.
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To Minnehaha.
"And he journeyed without resting,
Till he heard the cataract's laughter,
Heard the Falls OF Minnehaha
Hallino . n hi,,, f1rnuub ha a;Iapoa -

Till he heard the cataract's laughter,
Heard the Falls OF Minnehaha
Calling to him through the silence"
So we two New Hampshire girls said
to ourselves one beautiful summer day,
as we waited for the "steam motor"
that was to whirl us from the busy heart
of Minneapolis out to the Falls of Min
nehaha. One had brown hair and one
had white, but never mind which one
tells the story. 1t was pleasant ride
out into the suburbs, past green fields,
through bit of woods, ending at last
VI the little station, which has nothing
- distinguish it from stations in gen.
w ' But the never-failing placards,
el"i Tul and yet so strongly suggestive
90 us. ,ner resorts and big crowds and
VI suu riness, pointed the way to "The
Ds';'io {" Falls" ETC., etc. We fol-
iI ael,'n -, own sweet wills, fancying
that the v, 'iee of Laughing Water "
.nas "" coli vs. so loudly that we could
' mouan ,ose h. ut go straight to the place
~ noi VI, 'oodla nd abode. So we strolled
along mo- al, grave lily path winding like a
r;,,nIs. foam through an ocean of
grean wa, Vt down a rambllng flight of
stems ara, urned way to our right out
Talkins ss friends Will, we rambled
IN and press ntly st, 'pped, saying TO
each other that we co, Ven y said one
.owards the Fall 5, Tho Soldiers,
8 this must be tn, pain u = in th;s ;m.
Home, which 10 N 'mewher. on and sae
Mediate vicinity. Leu US 20 ntlv stbers
What we shall sec. rrese
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united Irish party, under good manage
ment, will tire the English parties out
sooner or later. Meantime, there is a
prospect of sort of political campaign
among the Irish people in this coun-
try. If the excitement does not run
pretty high at times, as the two fac
tons present their cases, the Irish
temperament has undergone strange
and sudden change.
WHEN topics for paragraph become
scarce, certain of the editors whose
public spirit is somewhat emotional
rather than practical fall to lamenting
the meagerness of the appropriation
for the " fair" Chicago is laboring to
organize and which, for purposes of
United States revenue, is called a
" Worlds Fair" or" Columbian Expo
sition." The Free Press, comparing
Vermont's appropriation with the tens
and hundreds of thousands the states
of the d" wild and woody West " are de-
voting to this provincial show, de-
signed and shaped to boom their ad-
vantages and resources, thinks "Ver-
mont gains an uuenviable notoriety by
failing off the list with the smallest ap-
propriation of all-$5, 0O0." Well this
is simply sacrificing $4,000 to state
pride, and money invested in pride
pays mighty small dividends, to states as
we'll as individuals. The interests of
Vermont which would be benefited by
advertising, and which need state aid,
will derive little benefit from the Chi
cago fair. The interests of Vermont
which will be benefited by this exhibit
ton out West are abundantly able to
take care of themselves. A few men
who have made fortunes in other kinds
of business, or who have inherited OF
married fortunes, and who are breed.
ing fancy cattle or making butter as s
sort of relief from the ennui of wealth
may possibly disport themselves al
Chicago in 1892 or '93--if the scheme
does not collapse, but the real farmers
! of Vermont can not show their stuff
there; and they would be outshown anC
outshone by the bumptious West if the,
had the hardihood to attempt displa,
of their products. The marble kings
the granite companies, the makers o
scales, organs, saw-mills, farm ma
, chinery, etc., are able to show up a
Chicago with their own money and il
their own way. They do not nee'
state aid-or ask it. "Judicious adver
Using pays" and $1,000, judiciousl,
expended by the Vermont Board o
| Agriculture, or some other competen
agency, 10 direct advertisement of Yer
mont's advantages, with specific infor
nation as to locality, size, desirabilit.
and price of farms, or other matter
about which an investor wants to know
would be worth many fold this amour
squandered on this Chicago scheme. Il
respect of tangible results, the effort t.
help Vermont by spending money a
Chicago is a good deal like trying II
fertilize a ten-acre lot by letting dow
the bars and tanning the aroma of
guano heap into it.
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MR.. 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
self-confdence and contempt for the
young raw recruits" Offices seek
ers" and "envious persons - which
plainly shows that he believes the pres
ent disaffection in the Irish party to be
temporary. He adroitly attributes the
split largely to the interference of Mr..
Gladstone and other English politicians,
knowing well, as he does, that nothing
is better calculated to win him support
than such statement. With a cool
egotism which one can not but admire
he announces that "it now becomes
my task to restore this unity and recon
struct our movement, looping off all I'M
sound materials, taking effectual pre-
cautions against the admission in the
future into our army of any weak,
treacherous, self-seeking clements
In conclusion he appeals to the Irish
people here TO help him sin securing
really independent parliamentary
party" This, of course, is his aim,
and has been from the first. He doubt
less feels that if the Irish members of
parliament keep united on the one issue
OF relief to Ireland, they will in time
win their point. 1t is for this reason
that he cares very little for the support
of Mr.. Gladstone at the present time,
as he is very we'll aware that Mr.. Glad
stone needs his support more than he
needs that of Mr.. Gladstone. He is
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aNattbman 4 gOurmal.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1891.

