The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-06-20

tuberculosis in the state should go on
till its limits are defined with reasonable
exactness, says: "The Wdtcbmdn is
right. But to do this work thoroughly
will cost something. The next legisla-
ture should provide for the examina-
ton of every dairy in the state. AS a
rule, we are opposed to an increase of
state expenses This is an exception.
The disease is identical with consump-
ton, the dread disease that causes more
deaths in the state than any other.
Stamp out this disease among cattle
and it will stop its spread among the
people. Let the cost be what ii may,
we can no more afford to use milk from
cows afflicted with tuberculosis than we
could were the COWS afflicted with
smallpox" And our contemporary is
right. -
IN the important matter Of the state
flower, the Bennington Banner, quoting
from the WATCHMAN's recent article
suggesting the white clover, says:
"This would be very agreeable COM
promise" The Granite City Leader
says: "The VERMONT WATCHMAN's
suggestion that the white clover be
given the distinction is an admirable
one. The leaf and blossom form an
excellent combination and they are
certainly representative of the state. ;"
On the other hand, our esteemed cor
respondent from Moretown puts in a
strong plea for the white daisy, chiefly
on the ground of its good looks and that
it is kind of buzzard, living on soil
that every reputable member of the veg
etable kingdom has abandoned. The
daisy is a "bloody foreigner" In
selecting human representative of the
land of Ethan Allen one would not
choose a comparatively recent importa-
ton from Europe, however fair to look
upon. Give us that child of Vermont, "to
the manner born" white clover, for the
states floral emblem. 1t has modest
beauty to commend it and unimpeach-
able virtue. As our Barre contem-
porary suggests, "The leaf and bios.
som form our excellent combination. :"
How comely the combination and how
suggestive, with four-leaf stem or two
among the trefoils-art, beauty, romance
and virtue-an excellent combina-
ton " indeed and representative of
the state"
WOOL held the boards in the United
States senate last week, and the friends
of American industry and Just and
impartial treatment of every branch of
industry were unable to rescue this
great staple from the free list. Sugar,
a southern product, receives protection
for reasons which have come out in
the current discussion of the subject
Wool, a northern product, in which
thousands of northern farmers and
millions of northern capital are in
vested, is sent to the free list, and the
doom of the herds of American sheep
is sounded. Why wool should be free
of duty, but why the woven products
of wool should be protected; why the
farmer who raises the wool should be
exposed to unrestricted competition
with the sheep-men of Australia and
South America but why the mill-owner
who makes the wool into fabrics should
be protected against foreign manufac.
turers,-is one of the glazing incon-
sistencies with which the democratic
tariff bill is thickly covered, and which
condemn it in the minds of all fair men.
So great is the malevolence of some of
the free-trade organs toward the wool
producers of the country that they are
willing and anxious to have the demo-
cratic monstrosity passed, crusted over
with fraud and scandal as it is, if only
wool can be made free and the flocks of
American sheep be sent out of exist
ence. When this disaster is completed
and the foreign sheep-raiser has this
nations wool supply under his control,
the American people will be taught a
lesson in domestic economy. Sheep
herds may be wiped out in a day. Their
reproduction is the work of years, and
during those years Americans will be at
the mercy of foreign wool monopoly.