Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-07-16
HoNnLuLr. June D. 1905.

HONOLULU, June %, 1895.
Editor Bennington Bdnner:-I find in
your issue of May 2l an article headed,
"Our Manufactures" which MARBLES
thusly: "At the mill of Holden, Leon
ard & Co $50 hands are now employed,
and the mill is run to its full capacity"
cat William Campbells the hum of in
dustry is heard on all sides and orders
are plenty" ''H. E. Bradford & Co, and
Geo, lockwood & Co. are having plenty
to do" Also, AT the Cooper Manu-
featuring COmpany's mill business is
booming" And again-"The Benning.
ton Machine Works are not only repair
ing and getting out machinery for the
American Powder Works, but are build
ing four New England pulp grinders for
new pulp mill in New York State" :"
"At the Tiffany Machine Works the call
for machines is much larger than it was
a year ago." At the Tiffany Brothers
knitting mill business is good and the
belp fully employed" 1.-The Valentine
Knitting Co. is busy and prospects bright
for the future, and larger output, made
necessary by orders that are constantly
being received" "The Lasher Stocking
Co. is also running to it's full capacity"
with the mills in active operation
comes the improvement in trade. which
most of the shop keepers report"
Now then, Mr.. Editor, find by read
ing that TIN oughout the realms of Uncle
Sam are to be found the same tenor of
great improvement in business and trade.
Most surely, no words can speak more to
the point for far seeing and solid states
manship of President Cleveland than the
above.
Vermonters are not the sort to be for
ever hoodwinked with McKinleyiSm, and
l, for one, am satisfied that the BANNER
folks, as well as the whole State of Yer
mont, will at the next presidential cam.
paign vote solid for that great and good
man, President Grover Cleveland, who
has proved to the world that he has the
courage of his convictions. President
Cleveland has stood manfully up battling
and won the fight in the cause of right
and justice fop the poor man and against
the purse proud. overbearing, piraticaI
ut-throats, which. with their friend, the
Mckinley bill, have for the last few year:
run the government of Uncle Sam to sui
their dear selves. Prove it otherwise
you cannot.
Cleveland now and forever, will.in thu
near future, be the slogan pealed fortt
with Ethan Allen vigor throughout the
green hills of Vermont. Rotten Repub
licanism with rotten sugar trust senate
has done the business. Alas! how the
mighty have fallen.
Faithfully yours,
JAMES OLDs.
This letter has made us inexpressabl,
weary. We have received several like i
from the same source. 1t is printed her
not for its literary merit, not for an
truth or common sense in its trit
phrases, not even to crafty the writer
We print it rather as an awful exampl
to the rising generation, as an awful e1
hlbition of compounded egotism an,
Grass ignorance. 1t seems hard to be
lieve that man who once lived in Vel
mont could, even by years of obsequiou
loyalty to a semi-barbarous queen, b
years of acrobatic practice under til
crack of the British whip, by years 0
effort to get into line with natives of tn
| Sandwich Islands-we say it is hard t
believe that any man could so smoot
out the convolutions of his brain as t
enable him to entertain and to write sue
oblique and distorted stuff as this mai
writes.
Business is improving, it is true, a
over the country, but not because tn
Democrats are in power. 1t is due to
confidence restored because we kno1
the Democrats are not to remain i
power. Business has picked up becaus
the whole country voted last fall to Civ
us Republican Congress, with Tor
Reed in the speakers chair, with abur
dant assurance that Republican pres
dents will receive their friends in th
White House for the next twenty-fiv
years. Better times have come, not bt
| cause of Grover Cleveland and PrOfessC
London Wilson, but in spite of then
Cleveland and Wilson closed our mills
destroyed our credit cut off our nation;
revenues, paralyzed our industries, dt
strOyed hundreds of millions of property
created soup houses, placed mortgage
on a million homes, clothed wives an
children in rags, and have from the da
of Cleveland's election enormously il
creased our national debt. Cleveland
no doubt hero in the eyes of the Sant
wich Island black woman and her follow
ers, but there is nothing heroic abor
him in American eyes. No other pres
dent was ever so execrated by the Anne
lean people. He has wrecked the DEM
cratic party and he is to-day despised b
his friends and pitied by his enemies.
great man indeed! Great in his servic
to John Bull, great in his power to il
crease our debts, great in his ability
create a demand for shin bones! Tai
our advice, Mr.. Olds, and drop your pc
The depressed followers of the cannib
queen are in no condition to discuss
even to understand American polite
The effort of Grover l. in your beha
has made him very black, it is true, bt
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