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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19
Congress-.

The general debate in the House on the
Wilson tariff bill closed last Saturday night.
A notable demonstration marked the occa-
sion The hall was thrown open to the
public, and in the presence of more peo-
pie, probably, than ever gathered within
its walls before, Representative Bryan Of
Nebraska spoke for nearly three hours in
favor of the bill, advocating it as an ap-
proach to free trade. Monday the consid-
Grafton of the bill under the ive-minute
On that day two hours will be devoted to
general debate the time to be occupied by
Mr. Reed of Maine for the Republicans,
and probably by Mr.. Wilson for the Demo-
Gratis. These will be the closing speeches,
and when concluded, the House will pro-
coed to vote on the bill and pending amend e
ments. Mondays proceedings were en-
livened by a spirited discussion between
Messrs. Reed and Cochran, involving the
relative merits of tariff reform and protec-
tion.
Consideration of the bill now takes the
form largely Of the introduction and discus
sion of amendments during the day ses-
sions, while the evenings are devoted to de-
bate. The House refused, Wednesday, to
adopt an amendment, offered by Mr.. VIII
son, the author of the bill, fixing Aug.
as the date when the free wool clause
should become operative. Instead it
adopted substitute submitted by Mr..
johnson of Ohio, making wool free from
the date of the signing of the bill.
Ex-Speaker Reed is to close the tariff de-
bate for the Republicans on the afternoon
of the 27th inst. Chairman Wilson, of
the ways and means committee, will per-
form similar service for the Democratic
majority. The vote on the bill will be
taken Monday, the 29th inst.
In the Senate the bill for the repeal of
the federal elections laws is now the ''un-
finished business and will have pre-
cedence of all other business after the
morning hour, until disposed of or dis
placed by vote of the Senate
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19
Shattered IdnIs.

The Massachusetts, Reform club appears
to have had a very interesting time at its
monthly meeting held at Youngs hotel,
Boston, last Friday evening. A very
healthy number of the members were in
favor of adopting resolutions censuring
Josiah Quincy, prominent member of
the club, and Grover Cleveland by name
the former for using his Office as assistant
secretary of state to loot the foreign con-
sulships, and the latter for using the offices
as rewards to members of Congress to Sc
cure their votes for legislation favored by
the administration. The names were final
ly left out and the resolutions as adopted
refer simply to the administration; but the
condemnation in the speeches was out
spoken. Quincy was told that one would
think, spite of his reform pretensions, that
he agreed with Senator Ingalls, that the
reform of the civil service is ''an iridescent
dream" When some one urged that the
club ought to have sympathy with Mr.,
Cleveland and remember the "obstacles"
in his way, Richard II. Dana hotly an
swered: "The club did not keep,quiet when
a Republican administration was in power
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19
The Logic of IL.

The position to which the final develop
ments in the Hawaiian episode reduce the
course of the Cleveland administration is
humliating to every man with the instincts
of an American citizen, and Democrats
share this feeling equally with Republicans.
1t seems like the irony of relentless fate
that the country should at last be told. in
an official communication to Congress, how
the President had been trying to put back
on her throne a woman who grimly insist
ed that if reinstated she would first of all
chop off the heads of her enemies. One
thing may be set down as the primary fact
in this distasteful business. The Hawaiian
policy of the Cleveland administration
would never have been adopted had it not
been for Secretary Gresham's hatred of
Mr.. Harrison, and had he not thought he
could see in this chance to pay off an old
score by discreditng the Harrison admin
istration. But it has proved the worst
boomerang ever thrown in public life.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19
We Listen For IL Reply.
lFrom the New York SIM.

That veteran Democratic politician, Col.
Bradley b. Smalley of Vermont, is re-
ported by the Times as expressing a senti-
ment which strikes the reader with sur
prise. "If Congress would stop talk
ing" says Col. Smalley," and pass the
Wilson bill as speedily as possible, the
benefit to the country would be at once
apparent
Has Col Smalley forgotten the Demo
cratic platform of 1892? What benefit
does he suppose the Democratic parry
could derive from proclaiming that it wa,
an imposture and fraud when it put forth
that noble platform?
Do the Democratic statesmen of Yer
mont really believe that there is no sucl
thing as honor and truth in party politics
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19
Horace GreeIey,s Greed.

