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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-20
To Be, or Not To BE.

The question of war with the bump
tious republic of Chill still continues in
doubt, although war has never appeared
nearer than during the past week. A
fresh outrage helped to keep the lingo
pot a boiling-the stoning of the gig of
the United States cruiser Yorktown by
Valparaiso toughs. Commander Evans
promptly informed the senior Gillian
naval officer present that if the police
allowed a mob to stone his men again,
he would defend them by force Of arms
if necessary. The result was an i'm
mediate apology. There was consider
able difference between the tone of the
New York Heralds dispatches from
Valparaiso, last Sunday, and those
from Washington. The dispatches from
Washington the last few days have
been warlike to degree; war was in
evitable, concluded the faithful cores
pondents, with sigh, and yet we learn
from Valparaiso that Minister Mont
has cabled to his government that he
has assurances of an early settlement
of the questions in controversy, that
Senior Percira, minister of foreign af-
fairs, has assured Mr.. Eagan that the
Chilian authorities will punish all per-
sons who have insulted Americans;
that the government is awaiting the ex.
press terms of our demand, and that
Minister Mont has been instructed to
act in the most conciliatory manner.
President Harrison's message on the
subject will probably be laid before
congress to-day or tomorrow. 1t will
be calm, conservative state paper.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-20
Public Opinion.

Here are two samples of public
opinion on the temperance issue as it
comes to us in many expressions, oral
and written. A prominent citizen of
Washington county writes:
"You have a right to know, and to count
1t of no little value, that your thorough and
efficient editorial work on the temperance
question and the complete demolishing Of
the argus arguments(?) is highly appre-
ciated by your rural readers; and l mean
by this those who read, think and vote, but
who do not come to the front in more con-
spicuous ways. have said, and repeat it,
that il the democrats had decent organ, it
would greatly increase their votes in the
state"
A citizen of Caledonia county says: 81
congratulate you on the gallant fight you
have made for the home against the saloon.
Your sturdy efforts to hold up the arms
Of the county authorities should be, and no
doubt are, fully appreciated by them as well
as by every lover of truth and righteousness
in the land At your recent village meet
ing, judge that the saloons and their abet-
tors stole march on the friends of law and
order but you forcibly reminded the former
that Washington county (heaven bless her
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-20
Not a Quarrel, or Local Issue.
THE esteemed Landmark of White
River junction SAYS:

THE esteemed Landmark of White
River Junction says:
1t is generally prudent to keep aloof from
quarrels of other people. We do not propose
to take hand in the animated controversy
going on between the Montpelier Waterman
and the argus concerning the enforcement
of the prohibitory law in that village. All
the same, however, we cannot refrain from
remarking that, metaphorically speaking
the Waterman tumbed the Argus into a
deep, dark hole from which the latter is
trying to crawl out.
Our contemporary is undoubtedly
right as to the present locality of the
Argus in respect of this controversy on
the temperance question. But the
Landmark is wrong in regarding this
contention as QUARREL" least of all
as local newspaper quarrel, and in
holding aloof from the controversy.
The question concerns the whole state,
every community in the state; and ev-
cry citizen, every newspaper editor
that believes in the enforcement of
law, whether or not he believes in the
particular system of regulating the sale
of liquor that law embodies, should
"take hand in any controversy that
may arise involving obedience to law,
involving protection to the life, liberty
and property of citizens and officials
who are doing simple public duty I'M
der the law. The question at issue
here, settled in accordance with the
mandates of law, written or unwritten,
human or divine, will help in the set
Element of question that is omnipres-
ent, an evil that exists at White River
Junction, in every community in the
state, more malignant in some locali-
ties than in others, but in none en-
eountering so great obstacles in the
way of suppressing, in none having so
satanic champion as at Montpelier.
Temperance is not local question A.;
the controversy at Montpelier is not a
newspaper duel.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-20
Democratic Brutality.

