The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-02-06


private life. -
IT was stoutly contended that there
was no need of United States war
vessel at Honolulu, and the order of
the administration to Admiral Walker
to return with the philadelphia" to San
Francisco was heartily commended by
the presidents friends. If there was
no need of vessel at the capital of
the little republic from August till
January 6, when the rebellion was
Matching and when it burst its shell, why
is there need of one now, and why has
the "Philadelphia" been hurried back
to Hawaii? The fire is all out, why
now order out the department? Is it to
protect the presidents "great and good
FRIEND" Lilioukalani, one of the con-
spirators in the recent outbreak"
THE president having arranged with
the agents of foreign bankers for loan
OF S100,000,000, on four per cent, thirty
years. bonds, seems to be hesitating
about completing the arrangement.
The moral effect of the expressed will
lingness of foreigners to take the ma
TONS obligations has been to check the
expectation of gold. The senate is
counted, by majority of ten, against
the plan of finance the president out
lined in his recent special message,
and the probability that there will be
no financial legislation by this con-
grass has become a Certainty. The
president gets in this emergency, as at
the time of the repeal of the purchase
clause of the Sherman act, his largest
support from the republican side of the
chamber.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's hasty order
to the Philadelphia" to proceed to
Honolulu was a tacit admission of the
wisdom and necessity of keeping a war
ship in that port, a thing this govern
ment has been doing for many years
past, including Mr.. Cleveland's first
administration. During the past ten
years, in threatening times, there have
been two or three vessels there for the
protection of American inter ,sts. But
for the absence of a representative
of this governments military power,
the recent attempt to overthrow the
republic would not have been under
taken. That the uprising failed is no
vindication of the Cleveland policy of
leaving Americans in the Sandwich
Islands to shift for themselves. The
burglar made botch of his attempt to
rob the bank, but that does not prove
that the directors policy of leaving the
door wide open and the safe unlocked
was wise one. Very much worse
might have happened, and was likely to
happen. The deposed queen, later re-
ports say, has been arrested for partici-
patton in the conspiracy. Arms and
dynamite have been found in her house.
Instead of choppiug off the heads of
her late rebellious subjects, she was APP
parently prepared to blow them off.
Dynamite is more effective than the
axe. The manipulation of bomb is
simpler, and it works swifter.
ACT No. 81 of the laws of 1894 was
designed to promote the establishment
Of fraa rnblic lihrar;ao Thnao ,rho
have copy of the enactments of the
legislature at its late session, and who
are interested in this matter, by turning
to their primers may learn how the
promotion Of the purpose of the act is
to be accomplished. To obtain such
benefits as Act 81 proposes to confer, an
article directing the attention of voters
to the matter must be inserted in the
warning for town meeting. Acceptance
of the states one hundred dollars
worth of books carries with it an obliga-
ton on the part of the town to appro-
pirate annually from SIS to $50, accord
ing to size of grand list, for the mainte-
nance of the library. What shall be
done with the states books il, after a
few years, or a year or two, town
grows weary of the burden it shout
dered in order to become possessed of
500 worth of books, and neglects or
refuses to make the annual appropria-
ton, the law does not state. The sums
are very small on each side of the pro.
posed arrang 'ment. The states largess
to the towns will buy very few books
of standard character, and the sums
the towns are required to appropriate
will buy hardly any after the cost of
maintenance is paid. The success of
the scheme depends upon the extent to
which the towns are willing to appro-
pirate, and keep it up every year, in
excess of the sums required by the act.