The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-04

haying season, although many of our
best farmers wisely begin a week
sooner. The almost universal report
of our correspondents is that the crop
will be light one. This is not prom
Using outlook for the leading Vermont
crop, but it has the partially compen-
sating advantage that it gives an oppor-
tunity to dispose of the surplus of last
years large yield.
THE people of this nation do not lose
sight of the great fundamental cause of
the existing labor troubles and the
long-attending train of business disas-
ter and human misery. The country,
on an evil day in 1892, without compre-
hending the real character of the thing
it was doing, voted to put in power, in
the executive and both of the legisla-
tive branches of the national govern
ment, men, pledged to make war of
humiliation upon the industrial and
economic policy the republic had pur-
sued for generation. Prudent men
take refuge from threatened storm.
After November s, 1892, men in every
department of business and manufac-
turing began to hedge. Operations
were curtailed. In the dread uncer-
tainty that prevailed, capital sought re-
tirement. Laboring men were thrown
out of employment. The inevitable
consequence of the triumph of the
democratic tariff policy began to ap-
pear in crowds of idle workmen and
falling wages. These were the inev-
liable results of democratic victory, but
the men who learned too late the fatal
mistake they had made in voting the
democratic party into power had been
beguiled with promises of higher wages,
more abundant employment, and a
diminished cost of living. They have
become disillusioned, and the descent
to lower wages-the logical result of
their votes in 1S92-is being resisted
by a rapidly-succeeding series of dis
astrous strikes and every agency dis
affected labor can employ against its
employers. These are some of the
fruits of democratic victory.
WHEN Lincoln was assassinated, tn
fact that the government continued on
its course without halt or jar was
regarded as striking illustration Of
the solidity of republican institutions.
And it was true. But this was in re.
publican America. Everything favored
permanency in a popular government
which had existed nearly a century.
That republicanism in France keeps on
the even tenor of its way after the as
sassination of Carnot; that another
president is chosen in strict conformity
10 the requirements of the constitution
and in faithful observance of all the
forms of law; that the new president
is himself the representative of sound
and conservative republicanism, pat
riot, statesman, man of high abili
ties and eminent purity of character
this is the best evidence the friends
of the new order of things in France
could ask of the stability of the thirt
republic. Carnot has been laid to res
with such demons trations of grief, OF
love and esteem, as America has ex
hibited at the graves of it's martyret
presidents. The expressions of sym
patty with France, of respect for Car
not personally, of Reproduction of "th'
deep damnation of his taking off ,
from all the powers of Europe, coul'
not have been more sincere and ex
pressive had the assassin's republican
victim been a most illustrious son O
the class divinely appointed to rule
Especially suggestive in the friendlines
of their spirit were the messages of tn
sovereigns of Italy, Germany and Eng
land. The event has touched tn
heart of all civilized peoples. Peac
and a better understanding hav
gained new impulse around Carnot'
bier. .......