Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-10-26

marks of prosperity; his efforts to en-
kindle dislike and hatred of the en-
ployee to the employer. He is the
popular mouth piece of all the dan
gerous anarchistic doctrines that can
find tolerance in this country. He is
a natural wrecker and destroyer. He
would tear down and ruin without
/ building or preserving. A man of or
dinary ability, except the gift to talk,
a >man whose successes in any sphere
have been small, whose opportun
tiles have not fitted him for great po
sitions, and one, who, measured by
| the Judgment of his townsmen, is but
little above the ordinary lawyer, is
made the nominee of a great party
which hopes to place him in the most
responsible position in the world.
What mistake! Take him as he is,
the smallest, feeblest most dangerous
man Democracy ever named; take
him with his platform and his popu-
listic heresies he is candidate such
as this country never knew. He ought
to go down in majority SO over
wheIming that his doctrines and fall
lacies shall never rise to harrass this
noble country again.
Nothing need be said against the
man as man, but as a presidential
candidate he is unworthy. He offers
nothing, he promises nothing, he
stands for nothing which the United
States now desires.
1t is expected this year that the
part of the Presidents message in re-
gard to our relations with foreign
countries will be of especial interest.
The Venezuelan affair is not settled as
yet and there may be many things
of interest in regard to this to be
spoken of. There will be things to
with Spain. The Cuban war has
brought up several questions, among
them being the trial in the civil
courts Of the crew of the Competitor,
which recent reports have it that
Spain has conceded the disputed
point. Perhaps the most interesting
of all will be on the questions in dis
pute between this country and
Turkey, the demands this govern
ment has made upon the Porte and
its attitude in regard to them, also
the steps our government has taken |
to enforce it's demands. The claims |
for indemnity which our government |
is demanding of the Porte amounts |
to over 100000, but it is useless to |
expect that these claims can be paid |
treasury and no way to raise the
money, even if they were SO inclined, |
but they are not; their hatred for the
Armenians is SO great that they will
do nothing in the way of redress till
they are forced to. 1t is certainly |
the duty of this government to force
the claims and oblige the Turkish
government to settle them.
Wheat continues to persevere in it's
upward career, and as its price bounds
higher and higher the hopes of the
Bryan managers sink lower and lower
into their boot legs. The rise is due
wholly to natural causes, as was the
depression of the price. Silver has
as much to do with the increase. as
with the lowering, and that is moth
ing. The faGts are these: The Rus
sian crop is short about 40 per cent,
and the crops in India and Argentine
have suffered from drought, so much
SO that the exports to Europe have
been very much less than those of last
year.
The de mand which is sending up
the price comes from Europe, and
is the demand of exporters and not of
speculators. 1t is now quite certain
that Europe will take the great pro-
portion of our surplus wheat. This
means that prices will go still higher,
and the reaction that some look for
will not come. All of which is driving
a heavier supply of nails into the
silverite casket.
Sir Edward Clarke's candid admis-
sions in the Venezuelan matter have |
made him the target of bitter attacks
in the English press, but what he said
is true, nevertheless.
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