The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25

VINO mas dOne gOOu service 10 Lne re.
publican party, and has capacity and
fitness for the duties of delegate. Such
a man is DR.. Henry d. Holton of Brat.
tleboro. He is every way man
competent for the Office of delegate. AS
representative and senator, as member
of the state committee, as public
spirited, liberal-minded, large-hearted
citizen, interested in and laboring ener-
getically for the best welfare of the
state, wise in counsel and persuasive
in discussion, he is entitled to be named
in the front rank of the men suitable to
represent Vermont at st. Louis.
MUCH is said in certain quarters in
depreciation of war between "the two
great English.speaking people of the
GLOBE" and in depreciation of war talk
and war feeling in connection with the
Venezuelan boundary dispute. War
for such a trife as a few acres of South
American soil, it is declared, would be
"the crime of the age.' 1t does not
seem to be a question of war at all. 1t
is primarily question of what the real
facts in the contention between Vene-
zuela and Great Britain are; and, if the
facts show that England is pursuing a
course that menaces the safety of the
United States, that conflicts with the
doctrine declared by Monroe in 1928,
it is a question of maintaining the
nations rights and the nations honor.
This is the only question the American
people can consider. 1t is the only
question they will consider. If war is
the alternative, they will prepare for it
and accept it as the lesser evil. If it
shall appear that one of Z" the two great
English speaking nations" which has
earned the unenviable title of the
"Thief of the World" is pursuing her
historic policy in South America, the
national safety will demand that the
United States shall intervene, unless
this country is willing to lie supinely
down and see inaugurated a policy and
line of action that may end in the
absorption of the South American con-
tinent by England. 1t was not, century
and quarter ago, question of the
amount of paltry stamp tax on paper,
and it is not now question of the
money value of few square miles of
South America territory. If the ques-
ton is finally referred &C to the arbitra-
ment of war,"-which it will never be-
the sons of the sires that resisted the
stamp act, and conquered, will resist
Great Britain's encroachments on the
American continent, and will conquer.
The war spirit is commendable as ex-
hibiting, not a barbarous desire for war,
but the determination of the American
people to stand up for their rights at
any cost. There is world wide differ
ence between such spirit and buster.
England has learned something of
American sentiment in the week that
has passed that will powerfully incline
her to the paths of peace, and to
moderation and fairness in dealing with
Venezeula.
A CIRCUs-RIDER, mounted on two
horses careering round the ring in the
same direction, is spectacle that has
become so common as to excite little
interest, except for novices in circus
going; but performer trying to ride
two horses headed in opposite directions
would undoubtedly bring spectators to
their feet aud raise murmurs of credu-
lily, as well as excite doubt both as to
the riders mental and physical equilib-
rum. But here's a newspaper circus
rider actually essaying something very
like this latter feat. The St. Johns.
bury Republican, some time ago, brought
the great performing horse from Or
leans county into the ring, all saddled,
all bridled, all ready for the dash for
the governorship. And now the Bel
iO"o l. oilo 4 Wtco DiluSo III u uI6 PAGER
from Caledonia county, heads him
round the ring in the opposite direc-
ton, thus becomingly caparisoned:
" If the republican party should deem it
wise to concede the claims of the northeast
corner OF the state to the governorship.
which now has the congressman from this
district, state auditor and lieutenant-gov-
ernor, no better man has been named than
Senator L. ID. Hazen of st. Johnsbury. He
Is one of natures noblemen, possessed of
the qualities of heart and mind that make
men esteemed wherever they are known
and successful in all they undertake. He
is man of the people. and one who, II
elected governor, would give Vermont an
administration like that the state enjoyed
under Governors Proctor and Page"
Now the Times and the Republican
are owned by one and the same person.
His Bellows Falls foot is on the CAL
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