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The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-26
AGAINST FREE SILVER.

Not since Senator Morrill, delivered his
noteworthy speech against free coinage
has the silver movement received SO
severe a blow as that given ii
by the minority report of Con-
gressman Williams from the coin
age committee. The young finan-
cier has measured pens with Mr.. Bland
and as regards soundness of argument
has plainly got the better of the veteran
champion of free silver. The minority
report shows in splendid contrast to tn e
shallow and illogical majority report
favoring this noxious measure.
One of the strongest points made is
the reference to France which alone has
500, ,000, 900 of silver coin, about equal to
the amount of gold in this country. II
is pointed out that if the bank of France
alone should determine, as she would
without hesitation, to send her huge sup
ply of silver to this country and ex
change it for gold, that the $120,000, ,00O
of gold in our government treasury
would speedy be exhausted, and our
greenbacks be left without any reserve
for redemption. Moreover every dollar
of gold in circulation would be boarded
by the people and by bankers to await
the results of this tremendous monetary
experiment, and not a person or a bank
would pay out gold dollar when the
best financial authorities assured them
that in few days or few weeks the
premium on that dollar would exceed
the accumulated interest of years which
would come from any other invest
ment.
1t is held by Congressman Williams
that even if the law conferred upon the
secretary of the treasury authority to
borrow gold to meet the silver bullion Of
France which would be sent here to be
exchanged for gold at the rate of 16 to /,
any secretary who should exercise his
right to meet the hundreds of millions
which France alone might demand,
would be driven from his place by an in
dignant people. He thinks that the only
alternative which our government would
have, would be the the refusal to pay
gold and the payment of creditors in sill
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-26
MORE DUSKY WARRIORS.

Senator Proctor has introduced bill
in the Senate providing for the enlist
ment of 5000 Indians to be added to the
present regular army. He says that he
is firmly of the opinion, based on his ex-
periments while he held the war port
folio, that they can be made effective
soldiers if enlisted on the same terms as
are other soldiers. Gen. Miles is under
stood to hold a contrary opinion, but, as
the Boston Traveller well says if ex-
pertinent shows that military organiza-
ton will infuse some measure of content
among the Indians, theoretical objection
ought not to stand in the way of such
organization. The experiment institut-
ed by Secretary Proctor has thus far
been success and should be given fur
ther trial.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-26

The pleasures of good fellowship and
the recollection of stirring association
were INDUCED in very evioyably by tho
Vermont Veterans Association at the
annual dinner of the members in Boston
last week. The gathering was held at
the Thorndike, the tables being graced
by the presence of the lady friends of the
veterans. President Mansel H. Bush o.
Cupied the chair, and on his right was
seated General Lewis A. Grant, Assistant
Secretary of War, Commander of the old
Vermont Brigade, the guest of the
evening.
General Grant, who was received with
hearty cheers on rising to speak, paid d
sincere tribute to the achievements of
the Vermont soldiers during the war.
The action of tho second Vermont Bri-
gade at the battle of Gettysburg, he said,
was beyond all praise, and he regarded
General Veazey as the real hero of that
famous fight, The Vermont boys had
done great things all through the 26if
flict; they had never "gone back on
their friends or turned their backs on
the enemy, and they had never lost their
flag. He was greatly attached to Yer
mont, and always looked upon the old
scenes with renewed interest and pleas
ure. He was proud of the Vermont
people, who came of a good old stock.
There were some Vermonters who were
very grived at the way the young lads
were leaving the State to live in the cities
or move to the West. He did not agree
with this sentiment. 1t was best that
the lads should go where they could be
most successful, rather than spending
their days in farming the hilltops under
adverse conditions. 1t often happened
that when the men had made their for
tunes elsewhere they returned to their
native home to spend their closing years.
An enjoyable interlude was given by
throwing series of stereOpticon views
on a screen at the end of the room. A
portrait of General Lewis A. Grant was
shown which was taken in 1864, then
followed picture of the monument tO
the First Vermont Brigade on the field of
Gettysburg, the brigade which General
Grant commanded at the battle. The
portraits of other veterans were displayed
and also number of views showing
many battle scenes during the war.
Colonel d. J. Stafford, Colonel Albert
Clarke, Mr.. J. w. Gleason made appro-
pirate speeches, and Mrs. w. w. Bemis
stirred the sympathetic emotions of the
gathering by the recital of stirring
ballad. The whole proceedings passed
off very pleasantly under the watchful
care of Secretary Bliss and the Reception
Committee.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-26
TIE NEW YORK CONVENTION.

