The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-19

gales uTb SHUT lH6 luslltuUloh III
tends to be on the paying side. If
the devil doesn't pay and the Lord
does, then Chicago will serve the Lord.
THE Mortified NetCS irreverently
speaks of " Geo. Empty-head Holden"
in an editorial paragraph on the popu-
list mass. meeting in Rutland. Now this
is ill-natured, and, furthermore, it is not
true that Mr.. Holden is an I" Empty
head" On the contrary, he has fer
tile brain-teeming with schemes of
finHncal, industrial and political re-
form Editor johnson is away off.
Holden could give him big odds on any
topic of the day and down him without
half trying.
IN February, negro charged with
10 death and burned in presence of
app)auding thousands of people. Two
weeks ago, another negro in Kentucky,
arr ted for a crime committed when
he was in Illinois, miles from the scene
of the crime, was banged and then
burned in the presence of bowling
mob of five thousand white men. This
week. in Mississippi, a negro is lynched
because the populace, after trial by
jury, did not approve of verdict of
acquttal. Last winter, the governors
90 a. ~ o4 Of ;oI, n,,l
to devise means to turn the western
current of immigration southwark.
That current will never flow where a
darker than mid-African barbarism
exists.
KAISER WILLIAM and Caprivi have
triumphed The army bill has passed
the German reichstag. The socialist
opposition has done for the govern
ment what the government could hardly
have accomplished for itself. The
measure, modified by the adoption of
the Won Huene plan, has passed to Its
third reading by majority of sixteen.
But the Won Huene amendment sim
ply ulLuIulSuGU 10 some eAIeUU tno
nutaber of conscripts to be called out
annually, and left it optional with the
military authorities TO keep the men in
service two years or three years; so the
passage of the bill is a substantial tri-
umph of the emperor's policy. What
viii be the young autocrat's next step?
To tho ancopo bp,apt Of what ,1ro;oot
of his ambition will he use this mere
ment of military power?
GOVERNOR YATES cheerful propo-
sition /" TO ride in blood to the bride"
if the demands of the silverites are not
conceded reminds General Stephen
Thomas of an incident some sixty years
ago. General Jackson was president
and bad issued his specie circular which
stirred the wrath of his political oppo-
nents. Some seventy delegates, repre-
senting convention held at Philadel-
phia, called on Old Hickory, and the
orator of the delegation waxed CORY.
Revoke the circular, he said, or an army
will come to Washington with rifles and
demand lis recall. BY The Eternal,
let them come! What are a few days
added TO an Old mans life!" was the
substance of Jackson's answer. In the
spirit of this reply, General Thomas,
who has himself many of the qualities
that secured for Jackson his sobriquet
of sod Hickory" is disposed to let
Governor Waite undertake his CORY ride.
The generals private opinion is that
if there should be any fighting the
doughty populist governor would not
be in it.
The enactment of the now much
abused Sherman law of 1890 needs no
apology from republicans. 1t was en-
tirely justifable at the time, and is de-
feasible on grounds that are entirely
rational. AS we have said previously
it was not the expression of a settled
policy. 1t was temporary expedient
buffer to deaden the shock that free
coinage of silver, a pet democratic
measure, would have communicated to
the financial credit and business inter.
ests of the country. Having served its
tentative purpose, the compulsory pur.
chase clause should be suspended, re-
pealed, or made operative in the dis
cretion of the president. The status
Of silver in the currency of the worlt
is apparently settled for the immediate
present. 1t may have its innings latel
on. Silver is an American product
1t has its place in American currency
II has, at least, secured large-sizeC
place. Reaction against the treatmen