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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27
The Two Reports.

The formal report of the majority of
the ways and means committee has
been submitted to congress, accompany
ing the bill framed by that majority.
The general features of the report and
the details of the tariff bill, particularly
in lis relation to Vermont interests, have
already been published in the WATCH
MAN. The formal report makes some
what more apparent Chairman Wilson's
opinion that the farmers, as a class, are
easily deluded; but they seem to under
stand, in this section of the country at
least, fact of which Professor Wilson
appears to be ignorant, namely, that
there is already in Canada a sh rp and
growing competition with the American
farmer, and that this bill will make
that competition closer, sharper and
more deadly for the tillers of the soil
on this side the line. Democratic edi-
tors who have the hardwood to defend
tariff reform of the Cleveland type
seem to take their cue from Professor
Wilson, since we find them maintaining
that duties on farm products are "use-
less for protection and fruitess for rev.
enue." The Vermont farmer knows
from experience that existing duties
are exceedingly useful for protection,
and statistics show that the government
receives millions of dollars of revenue
on vegetables, breadstuffs, wool and
other products. The report is filled
with statements which show similar
ignorance of or disregard for all the ma
terial facts of tariff history. For ex-
ample, the author states that every re-
publican congress since 1874 has in
creased the protection to home in
dustries, whereas the most superficial
examination of tariff schedules will
show that the general tendency has
been downward, the reduction being in
some marked instances as high as fifty
per cent. The free list has also beer
enlarged, both in 1888 and in 1890, by
the addition of many articles that haC
previously paid duties. The statement
whose inaccuracy is most astounding
is to the effect that during no perioC
had there been more rapid and health
full state of manufacturing industr.
than during the fifteen years of low
tariff from 1916 to 1861. Professo
Wilson, and his coadjutors from un
known crossroads towns in the South
have been sleeping the sleep of Ri
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27
The Waterman for 1894.

The reasons for the changes made in The
wAroHMAN, January l. 1893, have been
fully justified by results. The enlargement
of the paper has given space for an extern
sion of the state and local news service and for
the adoption of other improvements which
had long been desired With the begin
ming of the fulfllment of the plans of the
publishers, those who have read the WATCH
MAN during the past year are familiar,
The improvements made are an earnest of
those that will be undertaken. The fact
that the new WATERMAN has received the
popular endorsement is attested by the adj
dition of a thousand new names to its sub
scripton list by the extension of its circu-
lation into new fields, and the unqualified
expressions of satisfaction that have come
voluntarily from its old friends and support
ers in all parts of the state, and particularly
from Washington county and throughout
the region of central Vermont.
A feature of the paper which has given
great satisfaction to the general reader. as
well as to the people of the communities
more Immediately interested, is the special
write-ups of the thriving localities within
the rauluS OF Un6 WATERMAN y CICuldJlOu'
These have disclosed the details of the life
and business of thrifty communities some-
what removed from the lines of railways
and public observation. but which are the
seats of a quiet but busy life and the real
sources of the states material prosperity and
her moral greatness. This scheme of dscov-
ering Vermont to Vermonters will be con-
tinued and extended; the state and local
news service will be increasingly developed
and perfected and the papers devotion to
Vermont and Vermont interests and institu-
tions exemplifed in every way that enter
prise can suggest.
The WATCHMAN's various departments,
Agricultural, Household, and others, will
be maintained with such improvements as
experience shall suggest.
The coming year is the year of the state
election and the meeting of the legislature,
and will be, therefore, one of unusual interest
to the citizens of the state. The WATCH
MAN, published at the state capital, has
opportunities for publishing political news,
and particularly news connected with the
session of the legislature, not possessed by
journals less favorably situated. You ooiN
cant the Waterman for its state political ne,oS
during the gear 1894.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