There is no doubt that Horace Greeley's
religious creed and rule OF life were sum-
med up in this letter which he wrote April
%, 1858, to high churchman who had
written to him complaining that the Trib-
une called the Romanists Catholics, and
admonishing Mr.. Greeley on other points
which are suggested in the letter:
You see fit to presume that Popularity
is doubtless your (my) great aim" and
thereupon to assert that | am constantly
defying public sentiment, outraging con-
servative instincts and established cOnvic-
tions, and grieving or alternating all those
who would naturally be my best friends.
My dear sir, if men are taught to rea-
son thus in your church, it is quite certain
that | shall never be able TO appreciate its
dogmas. 1t does seem to me that you
| ought to presume me wise enough to see
| the charity | extend to novel and unpopu-
lar opinions does not tend to secure me
wealth or fame or power or popularity, but
the reverse. No man knows better than
do that ''all the kingdoms of this world
are to be acquired by Just the opposite
course from that have chosen to pursue
by cottoning to whatever is established and
popular, and esteemed by the wealthy and
|
innovations. | think | understand the
philosophy of success as well as you do, and
see why it is that "the Son of Man had not
where to lay his head" in an age and coun-
try which honored Herod, PLATE and Tibe-
rius Cesar
But | think / see that there is some
thing better worth living for than temporal
power, popularity and riches that Gods
truth is still to be sought among the lowly,
the despised and the outcast, and that who
so will serve God and bless man must be
esteemed exactly as men of your stamp re-
garded Jesus of Nazareth Is centuries
ago, namely, as young man of rare abil-
tiles, high courage and blameless life, who
might do vast good if he would only aban-
don his radical notions and low assoca-
tions, and conform to the orthodox creeds
and conservative instincts of his time. To
me the stable and the manger that shelterd
ed the infant Saviour are not dead, isolated
records of what has been, but the symbols
of truth that is vital and impressive to-
day.
} have never assumed to act as 'umpire''
between warning sects. All | determine is
what course is fair and just to all on my
part. 1t is my duty to be a true Catholic,
which requires of me a larger charity and
more comprehensive faith than either Nice
or Trent ever dreamed of. Briefly, my
Catholic church embraces all those who
] truly love God and live to enlighten and
. serve their fellow men, no matter whether
1 they believe the thirty-nine articles or the
DEGREES of Trent, or never heard of either.
e l beg you to assure your Whig church
4 brethren that whenever they shall esteem
S the Tribune worth less to them than the
. money it cost to them | shall be better
Y pleased by their stopping than by theil
: continuing it. am worn out with edito
rial labor, and shall hail with joy the da!
when may honorably relinquish it.
Yours, HORACE GREELEY.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19
NO. 3.

