The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-06-16


not have been entirely in vain if moth
ing more results from it than the recall
of Weyler. Whatever commander
Spain may send to Cuba the end will be
the same, but it is safe to say that no
other commanding officers will violate
the usages of war 80 relentlessly as has
Weyler. His barbarism has largely
neutralized the humane course adopted
by Campos in conquering the insur-
gents. Spain will be beaten in any
event, but with a monster like Weyler
at the head of her Cuban forces, defeat
would come sooner than it would under
a civilized and humane leader.
THE territory of Hawaii. How does
that sound? 1t is going to be the next
addition to Uncle Sans family. 1t is
now known, although no official state.
ment has been made, that treaty for
the annexation of Hawaii will be sent
to the Senate in the near future, prob
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session of Congress. There is very
little, if any, doubt of the ratification of
that treaty, as the sentiment of the
Senate, regardless of party, is over
whelmingly in favor of the annexation
of Hawaii; but owing to the difficulty
of keeping quorum of the Senate in
Washington after the tariff bill has
been passed, the treaty will hardly be
acted upon until the regular session of
Congress, even if sent in at this
session.
AS will be seen by the detailed report
of the special city meeting on Monday
evening, published elsewhere, the tax
payers, with cordial unanimity, voted
to expend S32, 900 this year in perman-
ent improvements. 1t seemed to be
the right time of the moon to grant
appropriations, and the only reason
that no more money was voted for these
purposes was that nobody asked for any
more. A large majority of the younger
voters realized that these improvements
must come sooner or later, and that the
present is favorable time to raise the |
money for them, while the older citi-
zens are congratulating themselves that
they will not be obliged to help pay the
principal on these bonded debts--and
everybody seems to be satisfied.
NOTHING better illustrates the oblit-
Grafton of sectional lines than the cor
diality that was everywhere extended
to President Mckinley last week when
he visited the Nashville exposition. 1t
is not many years ago when through
the section of the South covered by
the Presidential train the President of
the United States would have been re-
garded as the chief of a government
that was centralized to the degree of
danger, and of party that was the
chief prosecutor of destructive war.
Happily such things are no more and
President Mckinley stands before his
Southern friends precisely as he does
before the men of the North, as the
choice and the representation of the
whole people. His visit gave the
Nashville exposition a great boom and
The people of the southland appre-
ciated it. -
COMMISSIONER CALHOUN in his
as to the situation as he
found it in Cuba, puts in strong terms
his impression that the struggle in that
island is one of great vindictiveness.
Although Mr.. Calhoun saw the war in
Cuba from Spanish standpoint, and
held no communication whatever with
the insurgents, his report shows that a
determined struggle is still going on.
1t is not, Mr.. Calhoun says, war of
great battles like Gettysburg and the
yet it is one of intense bit
terness and great devastation. 1t is
not riot butIa revolution; not squads of
bandits on foraging expeditions, but
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tude that Spain now has 100000 troops
in the field in Cuba. Still it can be
plainly gathered from Mr.. Calhoun's
report that while he does not believe
the combatants can ever live in peace
on that island, there is no doubt in his
mind but that the Spaniards must
eventually go. Such an opinion COM
ing from such source naturally carries
great weight.
THE attempts of some of the Demo-
cratic Senators to explain that they are
not protectionists, although they have
voted for protection for the products of
their states, have been more or less
ludicrous. Senator McEnery, of Lousi-
ana, is the only one of them who has
come out squarely for protection, al
though number of them have voted
for it in particular schedules. He said
in reply to the taunts of Senator Jones,
Of Arkansas, and Vest, Considering