TIE NEW YORK CONVENTION.
The Democratic convention of the
State of New York assembled at Albany
on Monday and did, what everybody ex-
pected they would do, elected delega-
ton to present the name Of David B.
Hill to the National Democratic Con-
vention at Chicago next June, as New
York's candidate for President of the
United States. There was really no OBJ
lection to this scheme of Hills to get
his name before the Chicago convention
The machine which he has for years
been getting in order to do this very
thing worked smoothly, did its work
quickly and went it's way as soon as it
was done. Hill made a meaningless
speech to the machinists, and all was
over.
But the real contest for the Demo-
cratic nomination has only just begun.
A year ago it seemed as though whoever
succeeded in getting the Democratic
nomination was reasonably sure of cleo
ton. Now it is just as sure that the Re-
publican candidate is. The State of
New York is so divided between Hill
and Cleveland, that the nomination is
likely to go elsewhere, and the party is
sadly lacking in strong men to lead it to
victory. Cleveland is clearly the choice
of nearly all the States exceptNew York,
and but for the New York factional
fight he would be hard man for the
Republicans to beat. Hill, whom Re-
publicans generally, on party grounds,
hoped to see nominated, is cut of the
question, He has overreached himself /;
and on the very day of his convention a
company of Cleveland Democrats mot
in Albany to organize to compass his de-
feat. They will surely do it. This COM
pany of leading Democrats of the State,
determined to call State convention Of
| the New York Democracy on May 3lst,
| to elect full delegation to Chicago to
/ contest the seats 6ff th"sc tl."So who we're
elected at the Hill convention on Mon
day. That it will be a large and en-
thusiastic gathering there is no doubt.
The Committee of Fifty which calls
the convention was appointed at the
mass meeting of Democrats held in New
York city few weeks since. That
committee has made partial Organiza-
ton all over the State, and will have a
complete one before May 3lst. 1t claims
| to represent the real Democracy of the
State and alleges that the Hill conven-
ton does not. Judging from the tone
of the Democratic press of the State, its
claim is we'll founded.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-26
WELLS &c COVERLY,
1886 and S River and 1 Is and II Fourth Streets Troy n y

yer coin. With this act the adoption of the
silver standard would he complete and
we would stand upon the monetary
plane of India and China.
In drafting this report Mr.. Williams
attacks the silver schemers at all points.
He accuses them of deliberate intention
to debase the currency, saying that
'>there can be no doubt of the purpose of
a majority of the committee to force a
deprecated dollar upon the country"
This is damaging charge, yet no one
can read the majority report without
seeing that Mr.. Bland and his associates
do not expect, much less desire, to keep
the silver dollar at parity with gold.
A glance at the bill itself will also show
its harmful nature. The bill provides
for the free coinage of bullion amounting
to over 800, which means that any
owner of that quantity of bullion can take
it to the mint and have it made to dol
lars. These coins would contain only
about seventy cents worth of silver, 412l
grains, but should the Bland bill become
a law they would be legal tender and the
finances of the country would be on a
silver basis. The bill provides that
when France opens her mints to free
coinage the ratio of 15t to 1, the standard
silver dollar of this country is to conform
to it by reduction to 400 grains. The
coin would be called a dollar, but it
worth only seventy cents and would, of
course, be only seventy cents worth of
merchandise. This ought to be plain
enough for every one to understand.
The minority report will commend itself
to the friends of sound money through
out the country.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-26
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH STATS
TICS.