Van Wrinkle and have not regaiued
their drowsy senses. The miraculous
development of this country under
protective tariff during the fifteen years
ended November 8, 1892, has never
been equaled, much less surpassed, in
any period of the history of this or any
other country.
The fallscies, misstatements, perver-
sions and ignorance of the crossroads
state smen who have undertaken task
for which they are no more competent
than was Phaeton to manage the chariot
of the sun, are mercilessly exposed in
the minority report written by ex-
Speaker Reed. In showing that the
Wilson bill is an utter and disgraceful
Reputation of the Chicago platform, he
effectively borrows term from that in
strument when he fifty characterizes
the bill as Ga cowardly makeshift."
He shows that the bill does not provide
a tariff for revenue, since it will create
deficit of over $74 900 900 in the rev.
euue of the government. He shows
that the bill is protection measure,
but that it protects one class at the ex-
pense of another; protects the manufac-
turer and his laborers, while it leaves
exposed 10 foreign competition the pro-
Queer of raw materials and the men
who labor in such production. Since
the committee proposes a protective
tariff, why disturb industry and bring
disaster upon the country in the at
tempt to substitute bad protective
system for one of tried and proved
merit? Going into details, Mr.. Reed
overwhelms the majority by the force
and pungency of his exposure of the es-
sential weakness and wickedness of the
measure the democracy have proposed
for enactment. The report is an ex-
ceedingly interesting and lively treat
ment of very dry and time-worn sub
ject 1t will greatly add to Mr. Reeds
fame, and it entities him to the gratitude
one should feel for clear, strong and
unanswerable defence of vital polit-
ical principle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27
A Simple and Obvious Fact.

The simple and obvious fact which
has been made the basis of vile and vic
lent attacks by Messrs. Blount, Cleve-
land aud Gresham upon United States
minister to Hawaii, and the best citi-
zens of that country, is that Mr.. Sle-
vens saw and reported the growth of
anti-monarchical feeling. In fact, the
monarchy had existed for six years on
sufferance only. In 1887 a great mass
meeting at Honolulu declared that the
existing government had ceased,
through corruption and incompetence,
adequately to perform its functions"
But some wrongs were redressed; the
system was continued as a convenient
makeshift, and leading figure in the
revolt of January, the chief justice of
the Hawaiian supreme court, recently
declared that he remained loyal TO
monarchy until the queens pertidy and
aosolutism converted him. What is
shameful is to find president of this
republic describing indignation at this
outrageous conduct of the queen as
dissatisfaction with form of govern
ment not our own" denouncing those
who have freed Hawaii from despotism,
and not only spurning their plea for
annexation, but abusing them for seek
ing to exchange a barDarous and dan
gerous monarchy for membership of
the American Union.-NelO York Sun
(Dem).
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

with notifications piercing to every
hamlet 10 the land and carrying to
every community in which the Yer
mont farmer has had no foreign COM
petitor on even terms, the abundant
and competing products of Canadian
agriculture. Now will the Reformer
still contend that the influx of this
great volume of the farm products of
Canada into Vermont and into the
other states of New England will not
radically and fatally affect the fortunes
of the Vermont farmer? "The Re
former would hardly wish to be thought
such fool" AT every feed and grocery
store, at every livery stable, at every
point where he had formerly found a
purchaser for his produce confronted
only by home competition, the Vermont
farmer would encounter either the
produce of Canada or tie price which
Canadian hay, oats, potatoes, eggs,
poultry, etc, ETC., could be bought
He must meet those products and
prices, or not sell his stuff. La year of
good crops, the Canadian product would
fill the market to the degree of satura-
ton. In the home market there would
be, beyond a certain limit, no sale at
any price, and for export the farmer
must accept all the manifold disadvun-
lages Of selingin or for distant market.
The upshot of years experience of
this kind, with its attendant losses and
discouragements, is that the farmer stops
producing. Causes similar 10 these
have wrought, in a generation that has
passed, the abandonment of hundreds
of farms in Vermont and all over New
England Now that the Vermont
farmer and his New England colaborer
have reached the stage of recovery and
begun to possess its blessings, it is pro-
posed by body of men, such as is &C
curatey and forcibly described else
where on this page, to turn loose into
this home market the deadly foe of New
England agriculture; to compel the
New England farmer to share this mar
ket with his competitor just over the
line or to seek another at a distance
Common sense embodied in legislation
of the commonest grade of wisdom has
for nearly generation dictated another
policy 10 keep the American market for
Americans and let the foreigner do the
travelling and accept its attendant hard
ships. Reversing the aphorism of the
Retormer'S great prophet, it is condi-
ton, not a theory, that confronts the
Vermont farmer, and he knows by sad
experience what and how hard that
condition would be.
The "ghoulish glee" of the Dominion
farmer over the prospect of free entry
to the American market, by the grace
of democratic administration, with
out giving in return even those alleged
reciprocal advantages he has always
been too willing to bestow, is practical
refutation of the Reformer's optimistic
theory, and as strong confirmation OF
his worst fears as the Vermont farmer
could have. The Canuck's quick in.
stinct is a surer guide than the delusive
reasoning of the democratic editor.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27
The Vermont Grange.