One Eject Of the Sugar bounty Law.
Since the Democratic agitation for the
repeal of the sugar bounty law began, one
| fact has come to the surface which has es-
capped public attention until now. 1t is
that, by means of the impetus which the
law has given to sugar production, our
homegrown sugars have become an i'm
portant factor in keeping down the eXac-
tions of the sugar trust. The New Or
leans Pcayune, Democratic paper, frank
ly says in recent article:
"Were the bounty allowed to continue
undisturbed, and the beet sugar of the
West, as well as our own cane industry,
be permitted to develop at the rate of the
last few years, it would be but a compare
lively short time before the masses of the
people, instead of having competition ~
sugar, with the attendant cheapening OF
prices during few months only, would
have such competition during the greater
part of the year, while the bulk of the
sugar consumed would be the product of
home industry and labor
In the same issue of the paper appears
an article from Mr. Lindley Murray Fer
ris a prominent Louisiana sugar-pl anter.
who explains why the bounty law is so Of
fensive to the trust. During the Louisiana
sugar cane campaign, he says, there are
several hundred Independent producers in
the field, most of them making, or ca
pable of making, sugar suitable for con-
sumption. Many of these sugars are dis
tributed direct from the planters and re-
ceived by the jobbers without the inter-
vention of the middlemen. To meet this
competition the trust refineries reduce the
price of their sugars. When the Louisiana
crop is all marketed there is but one source
to draw from, the raw foreign sugars.
These come to the country and pass under
the control of one great corporation, able
to fix the price at almost any figure. De-
stroy this domestic industry and what will
be the result? Absolutely no comp etition
whatever throughout the year, one ggan-
tic concern importing, refining aud selling
all the sugar consumed in the entire coun-
try. "Let the unthinking voters" adds
4ul cllISs WIZ dlG llOWllIlS lOl CllcdptI
sugar and free breakfast table consider
where they are most likely to get lower
prices from-one great trust or 900 pro-
ducers in their own country, who, if let
alone, will in five years produce enough
sugar to supply more than half of the de-
mand in the United States, and who are
today spending every dollar they can make
in Improvements which are bound to
cheaper the price of sugar to the consum-
er. If the country wants cheap sugar let
the bounty alone"
Maple sugar, it is true, cuts no figure in
the country's supply of commercial sugar,
but Vermont growers are interested, new
ertheless, in knowing in what broad way
the bounty law is affecting the sugar in
dustry and the interests of the people.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19
But IL Isn't General Jackson.

No President ever ate at one meal a
larger piece of humble pie than did Grover
Cleveland last Saturday. His message to
Congress transmitting the latest phase of
the Hawaiian episode shows plainly that
he was in a most unhappy frame of mind.
He had no relish for discussion, His only
anxiety was to get through the odious task
as soon as possible. 1t is barren of any
suggestion. In effect Mr.. Cleveland says
to Congress- "Do what you please; l have
nothing more to say From assuming au
tocratc authority he suddenly changes to a
mere transmitter of intelligence. 1t is inn
possible to conceive of General jackson as
thus going in like lion and coming out as
a lamb.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19
BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1894.

Her Majesty's government "to be dealt with
by court martial,
In the instructions which Secretary Ores
ham sent to Mr.. Willis by the steamer
which sailed from San Francisco Sunday,
the failure of the President to restore the
status existing before the revolution is adj
ter is now in the hands of Congress, and
until further notice he is to consider that
his special instructions have been fully
complied with.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19
Gbe Uermunt 39b@ni1.
BRATTLEBORO:
FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1894.

The expected happened in the United
States Senate Monday when David b. Hill
hung VIM. b. Hornblowers scalp in his
belt. Mr.. Hornblower's nomination to be
an associate justice of the United States
supreme court was defeated by vote of
30 to "a. There was no doubt of his fit
ness for the place, but in defeating his
nomination Cleveland's enemies in his
own party saw chance to get a whack at
hm-and they got it.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19
The National Financcs.

Secretary Carlisle has made public,
through a letter addressed to Mr.. Noor-
hees, chairman of the Senate committee
on finance, the present critical condition of
the United States treasury and its urgent
needs. He says the necessity for relief is
so urgent, and the prospect of material i'm
provement is so doubtful, that unless Con-
gress speedily gives him authority to issue
shorter time bonds at a lower rate of inter
est, he will feel compelled to issue bonds un-
der the resumption act of 1870, sufficient in
amount at least to restore and protect the
coin reserve of S1OO,0O0,000.
Since the beginning of the present fiscal
year the treasury has lost S23, 900, 900 in
gold, and the reserve has now fallen to
about 81 100000. The net excess of
expenditure over receipts to date is $50
100000, or at the rate of $50 ,0O0,0 600 a
year. Secretary Carlisle has revised his
original estimate of a deficit of S2S, 600, 900
for the year, as made in his annual report
and inserted in the Presidents message,
and now places it at SIS, 900, 900.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19

it did not have consideration for President
Harrison's feelings or the obstacles in his
way. If it let Mr. Cleveland off easily for
doing just what it condemned in Mr.. Har
rison then the club owes Mr.. Harrison and
the Republican party an apology All of
which shows how Mr.. Cleveland has been
tumbled off his pedestal since the fourth
day of last March.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19

From the New York Tribune. !