If Mr.. Blaine's scheme for reci-
procity contemplates the free admission
of Canadian farm products as an offset
for free fish or free fishing, it is kind
of reciprocal trading which will be We
hemently opposed by Vermont farmers.
The reciprocal benefits will be for the
Atlantic coast interests, the reciprocal
injuries for the Vermont farmers. YER
mont survived one reciprocity treaty
that did not reciprocate, and doesn't
want another.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-18

HE remarkable senatorial contest in
the Illinois legislature ended on last
week Wednesday in the election of
General John M. Palmer, democrat.
The 101 democrats hung together
throughout the fight, and for a long
tlme the three members of the Farmers,
Mutual Benefit Association stuck by
their candidate, Streeter. At one time
IL was expected that the republicans
would turn in and vote for Streeter
put three of their 100 men refused to
do 30. On the final ballot two of the
farmer Representatives voted for Palmer.
while the third would not desert
Streeter. 1t is said that this loyal
farmer burst into tears as he gave his
vote in the last ballot. General Palmer
was republican up to 1872, when he
became democrat. He was gallant
soldier in the war, and was elected
governor of Illinois in 1868. Last fall
he stumped the state as a senatorial
candidate. His election will give the
democrats thirty-nine members of the
next senate, while the republicans will
have forty-seven, and the farmers al
lance two. This estimate is made on
the assumption that California will
elect republican in place of the late
Senator Hearst.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-18

THIS from the NeW York Herald ::
There are two good reasons for SUD-
posing that the maple sugar crop in
Vermont will be simply enormous this
year. First, the producers will get a
bounty of two cents on every pound
they send to market. Second, when
the sap gives out, a very good article
can be made out of brown sugar and
glucose. The farmers of Vermont will
take the hint" Unfortunately the
statement of the Herald will not help
the farmers whit to getting a bounty
this year. If the encouragement had
said 80, it would be different; but as he
didn't, why, there is nothing to do but
TO keep good-natured by laughing at
the Ignorance of the Herald, and to
await patiently for year. AS to the
second reason, the Herald should know
that this concoction of brown sugar
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-18

THE report of the census office re-
garding the number of mortgages in
the country shows that the total num-
Der is about 100000. The number of
persons holding mortgages is about
3,500,000. The states of Iowa and
Alabama are taken in this report as
samples. In the former nine and one
half per cent of the farming lands is
under mortgage, and in the latter the
per cent is five and two-tenths. This is
not so bad state of things as many had
expected, but it is not very encourag-
ing. If there are 5000 900 mortgages
in the country, one person in seven,
on the average, has given one. Reck-
oning four persons to a family, every
other family, on the average, is bur-
dened by mortgage.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-18

IT has been reported that there was
serious opposition in Brazil to the re-
ciprocity treaty with this country, but
the report apparently had it's origin in
the lively imaginations of democrats,
who would like to see the plan fail, for
no other reason than that it was a re-
publican idea. Brazilian newspapers
received at the state department, Wash
ington, contain decree by the presi-
dent of Brazil declaring the ports of
that country free and open to the i'm.
ports from the United States that were
included in the recent agreement. In
this connection it is interesting to learn
that Postmaster General Wanamaker
intends to apply the provisions of the
postal subsidy act FIRST to steamers ply
ing between ports of the United States
and those of South America. 1t is, of
course, the proper step to take. The
subsidy bill was passed with the special
purpose of promoting trade with South
American countries.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-18

1T looks as though New Hampshire
was certain of having an independent
agricultural college. The commission
ers appointed by the governor and
council to consider the legal status of
the questions connected with the pro-
posed removal from Hanover to Dur
ham have reported bill providing that,
after the state receives the funds under
the Thompson bequest, the trustees of
the agricultural college shall give the
trustees of Dartmouth college one
years. notice of the intention to close
the contract between the two colleges,
and that then the trustees shall dispose
of all the states interest in the real es-
tate at Hanover and erect college
building at Durham. The commission
ers find no legal objection to the change,
and on all other grounds it is generally
admitted that a separate college is de-
sirable.
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Repp Ivory.

st. Paul. Oct 10, 1891.
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TALES OF TRAVELLERS.