The brutality of the democratic policy
of cheese pairing was exhibited in the
national house of representatives jan
uary G. The great Northwest had Of
fered to give to the starving Russians
cargo of grain, provided the govern
ment would carry it to its destination.
Senator Washburne of Minnesota
warmly espoused the proposition and
the senate passed joint resolution au-
thorizing the secretary of the navy to
transport these contributions to Rus
sia's starving people. When the reso-
luton came up in the house it en-
countered from the democratic ajority
a tempest of disgraceful opposition
opposition that should put barbarians
to the blush. Pendleton of West Vir-
ginia, with edifying fervor, declared
that "Russia was a menace to civliza-
ton and threat to peace" Chapman of
Michigan piously doubted whether
Russia's treatment of her people en-
titled her to the courtesy extended to
civilized nations "-heaven help the
brute The climax of barbarism was
fifty capped by the great American OBJ
jector, Holman of Indiana, who thought
Russia amply able TO transport this
grain herself, and moved to strike out
the clause appropriating 100000 to
pay the cost of transportation. To the
credit of that element of the party that
is not utterly besotted be it said that
Breckenridge of Kentucky Indignantly
protested against this higgling over q
measure of humanity. Let the gov
eminent load the ships" he said, "ou,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-20
An Entangling Alliance Indeed.

Fifteen or sixteen princes and poten-
tates, ranging in importance from His
Majesty the Emperor of Germany to
are waiting for the United States to
ratify what is known as the Brussels
Treaty or General Act for the repres
sion of the African slave trade.
1t should be rejected; not because the
people of the United States desire that
the uefarious business of slave hunting
and slave-selling shall continue, not be-
cause they are Indifferent to the evils
which the unrestrained sale of rum and
gunpowder is causing among the saw
ages of the Dark Continent, not be-
cause their hearts are irresponsible to
the calls of common humanity, but for
the following reasons: The main pur-
pose of this treaty Is political, not phi
lanthropic. The instrument is an inge-
NOUS device to clear before the world
the blood-stained titles to African ter
ritory set up by the various nations
which have been engaging for the past
ten years or more in the tremendous
grab game of partition and appropri-
alton aud civilization by conquest"
We have had no part in that game. We
want no part in it. England is deeply
interested; Germany is deeply inter
ested; France, Italy, and Portugal are
all more or less concerned; but the
United States of America are not con-
cerned. Through the mistaken zeal of
enthusiasts or the activity of private
spectators, our government has been
drawn by degrees into position which
it has no business to occupy, and which
it never would have assumed with its
! ewes open to the consequences. The
senate is now asked to eonsummate
that unfortunate blunder of diplomacy
! which led this government to send rep
resentatives to the initial conference in
Berlin in 1884, and TO the Brussels con-
| ference in 1890. 1t is not too late to
withdraw from the ENHANCEMENT. If
| the General Act is ratified il will be too
| late: and this is what we shall then
have done: a. We shall have sealed
with our approval and formal sanction
the conduct of the European powers
which have seized upon Africa by fraud
and bloodshed in the name of civiiza-
ton, and divided that continent be-
tween themselves. CD We shall
have entered into an engagement for
police duty on continent where we
have no colony, no territory, no ma
tional possessions or interests, no bust
ness to interfere as government,
| (3.) We shall have undertaken to
tax citizens of the United States to pay
our share of the running expenses of an
office established at Zanzibar to promote
civilization and philanthropic reform on
the continent where we have no inter-
ests. 1t seems as if these three con-
sideratious should be conclusive to the
mind of any senator of the United
States who is possessed of ordinary
prudence, or of any respect for the ira
ditonal American policy for more than
a century. cit is our true policy
said George Washington, in his fare
we'll address, "to steer clear of per-
manent alliances with any portion OF
the foreign world" Steer clear of the
great African combination, with its
pretense of philanthropy masking stu
pendous schemes of territorial aggrand-
izement.-Neo York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-20
The Sons of Vermont at Chicago.

