Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-09-11
NEWS AND NOTES.

-Ihe vermont Democracy seems to
have been treated to an overdose of the
deadly blight that blasts the councils of
the brave in the hour of their might.
Or was it club that struck it?
From 1861 to 1865 it used to be in
sisted with much force that no man
could be at once both a patriot and a
Democrat. Has Mr.. Cleveland's policy
of infamy'' made it again possible to use
that argument?
Senator Blackburn of Kentucky, is
already preparing to smash the Sugar
Trust at the next session of Congress.
In the meantime the Trust is building a
wall of gold around itself for defense
against such attacks as Blackburn
threatens.
Senator Villas is hard at work de-
Tending the new tariff bill among his
Wisconsin constituents. The miserable
measure needs all the defending that
Villas can give it.
-Harper's Weekly must have been
cured of its Cleveland idolatry, or it
would not print a cartoon showing the
President bound in manacles to the Cor
man triumphal chariot, the chariot, by
the way, closely resembling sugar bar
rel.
We may now expect to see the cuck-
90 organs industriously contending that
Vermont is behind-t the times State
anyway, and that for true intelligence
and progressiveness it is necessary to
turn to the free and enlightened voters
of Arkansas.
Chairman Wilson sailed for Europe
just as soon as he got the news from Yer
mont. The returns convinced him that
the Green Mountain Democracy was
sound asleep all the time the voting was
going on.
Judging by some of the inscriptions
on the banners of the Labor Day parade,
Cleveland stock has fallen pretty low
among the wage earners. 1t has taken
them some time to find him out, but they
appear to have done it pretty thorough
ly.
BY indorsing the German tariff botch
as fulfillment of the Chicago pledges
of 1892, and praising President Cleve-
land for the things he has and has not
done, the New Hampshire Democrats
have performed straddling feat never
equalled in politics or the show business.
The act is not graceful, but it shows
marvellous moral and intellectual supple
ness on the part of the artists.
-Cheerfulness is one of Chairman
Wilson's unfailing qualities, and it ap-
pears in its most inspiring form in his
latest utterance that the new tariff bill
means the overthrow of the trusts. The
Sugar Trust, with it's profits increased
about $60,000,000 by the new measure,
will probably be able to stand an unlim-
tied amount of that brand of destruc-
ton.
The Republican tidal wave of 1894
has had its beginning in Vermont, and
it touches high water mark in that
State which makes the Oldest Democrat
ic inhabitant visibly weary. All signs
indicate that both the record and the
Democracy are going to be smashed
this year.
American interests in Samoa will
henceforth have to depend upon foreign
powers for protection, this government
having practically abandoned its rights
and duties in those islands. But after
the Hawaiian infamy this is not surpris-
ing.
Whether the King of Siam is dead
or alive is question which Just now
puzzles the ablest newsgatherers in the
Orient. The divinity that doth hedge a
King is more than usually dense in the
neighborhood of the Siamese monarch.
Sugar is not quite as "delicate'' a
subject as 1T was when Mr.. Cleveland
called attention to it several weeks ago.
Its advance in price shows that it is rap
idly reaching a dangerously vigorous
condition.