Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-02-23

and ! understood that they preferred
American coal over there in the British
provinces for many Of tho purposes of fuel.
The multiplication OF our railroads aud their
cancellations have the effect to diffuse our
own coal at less expense than formerly.
care you for the acquisition of Can
ada ~
al think that TO acquire Canada would do
n good deal of harm to our agricultural in
terests all along that border-in Vermont
New York, and clear on to the far West. |
also think that we have enough of crude
foreign population, an uneducated popuia-
ton, to give us plenty TO do to digest them
into our citizenship; yet | say il they want
to come and join US in Canada they must he
allowed to come. They have a good popu-
lation in Ontario and down to Montreal; in
other portions of Canada the element sought
TO, be annexed Is not so inviong.'
you and your colleague. Edmunds, were
in harmony apparently for many, many
years ~
II regarded Mr.. Elmuuls as n great law
yer. lie WELDED the largest influence Of
any man in the Senate Tor years, ami was
an antagonist to be dreaded. His knowl.
edge of parliamentary law was of constant
assistance to him. On questions OF finance
my training did not antagoni2e his legal
because his daughters health required that
she should 90 to California; he had lost one
daughter, and to preserve the life of thi,
one was the supreme care he had. Nlr. Ell
Inunds get oil the employment he wants
in the law in the highest class Of cases with
the best rewards He once told me that he
did not want TO be president and to exert
my influence If | went to the convention to
stop it. did not think senator ought to
so to the conventions.
"Do you suppose that the tariff will now
lie cut down ~
Yes. | suppose that it will have to b.
DONE think that Mckinley's legislation
was in many respects excellent: most of its
features ! approved OF. 1t was keyed n lit
lie too high for that time but the radicals
always prevail. The democrats, if they adj
here to the notion that they must raise rev
enue only upon those things that we do not
manufacture will find it no easy task t.
select the articles they want to tax. The
needs of the country are charging; we re-
Quire more revenue, as the country is mucn
larger than formerly. II they undertake.
the heroic policy of taxing sugar, tea aul
coffee, they will raise the i4.c5 Of those com
modities at the expense OF the multitude. II
they touch the democratic sacred points OF
the saloons and the stills and brewerie.,
they may autagonile some Of their own TO-
lowing Hence they may be tempted to try
income tax, and this | think, ought
mover to be done in any country except ms
the last-the heroic msssure-say to meet
the expenses OF war. We should not tax
incomes until there is dread necessity, ami
if we do wo shall have exhausted the las
resort.
AS passed out Mr. Morrill, showed mo
bar RIM TtaIi
who painted the dome OF the capitol and the
irieze in the rotunda, had painted centre
piece for him over his dining table. 1t rep
resented several medallions in a compost
ton, including the heads OF Longfellow W,
Hawthorne, Prescott and Dickens
Il stood out, - said Mr.. Morrill,, for put
ting the congressional library where it is
now being built on Capital hill; the other
members OF the library committee wanted
TO put it on Judiciary square, down in the
middle Of Washington. | think that H.
brary will DO of great value to Washing
ton, to give that literary tone to the
society CT the capitol which will improve
nll the departments OF tho government
You remember Larkin Mead, our Vermont
boy, the se!fmade sculptor. lie is now at
the head of school OF sculpture in Florence
where he has lived so long--a very hand
Powers, also Fermonter, told me that his
son, Preston Powers, could make as he
thought, just us good busts himself, and
he was celebrated for his busts.
Said !; "Are the farms in Vermont worth
less than formerly -
''Of course we suffered good many years
from the rapid development of the agricul-
ture of the West, but within the past two
years | think our farm lands have CONS UP
again. They could bring bsef and other
products all the way from Chicago and lay
it down in Boston cheaper than we could
forward Vermont beef to Boston from Bur
lington.'
do you think that in the future the pur-
suit of wealth will be universal as in the
past 10 or 20 years p
81 do not think that fortunes can be
made as rapidly in the years before us as
they have boon in the years behind US The
great basis OF large fortunes has been real
estate, and, | may add, railroads Men of
the character Of the Astors have bought
land by the farm or acre and sold it out by
the foot. When | settled here On Thomas
Circle paid 81. % foot for my ground,
they are selling it now for s. foot.
sacrificed portion Of my ground and moved
my house back 20 feet to give the pub
lie square more area. In the Same manner
railroads have been built in gross and sold
in the small, and have made Individual for -
tunes very large. -
do you favor the acquisition Of thu tee.
praphs and the railroads by the govern
ment -
Il think it was probably mistake at the
inception of the telegraph that the govern
inent did not avail itself Of the very moder-
ate offer of Mr.. Morse to sell the entire pa
tent to tho United States. 1t then could
have been turned into a facility OF the pos
tai department. Our mail service Is put at
n disadvantage, both in utility and in rev
enue, by the telegraph, which has become a
great corporate institution. AS to the rail-
roads, | do not think that the government
could operate them with that economy that
trained railroad man are now able to dis
play"
1t occurred to me to ask as / passed. out
whether Mr.. Morrii's advanced age had
beed attained by perfect abstinence. Said he;
81 was 10 years old before ! took any slim
uant ] occasionally took glass Of wine
after that, Within few yeats past, my
physician, who has been called in severa
ina h.a lyis t, 1ri aal,