The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11

All is hustle,
All IL hustle,
Work for brain and work for muscle,
The Calamityites are paying up their bets.
WHAT is to become of the Popocrats
and the Populists without their old
friend, the mortage2 Wheat up high,
silver down low, and the mortgages
melting away. This is a pretty con-
dition of things for the Popocrats and
Populists. Where are their platforms
now? Where is the win of their sails?
Is it the hand of the M ney Power that
has throttled 30 many eloquent wind
pipes? Who puts up wheat, puts down
silver, pays off the mortgages? Some
form of the Money Power, and for the
obvious purpose of discre diting the Po-
pocrsts and Populists. 1t seems nat
ural to suspect that trusts are the guilty
parties. Trusts are liable TO be guilty
of everything, and are known to be in
genious. Is it not time to investigate
their responsibility for Prosperity, that
crime of 1897.
THE Augusta Chronicle tries to pay
serious compliment 10 DR.. Andrews for
merly President of Brown University, by
saying that che is one of the brainy men
of the day." Would any man who has
been or hopes to be the President of
college be pleased to be called "brainy''?
Would he accept that adjective without
a "painy" feeling so to speak? One
may see in the elevated cars advertise
ments of well-known and highly re-
spectacle dictionary which describe it
as the work of "brainy specialists"
Doubtless "brainy" specialist ought
to be perfectly satisfactory, but as a
maker of dictionary he may seem
inappropriate to conservative minds.
Would centipede be described proper
ly as "footy" and the Nile as "mouthy'
and a many-gated city as "gatey"?
Are the Rockies and the Himalayas
'chainy?"
A WRITER in Illustrated american
says that when President Hayes nomin-
ated Fred Douglass for marshal of the
District of Columbia Senator Morgan of
Alabama not only voted with the Rep
ublicans in favor of confirmation but
made a striking speech which leaked
out to the pnblic in spite of the supposed
secrecy OF the executive session. After
remarking that he was not troubled
about the color of the candidates. skin,
he added: 81 was candidate on the
Democratic electoral ticket of Alabama.
I solicited the votes of black men, and
obtained them to the number of 10000,
and now when the name of the most
eminent representative man Of this race
is presented for the shrievalty of dis
drict five miles square, shall l 60 back
to the colored people of Alabama, whose
votes l solicited and received, and tell
them I refused to vote for him for no
reason except that he is colored man?
No, sir; cannot perform such an act"
THE Fort Collins Argus burns and
bathes at once in glorious metaphor.
1t says that shat wave of prosperity
which the gold Republicans and the
gold Democrats promised last fall is
still hanging fire." AS the result of
this proerastination on the part of
the wave, "the only hope of the
people is the turning down of the
goldbugs at every election, and finally,
by placing William Jennings Bryan
in the Presidential chair" So the only
hope of the people of the kind of the
Fort Collins Argus is to have good
long period of hard times. Prosperity
is poison to them, and they will not
take it if they can help it. But they
csn't help taking it. 1t will come TO
Fort Collins, Col. as we'll as TO Lincoln,
Neb.; and whenever it comes the long
faces will be shortened and the short
bank accounts will be heightened. 1t is
one of the many queer traits of Bryan
ism and of the Populism which it stole
that they have no hope which is moi
founded upon general hopelessness and
misfortune. They cannot be comfort
able unless everybody is ruined.
MISSOURI is state of marvel'
and miracles, and nothing that hap.
pens in it causes much surprise. 81
the story of Missouri farmer who has
found sure means of defeating the
potato bug trust may be accepted with
out much preliminary inqsiry, save by
naturalists and precisians. The story
is that farmer living near Colder
City has contrived potato which will
grow without vines. In cultivating tn,
vineless potato the harrow is mightie
than the hoe. The potato bug has t.
move on, or, writhing, seeks the plail
and ceases. 1t would be great con
venience if this Missouri plain could b
extended to all the fruits and veget
ables. Why should a man have t.
"bush' his peas and "pole" his beans
Why should he have to shake the tire
or climb ladder on the tree or use
picker or a club when he wants an ar
Pile or a pear? Many improvement
are needed in agriculture and horticu
ture, and the world looks to Missoul
for them. In fact, the most hopefl
minds foresee the time when thing
will grow without being planted an
the crops will get up or down, as tn
case may be, and take care of an
gather themselves.