The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-10-05

at each others Threats.
Senator Hill and ex-senator Plat
must find it difficult to look at each
other without smiling, and, let the
drinking politician take notice, they are
both teetotalels.
Ex-senator Edmunds was ban
quoted by the Norfolk club of Bos-
ion on Saturday at Young's hotel.
The ex-senator delivered an able po-
litical after-dinner speech. We quote
him, in part, as follows:
Now we come to the time when the
whole responsibility of the government
fell upon what is called the republican
party. We had undertaken before
Mr.. Cleveland's first election, in Mr.
Arthur's time, to provide for the build.
ing of the Nicaraguan canal, which
would make Boston and San FranclscC
near neighbors by water, and which, a:
everybody knows, would immensely
strengthen the ties of this vast repub il
Of ours and would make the Unite(
States for the example of the world
the mistress Of the trade of Asia.
President Arthur negotiated a treaty
with Nicaragua by which that cana
was to be built, as was demonstrated t.
be perfectly feasible, Nicaragua fur
nishing the soil, the water and the
place, and the United States furnish
ing the money and managing the canal.
Great laughter and applause. Well
the Senate agreed upon the treaty, ano
before Mr.. Cleveland was elected il
November it was certain on canvass
Of the Senate that it would pass. As
soon as Mr.. Cleveland was elected
there waza backwater set in, and the
result was that when we were able tc
get vote the treaty was lost
We considered the matter in the hope
that those gentlemen who had been for
it before Mr.. Cleveland came in would
come to their senses and carry it. Mr.:
Cleveland had not been in office two
weeks before he withdrew that treaty,
as the constitution gave him a right to,
and smothered it. That was the dem
ocratic contribution to the Nicaragua
canal. Laughter
Mr.. Harrison came in and we be-
gan, and had gotten things in a very
hopeful condition before he went out Of
Office. He would have signed it, for
he was very much in favor Of it. Then
came the fall elections, when a demo-
cratic House of more than two to one
was elected, and, as we all know, still
survives. Then cold water began to
be poured on this Nicaragua bill, and
it was strangled to death. Number
two for the democratic tidal wave, etc.
Laughter.
So, l have right to say that the
democratic party has done one thing fol-
the people of the United States it ha.
been standing in the way Of the obviou.
promotion of its widest and best nation
al interest. Applause
Then we come to the readjustment o.
the tariff. We passed what is called
the Mckinley bill. [Applause]. We
adjusted that bill on the principles O
protection as fairly equal as possible
That was our reciprocity. 1t was moi
the reciprocity of competition. 1t wa!
the reciprocity Of exchange Of things ",
had and could manufacture to great AL
vantage and they could not manufaet
ure, and things they could raise anC
produce, like sugar, tea and coffee
which We could not and which w
wanted. This was fair play. The onl,
reciprocity the democratic party eve
had any idea of was reciprocity o
competition, as with Canada, where al
the interests end productions Of Canai'
are exactly the same, from the fish t.
the ta!lest piue tree that grows, aln
coal, that we hfve If our OWN ] ha
is quite different thing. They ha'
that reciprocity which nearly broke u
down at the end of the war. Immedi