At the annual meeting of the Sons of
Vermont at Chicago, on Tuesday evening,
Governor Page delivered the address, It
was a sturdy tribute to the Vermont of the
past century and prophecy of continued
ascendancy during the new century upon
which the state has just entered In clos
ing, the governor said: 1.-THE door has
swung, and we have crossed the threshold
of the second century of our little state
How will the record stand when that sec
ond century shall close? Will our state gov
eminent, now the purest and best upon the
face of the earth, continue uncorrupted by
influences which so many states have not
escaped in the century that has Just closed?
Will our citizens then be as devoted to the
grand ideas embodied in Vermont's peer
less constitution and bill of rights as they
are to-day? Will our press then be as indie
pendent, as pure, as fearless, and as incor-
ruptible az now? Will freedom of speech
and opinion then be as unqualified and alb
solute as to-day? Will the purity Of our
elective franchise, now our glory and pride,
continue unpolluted? Shall we continue
free from that intolerance in religion which
is the bane of so many lands? Let us hope
that the answer to all these questions may
be an unqualified Yes that she cause of
education may receive constantly increas-
ing attention and support; that the patriot
ism of Vermonts sons will be as unseltish,
and that in the coming century they will
feel the same measure OF love and loyalty
of respect and generation, for the old state,
her traditions and her institutions, which
every true son of Vermont feels to-day;
that mothers will continue to train up their
sons in ways of temperance, thrift, and in
tegrity, teaching them that righteousness
exalteth nation, but sin is a reproach to
any people, In short, let us hope that our
children will learn from the spotless history
of Vermont's first century that it is not
magnificent public and private buildings,
not crowded DODulatiOu, not rich mines
enormous wealth, which make a people
truly great; but manhood, patriotism, physi-
cal and moral health.
Let ne mean hope their souls enslaye.
BE Independent, generous, brave
our fathers such example gave,
And such may revere
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-20

of the public treasury with the contri-
buttons of the teeming Northwest. 1t
is constitutional, it is humanity; there
fore it is American, and therefore it is
democratic, and for one ! am willing to
take democratic responsibility for it,"
The house has democratic majority
of one hundred fifty-four; one hundred
sixty-six votes, including the bulk of
the democratic members, were cast
against this humane proposition, and it
was defeated by majority of ninety
six. Thus does the democratic ma
jority disgrace the American people,
and earn disgrace and defeat for its
party next November.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-20
Senator MOrrilPs Silver Views.

Senator Morrill,, in his speech before
the senate, January 6, discussed the
silver question with strength and
clearness that show, at the age of
eighty-two years. no abatement of his
mental force, and no dimming of his
financial eyesight. His speech was a
succinct statement of the existing facts
of silver coinage, history of the long
warfare-as old as trade and civiliza-
tion-between gold and silver for COM
mercial equality, discussion of the
effect of free coinage on commercial
transactions between this nation and
foreign countries, concluding with the
following concise statement of his OBJ
jections to free coinage:
l have attempted to demonstrate, first
great and universal that unlimited coinage
could not be maintained on the present
standard with gold but would suddenly
wreck the country by silver revolution
second, that unlimited coinage would inter-
dict all international silver compacts; third,
that there is no scarcity of money in circu-
lation, but instead the amount is twice as
great as it was in 1878, and is increasing on
canter; fourth, that silver standard
would be equivalent to horizontal reduc-
ton of the tariff of twenty-five per cent, if
not more, and an equal reduction of all pen
sions; fifth, that the enormous increase of
silver to the extent of four times the pro-
duct of 1854, concident with greatly les
seued demand for it, has so deprecated it's
value that unlimited coinage by the United
States must prove disastrous national
blunder; sixth, that there is no magic in
any law of congress which can make the
world accept an ounce of silver as worth
any more in coin than in bullion; seventh,
that the parties to first profit by free coin
age would be the corporate owners of sill
yer mines only, and the parties to finally
suffer the largest losses by it would be the
great mass of our people, into whose hands
the deprecated coin and treasury notes
would finally pass. The public credit OF
our great republic is at stake. Shall we
have the best money standard of the fore
most nations of mankind, or shall we de
scend to the tlckering and narrow gauge Of
silver only for the conduct of greater
home and foreign trade than that of any
other people, ancient or modern? We have
paid off more than three-fourths of our great
war debt in gold when our resources were
far less than now, and | am unwilling Il
forfeit our well-earned reputation and lose
public confidence and all the ancestral pres
tige of our history by paying the sorry rem
nant of this debt in a legal tender of much
less value.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-20
Three Distinguished Dead.