From the New York Tribune.
Thirty.three years ago the Democratic
party went out of power borrowing money
TO meet a treasury deficit created by its in
competence. Within a year after its re-
turn to power, a great deficit created by its
incompetence again compels it to borrow.
Further, it is compelled to use for that
necessity a Republican law enacted Is
years ago, which was for years denounced
in every Democratic meeting at the West
and South as a shameless robbery of the
people for the benefit of bondholders, and
is forced to employ this same old act be-
cause, as its chairman of the finance com
mittee in the Senate publicly confesses
the Democratic party, through its faction
al divisions, is incompetent to pass any act
for the relief of the treasury or the defence
of the public credit.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19

From the Chicago Inter-OceRn.
The wool growers of Texas recently
held a meeting at San Angelo and protest
ed against the free-wool clause of the Will
son bill. In looking around they could
not find a Democratic congressman from
Texas who had the courage to present and
advocate their petition. So they dropped
back upon a stanch Republican, Mr.. Bur
rows, who will perform the duty. Texas
Democrats have moss six inches long on
their backs. 1t has been growing since
1861. But there are Independent men in
Texas who will be heard from yet.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19
Isa Way Vermonters Have.


Mr.. Ide of Vermont, who rules Samoa as
the chief justice under the triple protector
ate, has begun his administration in an
excellent way, and is already far more pop
ular than was his predecessor, the Swede
Cederkranz, Mr.. Ide gets along finely even
with the German government, and that is
a very difficult thing for any man to do.
He has drawn concessions from Germany
that must be very advantageous to the Sa-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19

" If | were certain that wages were high
er here asserts Representative Black of
Illinois, one of the free trade oracles, d"
would seek to repeal those laws which make
wages higher" In other words, American
workingmen deserve to be no better housed,
no better clothed and no better fed than
the wretched toilers of Italy, Hungary, In
da and China. Mr.. Black would probably
agree with the Boston Herald that the
American flag is nothing but "piece of
textile fabric"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19

The New York Post, one of the Mug
wump papers which makes its salaams be-
fore the shrine on which Grover Cleveland
sits as high priest, realizes that the Wilson
tariff is not in accordance with the Demo
cratic platform, which declared a "funda-
mental principle of the Democratic party
to be "that the federal government has
not the constitutional power to impose and
collect tariff duties except for the purpose
of revenue only" The Post remarks
with something that sounds suspiciOusly
like shrek, that "a party which cannot
execute its own policy when the means are
put in its hands has no further excuse or
reason for being. The Democratic party
is in the very crisis of its life. 1t must act
now or never"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19

The Senate refused, Wednesday, to con-
firm the nomination of j. Scott Harrison,
brother of ex-President Harrison, to be sur
veyor of customs at Kansas City The
Missouri senators stated that the nomina-
tion was made in the face of the unani-
nous recommendation of the delegation in
Congress for another man. 1t was also
shown that Harrison did not vote the
Democratic ticket in November, 1892.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19
The Flag nIoun, Hauled Down.

Among the exhibits loaned by the provis-
onal government of Hawaii to the South
Sea Islands collection at the Mid Winter
exposition in San Francisco is the Ameri-
can flag which was the first to be raised in
the islands after the revolution, but after
wards hauled down by order of Commits
sioner Blount
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19

The Democratic statesman from Troy,
n Y, declared in the House that if The
schedule relating to collars and cuffs were
changed so as to leave the duty where it is
now he would vote for the Wilson bill.
That is, this member believed in all the
protection he could get for his own con-
sttuency, while protection in other sections
was unconstitutional except for purposes
of revenue. That appears to be the Dem
ocratic idea of the tariff as a local issue.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19
The Insult should he Disavowed.
LFrom the Roehester Post-Express.l

ITTUIII VIIV I'V7VIIV7V'I O7V- I7N TT VN9'I
Congress should peremptorily enjoin
President Cleveland, Secretary Gresham,
and Minister Willis to meddle no more
with the affairs of the Hawaiian govern
ment. The secretary of state should also
be directed to inform President Dole that
the offensive demand made upon the pro-
visional government is disavowed by the
United States and withdrawn.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19
No; a Devil, Not am Angel.
IFrom the New York Sun. |

