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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25
The Philippine Commission.

Neither the President nor the admin
istration is committed as yet to pol
icy for the islands. 1t is taken for
granted that the present Senate will
ratify the treaty, and nothing will be
done until the treaty is ratified. The
sending of the commission cannot fail
to have good effect upon both
branches of Congress, clarifying the at
mosphere and allaying the apprehen-
sions of timid legislators who have
feared that we were about to take a
leap in the dark.
The policy of the administration,
following the ratification of the treaty,
will be very largely determined by the
findings of the commission, and it is
to be hoped that the President and his
cabinet will be able to see their way
clear to prompt action after it's report.
The decision to serd this board to
the Philippines, even if tardily reached
is one of the best things that have de-
veloped in Washington ''since the war.
New York Herald.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25
The United States Disgrace.

1t is a disgrace to the United States
that foreign residents, as we'll as the
more peaceful and industrious Filipi-
nos, should be compelled to fly from
their homestead their wives and
children and their treasure out of a
country over which the protecting
stars and stripes have been flung to the
breeze. With the "aunties'
making speeches that encourage the
insurgents in their insolent attitude,
and the President maintaining char.
acteristic do-nothiDg pose, we are sub
jected to the risks of complications
compared with which the war with
Spain was mere child's play.
Only firm and decisive assertion oil
the authority and power of our govern
ment can save the islands from anar
chy, save our own dignity and aver
the danger of friction with other pow
ers.-New York Herald.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25
The Opposition to Annexation.

AS matter of fact, the best testi-
mony is TO the effect that the mass of
the people of the Philippines would
gladly be annexed TO the United States.
That is the testimony of the best in
formed observers. Some men who
have never been in the islands think
otherwise. They are entitled 10 their
opinions. But so far as the record
goes, and the testimony of those who
are or who have been on the spot, the
sentiment of leaders and people few
months ago was practically a unit in
favor of annexation. A few leaders
for s.lfish ends have since rated and
now oppose annexation. But there is
no evidence that the people as a rule
have changed their minds. There are
probably some among them who do
not want American rule. There are
some in this country who do want it.
We have no doubt that there are in
the United States many men-more
than in Mr.. Aguinaldo's whole "gov-
eminent" who would like to see our
State and National governments with
drawn and abolished and an era of free
loot and anarchy established. But the
lack of their consent to it does not i'm
peach the justice of the government.
When every act Of territorial expan-
sion in Louisiana, Florida, California,
Alaska and elsewhere is undone, and
the Nation is confined to the Atlantic
littoral, and when every citizen of the
country fully agrees with everything
the government does, then it may be
time to insist upon this "strict con-
structiOnisto view of the sCOnsant of
the governed" principle. Until then
the cause of consistency and of SINGER
ity will be served by basing the opposi-
ton to annexation upon some other
ground. New York Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25
Mr.. HOar's Resolution.

The resolution introduced into the
Senate last week by Senator Hoar is
curions enough to be given again in
full:
Resotyed, That the people OF the Philip
pine Islands OF right ought to be free and
Independent; that they are absolved from
all allegiance to the Spanish crown, aud
that all political connection between them
and Spain is and ought to be totally dis.
solved, and that they have, therefore, full
power to do all acts and things which inde-
pendent States may OF right do; that 1t is
their right to institute new government
for themselves, laying its foundations on
such principles and organizing its powers
in such form as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their safety and happiness,
and that with these rights the people Of the
United States do not propose to Interfere"
The people of the Philippines are alb.
solved from allegiance to Spain, and
political connection between them is
dissolved by means OF the treaty OF
peace, which puts into legal form the
facts of the war. The war has made
and the ratification of the treaty will
make these facts OF Mr.. Hoar's resolu-
ton superhuous. The sovereignty of
Spain over the Philippines passes to
the United States. The people of the
Philippines have not full power to do
all acts and things which independent
States do, because they have not &C
ouired independence. 1t is a strange
theory that territory won by one nation
from another becomes on the winning
ipdepe ndent. Mr.. Hoar might as rea-
sonably hold that the transfer OF
mortgage wipes it out.
Freedom the inhabitants of the Phil
ippines have or will have as the result,
not of their own efforts, but of those
of the United States. But freedom
conferred by others and not dependent
upon or known to be due to any gen.
erel present capacity or even desire for
orderly lf-government, is not of
kind to found independence upon. Mr..
Hoar seems to suppose that the natives
of the Philippines are on level with
the inhabitants of Massachusetts, duly
trained in generations OF town meet
iDgs, and practiced in the discipline OF
free government. He is anxious to get
rid of the Philippines, and 90 he calm
ly proposes to have them set up gov
eminent of their own, although every
thing that is known OF their state OF po-
litical development or want OF it indi-
Gates that Ollgarchles or dlctatorsnlps,
copiously illustrated with civil wars,
would be the result of leaving them to
their own devices.
II, however, the United States is to
protect their "rights" against internal
dissension and also against foreign
States that are itching for foothold
on the islands, the proposed "independ-
epce" will be only dependence upon
the United States, which will have
great trouble, expense, and undoubt-
eddy frequent war, and will not have
the advantages of ownership.
Mr.. Hoar is 80 Jealous about the
"rights" of the people of the Phillip
pines that he is willing to sacrifice their
best interests and the plain rights and
interests of the United States. New
York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25
Figures for Americans.