Hoffman's Roman Catholic Church Di-
rectory for 1892, just published in Mil
waukee, shows an increase in numerical
strength during the year 1891 in the
Catholic church of 67,255. Compared
with the figures in Superintendent PoT-
ter's report of the United States Census,
there is an apparent increase of $780,
92l. This very large difference in fig
ures can, however, be accounted for by
the fact that Mr.. POrter's enumerators
did not classify persons under nine years
of age who happened to be baptized in
the Roman Catholic Church. The HofI-
man publication explains that this
omission represented 10 per cent. of
church membership and was not caleu-
lated to give full credit in numbers to
the denomination of which it treated.
The total number of Roman Catholic
wOrshipers in the country is put as s.
CAT, ,22l. In the summaI accompanying
this information it is stated that there
are in the United States 1902 priests.
S,042 churches; 3,552 stations; 1883
chapels; 223 orphan asylums with D.
SIS inmates; 54 theological seminaries
with 1,739 students; 1873 colleges; o55
academies and S,4O6 parochial schools.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-26
A RIOT IN BERLIN.

A Berlin dispatch of the 23d says: The
spirit of discomfort is spreading with
alarming force throughout the German
empire. Few people imagine the extent
of the bitter feeling growing against the
emperor. An instance of the heated
though slumbering passions of the masses
was shown at | o'clock this afternoon.
A body of 1000 unemployed men met by
preconcerted arrangement in a public
square and passed aseries of inflammatory
resolutions, denOuncing their employers
and the system of government which
enabled the latter to crush the workmen
beneath the iron heel of capital, and
called upon the government to take steps
to protect the interests of the working
class"
They marched to the emperor's castle
but were repulsed by the police and the
guards, though some seventy of them
were wounded. The dispatch concludes
as follows:
SIT was noticed throughout the dem
onstration that the sympathy of the
immense crowd of people, rich and poor,
who witnessed the workmen's demon
station, was with the rioters. They were
cheered repeatedly by groups of we'll
dressed people belonging to the upper
and middle classes and were frowned up
on only by those moving in government
or military circles. The riot is almost
the only thing talked about to-day, and
is looked upon as a sort of reply upon
the part of the people to the emperOr's
remarks made to the Bradenburgers
yesterday. The socialist leaders are said
to be preparing for a monster demon
stration in the near future. The general
opinion is that the real struggle between
the socialists and the government is
about to begin, the signal for it having
been given February A. when it was an
nounced that no members of the social
ist party had been invited to the recep-
ton given by the emperor to the cham
Der of deputies while no discrimination
was made against other delegates
The emperor had made speech at
Bradenburg in which he reiterated his
reactiOnary doctrines, and which the
socialist journals sharply criticized.
The socialist party are what we should
call the Liberal party of Germany and
are not to be confounded with the an
archists of France. 1t has its elected re.
presentatives in the German Reichstag
or parliament and these representatives
it seems the emperor was foolish enough
to slight in his reception given to the
members.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-26
THE BOLTING HYPOCRITES.

The Manchester, IN. H. Mirror and
Farmer contains the following pretty
strong argument of the Cleveland DEM
ocracy of the state of New York, but
who shall say that it is not true. 1t un-
deniably is true that when Hill and his
co-conspirators were defying the Court
of Appeals and seating Senators who
were not elected, no protest arose from
those Democrats who are now so loud in
their denunciatiOns of the Hill machine.
There is nothing in current politics
more refreshing than the candor and
freedom with which Hdrper's Weekly,
the leading Mugwump organ of the
country, confesses that it has been keep
ing very bad company during the last
six years and tells the blistering truth
about the Democratic party of New
York, which it has done so much to
give character for honesty and de-
ficency. 1t sees now and says in effect
that there is very little to choose be-
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-26