Three noted men passed away last
week-Prince Albert Victor, eldest son
of the Prince of Wales; Henry Edward
Manning, cardinal archbishop of West
minister, and Cardinal Simeoni, secre-
tary of state to Pope Plus TX. Prince
Albert Victor, who intellectually ranked
far below either of the cardinals, was
after his father heir apparent to the
English throne. He was Duke of
Clarence and Avondale, and was only
twenty-eight years old. He was never
popular with the English masses, as is
shown by the " title " conferred upon
him, " Prince Collars and Cuffs" His
death is to be deplored principally on
account of his impending marriage
with Princess Mary of Teck. Prince
George, Wales second son, is now
heir apparent after his father. In
tellectually and physically he is SUI
perior to his lamented brother. In
case of the death of Prince George
without issue, the Duchess of Fife,
eldest daughter of the Prince of Wales,
would become heir presumptive to the
crown. 1t has been truly said that
Cardinal Manning died day too soon
or a week too late, so much did the
death of the English prince overshadow
his own decease. Cardinal Manning
was eighty-four years old, an ambitious,
devoted and Christian prince of the
church. He was the friend and the
father of the poor of London, and was
constantly engaged in the work of
social reform. His was the most noted
conversion of all those who, forty and
fifty years ago, left the Church of
England for the Church of Rome.
Cardinal Manning was the son of
William Manning, a London merchant,
member of parliament and governor of
the Bank of England. Cardinal Gio-
vanni Simeoni was prefect-general of
the propaganda under Pope Leo XIII,
and secretary of state to Plus IN, and
was ninety-six years old. In 1S47 he
was sent to Spain as an attache of the
Nuncio, and ten years later was sent to
that country as special envoy to re-
new the diplomatic relations which had
been broken off by the revolution. He
was made archbishop of Chalcedonia
in 1875, and upon the death of An
tonelli, year later, was appointed Sec
rotary of state. In 1873 Pope Leo
made him prefect-general of the prop
uganda, the position he held at his
death.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-20

handle these cumbersome coins, that
they are usually dated 1880, 1881, 1882
or 1888, and are quite worn and tar
nished, showing that the new coins as
fast as turned out of the mint are packed
away, never more to be seen or handled.
One vault alone at the treasury, 100
feet by sixty and fourteen feet high,
contains So 100000 Of these seventy
for what but to relieve and benefit sill.
yer miners, and to pay for which all
other citizens are taxed! Yesterday
the price in Wall street was quoted at
ninety-three and seven.eighths cents an
ounce, or seventy cents worth of silver
in the dollar. How much lower must it
go before the peoples eyes are opened?
Boston Post.
THE flag was at the masthead, and
not even Grover Cleveland could put it
at half-mast. 1t is there to-day. What
Cleveland and German could not do in
1888, Crisp and Springer cannot do in
1892. We have no reason to believe
they will attempt it. They will do so
at their peril. Even as there was prog
ress between 1884 and 1888, has there
been progre SIS between the latter date
and 1892, and the great heart of the
democratic host, which beats strong
and true to reform, proposes TO have no
nonsense from tempOrizjng politicians
at Washington, or elsewhere. Where
there is one good slate maker, there
will be found ten better slate-smashers.
This is no time for double-dealing and
mOck-heroics. 1t is time for fair play
oil arDttn1 Tho noap1a h.
misled. If sham leaders attempt it,
rank and file. We are on the threshold
OF political battle which may decide
the complexion of public affairs for an
other quarter of century. Woe be to
the passing hero, big with bis own con-
ceit, who gets in the way of the march
of the legions of true democracy
and tariff reform. -Louisudle Courier
Journal.
COLONEL BRADLEY B. SMALLEY of
Burlington has been interviewed in
Washington, and has made some sensi-
BILE remarks on the silver question.
"If free silver bill is urged and per-
sisted in" said Mr.. Smalley, Sin my
opinion the result can be predicted with
certainty. Mr.. Harrison will in that
event be reelected. New York, New
Jersey, Connecticut, and doubtless
Wisconsin, will be carried by the repub-
licans, and republican house will sue
coed the present one. Can the gentle
men from south of the Potomac, for
the sake Of mere adherence to theory,
afford to aid in the passage of bill for
the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer? say theory, for that is what it
amounts to, seeing that there is no pos
sibility that the measure would become
law; should the senate agree to the
proposition it would be defeated by the
veto of the president. Now what is to
be gained by such a course? 1t cannot
be enacted into law, therefore no good
can come of it, and | repeat that only a
theory is involved. Stripped of all VERDI
age the question in the Southern states
is one of white domination. Now are
the representatives from that section
willing to put in jeopardy their local
self-government? Will they lose the
substance by grasping at the shadow"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-20

