The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-28

terial, is so abundan that no cheaper adult
tetatiOD is required, and the art OF their
fabrication requires little more than Lhe
skill and tools of a tolerahle tinker. me
one hundred per cent profit OF the base anu
lucrative trade tempts villains outside OF
our frontiers, and 1t may be feared that we
are not at home wholly exempt from
Calm-thnlSing villains, whom no faith could fix,
OF crooked counsels and dark politicks,"
who seem not unwilling to derive. an
equally unwholesome profit hereafter from
the coinage. or the use, of silver dollars
having no greater intrinsic value than the
counterfets. True, the Illicit trade may be
somewhat restrained by the pitful labor
now required to gej rid of even the silver
dollars fresh from the government mints,
which already everywhere meet n reluctant
acceptance, although rarely offered now,
except in driblets one by one.
Intrinsically the bad dollars may not be
much worse than would be the brood OF
which the United States is urged to assume
the fatherhood, but, having becouded
birth, they would be without any claims to
a maintenance on parity with the money
honestly in circulation. The government
would manifestly be in danger Of being
sadly buncoed by attempting to go alone
into the free-coinage OF the hfiy-ceut dol
lars-an enterprise where counterfeiters
only could enter without loss of money or
reputation.
Vermonters ask for no special tariff
favors Of the general government, or none
but such as are conceded to everybody.
The largest class of our people, primarily
almost exclusively Of A lglo-Saxon origin,
depend upon agriculture for their iveli-
hood, and are not ignorant that they must
rely upon "A home market for any regular
and permanent demand for their products.
Free-trade is the legitimate patron only of
the cheapest labor. The policy of the re-
publican party IL, therefore, a tariff on for
eign imports, so adjusted as to furnish
ample revenue, with such determinations
as will multiply home consumers. This
policy has ever been regarded with favor by
Vermonters, as it was by the founder rs Of our
national & )ve -nment. If it had not been so
regarded, no union of states could have
been established, as each state surrendered
its right to the nation to impose duties on
imports but withheld the power to tax ex-
ports. The theory of a proper tariff was
never more tersely illustrated than BY
Abraham Lincoln when he said: " Ii we
buy ton of steel from England she has
the money and we have the steel; but, If we
buy ton OF steel in this country, we have
both the money and the steel"
The republic started with the high pur-
pose of being not only independent, but
with the power in peace or war to feed and
clothe itself. 1t does not propose to accept
of silver monOmetalism, nor will it dishonor
the fame of our fathers or the name of the
great American republic by the payment of
any pdrJ Oh our puDllC ueDU III money VI iesS
standard value than that which has ever
been recognized as the money of the Amer
lean people.
When the silver question is settled
| rightly-and the prospect is now excellent
that it soon will be-our country cannot
fail to enter upon season OF prosperity,
| likely to extend far into the next century.
Let me now conclude by repeating my
| profound thanks to the General Assembly
and the people of the state, whom they rep
resent, for the conspicuous honor conferred
upon me by further continuance in service
as a senator of the United States from Yer
| mont, and / shall hope, whenever this SER
vice may be surrendered, that the honor of
the state will be found undiminished.
After the Joint assembly was dissolved,
| on motion of Mr. Whitney of Stamford the
House adjourned.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Bills Introduced-S. 16, by Senator Chat.
fee, granting right of way over certain rail.
road tracks to the Rutland Street Railroad
Company; com. on railroads.
Adjourned.
| HOUSE-AFTERNOON.
Bills Introduced 80, by Mr.. Kingsley
Of Athens, to make the town clerk in eact
town a notary public by virtue of his Office
| judiciary committee.
H. SO, by Mr.. Edison of Proctor, to author
ize the village of Proctor to issue bonds fol
water and sewer systems; judiciary com.
II. 50, by Mr.. Whipple of Underhill
amending Sec. 357 V. s. Extends exemp
ton from poll tax to all bonorably dis
charged Union soldiersl com. on grand list
III. So, by Mr.. Burns of Enosburgh, to in
corporate the Northern Telephone Com
pany; com. on corporations.
Ii. Sc, by Mr.. Darling of Bennington, lay
ing a tax of three cents on the dollar of the
grand lists of 1897 and 1898 Of Bennington
county, to pay the indebtedness of tn,
county, meet cur rent expenses and construc
vault for probate records; com. on grant
list.
III. 81, by Mr. Pratt of Concord, amend
ing Sec $500, " s., reducing salary o
superintendent of education to 81 800. AL
lowance for expenses to $500, and CLERK
hire to 5000; com. on state aud court ex
penses.
II. SS, by Mr.. Burditt of Pittsford
amending Sec. 1882, V. s, reducing sal
aries of railroad commissioners to S. day
allowance for clerk to 81 day and limit
ing expense of commission to $4,000
year,; com. on state and court expenses.