The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-04

titled TO the $1.50 rate, arrears must be paid
at the rate of $500 a year to end of month in
which settlement is made.
THE mug-hunter, "Valkyrie," will
have her first brush with the Ode
fender" on Saturday. Something of
mystery wells the English champions
quality and her capacity for speed, but
the veil will soon be lifted, and may it
show the " Defender far in the lead.
THE international Deep Waterways
Association will hold it's first annual
convention at Cleveland on September
1926. Delegates from the states and
the provinces, from cities, boards of
trade, and commercial organizations
generally, are cordially invited. The
deep waterway movement, deep water
transportation, and allied or related
matters, will be discussed in papers and
addresses. We understand that the
association has for its object in partic-
hlar the building of ship canal from
the great lakes to the sea, by way of
Lake Champlain and Hudson river.
This part of the organizations plan will
commend it to the people of Vermont,
and the state ought to be represented
at the Cleveland meeting.
UNCLE SANS naval officers must
handle with care his new cruisers and
battleships or suffer the consequences.
Before her return home the Column
bia twas put in dry dock at Southamp-
ton, England, in order to clean and
paint her hull. The ship was so badly
locked that some of her keel plates were
crippled, and serious straining was
averted only by admitting the water to
the dock. Her commander, Captain
Sumner, was last week before a naval
board Of inquiry into the matter, and
admitted that he did not personally ex-
anime the docking arrangements or the
docking of the vessel, but accepted the
representations of the dock master.
Notwithstanding its bad work and the
injury to his ship, the captain ordered
the paymaster to pay the dock company
it's full charges. A court martial has
been ordered to try the delinquent cap
tain.
"THE GRANGE " is the title of a
forty-page pamphlet edited by Alpha
Messer of Rochester, for many years
the efficient master of the Vermont
State Grange and now lecturer of the
National Grange. The work gives the
history of the origin of the organiza-
ton, its rise and progress, its Declare
ton of Purposes, and information as to
the formation of subordinate oranges.
1t is an interesting and valuable state
ment of the objects and practical work
ings of great and benefcent associa-
ton OF men distinguished for their
intelligence, enthusiasm and patriot
ism. Copies may be had by addressing
D. D. Howe, secretary of the State
Grange, at Burlington, VT, or Alpha
Messer, lecturer of the National Grange,
Rochester, vt. Mr.. Messer is now on
an official visit to the oranges in the
different states of the Union. He re-
Gently attended the annual interstate
grange picnic at Williams Grove, Pa,
which continued through one entire
week and at which 10000 people were
in attendance on the great day of the
gathering. -
WHILE the Kentucky democrats have
gold platform and silver candidate,
the democratic state convention of Ne
braska is all for free coinage. Only six
votes were cast against a resolution sin
favor of the immediate restoration of
the free and unlimited coinage of gold
and silver at the present legal ratio of
16 to l." They declare that the United
States ought not to wait for the aid or
consent of any other nation, and that
such coinage, whether gold or silver,
"should be full legal tender for all
debts, public and private" Free silver
as an issue is limited to the demo-
cratic and populistic parties. The diff
ference, as national organizations, be-
tween the two champions of the white
metal is simply one of common hon.
esty. The democracy here and there
evade the issue by adopting false and
lying platform, as in Kentucky, and
will, without doubt, pursue the Ken.
lucky plan in their national convention
next year, while the populists openly
and honestly, at all times, in all places
and under all circumstances, declare
for the free and unlimited coinage OF
silver, at the ratio of 16 to l, now and