The WATCHMAN published last week
report of the proceedings of the state
grange at its annual meeting at West
Randolph. The occasion was worthy
of editorial comment, which we reluc-
family relinquished by reason of the pres
sure of other matters. The meeting of
so large, intelligent and patriotic body
of men and women, representing the
best element in the state, to discuss
matters that lie at the very root of the
states moral and material welfare, is
an annual event that may reasonably
enlist public interest. The organization
exists to-day for purposes that should
have the appreciation of all good citi
zens and the hearty cooperation of the
class from whose ranks its membership
is recruited 1t is gratifying to notice
that the organization is receiving that
cooperation in an increasing degree
gratifying because the avowed end and
object of the Vermont state grange is
to aid in promoting the best welfare of
the state by elevating the aims and pur-
poses of the farmer class, both in rela-
ton to the farmers pursuit of his call
ing and his duties as citizen.
Education is the prime agency of the
oranges reliance for the accomplish
ment of its desire for the moral eleva-
ton OF the farmer; and the development
and improvement of his social life and
condition is strong secondary aim.
These are made the accessories to a
normal and enlightened pursuit of his
material affairs. The masters annual
address, in its bearing upon these high
matters, would we'll become the mes
sage of the chief executive of the state
in its breadth and scope, and in its
strength and detion. And this leads
us to speak well-merited word of
commentator of the state master, Mr..
Messer, to whose active labors, judi
cious counsels and personal influence
the prosperity of the state grange and
its elevation of purpose is, in some
large measure, due. Mr.. Messer pur-
sues his labors with singleness of pur-
pose, is wisely bold in the advocacy of
what he believes to be the right, and is
not swerved from such advocacy by any
personal considerations. He is resolute
and candid, with no more than just
thought of personal consequences. His
competency has recently received high
and unsought recognition from the ma
tional grange in his election to the inn
portant Office of lecturer of the national
organization, an honor to Mr.. Messer
and an honor to the farmers of Yer
mont.
The state grange shows in its policy
and administration the presence also in
its councils of the wise heads of men
like Cassius Peck of Brookfield, Treas
urer G. j. Bell of Walden, and Secretary
ID. d. Howe of Burlington, all of whom
are men holding offices of responsibility
in the states agricultural institutions
and organizations. Mans work in the
grange, state and subordinate, is eff,
GENTLY supplemented by woman's, the
trace of whose active agency in al
good and elevating works, particularly
in its healthful and enlivening social
influence, is discovered in the best things
the organization is undertaking tC
accomplish.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

THE circumstances are somewhat
against the compliments of the "a
son." Nevertheless, the WATERMAN
sincerely wishes all its widening circle
of readers happy New Year. This is
no perfunctory ct. The WATCHMAN
will labor throughout each of the fifty
two weeks to fulfil its " wish" Sub
scribe for the WATCHMAN and make
sure of happiness.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27
GPresident CleveIand's flag.
Emblem of his foreign and
domestic policy.
God Save the Queen.
A MUGwUMP HYMN.

