The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-29

will tell the legislature that so many
thousands of dollars have been in
vested in property which would be a
dead loss to the state If change of
location were made. The average
legislator will not be able to resist this
affecting appeal, and the University
will thus entrench itself so strongly
that only general awaking of the
farmers of the state to the true condi-
ton of things will drive it from its posi-
ton. This is a plain statement of the
case, past, present and future, and
those who are not afflicted with politi-
cal myopia can see it very clearly.
A GREAT deal of talk has been caused
by the election of General B. F. Butler
from the United States district court at
Boston on last week Tuesday. When
the case in which the general is counsel
was before the court, some time ago,
he incurred the displeasure of Judge
Carpenter, who forbade him to again
appear. The old warrior was not to be
frightened away, however, and when
his case came up last week he arose
and addressed the court. Judge Car
penter at once ordered the marshal to
remove him, and the general left the
room with the officers, saying, I" / yield
to force" 1t is said that he was much
affected and that his eyes were filled
with tears. Naturally, he has been the
object of many expressions of SYM
pathy. He is an old man, and the act
was well calculated to fill him with in
dignation. Yet there is another side
to the matter. General Butler has
never been especially considerate of
the feelings of brother lawyers and wit
nesses, and judges have not been
wholly exempt from his overbearing
presumption. Possibly Judge Carpen-
ter was not justified in going to the
length of removing him from the court
room, but as a rebuke to effrontery his
course will have wholesome effect.
COMMISSIONERS GoFF AND SIMS,
Rhode Islands representatives on the
Columbian fair commission, oppose the
bill pending in the legislature propos-
ing state exhibit and providing for an
appropriation. The opposition is on
the ground that their conferences have
shown that the industries of the state
may be depended upon to make a
fitting exhibit and that the states in
terest will be served by the expendi-
ture of sum much smaller than that
contemplated by the proposed bill.
This is precisely the ground taken by
the WATCHMAN in respect of the Yer
mont appropriation and the state ex-
hibit. The money already appropri-
ated is double the amount the state
spent at Philadelphia in 1876, and far
exceeds any practical benefit the state
will derive from the expenditure. AS
a practical matter of business, it were
far better to give this sum to the Board
of Agriculture to be invested in direct
advertisement of the states advan-
tages. No shrewd business man who
understands the theory and practice of
remunerative advertising could be per-
suaded to expend much money at Chi
cago. All that the state appropriates
for representation at the Columbian
exposition will be concession to state
pride-and pride, state or individual, is
a mighty poor thing to put money into.
EX-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND isn't
quite so certain of his position on the
silver question as he was a couple of
months ago. To the state treasurer of
Missouri, who went to New York for
the purpose of getting a definite state
ment of his views, he said: What
would be bad for the country at the
present time might be a necessity in
1894. AS the volume of business in
creases, it is necessary to increase the
currency. The amount of the present
per capita should be increased, but
changes should be made gradually"
He admitted that he had been opposed
to the Bland bill and the present silver
law, and he frankly confessed that both
measures had justified themselves. He
refused to say whether he would or
would not sign free coinage bill, if he
should be elected president, and he
concluded the interview by remarking
that with the rapid strides the coun-
try is making, it is impossible to say
what financial measure we may be ready
for in 1894" We are disposed to give
the ex-president credit for entire candor
in this statement IT. ia certainly the