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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-11
Create and InterpOse a Buffer.

Compromise! Arbitratel These are
the things the anarchist chiefs are now
demanding that the Pullman company
shall agree to do as condition prece-
dent to suspending the boycott of the
railways handling the Pullman cars.
The Pullmans answer, and with
strong show of reason, that there is
nothing to compromise, nothing to ar
bitrate. However this may be, this is
no time and no occasion to talk of COM
promise and arbitration. Certain i'm
pudent men, chief among whom is one
Debs, hitherto to fame unknown, have
suddenly begun the exercise of powers
held and exercised only by highway
men, or irresponsible despots. The
president or the congress have no such
power over the rights of persons and
property as these bandit chiefs have
usurped. The first duty is to arrest
these men and bring into subsection to
the laws the misguided victims who are
obeying their mandates. When the
former have been punished for their
crimes and the latter have made retribu-
ton for their offenses against the laws,
there will be time to consider matters
that relate to differences between en-
ployers and the employed. AS matters
stand now, and as they have stood
if not invariably, at least in the
great majority of cases of conflict
between labor and capital in this
country - it is the employer who
needs protection from the wild,
unreasoning acts of the employed.
The latter is his own worst enemy, or,
if he has worse, it is the man like
Debs to whom he surrenders his lib
erty of action. Experience again teaches
that to deprive the Debses, the Sover-
eigns, and the McBrides, of the first
blush of pretext for exercising the
autocratic power they are given by
of buffer should be interposed be-
tween employer and employee to re-
ceive and dissipate the force of the
shocks of conflicting interests. The
employee should not be at the mercy
of grasping and oppressive employer,
nor should the employer be forever the
victim of the caprice of the employee,
or, what is infinitely worse, the autocrat
who is the official head of an associa-
ton of which the employee is men,
Der. That buffer is arbitration in some
form, seasonably interposed before ri
val interests or passions have met in
hostile collision. Wisdom and states
manship, animated by patriotism, should
be equal to the task of creating this
buffer and equipping with it, by COM
pulsion, every business interest in the
| country.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-11

killing several and wounding many.
General Miles took command OF the
military operations, under orders from
Washington, and soldiers OF the regular
army undertook the work of restoring
order aud reopening railway communi-
cation. Arrangements were made to
secure, under military guard, the ar
rival and departure of trains. Orders
to the troops were, if interfered with by
the rioters, to shoot to kill. The mob
had been somewhat cowed by the
blood-letting on Saturday afternoon. Its
members had fed like frightened sheep
before the lead and bayonets of the
militia, and they kept at a respectful
distance from the rifles of the national
troops. A semblance of order was re-
stored in the railway yards of Chicago,
but the seat of hostilities was trans
ferred to Hammond, just across the line
in Indiana. There, early on Sunday
morning, mob violence resumed its
sway. Trains were held up and the
track blockaded. Help was asked of
General Miles, and two companies of
regulars were sent down to restore
order. These were Immediately rein
forced and fierce conflict with the
mob ensued. Several volleys were
fred before the rioters fled. Then the
work of clearing the track and securing
the passage of trains was begun. The
governor of Indiana sent a large
force of militia to Hammond, and the
unruly elements were held in subjec-
ton.
President Cleveland has acted with
commendable decision and vigor in this
emergency. BY proclamation he has
commanded the rioters in Illinois to re-
frain from violating the laws of the ma
ton, and warned all citizens to remain
in their homes or to keep aloof from all
assembages of disorderly persons. The
laws will be enforced and the rights Of
persons and property protected by al
the means in the possession of the gov
eminent. This proclamation is supple
mented by another of similar tenor
but more general in it's application.
Bad as is the existing state of things
apparently worse is to come. If the
Pullmans will not arbitrate, Sovereign
4. e IL af I oh
threatens to swell the elements of dis
order by commanding the men WHIT
obey his mandate to strike. Other la
Dor organizations have announced {
similar purpose. So it is possible tina
to-day another vast army of men ma.
be added to the thousands that are nov
making this country smoking realm
of ruin and anarchism.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-11
Athletics in Schools.