Sovran Kanaka sweet,
We kneel to kiss thy feet,
Humbly thy grace entreat,
With lowly mien;
Long as our tongues can wag,
Never to cry they'll lag,
Down with that Yankee flag!"
God save the Queenl
Honored all names above,
Our dark Hawaiian dove,
She and her lights o. love,
Spotless and clean;
For lotteries and rum,
Idols and opium,
For vice and heathendom,
God save the Queenl
Be missionaries shot,
Let freedom 90 to pot,
Let civilization rot,
SO thou art seen
Upon thy throne in pride,
Majestic, sooty, wide,
Thy half-breed by thy side;
God save the Queen!
Monarchs are all too few,
Perish the patriot crew,
America, adieu;
Tawny Faustine,
OF sovrans the flower,
Quick come the happy hour
That sees thee back to power;
God save the Queen!
-NelD York ST.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

AS to the specific acts expected of
congress, we count first on a refusal to
authorize the use of force to overthrow
friendly government in behalf of a
discarded despotsm. Then we look
for an Investigation into the genesis of
Blount's report and the appointment of
commission drawn from congress and
the judiciary to visit Honolulu next
summer and hold an impartial court,
the conclusions Of which will be sub
mitted at the next session After that
we expect President Cleveland's pro-
English scheme will go into the in
nocuous desuetude in which he him
self is bound to disappear. In the
mean time, on this ground vigilance
and dry powder will continue to be
used. -HalOdiid Star.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

THE leaders of the ways and means
committee who have framed the demo-
cratic tariff bill are as follows: Chair
man, Wilson, Charlestown, w. Va,
town having population of 2,2S7, and
no manufacturing industries; Benton
McMillin, Carthage, Tenn, population
ATS; Henry G. Turner, Quitman, Ga,
population 1868; Clifton r. Brecken-
ridge, Pine Bluffs, Ark, population less
than 1000; Alex. B. Montgomery,
Elizabethtown, KY, population 2,260.
Commenting on these facts, Varnish, a
trade journal, makes the following un-
vanished and forceful statement: We
have no advertisers from any of those
towns; no trade paper has; there are
no manufactures located there, and yet
all the manufacturing industries of the
United States must lie idle, while these
men, who know nothing about manu-
factories, argue over what they do not
understand. To the force of this pre-
sentiment of the Wilson committee, the
New York Sun adds the crushing
weight of its indictment of the men
summarized above, concluding as fol-
lows: "The facts tabulated by VarniSh
constitute no trivial testimony to their
unftness for their self-appointed and
treacherous job"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

HAD Mr.. Gresham been the queens
paid attorney instead of being the
American secretary of state, be could
could not more thoroughly have con-
cealed and falsified the actual facts.
Pacific Commercial Advertiser.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

If the summary removal of Rev. DR..
Daniel Dorchester as superintendent
of Indian schools by the secretary of
the interior was done on the advice and
with the approval of President Cleve-
land, it must be that the latter had lit
tie idea what storm of indignation
and remonstrance he was pulling down
on his head from the Methodist clergy
of the country. The reason for DIR.
Dorchester's removal as given by Hoke
Smith, that he wanted to retire from
the position, is fully refuted by the col
umn interview with Rev. Daniel Dor
chester, Jr., of Cambridge, Mass, pub
lished in the Boston Journal of last
Thursday. He states that his father
had no idea of resigning, and that as
his commission read that he was to hold
the Office until removed by the presi-
dent, he had written Mr.. Cleveland to
see if the secretary of the interior was
acting under instructions from his chief
II 30, he would forward his resignation
at once. DR.. Dorchester is one of the
leading members of the New England
Conference, and, before his appoint
ment to the Office of superintendent O.
Indian schools, had become widely ant
favorably known as preacher, author
historian and statistician. The recen
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

AND Grover Cleveland caused Mr..
Gresham to make that re commenda-
ton. Hawaii has surely fallen into
evil hands; and where she sought pro-
lection, has found insolent defamation
and lawless attack. Pacific CONNER
cidI Advertiser.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