The Farmers Alliance and some other
organizations have had joint cOnven-
ton in st. Louis this week. The AL
lance has lost ground of late in the
West and South, but the hope is that
with the aid of other organizations, the
Knights of Labor for one, division may
be created at the next presidential cleo
ton of sufficient magnitude to throw the
election of President into the House of
Representatives. A National conven-
tion will be called in the summer to
nominate candidate. This movement
will have the support of the Democratic
managers of course, for with no choice
between the Republican and Democratic
candidates the election goes to the pres
ent House of Representatives. The AL
lance and it's allies will strive to carry
several Western States now surely Re-
publican. The Democrats in these
States will support no candidate of their
own in such States, in the hope of giving
the electoral vote to the Alliance eandi-
date and thus prevent an election by the
electoral college. To such straits is the
National Democracy driven,
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-26

the polls now. The recent elections of
supervisors IN over one-third of the
counties of the State have shown that
there is an aroused public opinion on the
great crime the Democratic managers
have committed in the theft of the Sem
ate. The integrity of the ballot box is
at stake and there are honest Democrats
enough to go with the Republicans in
preserving it. Many a Democrat in
New York has voted with his party for
the last time. There are enough such to
make it almost absolutely sure that the
Republican candidate will win at the
polls. To make certain that the States
electoral votes will be cast for the Dem
ocratic candidate, resort must be had to
the election of presidential electors by
the legislature. This was method
practiced by many states in the early his
tory of the country. South Carolina was
the last to abandon it. New York may
resume ii
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-26
THE PROFITS DEPEND ON THE
FARMER.

The BratUleboro Ph@nir says that
whether farming pays depends largely
upon the individual who has charge OF
the farm. On little farm of "a acres
within three miles of the village two
horses, four head of cattle and "a head
of sheep are now being wintered. On
this farm the last year, in addition to all
the vegetables, etc, which were used
upon the place, the following products
were raised: 194 bushels of corn, 334
bushels of rye, 2S bushels of barley, SO
bushels of potatoes, 81 bushels of tur-
nips, bushels of beets
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-26
TIE ONLYCHANCE FOR THE NEW
YORK DEMOCRACY.

Although the New York Democracy,
through the criminal conduct of some of
their leaders in securing majority for
their party in the State senate and
through their dissensiOns generally, have
put it out of the power of the Demo
cratic party to carry the State at the
presidential election by the vote of the
people, there is still left them the chance
to carry it by means of their fraudulent
legislature. 1t would be perfectly con-
stitutional for the present legislature to
change the law for the election of presi-
dental electors, now elected on the pop
ular vote, and elect them themselves
This is one of the schemes that the New
York cOnspirators had in view when they
stole their senate. Knowing very well
that in presidential election New York
is pretty sure to 90 Republican they con-
trived by their rejection of the decisions
of the Court of Appeals, to make the
Senate Democratic and thus make it
possible to elect their electors by the
legislature. AS it might be impossible
for any Democrat to carry New York on
the popular vote, the scheme, planned
as soon as it was known that the people
had elected Republican Senate, to re-
verse the decision, had in its scope the
election of the Democratic presidential
electors by the to be stolen legislature.
That scheme can now be put in opera
ton, and it would not be surprising to
see Cleveland nominated at Chicago and
Governor Flower call the legislature to-
gether next autumn to so change the pres
ent law as to make the Hill legislature
elect Cleveland electors. For it must be
borne in mind that wide apart as the
Cleveland and Hill Democrats are now
they are nearly all them going to do
their utmost to elect Democratic presi-
dent next fall. Their only chance to put
New York in the Democratic column is
in the way intimated, no matter who the
candidate may be. Even Western man
can hardly hope to carry New York at
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-26

The New Jersey legislators are GER
tainly making great deal of noise over
their proposed assault upon the Reading
combination. While Governor Albeit
is considering the lease of the New Jer-
sew Central, to see whether it can be at
tackled directly on constitutional
grounds, the Legislators themselves have
thrown out another hook which is de-
signed to catch if the first does not
This is bill to give to the Railroad
Commission of the State full power to
regulate all freight rates. In this way
the Commission would have a check on
the charges of the Reading syndicate.
The New Jersey statesmen are pushing
this with zeal, but at the same time one
cannot but suspect that old Dan Chaucer
described their real character when he
wrote of his clerk:
$50 busy a man there nowhere was,
And yet he seemed buster than he was"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-26