The average Vermont boy, either on
the farm or in other situations, inev-
itably is the subject of great deal of
athletic" training, probably more than
he deems absolutely necessary for his
proper physical development. A robust
physique is generally attained some
what at the expense of his intellectual
expansion. When, therefore, Vermont
parent sends his son to school his pur-
pose is mental, not physical, culture.
Incidental to this purpose is, of course,
the necessity for an adequate amount
of physical exercise and that wholesome
amusement without which the student
might become dull and uninteresting
boy. In legitimate scheme of educa-
ton, exercise and amusement held, in
the old order of things, their proper re.
lation to the main object-study and
mental training. A new order has
gradually gained an existence in the
schools. Beginning with the large COL
leges and universities, it has spread into
the country, and high schools and acad-
emies have become afflicted with the
mania fol" athletics" Yale, Harvard,
Princeton, and others, have become
better known by their boat crews, their
baseball mines, or football teams, than
for their excellence as institutions of
learning; and smaller colleges, schools
and academies in the country, to some
extent, are emulating the example of the
cosmopolitan institutions. They have
their teams" money is solicited for
their maintenance, time is spent in
training, and contests are arranged that
for days or weeks at time take stu
dents from their studies and away from
the fostering care of the school. The
members of the "crew" or {" team or
"nine" are not the only losers by this
misapplication of time and school ad-
vantages. The injurious and distract
ing influence extends to the whole
school. Entertainments, card and
dancing parties, during term time, are
not held to be conducive to good habits
of study, and there is quite general
unanimity of opinion among rejecting
people that, while these may have their
proper place in the general economy of
young peoples affairs, they should be
relegated to vacation time or to such
seasons as will not interfere with the
orderly and efficient procedure of the
work of the schoolroom. Athletics" in
the acceptance of the term which has re-
Gently become common and popular,
seem to have in their season a greater
demoralizing influence on the schools
than parties, or theatres, or dancing
schools, during that part of the year in
which these distractions are presenting
their seductive charms.
AT home, under the watchful eye OF
the school authorities, athletic games
and contests, in their due season and
with due moderation, are commend.
able. Ball playing, outside of ap'
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-11
Editor Dana on the Strike.

Charles A. Dana, proprietor of the
New York Sun, who is on trip through
Europe, interviewed in Paris on the
railroad strike, said: "The present con-
dition of affairs seems an entirely I'M
just one, and there is no other course
to be pursued than that of seeing that
the rights Of the railroads are upheld.
1t is their right to employ new men
without being sub ected to mob inter-
ruption. If the people of the United
States are prepared to submit to the
despotism of an irresponsible mob, they
will allow these strikes to paralyze and
starve out Chicago or any other town.
But if they are not prepared for such
degrading despotism, they will maintain
that liberty of which they have been so
proud, and thus secure the right of
every man to manage his own business
according to law. The tendency to
striking has been much encouraged by
the populistic tendency given to the
latter-day politics of the democratic
party. When that great party reduces
itself to fifth wheel of the populistic
coach by the imposition of an income
tax it is no wonder such scenes as are
now being witnessed in Chicago and
elsewhere should be among the conse-
quences."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-11
Individual Secession.

In his first inaugural address, Abra-
ham Lincoln uttered these profoundly
philosophic words: "The central idea
of secession is the essence of anarchy.
A majority held in restraint by consti-
tuiional checks and limitations, and al
ways changing easily with deliberate
changes of popular opinions and senti-
ments, is the only true sovereign of a
free people. Whoever rejects it does,
of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despot-
ism. Unanimity is impossible; the
rule of minority, as permanent ar.
rangement, is wholly inadmissible; so
that, rejecting the majority principle,
anarchy and despotism in some form is
all that is left" This applies with
equal force either to secession by state
and section, or to that new sort of in
dividual and sporadic secession to
which the man Debs is melting citizens
and organizations of citizens in various
parts of the Union. In either case Sc
cession is rebellion, and its central idea
is the essence of anarchy. When
Debs or any other crazy leader of the
blind declares that the first shot fred
by United States troops will be "the
signal for civil war;" he is pointing the
way to the crime defined by the con-
stitution as treason, and by section
1882 of the Revised Statutes made
punishable with death.-Nep York
Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-11