THE country was told by the presi-
dent and his cuckoos in congress and
the editorial offices that the Sherman
law was the wicked cause of all its
financial and industrial woes. Repeal
that measure, industry would revive
and prosperity return. Well, the Sher-
man law was repealed. Have the presi-
dents predictions been fulfilled? Have
his confident assurances been verified
by the facts of the industrial situation?
The increasing stagnation of business,
the continued closing of mills and fac
tories, the frightening roll of the un-
employed, now swollen to 100000, and
representing $4,000, 10000 of people de-
prived of means of support, show that
the president was false prophet,
and that the zeal difficulty was where
candid and truthful men placed tin
the disturbance to every branch of in
dustry occasioned by democratic pos
session of the government and the
democratic programme of tariff reform.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

THE story of the revolution, as told
by Mr.. Stevens, is correct and his mar
rative unimp And those who
know him will believe what he says in
preference to the garbed statements of
Mr. Blount, based on the partisan evil
dence of bitter royalists. Pacific Com
mercidl advertiser.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

FACTS accumulate exposing Blount's
wilful perversity in his Hawaiian in
vestigation, and denunciation of Presi-
dent Cleveland for his un-American pol.
icy swelis in volume and earnestness.
In congress and out, Mr.. Cleveland con-
tinues TO be the object of indignant ar
raignment such as an American presi-
dent never before received or deserved.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

THE state of Washington is making
an effort to stimulate the dairy or
creamery interests. Large sums are
now sent out of the state for dairy
products.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

mo surrender" from now on is the
slogan of the annexation party-no
surrender to Cleveland, whose demand
for it is illegal and unconstitutional
and will be void when the American
people shall make their fiat known.
God helps those who help themselves!
Three cheers and Tiger for the provi-
sional government and for the armed
men who are backing it with invinci-
BILE esolve!-HdWdiid Star.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

CONSIDERING the strong feeling
against the eX-queen that is daily gain
ing ground among Hawaiians as well as
foreigners, it would be suicide for her
to accept the proffered restoration,
even with the guarantee of armed pro
lection from any source whatever.-
Pacific Commercial Advertiser.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

action of the Boston Preachers Asso-
citation, in passing an indignant protest
and sending it to President Cleveland,
voiced the sentiments of the $4,000
Methodist pastors and $4,000 local
Methodist preachers in this country.
1t is a slap at their denomination which
even such peace.loving men as Meth
odist ministers cannot let pass unno-
ced.
THE Free Press, taking hand in the
discussion of the Wilson tariff bill in
its bearing upon Vermont interests, gets
at thu heart of the question in the fol-
lowing paragraph:
Large quantities of Canadian oats have
been imported under heavy duty, and of
course the importations will increase when
they are made free of duty, to the detriment
of the American farmer. The Retormer
makes the mistake which is common to the
newspapers of its party in assuming that
few cents difference in the price of bushel
of oats or in the price of any other product
is all that the producer looks at. 1t is FREE
quently a question with the Vermont
farmer, not how much he can obtain for his
produce but whether he can sell it at all or
not, and protection is designed not to in
crease the price but to keep the home mar
ket for the home product"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27
Like the Spirit of rs.

COMMENTS OF THE HAWAIIAN PRESS IN
VIEW OF THE POLICY OF INFAMY.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

THAT "the tariff is tax" has been
the beginning and the end of the dem
ocratic argument. With one dash of
the pen, the Reformer renounces this
first tenet in the democratic articles of
faith. "The farmer may just as we'll
try to lift himself by the bootstraps,"
declares the contemporary, "as by the
imposition of tariff to raise the price
of any article thGi 20 may produce be-
You'd our own power of consumption"
But if modern democracy and its great
prophet are right, the duty under the
Mckinley act of fifteen cents a bushel
on oats, or four dollars ton on hay, or
twenty-five cents bushel on potatoes,
should add so much to the price of
those products in the American market
This doctrine the Rgormer renounces
and enforces its remuneration by a
,bomely but striking illustration.