The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-27
Noted and Quoted.

THIS plea Of unconstitutionality by which
the democrats seek to throw odium on pro-
lection has ever been resorted to by shallow
minds in order to hide the poverty of their
argument. Whenever in the past political
or partisan eXpediency demanded the block
ing of any legislation, it was asserted that
that legislation was unconstitutional. By
falling back as last resort upon the claim
of the unconstitutionality of protection.
democrats not only scorn the teachings of
the fathers OF their party but they stultify
themselves. The constitutionality of our
national policy has long since been passed
upon and affirmed by the nations high
est tribunal-the United States supreme
court.-Americdn Economist.
IT is uphill work trying to acquit the pres
ent congress OF extravaganza by proving
that it has not appropriated as much money
as its predecessor Up to date the differ
ence between the exploits of Speaker Reeds
congress and the present one, in getting rid
of the peoples cash in the first session, is
slightly in favor of this congress in the di-
rection of economy But that is not the
point at all, even if this congress did not
have few more days in which to equal the
record of the other, as it possibly may. No
congress can claim any credit for economy
which expends money unnecessarily as this
one has done. Nor can any congress claim
credit for wise expenditures which has been
extravagant where economy was advisable
and Stlngy, as this house has, where liberal
appropriations would have been entirely de-
.-Sprtngield Republican.
PRESIDENT HARRISON shows the kind of a
man he is in the following frank and manly
letter to the chairman of the Colorado dele
cation to the Minneapolis convention, who
had written him letter of congratulation
have received with great pleasure your
congratulations, and notwithstanding your
expressed conviction that the republicans
of Colorado will hold that state in its ac-
"a IN ha ioa I
have frequently said both publicly and
privately that / could have no contention
with and no feeling against any republican
because of his belief that some other person
would make better president or a stronger
candidate. Convention privileges | have
always regarded as free The party rea-
tions of men, | think, must be Judged by
their post-convention attitudes. | have
always felt that our friends the enemy,
were sufficiently numerous to employ all
the time and energies of republicans with
out any waste in our household"
REPRESENTATIVE OATES, chairman of the
house committee which went to Homestead,
is democrat, of course, and is not much OF
protectionist. Yet he has this to say of
the community which has grown up in
Pennsylvania under the stimulus of pro-
lection: The leaders Of the workmen are
men OF Intelligence and capacity, and, take
the worklnen as body they are the best
set OF workingmen have ever come across.
The contention is not one between ignor-
ance and power. 1t is conflict of strong
men, the workmen being KEEN intelligent
and always wide awake. The man who
goes to Homestead with an idea that he is
going to find a lot of ragged, half-starved
and ignorant strikers, will have a great sur
prise before him. 1t is a revelation in the
way of a community Of workingmen. They
are men of thought and action and of indie
pendence. They have their homes, and the
skilled workmen earn from $50 to 1913 per
month. The laborers get from 81 to S1.j0
per day. 1t is not poverty stricken COM
munity by any means"
THE Indianapolis Journal is authority
for the following statement of Rev. G.. B.
Snedeker, a well known Methodist preacher
of Abingdon, ILL.,; In 1864, myself and
Stevenson, with Others were drafted. Mr..
Stevenson hired a man to 90 to the front in
his place, and there was also one sent in
my place, | see that Mr.. Stevenson SAYS
that he was in the army for thirteen days.
Well, L think / can explain that record.
When the draft was made Stevenson was
appointed by the disloyal people to go to
Springfield to see that the drawing was
fairly done; he made some objection to the
manner in which the drawing was done,
when the officer told him to get up on the
box and be blindfoded and see if he could
do any better. Stevenson mounted the
box and, so the story was told, the first two
names he pulled ont of the box were my
own and his. He was then satisfied, and
let the drawing go on. AT that same time
he spent some ten or fifteen days in Spring
field, and that was the nearest he ever was
to the war"