THE senate bill-the German COM
promise bill, as it is now generally
known in the press and throughout the
country-I mean the bill in Its present
shape i is neither satisfactory to the
democratic party nor to the country.
There is no mistaking public sentiment
upon this point. We promised the
people bread and we are giving them a
stone.-Senator David B. Hill.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-11

THROWN up on the murky political
waters that submerged this land in
1892, were two governors who have
made record that will long survive in
the annals of official and political in
fanny. These are Waite of Colorado
and Altgeld of Illinois. Both are anarch-
lists in sentiment and practice, though
they bear the political colors of popu-
lism and democracy. Both have
achieved bad eminence in the social
and economic disturbances that have
convulsed the country since that fatal
election day in November, 1892. The
latter in particular has added to his
blackened laurels during the disturb.
ances that have recently overwhelmed
law and order in the chief city of the state
he misgoverns. When every patriotic
energy should have been devoted to en-
forcing the laws of his state and pro-
tecting the property of its citizens, he
engaged in wordy and communistic
contest with the president OF the United
States, because that official proposed to
employ the national military power to
protect national rights and interests as
sailed on the soil of Illinois. The
rampant anarchist had the impudence
to maintain that the president had no
right to introduce United States troops
into Illinois without the governors per-
mission. Quietly and succinctly, Pres
ident Cleveland informed the truculent
official that Illinois is part of the
United States; that this is time for
action, not discussion; and that the ma
tional forces would go to Illinois to pro-
tect United States property, sustain
United States officials in enforcing the
laws, and secure the orderly running of
interstate railway trains.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-11

THE Russian steamer Vedadimer collided
in the Black Sea last Monday with the Ital-
ian steamer Columbia. The former went
down almost at once, with all on board. A
few persons were picked up by the Column
bia but between fifty and seventy, mostly
passengers, are said to have been drowned.
The Columbia was considerably injured,
but was In no danger Of laundering.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-11

The Barre Enterprise understands
that w. G. Nye of that place and Hon.
Albert Dwinell of Calais, in addition
to o. L. Hoyt, Esq, are among the
men whose names are mentioned as
candidates for the Office of assistant
Judge. Mr.. Dwinell served the county
well and faithfully as senator decade
or longer ago and became well known
as one of the board of state listers
for the appraisal of the railways.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-11

REPRESENTATIVE BRECKINRIDGE of
Kentucky likens himself to Henry
Clay. There is certainly one striking
point of resemblance between the two
men, and that is that they are both
dead.-NeW York Press.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-11

second page of the WATCHMAN OF last
week and has given its readers both
amusement and very practical instruc-
ton. -
ORLEANS county summer school will
be held at Barton, beginning July %
and ending August a; for Windsor
county the school will begin at Chester,
August 6, and continue two weeks. The
session in Lamoille county began July
3 and will continue two weeks. These
schools are conducted by M. S. Stone
A. b., state superintendent of educa-
ton. The courses of study and in
struction relate to better quality OF in
struction in the schools of the state.
Many leading instructors in New Eng
land are present, and the teachers who
attend these schools cannot fail to de-
rive great advantage. The courses
cover every branch taught in the pub
lie schools. The object is to increase
the efficiency of common school teach
ers. Teachers receive practical in
struction in modern methods of teach
ing. These schools are primarily to
teach young men and women how to
teach. Teachers are brought together
and derive the advantages that come of
consultation and association. The idea
of the summer school is Commendable
from every point of view, and one
should be organized in every county.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-11

FOR REPRESENTATIVES, IN CONGRESS,
Fl. HENRY POWERS, FIRST DISTRICT.
WILLIAM w. CIRCUIT, SECOND DISTRICT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-11
Republican state Nominations.

