The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-19

~ ute rate OF 1z'UU year 10 eItd OT WOntn w
sehtch settlement is made.
THE report that DR.. Nsnsen has dis
covered the North Pole and ia on his
way back to lower latitudes was at first
received with much incredulity. But
the report is confirmed by dispatch
from the British consul at Archangel
and there are other reasons for believ-
ing that the Norwegian may have
pushed his way up to ninety degrees Of
north latitude. But the extent of his
exploit will be disclosed when the ex-
plorer himself reaches the end of tele-
graph wire. -
In personal letter, Captain e. j..
Hsrtshorn of Emmetsburg, Ia, says:
"The Vermonters in Iowa, and every
body else out here, are in hopes to see
the Vermont delegation at st. Louis
wheel into line for Senator Allison for
president, as the safest man of those in
the field for the nomination, both as
candidate and president. am decidedly
of the opinion, derived from acquaint-
ance with them all, that he would make
better president than either Reed or
Mckinley" -
WE can believe that there was moth
ing perfunctory in Senator Morrill's
prayer, "God save the commonwealth"
with which he reported the house tariff
bill, in obedience to the behest of a ma
jority of the finance com nittee. The
committee had stricken out all after the
enacting clause and substituted provi-
sion for the free coinage of silver The
venerable senator had been the associ-
ate of statesmen, and be unquestionably
felt deep sense of personal humiliation
in obeying the mandate of the senate
rial wreckers who are holding up the
train that the people had so promptly
started out from the house of representa-
tives for the relief of the government.
The anguish of the moment found fer
vent expression in the formula adopted
from the proceedings in Massachusetts
in grave matters of state. The course
of the senate is exasperating to the
verge of revolution. The emergency
suggests the need of a Cromwell and
the application of Pride's purge" An
hour of the sturdy old Lord-General
would purge the senate of obstruction
lists and allow the wheels of govern
msnt to move along again. Can this
be the body of other days with which
we associate the names of Webster,
Clay, Seward, Collamer, Foote, Ed
munds, and a long line of other great
names?
THE hallelujahs that are raised over
the success of the late loan could not
be more joyful if 800, OOO,0 900 of reve-
nue., instead of debt, had been created.
Democrat and mugwump are celebrat-
ing the event with intense fervor.
Hamilton, who, in the impressive
words of Daniel Webster, "smote the
rock of the national resources and
abundant streams of revenue gushed
FORTH" wasn't in the financial swim
when compared with Carlisle, who has
tapped the jugular of national credit
and filled the treasury with the good
red blood of the nation. Republican
craftsmanship has raised the wand to
smite the rock of the national resources
and unloose again those abundant
streams of revenue that formerly flowed
at its command, but democrat and pop
ulst have interfered to arrest the stroke
In the senate these allied obstructionists
and enemies of the republic have con
spired to prevent the consideration and
passage of the house revenue bill, and
the nation must be bled by the money
lenders till the people can once more
lay their hands on their recreaut ser
wants. An approximately even division
of parties, it is sometimes argued, pro
duces the best results in govern nent
The legislation which has borne thu
best fruits in this country, during thu
last third of a century, has cone from
government decisively republican in al
its branches. Equilibrium of politica
strength is stagnation, if it is not retro
erosion. Any condition is preferab
to such division of political power AM
responsibility as now exists in the sen
ate. The law-making power is effect
ually, and very alphabetically, dead
locked. If there is patriotism and wis
dom enough left in the upper branch c
congress to pass the necessary apprC
priation bills and adjourn, it seems t
be the most that can be looked for.
the senate will do this its title to som
measure of gratitude will not be ell
tirely invalid.