The core cted figures for imports
and exports for 1898 are practically the
same as the previously published esti-
mates, but they are Of sufficient inter-
est to bear reinspection. For Deem
her the imports of merchandise we're
1853 ,S21 ,499 az against S5l sos 1858 Tor
December, 1897, and $5S, $50, $50 for
December, 1896, but the dutiable i'm
ports were five and one-hslf millions
more for December, 1893, than for
1897, and almost seven millions more
than for 1896.
For last December the exports were
S137 PAT ,449, as against 1926, 053 ,961 in
1897 and $l17 1856, 1926 in 1896. The tx
cess of exporta over imports has been:
1896, 1924 257 ,6S5; 1897, 1857, 113, 816;
1893, 1921 ,260, 535. The excess for
1898 is almost double that OF 1896. 1t
is thirty times as great as that OF 1895,
the great Wilson law year of bless
ings," when our exports were only
1924 $50 1876 and our imports were
1901 ,669,347l We know what sort of
"times" we had in 1896 wher, under
the Wilson law, our markets were
flooded with foreign goods and our own
went begging. We know what sort OF
shines" we have now when we are sell
ling our own goods in our own market
and 81 ,254 ,925, l69 abroad for 1898.
The Cleveland Democrats asks us
again to open our markets to the rest
of the world as they were in 1895, the
year Of "cheapness," with everybody
too poor to buy at any price.
For the us of those who are discuss
ing the tariff question we append the
following Treasury statistics, showing
the exports and imports in recent
years:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25
Senatorial Elections.

Senators Davis of Minnesota and
Hawley of Connecticut have received
the swell done" of their lords and mas
tiers for their efficiency and fidelity,
and are assured of another six years of
ioy in the service of their Sta es in the
United States Senate. DR.. Depew of
New York will don the senatorial toga
on the fourth of March next, and for
the first time for many years the EN-
pire State will have representative in
the upper branch of Congress whose
abilities and accomplishments, as an
orator and statesman, are commeusu-
rate with her imperial rank in theUnion.
After many years, too, New York will
have two Republican Senators, and,
representing the imperial State, they
are consistently "imperialists."
Other Senators reelected on Tuesday
are Lodge of Massachusetts, Hale of
Maine, Cockerell of Mississippi, and
Burrows of Michigan. Turpie of In
diane, Democrat, was defeated by
Beverage, Republican.
In other States warning political ele-
ments in the senatorial elections have
dead-locked the Legislature, and there
are charges and countercharges OF
vote buying and other forms of politi-
cal wickedness. In California nearly a
score of ballots have been taken.
U. S. Grant, Jr., son of the the great
| Union commander, is the leading candi-
date. In Pennsylvania, Quay is handi-
capped both by divided party, and by
legal indictment for participation in
bankwrecking. The issue of contest
such as this, as usually happens in the
large States, is likely to be the election
of nonentity.
In little Delaware the unsavory Ad-
dicks again comes to the front, this
time as competitor for the seat OF
Senator Gray, whose term expires with
this Congress. Delaware's other sepG.
tor is under cloud for alleged finan
cial irregularities. If the charges
against him should be sustained, and
Addcks should succeed in hi, presen
raid on the Legislature, the little State
dovetailed into Maryland and Pennsyl
vsnia, famous in by-gone days for III
Bayards and Salisburys, and worthill
represented to-day by Senator Gray
might plead for absorption by its neigh
bors as a refuge from its shame.
In the West, near and remote, Their
are other contests in the Legislature
over the election Of Senators. From
their deadlocks and accompanying in
cidents, the advocates of electing Sena
, tors by direct vote of the people ma
, derive some comfort.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25
IncOmprehensible.