THERE was big jam and high water at
White River Junction, last week which
threatened to carry away the temporary
trestle bridge, which was built to use during
the construction of a new permanent bridge.
The Central Vermont train from Montreal
for Boston, last Thursday afternoon, was
taken over the trestle bridge, but since then
the situation at the junction has become
more serious and no more trains will be
run over the trestle at present. The Gem
trail Vermont and the Quebec Central trains
from Boston, Thursday evening, for Can
ada, were sent north from Concord over
the Claremont line. On the White Noun
tain division of the Concord Il Montreal
railroad there is trouble at Bath at the
trestle bridge over the Ammonoosuc river,
all cars being pushed over, locomotives not
being allowed TO pass.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-20

is after them, backed by the state of YER
mont You can look with patriotic and
honest pride on your efforts to protect the
home and all it implies, against the saloon
and all its accursed work There
can be no neutral ground in this warfare.
The tree must be judged by its fruit, not by
the wind that whistles through its branches.
So must it be with the Argus and its windy
temperance talk"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-20

THE Congregational church of Tunbridge
is to observe It's centennial on February .,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-06
The First Woman Preacher.

Anne Hutchinson was the first woman
preacher in America. She arrived IN
Boston, Mass, from England in 1884,
and being admitted to membership in the
church, she began the advocacy of doc
trines, which carried with them her COM
mission to preach. In 1887 synod Of
the church was called at Newtown, Mass.
and her views being condemned as erron-
eous, she was, after two days trial SEN
fenced to Punishment from Massachusetts.
The first woman ordained in the United
States was Antoinette Brown Blackwell.
She was the first woman theological stu
dent that graduated from Obcrlin College.
AT the time of her ordination, thirty
eight years ago, she was pastor of the
Church OF "South Butler and Savannah, f"
New York State.-Detroit Free Press.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-06
A Monster Dam.

The great dam recently constructed at
Bcctaloo, Australia, is said to be one of
the largest works of the sort in the
world. The structure is OF concrete, 10
feet high from the bed of the creek to
the top of the dam, and $50 feet long,
being curved in the plan of radius of
about 400 feet, the profile of the sec.
ton being designed i'll accordance with
RANKINGS rules, and the width of the
section at the foundation is ITO feet; the
crest of tho by-wash below the crest
which is 200 feet wide, is five feet below
the crest of the dam, and the reservoir be.
tween the dam mt it's full is one and
onc-foIrth miles long, with an average
width OF eight chains. The capacity,
under these conditions, is 500, 900, 900
gallons for the supply OF district cover
ing an area of 170U square miles, in
cludins eight separate townships, etc.
The quantity of concrete used was co.
600 cubic yards, the net time occupied
in construction being about two and
one-half years. Special machinery was
used for mixing the concrete and de-
posting it in place, and the whole york
is regarded rs most creditablc achieve.
ment.-Ncw Orleans Piuayune.