The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-03-02

gold standard. That was where he fell
a victim to the shaft of the Senator
from the Sucker State. 81 charge the
Senator from Colorado" said Mr.. Ma
son, with making statement that is
not borne out by any quotation which
can be taken from the remarks l made.
L understand as we'll as he does, posi-
sibly, the admiration we all have for
our departments, at least that which l
have, believing liz government of the
people, by and for the people; and my
only sorrow is that in the great adj
miration he bears for the navy depart
ment he has not some days given
little share of his distinguished con-
sideration and alteration to the treas
ury department" The Senator's sally
turned the laugh on to his Colorado
compeer. -
THE people of Vermont must not
take too seriously the mention of the
name of Hiram A. Huse of this city in
connection with the Office of lieutenant
overnor-honorable Office as il is, and
tenfold more honorable since its re-
demption from service as an elevator to
the governorship. Transcendentalism,
as well as total depravity, sometimes
appears in political mentionings. The
current talk respecting Mr.. Huse and
the lieutenant governorship is simply
sublimated nonsense.
THE Anglomaniac has found food
for his mania in the recent trial and
conviction of Lord William Nevill, the
rakish son of an English marquis, for
the crime of forgery. The newspaper
editors afflicted with this malady have
been comparing this instance of Eng
lish justice with American, to the dis
advantage of the latter. They seem
never 30 happy as when praising Eng
lish institutions and English ways, and
American institutions and
American ways, judicial or otherwise.
If it were necessary it would not be
difficult to cite instances in the admin
istration of justice in England in which
great criminals have escaped punish
ment by reason of their rank and of
the influence of titled friends. The
citations might begin with some men,
bers of the royal family and pass down
through all the ranks of nobility. Here
is case where the cion of titled no.
bility, for some reason, has been left to
the tender mercy OF Inc law. There
fore, the conclusion of these American
patriots is, English justice is always no
respecter of persons; whereas, if the
son of an American millionaire were
guilty of forgery or any other crime,
neither prosecution nor conviction
would follow. Such comment on the
conviction of an English lord is justi-
fed neither by fact nor reason. 1t
might be more reasonable to maintain
that the morals of the sons of American
and their ideas of honor,
are on a higher level than exists among
the cions of an "effete aristocracy," and
that they do not descend to the "beast-
ly" life of their English cousins and
become common criminals. And this
view of the matter might be sustained
by the facts. There are scoundrels in
either class. On either side of the
waters justice is never, in all cases, 30
absolutely blind as to be unable to dis
Germ the quality of the rascal before
her, and no man, mot even Mugwump,
has the right to say that the English
divinity is less exposed to reproach on
this score than her American sister.