Senator Watson e. Squire. of Washington,
passed through St. Paul yesterday on his
way home to Seattle from New York. He
did not get into the city until nearly o'clock,
and he resumed his journey westward an
hour later. Senator Squire is one of the
most practical of practical politicians, and is
a keen observer and good judge of things
political. He has spent some time in New
York recently and has been watching the
drift of things there. Unlike many Western
Republicans who spend day or two around
the headquarters of their party in New York
city, Senator Squire does not come back de-
claring that Platt's man Fassett is going to
be elected governor of the Empire state
"Fassett has fighting ch4nce and that is
ALL. was the way he expressed his opinion of
the New York contest. HE is making a
good fight but New York is naturally Dem
ocratic state and the De mocratic disaffecdon
isgreatly magnified in my opinion. and there
will be few Democrats who will not be in
line on election day. My experience with
Democrats is that they are likely to do con-
siderable kicking, but turn in and vote the
straight ticket at the last moment. How
ever, Fassett is in the contest and hope he
will be the next governor"
The political situation in Washington,
Senator Squire thought was warming up.
The meeting Of the Democratic clubs at
Spokane Falls had the effect of stirring up
both parties and now new clubs are being
organized everywhere by Democrats and Re-
publicans. Speaking of the national Re-
publican convention, Senator Squire said:
81 am heartily in favor of Minneapoli as
the place Of meeting and shall do all can
to adm bringing it there. These two active
cities can take care Of the biggest convention
that can be got together"
| Hons. NJ. Cutcheon, ex-attorney genera
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CORNER SEVENTH AND JACKSON STREETS ST. PAUL

one of the members of the states house of
lords, in the city yesterday afternoon. He
was feeling unusually good, and said he was
firmly convinced that the passage of the Nc
Kinley bin was responsible for the good
crops. He is satisfied that Mckinley is going
to win in Ohio, but admits that things look
bad in Massachusetts. Harrison, he was in
cliued to think. would be renominated and
reelected.
THE Democrats cannot make so much out
of the Mckinley bill next year. he said,
laughingly You see. they told o many lies
about it last year that they have nearly, if
not altogether, exhausted themselves. Tin
plate will be rolled in this country next year,
and thus one of the biggest bugaboos of the
Democrats will be disposed of. l am turning
out tin jobs this year at the same figure 1 did
before the tariff was raised.
How do you do this-do you mean to say
that the price of tin plate has not been
raised?''
well, the competition of the retailers has
been closer" confessed the Steele county
statesman. I'VE have been obliged to sell
for lower profits"
This subject having no more attraction for
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-11

him, Senator Crandall turned his cow ersa-
ton in the direction of the condition of the
farmers of Northern Minnesota and the bust
ness men of Owatonna. The farmers were
building more new houses than ever before,
he said, and Owatonna is really putting on
metropolitan airs.
There have been more new houses built
in Owatonna this year than dozen years
back, he said, and they are better ones
than have ever been built before. They are
for the people who are there, and not for
those coming i'll, showing that they are 10
meet demand that exists. Business is good
in all lines, and the people are better off
than they have ever been before
rs this all due to the Mckinley tariff
act?"
I'VE will see about that next year." an
swered the senator. Il have train to catch
now which is of more Importance this pres
ent moment than talking politics.
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The TREND OF TRADE
st. Paul Business Men Bring
ing Their Interests Still
Closer.
Thorough Organization to In
clude Every Class Of Bus
mess Men.
Oetober's Total Business
Promises to SurpaSS All
Records.
Better Tidings Coming In
From the Rain-Soaked
Wheat Fields.

There is plenty to write about in trade
matters this week, though only one
thing can be said as to the volume of
business being handled by st. Paul
W holesalers and jobbers-it Will be
greater or this month than last, it was
greater for last month than for August,
and August was up to that time the
heaviest months business ever handled
by st. Paul wholesalers. The principal
topic of interest tor discussion at pres
ent is the project now on foot, and
which has for its supporters the most
influential and wealthy business men in
the city, of forming an organization to
be known as the st. Paul Business
Mems association. This institution will
be thi ngapart from the st. Paul Bust
ness Mems union, which organization. it
is generally understood, was formed for
tanned. The newly projected asSocia-
ton will be as much social as bust
ness organization. That is to say, that
it will by its social features maintain
the interest and enthusiasm which
might perhaps wane under the routine
of plain periodical business discussions.
The idea is by no means new one. In
dianapoliS has such an association, and
1t has proved to be a vast benefit to that
city. Louisville has one, and again
the result is shown to have
been extremely beneficial. The gentle
men who are interesting Themselves in
the organization of similar body in St.
Paul have been considering the move
now decided on for many months. They
have held meetings to discuss the prob
able success, or the reverse, Of~such an
organization, and their decision is that
nothing but success can attend it. The
same gentlemen will meet again dur
ing the coming week to complete the
plans they propose to lay before
A Mass Meeting
of the wholesale and retail business
men of the city to be called at the Ryan
hotel within month. Briefly outlined,
these plans will propose to make eligi-
bic for membership both retailers and
wholesalers. 1t is desired to make the
organization one representing no Sec
ton of the business interests of the city
In particular, but body representative
of all branches OF trade, devoted to the
furtherance of any and every project
for the advancement of the city'S well
fare. Not alone will business men, in
the strict sense of the term, be eligible
for membership. Railroad men, news
paper men, all men in fact who play
any important part in the daily
routine of city life will
be welcomed to the ranks
for the enthusiasm and patriotism they
possess, and for the valuable suggest
Ions they are in position to furnish
The idea is to have meetings every Sc
often. A diuner will constitute the
social feature of each occasion
while the after dinner session will bt
devoted to discussing and taking actor
In business matters. The plan is frs