FOR GOVERNOR,
Urban A. Woodbury. of Burlington.
FOR LIEUTENANTGovERNoR
ZOphar NJ. Mansur of Island Pond.
FOR SECRET AIRY OF STATE,
Chauncey W. Brownell of Burlington.
FOR STATE TREASURER,
Henry +. Field of Rutland.
FOR STATE AUDITOR,
Franklin D. Hale of Lunenburgh.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-11
Washington County Convention.

The republican voters of the county OF
Washington are requested to meet in con-
vention, by their delegates, at Capital Hall,
Montpelier, VT, on Thursday, August 2,
1894, at eleven o'clock A, NJ, to nominate
candidates for two senators, two assistant
Judges of the county court judge of pro-
bate, states attorney, sheriff, high bailiff,
and county commissioner, to be supported
by the freemen of the county at the next
biennial election; also to elect county
committee. Towns will be represented in
convention on the basis of three delegates
and two additional delegates for each one
hundred republican votes, or majority frac-
ton of one hundred, as shown by the vote
for governor in the year of the next pre-
ceding presidential election. Delegates
will be chosen at primary meetings called
by the republican committees in each town,
and will provide themselves with proper
credentials, signed by the secretary of the
meeting at which they are elected. They
are requested to present such credentials to
the county committee, at Capital Hall, i'm
mediately on their arrival in Montpelier on
the morning of the convention. Delegates
asking for special round-trip tickets to
Montpelier and return, on the day of the
convention, can obtain them for fare one
way of the ticket agent at the railroad sta
+Ion Of which thev take the train
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-11

CHICAGO, or Cook county, will have
some heavy bills to pay. The damages
the rioters are piling up will be saddled
upon the citizens of that community.
The claims made on Allegheny county
for damages to property in railroad
riots of 1877 amounted'to S4,100,000,
which were settled for S2,772 900. Some
of the bonds issued to meet these debts
are maturing now. An attempt was
made by special act to saddle this debt
upon the state, but it failed. Taxes are
high in Allegheny and are likely to be
high in Cook county for many years to
come. Anarchism comes high.
HON. j. X. DARLING of Chelsea and
Horace w. Bailey of Newbury were
nominated senators for Orange county
by the republican convention at Chel-
sea, July 3. Mr.. Darling has earned
state reputation in the house of rep
resentatives, of which body he was
" the member from Chelsea" in the
legislatures of 1890 and '92. He will
be a leading member of the upper house
to which he will be promoted in Sep
TENDER. Mr.. Bailey, Notwithstanding
some preconvention opposition, re-
ceived the unanimous nomination of
the delegates at Chelsea. Some two
hundred of his townsmen called on him
at his summer camp on July and ten
dered their congratulations.
SPEAKING of Senator Proctor's tariff
speech, the Washington Star said:
"Senator Proctor achieved a sudden
reputation as a senatorial humorist by
making what is probably the most
unique speech on the tariff bill that has
yet been delivered. The senate was
convulsed by the senator's opening sen
fences and the closest attention was paid
to the quaint remarks of the tall states
man from Vermont" The Post said
Ex-senator Proctor's dry wit and hi
early Sunday-school training were com
bined in speech upon the tariff which
was an oasis in desert of dreary talk. ,
The speech was printed in full on thu
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-11

On the above basis, the several towns in
the county will be entitled to representa-
tion ga follows.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-11

