Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-10-02
NEWS AND NOTES.

majorities record.
The tariff question will remain Az
settled just as long as industrious AArr-
lean wage earners are forced to tramp in
vain for the employment which they en-
J joyed under protective tariff.
| History repeats itself in the nomira a.
tion of Senator Hill, we may also depend
on it that the candidate will manufac
| ture some new history, whatever it may
happen to be.-Providence Journal.
Shortly after midnight, at Albany n.
Y, an unknown thief managed to snatch
| about $500 in bills from the window of
the New York Central ticket Office in the
Union station and escaped. No clew.
1t is an Administration organ which
announces that the purpose of President
| Clevelands general amnesty to Mormons
is to make Democratic votes in Z Clh.
| This seems like small politics for great
! man.
| Senator Mcpherson having returned
from Europe, is now stirring to prevent
! the New Jersey Democracy from being
| beaten out of sight in November. The
success of his efforts will depend very
| largely upon his ability to persuade the
cooks to contribute to the campaign
| fund.
The London free traders, who gave
great banquet last week in honor
of Chairman Wilson, have some sense If
gratitude in their souls. Nevertheless,
the finest banquet they can provide will
| be very small return for what Mr., Wit
son has done for them.
-Maine, VermonC aud Arkansas have
thus far spoken, but the difference in 5hs
effectiveness of their speech is that n
the first two States the amount of the
majority to be given was not settled ny
on before the votes were either cast or
counted.
The buster of Col. Breckenridge aud
the slashing around of his son, Desha,
did not deter the District Committee
from making an honest count. Now
will that disgraceful specimen of K, IL
lucky civilization be good enough to axe
himself out of sight?
The marvellous legal decisions of The
English courts go right on. The last is
to the effect that a thrush is an untamed
animal, while lion is a domestic one.
If the same wisdom would only classify
the crow and the Tammany tiger.
Eastern Democratic platforms exult
over the silver repeal law, but nonc of
fact that it was enacted over the heads
of majority of their own party in 10th
branches of Congress.
The flop made by the English press
over the China-Japan contest since Jap
ans victories is one Of the amusing Incl
dents of the times. If any nation in the
world has an affection for the winning
side, it is Great Britain.
Union.
The custom of using churches for
political meetings, which obtains very
generally in the South has its disadyan-
tages in cases like that at GatlingbuIg,
Tenn, when the ardor of the partici-
pants is kindled to the shooting and
stabbing point.
The organization of Red Cross So
ciety in Japan with the Empress rs It's
chief patroness, and its work done among
Chinese and Japanese sufferers without
distinction does not accord with the
charges of japanese cruelty at the open
ing of the war.
1t may be that England has an nd
mirable mail system, but the wages paid
letter carrier in that country, accord
ing 20 the London Times, is S4.5 a week.
Our carriers sometimes get almost five
times that, and no one ever calls them
overpald.
The advanced women" of Kansas
are to adopt, under solemn compact, a
costume of Turkish trousers, with short
skirt. This would do very well for
bicycle club. But perhaps these KaIRas
people have wheels always in their Aaad.
1t cannot be said that the New York
Democrats are devoid of humor. Else
they could not have adopted resolu-
ton declaring for ian honest ballot and
a fair count" and then nominated the
chief conspirator in the theft of the State
Senate.
When the New York Democrats de-
liberately reaffirm the Chicago platform
they announce the principle that tariff
smashing must proceed until the last
protective duty is abolished. The bUsl-
ness interests of New York will make
note of this.
If the work of the New York Con
stitutiOnal Convention is ratified, pc.
riod of 80 days must elapse between nat
uralization and an election. At present
only 10 days are required. TammaDy
workers will be embarrassed by the ne
cessity of keeping an eye on new recruits
for three whole months.
ton that Judge Morrow decided that
Gen. Ezeta and all but one of the other
refugees on the Bennington should be
released; for in the present temper of the
authorities of San Salvador to turn them
over to that Government would insure
their execution, without much regard to
the offences for which their extradition
was asked.
Col. Singerly, the Democratic candi-
date for Governor in Pennsylvania, says:
'If we hadn't been whipped at Bunker
Hill and Bull Run we might not have
felt so we'll afterward." This philOso-
ply has some good points, buG doesn't
entirely cover the case of a candidate
getting licked by over 200,000.-St Louis
Globe-Democrat
New Zealand has tried woman's suf-
frage. The experiment SCENE to show
that women's vote cannot be depended
on to shut off the liquor traffic, contrary
to many avowed opinions in this country.
There were 1873, 900 who might have voted
on the saloon issue. Only $4,000 did
vote, and in one township, where 1884
feminine votes were cast, 002 wero for IL
cense.