Mr.. Carnegie is not a devil and not an
angel, but simply a plain, upright, genial,
philosphic and faithful man, with an
extraordinary genius for business and a
heart as large as the human race. The
world is better for such men. Would there
were thousands like him in every country !
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19

The bond question was settled Wednes-
day afternoon by Secretary Carlisle, who
issued a circular inviting proposals for the
purchase of S50,0000OO of per cent bonds
of the class described in the refunding act
of 1870. The bonds are to be issued in
either registered or coupon form, in denom-
nations of $50 and upwards, redeemable
in coin at the pleasure of the government
after ten years from the date of their issue.
Proposals are to be received for the whole
or any part of the issue until noon of Feb
ruary l at a minimum price of III. 223,
or about Sll725 for bond of 500. At
the minimum price designated by the sec
retary the bonds will yield fraction over
81 per cent interest, 1t is expected that
the premium offered will exceed the mini
mum fixed, and that the bonds will bring
120, which would make them yield to in
yestors per cent per annum.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19
O.J.PRATT
HuIIed Corn Business,

TNHIS is to give notice that Joseph A. Amldon
is not now in my employ, and that all per
sons wishing o buy hulled corn from my estao-
Iishment should patronize the yellow cart driven
by Frank Stockwell, Nj, HOShlNo'
BrattlebOro Jan. 10, 1891.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19
Cloak and Fur
Department..
SECOND FLOOR. ]

The assortment of Ladies'
Misses, and Children's Cloaks,
Shawls, Fur Capes and Fur Trim
mings is quite large and well as
sorted, most of it having been pur-
chased during the past two weeks
direct from the manufacturers, at
a material reduction from regular
prices, and the trade are assured
that they will get the full benefit
of the cut in prices,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19
ALOVE KILLER.

no YOU know what love killer is: Well
i , il is liquid that takes from man all that
is lovable or worthy of respect or reverence. 1t
is sold in bottles, sold by the glass; sold in kegs,
sent by express and the General Superintendent
is no less person than the devil himself. We
usually class it all under one name, and call 1t
rum.
INHE members of the "Morrell Cure Company
i of Vermont" " feel that they are fighting the
devil himself when they help to save men from
the disease Of alcoholism.
Nov don't fly off the handle because we said
~ devil for if he don't have a hand in the rum
business, then no one has.
M are curing men and women every day,
w and curing them surely and permanently.
We Will gladly give you the address of men and
women whom we have cured and let them tell
you their story. Their testimony of course goes
further than anything that we can say. All let
ters treated cOnfidentialiy.
MTE have institutes" for treating patients in
w the following places; Main office at Brat
tleboro, Vt, with DR.. Ketchum, D. L.. GRlGGS,
General Agent; Bellows Falls. Vt, with DR.. F. S,
Whitman; Fair Haven, VT with DR.. A, s. Muir
raw Hinsdale, n H., with DR.. c. S. Grey;
Springfield, Vt, with DR.. f. D. Worcester; West
Randolph, Vt. with DR., g. w. Scott; Wood
stock, Vt, with DR.. o w. Sherwin; South Royal
ton, Vt, with DR., d. l.. Burnett Newport, Vt.
with c; V, Bogue; Wells River Vt, with DR.
II, II. Lee.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19
For SALE.

\ NICE two-horse traverse sledfor sale cheap;
"A also ten tons of good hay. W. w. COOh,
corner of Chase and Asylum streets.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19
IN ALL DEPAR 7 TMENTS.
Goods.

In this department a very
sweeping reduction of prices has
been made amounting to fully %
per cent off on many lines of desir-
able fabrics.
2Oc Dress Goods down to 15c
39c Dress Goods down to 25c
soc Dress Goods down to 37c
69c Dress Goods down to SOC
ST Dress Goods down to 75c
One case of Century Cloth at
7 IL cents, worth 10 cents one
case Best Prints at 5 cents, worth
7 cents.
All our French Novelties in
single dress patterns marked down
fully one third to close the sea-
sons stock.