The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11


real facts of the past or present, and
the figures attached to the other towns
seem to be bad misfts also. In about
1900 look in the contemporary for some
alleged facts relating to affairs of the
present day and generation.
THE Vermont legislature must look
to its laurels. Here is the Rhode Island
Legislature, just elected, with only six
democrats in both branches, three in
the house and three in the senate.
The elections-north, south, east and
west-do, indeed, indicate that the
democrat is becoming an extinct spe-
cies. And still the mugwump reads in
the rapidly multiplying signs of the
times condemnation, not of the demo-
cratic war on the tariff, but of the
dilatory way in which the war is
waged-condemnati not of the pur-
pose to carve the heart out of the in
dustry of the nation, but of the clumsy
and hating work of the carvers. The
real significance of the elections is
found in the fact that the issue, the
tariff as it is, has been sharply drawn.
The verdict the country is rendering
supersedes the fraudulent decision OBJ
tanned in 1892. 1t constitutes the SEN
ate's warrant for employing every
means in its power to kill the infamous
Wilson bill. -
JUSTICE to "W. C.'s" truthfulness
as historian impels us to say that in
his interesting "reminiscences of the
Winooski Valley, in the WATCHMAN of
last week, he wrote that Van Ness was
governor of Vermont at " forty years
of age" not forty years ago." as
printed. "Some day I'll tune my rye
straw reed" sang the poet, but the
compostor and proof reader conspired
to spill the rye" which, however,
meter and accuracy both demand should
be restored. "W. c." does not need
the frye" for inspiration, but simply
to vindicate the claims of truth and
rhythm. In this connection it might as
we'll be added that "the lamented
Eastman's" Uncle Jerry declared, in
respect of the history of Vermont, that
there is
Much to be written yet. and much
That has been written wrong"
the poet, between the author and the
devil, having been made to say "and
more that has been written wrong"
And when so amended the committee
recommends that " w. C.'s'' reminis-
cences pass, and that he be earnestly
solicited to furnish another installment.
OK Monday, Senator Hill opened
fire for the democratic malcontents in
an exceedingly aggressive speech
against the Cleveland administration
in general and the Wilson bill in par.
ticular. Seldom has more uncompro-
missing criticism of democratic policy
fallen, even from republican lips. Mr..
Hill condemned the foreign policy of
the administration, especially in its re-
lation to Hawaii. He assaulted the
president for his dilatoriness in con-
vening congress six months after a
financial panic, impending at the time
of his Inauguration and which he could
have averted, had subsidized. This de-
lay had also given the Mckinley tariff
another year of existence. He crit
icized the Wilson bill as a measure
which, though framed at time when
the secretary of the treasury had re-
ported a deficit of $4,000, 900 in the
revenues of the nation, was calculated
to double that deficit. He referred to
the presidents statement, in his annual
message, that an internal revenue tax
bill, supplemental to the tariff bill, had
been framed, including a small tax or
the income of corporations, as state
ment that was not justified by the facts
unless the bill had been prepared in the
executive department. AT the date o
The presidents message neither the full