Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-07-26
WAYSIDE TALK.

| There is curious turn in affairs in
the great tariff fight between the senate
and house. President Cleveland has
written wonderful letter to Chairman
Wilson, and he has read it to his
brother representatives. This letter in
directly intimates that the tariff bill in
its present form can not receive the
Presidents signature. We thought
last week that this tariff business was
in passable shape, but now it is in
chaos again, and the outcome is more
uncertain than ever. 1t is putting it
mildly, to say. that the leading Demo-
cratic senators are hopping mad. They
say that it is their bill or none. This is
quite natural, for they have nearly gone
crazy in getting a schedule that the
majority in the senate would agree to-.
1t took an immense amount of trading
to get it through at last, and now Mr..
Grover Cleveland has upset the whole
dish by communicating his views to
the house through roundabout chan
mel, urging them on to battle with the
senate under free raw material banner.
Doubtful things are very uncertain
and there will needs be more good mis-
slonary work done to bring the tariff
reformers of the two houses to an ad-
Justment of differences than seems
probable. There is, however, just the
incest chance to toss the responsibility
OF defeat from one to another as occa-
sion requires. The house can throw
the whole blame on the senate, who
can hurl it at the president, and he in
turn can wash his hands of the whole
thing now that he has unbosomed him.
cal to no -
in the history of this unfortunate busi-
ness, which is causing such bitter
light among the members of one polit-
ical family, and such disgust to people
IN general, to throw up the sponge and
adjourn. Go, dear law makers, if you
please, to Europe, Asia or Africa, any
where that the spirit moves-only go
and give the country rest. We will
take our chances under the old tariff laws
and will try to be contented with our lot.
There is an enormous travel to Eu-
rope this summer. The rich and poor
alike are taking advantage of the dull
times, and are crossing the ocean. The
rich have leisure and are improving the
opportunity to get away far enough to
obtain rest. The poor are going in
large numbers; first, because they too
have leisure; and in the next place be-
cause they can go so cheaply. Eight
and ten dollars is the cut price for steer
age passengers, and the foreign popula-
ton see the chance of lifetime to visit
the old country and incidentally to
wait there for better times. The ex-
pense of going home is so small, and it
costs so little to live there, that every
one who thinks of returning within
few years will go now. Steamship lines
seem to have the advantage over rail-
roads these days. 1t is more popular
to travel by water than by rail, is safer
and withal quite the thing to do. Still,
we do not advise the summer sojourners
in New England to rush back and take
passage for Europe. There are a suffi-
clent number of Americans abroad.
They may enjoy life there; we hope
they do; but they cannot help the Vigi-
liant IN winning an occasional race.
Yet, they can rest and take on English
notions. 1t is an off summer anyway,
wherever we are, and a hot one too. It
is even difficult to find cool spot in
which to sit down and reflect upon the
uncertainties of life and our personal
conduct. By the way, reflection is
very good occupation at times, but we
are forever rejecting upon some other
fellows slip ups and various misdoings
or neglects. Pretty hard to sit down
and talk straight business to oneself.
Somehow it jars the nerves, and we
can't often do it.
Down goes Debs and up bobs Coxey.
This general is not an alarming charac-
ter. He wants and expects to be elect
ed to congress this fall. Just now he is
running about the country, making
speeches to his popuIist admirers, and
talking up his good roads bill. Coxey's
command of 300, noble and true, are
still at Bladensburg, near Washington,
and he expects to stay by with his sol
diers until he gets satisfaction from con-
gress. His latest scheme is to get vol
unteers who spend their nights on the
commons of the great northern cities to
go to Washington and sleep on benches
there-an object lesson. No use, CoXey,
our congressman will not "catch on
They are too busily engaged in making
more loafers to bother with your kim
dergarten plans. Stick to your 500 and
suppose you declare for free raw mate
rial, or have you got enough already?
One thing to CoXey's credit he didn't
order his men into sympathetic strike
He has also, of late, kept off the grass.
We shall hear more of Coxey.