Section 1. The executive power shall
be vested in president of the United
States of America. From and after the
fourth day of March, nineteen hundred
and one, the term of the president and
vice president shall be six years; and
after that date no person holding the
Office of president shall be eligible for
re election.
The changes thus made have been re-
peatedly urged by men whose judgement
is entitled to respect, and there are
plenty of strong reasons in favor of
them. Reducing the number of elections
would make an enormous saving in
money, to say nothing of other matters,
and there is vast prepOnderance of rea-
sons in favor of having an administration
run more than four years. And with
his term extended the president should
certainly be disqualified for reelection.
There might indeed be case when the
loss of an experienced and trusted hand
in a time of peril would seem serious,
but on the whole it would be best to
adopt the rule proposed. With six
years term an unwritten law against re-
election would very likely come into
force, and with it endless both
erations would be put out of sight For
one thing the chief executive would not
be hampered by fear lest his action might
continually be taken as intended in his
own electioneering interest.
1t is long road from introducing a
resolution proposing this amendment to
getting it into the fundamental law of
the country, but it is well to have the
thing started.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-26


The Brooklyn Institute celebrated
Washiagton's birth day by inviting Geo.
Wm. Curtis to deliver an Grafton on
James Russell Lowell, who was alsO
born on the 22nd of February. Mr.. Cur
tbs amply sustained his reputation as one
of the first orators of the country. His
peroration is as follows:
"Of no man could it be said more
truly that
Halfhis strength he put not forth
But that must be always the Impress
ion of men of so large mould and of
such public service that they may be
properly commemOrated in this anniyer-
sary. Like mountain SUBMITS, bright
with sunrise, that annOuce the day, such
Americans are harbingers of the future
which shall justify our faith and further
the promise of America to mankind. In
our splendid statistics of territorial eX-
tension, of the swift civilization of the
western world, of the miricles of our ma
terial invention; in that vast and smiling
landscape, the home of a powerful and
peaceful people, humming with industry
and enterprise, rich with the charm of
every climate from Katahdin that hears
the distant roar of the Atlantic to the
Golden Gate through which the soft
Pacific sighs, and in every form of Wis
ible prosperity we see the resplendent
harvest of the mighty sowing, POO years
ago, of the new continent with the sifted
gain of the old. But this is not the pic
ture of national greatness; it is only the
glittering frame. Intellectual excellence,
noble character, public probity, lofty
ideas, art, literature, honest politics,
righteous laws, conscientious labor,
public spirit, social justice, the stern,
self-criticising patriotism which fosters
only what is worthy of an enlightened
people, not what is unworthy-such
qualities and such achievements and such
alone measure the greatness of a State;
and those who illustrate them are great
citizens. They are men whose lives are
glorious service and whose memories
are bendiction. Among that great
company of patriots let me to-day rev.
erently and greatfully blend the name of
Lowell with that of Washington.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-26
BICYCLES !!
New Patterns For 1892,

We have in stock Bicycles at
$50, S135, 500, $50, $50. S75,
$50, $40 and $50; 12 differ
ent styles, 2 for ladies, in
Guiding the Columbia Safe
ties, 1892 patterns. We in
tend to devote Cannon Place
HaII-fOrmerly the Troy BIZ
cycle club rOOm-tO the dis
play and sale Of bicycles.
The hall is reached by an
Otis elevator, and affords
moderate space for riding or
trial. We shall also very
largely increase the scope
OfOur stock Of Athletic goods,
especially in Baseball, Foot
ball and Tennis the coming
season, and invite the exam
inatiOn Of our stock and
prices by all buyers for club
or private use.
MINIS & KNIGHT.
Connnn pIona Troy N Y
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-26

The Majestic of the White Star Line
has beaten the record having just made
the quickest voyage yet between Liver
pool and New York, five days, twenty
hours and twenty-four minutes.