The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-18
ARTHUR ROPES. General Editor.

THE Cleveland Rolling Mill which
started up last week with $500 men on
its pay roll, after its fires had been
banked for three years, is an argument
which the Ohio Democrats who attempt
to preach free silver and calamity in the
vicinity of Cleveland are unable 10
meet. -
THE stock growers and business men
generally of New Mexico are much
pleased with the result of the recent |
tariff legislation. The fact that the
new law has increased the rate of duty |
on cattle so as to shut out the Mexican
stock, is very gratifying to them. Cat
tie and sheep dealers in New Mexico |
are getting better prices than they
have for years, which gives business a
decided impetus and causes universal
satisfaction.
AN illustration in point showing the
present tendency of the times, is the
procession of empty tramp steamers
from all quarters of the globe, now
headed for the American grain ports.
Scores of these steamers are coming in
ballast, because this is more profitable
than to wait for cargo to bring to
America. This might cause them
long wait, but once they are here,
wheat cargo is ready for them.
WHILE Gomez and his compatriots
may feel encouraged at the death of
Canovas, they must like all other civ
ilized people, deplore the manner and
cause of his death. The extremity in
which Spain is now placed may be
Cuba's opportunity. An early conse-
quence of Canovas' death will probably
be the recall of General Weyler, and as
this will end the style of warfare he has
been carrying on, his retirement will
be a triumph for the Cubans.
THE railroad managers of the cOun-
try who stood firm as rock against
IIt6 blltcI lhpb Adll dlC hOW, Will tuO
farmers, reaping their reward in the
unprecedented demand for cars and
trains to move the heavy crops. 1t is
estimated that this years expectation
OF grain will reach two hundred million
bushels which must be transported from
the West to the seaboard. The Demo-
tofn oto%iotso;ov, 10 xyat IN
be heard from who credits this enor-
nous export to the low tariff rates of
the Wilson law.
THERE are two glazing hypocricies
in the writing and talk of free silver
advocates. One is the constant use Of
the word bimetallism " in the sense
in which it is falsehood. The use of
gold and silver by single nation at
the old ratio without Limitation is i'm
possible, without just such bimetallism
as they have in Mexico. The other
hypocrisy is to speak of free coinage
of gold and silver" as though there
was anything the matter with gold.
When an intelligent man talks or
writes either of these falsiications he
is guilty Of intentional fraud.
WILLIAM ]. BRYAN has gone to
Mexico to study the monetary system
of that country. He has gone at an OPP
perfume time for the situation in that
country, at present, is little short OF a
calamity and arouses the sympathy of
the people of the United States. 1t is
situation with lesson which even
the most obtuse popocrat ought to
grasp. Had Mr.. Bryan been elected
last year it would have brought con-
vulsion to the United States which
would have exceeded Mexico's in in
tensity, as great as the volume of our
domestic and foreign trade and invest
ments surpasses hers. The people of
the United States never did better
days work than they performed on
Tuesday, November 8, 1896.
CALAMITY platforms do not 60 well
with advancing prices and increasing
prosperity. The Democrats of Ohio
and Iowa recognize this fact, but they
have made their platforms and upon
them they realize that they are doomed
to stand until they and the free silver
craze 60 to the bottom together. They
are in the middle of the stream and it
is too late to "swap horses" 1t would
be as reasonable to say that the monied
kings of Europe are responsible for the
failure of the crops abroad and the ad-
vance of wheat in the face of falling
silver market, as it was to advocate dur
ing the last campaign that the money
kings were the cause OF the adoption of
the gold standard by all the great ma
tions of the earth.