West Concord.
At the conference meeting at the Univer-
salist church on Sunday evening Christian
Endeayor Society was organized.
Henry G. Walbridge, who works in the
New York World office, has returned to his
work after a short visit to friends in this
vicinity.
The glorious Fourth was celebrated in
the usual manner by the ringing OF bells
and firing OF guns, with fireworks in the
evening.
DR.. and Mrs. II. NJ. Hunter of Lowell,
Mass, have been visiting friends in town.
Miss Emily Frye. also from Lowell, came
this week
Corinth.
Childrens Day has been postponed at
the South Meadow until July d.
The selectmen have laid a new road from
Pike hill through the George Banks farm to
Salmon w. Davis house,
Mr.. and Mrs. Orrin Hodge recently lost
daughter, about eight years OF age, after a
very long and painful illness.
e. 8. Carpenter, one OF our most wide
awake townsmen when in good health has
been quite feeble for the past few months,
but is improving
The celebration of the Fourth passed off
very pleasantly, big crowd being in at
tendance. The balloon ascension and fire.
works were a surprise, being beyond the
expectation OF all.
Notwithstanding the dull times, a large
amount Of building and repairing of barns
has been done this season. One farmer has
put two old barns into one, making Of the
whole barn thirty-eight feet by seventy
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-23

1t is noted as II somewhat singular
fact that there are not more than two
processes for cnamcling cast iron, not
outstanding the amount Of Ingenious
effort put forth i'll this direction One
of these is the hot process, i'll which the
iron, heated to vivid red, is powdered
with Il 1luX powder, borosiicatc of lead
distributed with Il sieve, then heated,
and when the 1ux fuses it is powdered
afresh with glass moro soluble, forming
the glaze Of the enamel, but this opera
ton is attended with danger and is not
adapted to large articles or for dccora-
ton. The second process, which meets
tho objections named, consists III dress
ing or coating the article first with mag
nctic oxide, then dipping it in borosili-
Gates of lead, colorcd by metallic oxides,
to which is added Il little pipe clay, in
order to give rather more body. The
article thus covered cold, by dipping or
with brushes, is put into the furnace,
tho enamel adhcring and vitrifying at
the usual furnace temperature used by
cnamclcrs, and by putting "a coating of
colorcd enamel with brush on first
coat simply plain it is possible to make
any decorations desired, which may he
burnt i'll at one operation for outdoor
vases. ctc.-Ncw York Sun.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-23
SKELETONS FREE.

The Baltimore News has discovered
that in the new tariff bill skeletons
have been placed on the free list, and
wants to know for whatever purpose 1T
was done. We believe that the inser-
ton Of the provision permitting bones
to enter duty free shows remarkable
amount Of forethought Oh tho part of
Mr.. German. Skeletons will become so
cheap that an incentive is furnished for
the study OF anatomy. AS playthings
for children they can sate the place Of
blocks. Give little boy or girl the
framework OF an iohthyosaurus, plesi
osaurus, archipterygium. pterodactyl or
even OF the gyasticutus, and the very
name will incite curiosity. In case the
child is unusually bright it might, after
awhile, be able to properly pronounce
the names.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-23
MADELINE AND THE STAGE.

Chicago is paying the penalty for
being a great metropolis.
The strike had been no sooner settled
with damage claims aggregating mil
lion dollars against the city than plot
for great anarchistic uprising was un.
earthed. Now Madeline Pollard adds
nightly to the misery of the Windy City
by announcing that she intends to make
her debut as an actress at one of the
Chicago theatres, essaying the role OF
Vera" in a play called Moths" a
dramatization by Henry Hamilton, of
Ouida's novel of that name.
Madeline does not display great
deal of dramatic talent her notoriety
will not save her from condemnation by
the critics of Chicago, who are ever
ready to hiss down anything not origi
mating in their own town. The new
aspirant for histrionic honors and dollars
must also remember that Chicago has
seen Miss Rose Coghlan in the same role.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-23

IT now seems probable that the nom
instion of Elk Governor Porter, OF Ten
nessee, as United States Judge for the
Chattanooga circuit, will not be con-
frmed by the Senate. Ex-Governor
Porter lives in the Western part of the
State and is we'll advanced in years. 1t
has been the policy Of the judiciary
committee Of the Senate not to confirm
judicial appointments where .the ap..
piontees are over 65 years of age and
that rappointees, whether judicial or
otherwise, should como from the dis
trict in which they are to do service.
Ex-Governor Porter is more than 65
years OF age, and lives outside the dis
trict in which he Is appointed to serve
and has not been an active practitioner
tor:years The defeat OF his confirmat ton
seems to be inevitable.