The sight of a group of American
Senators blocking the Treaty of Paris
With complaints that it offers us too
much land and too much opportunity
for the extension of our power, must
raise doubts in other lands of our pc
litical soberness. Delaying peace with
a European nation in order to haggle
over the details of our relations with a
half savage people, over whom our own
arms and international law are ready to
make our sovereignty complete, is not
easy to understand in this or any other
country.-New York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25

In the business of "voicing Beliefs"
and calling up "rising tides" of public
opinion, the "aunties," and particularly
the Mugwump "aunti" is master
magician. Here is Brattleboro cor
respondent of that puckery anti to
everything that is American. the
Springfield Republican, submerging
Vermont in "rising tide of adverse
opinion" and sweeping "the McKin-
ley policy into merited oblivion"
Well, let FER rip! But, in any assembly
of Vermont people in which McKin-
ley's policy is commented oD, which
speakers win the applause, -instant,
explosive, overwhelming What ac-
ton, without dissenting vote, did the
Legislature of Vermont take on "the
Mckinley policy" at the late sessions
There are no indications that public
sentiment on that policy has changed
since November. On the contrary
quite the reverse. That "rising tide
is frozen as stiff as Inc mountain
stream.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25

IT is reported that Senator Hoar will
again address the Senate, making his
resolution in favor of leaving the Phil
ippines to the Filipinos the basis of his
speech, bat that his main object will
be to urge the justice of restoring Mas.
sachusetts to the descendants of Ca
nonicus, Massasoit, King Philip and
the other red men who were the origi-
nal possessors. The Senator's ances-
tors, some three centuries and more
ago, seized the land and ruled it "with-
out the consent of the governed" 1t
is true that this doctrine, as the SEN
ator now constructs it, was not enun-
ciated till the white man had turned
his red brother out OF his hunting
grounds on the Atlantic coast, and it
was not applied subsequently to the
tribes and settlers beyond the ALE.
ghenies, or in louisiana and Florida,
or the other countries stretching west
ward to the Pacific coast, which came
into the possession of the United
States. Senator Hoar has waited long
to begin to right the wrongs of his fore
fathers. The wronged have long been
wandering in "the happy hunting
grounds" beyond the setting sun, and
their descendants have been wiped off
the face off the earth. Possibly re-
morse is at the bottom of his present
zeal in the cause of the Filipinos, but
as matter of practical penitence or
philanthropy little can be said in sup
port of his scheme of atonement. In
deed it appears to be quite Quixotic.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25
The Omnipresent Subject.

In Congress, in the newspapers and
magazines, at banquets and wherever
men are congregated, the subject OF
omnipresent and dominating interest
and discourse is the Philippine ques-
ton, and the ratification of the treaty
that will transfer to the United States
the sovereignty of the islands is the
point around which this interest now
centers. The opponents of ratifica-
ton are loudly claiming that some
thirty-fve Senators, it is certain, will
vote against ratification. This is pure
assumption and has for its basis moth
ing more substantial than bluff.
"Claim everything in sight," is the
last resource of desperate cause
and the forces, more varied than the
hues of the rainbow and far less inspir-
ing, that are consorting together to
defeat the peace treaty, are resorting to
this final expedient of desperation.
A far more reasonable and reassur-
ing statement of the present probable
tiles of the state of the senatorial
mind on the question of ratification is
this: In favor of ratification, "a; OPP
posed, 26; doubtful, 10. Among the
doubtful are placed all the Senators
not positively known to be in favor
of or opposed to ratification with
out amendment. Twenty-Five of the
twenty-six opponents of ratification are
Democrats two, Messrs. Hale and
Hoar, Republicans, and the other two
are Jones of Nevada and Pettigrew of
South Dakota. OF the ffty-four GER
tain,advocates of ratification forty-three
are Republicans, six Democrats and
the remainder are Populists and sill
verites. The six Democrats are Sem
ators Faulker, Gray, Kennedy, Lind
sey, Pettus and Morgan, and they stand
as solidly for ratification of the treaty
as any of their Republican colleagues.
1t is confidently expected that when
the final test comes, enough of the Sem
ators classed among the doubtful
whose names are withheld from pub.
LEGATION for prudential reasons, will
vote for ratification rather than accept
the alternative of state of war with
Spain,-which would be the effect o.
rejecting the treaty-with all it's un
certainties and it's injurious effects up
on the business interests of the
country.
1t is, indeed, incomprehensible tina
any Senator, having regard to the bes
interests of his country, can soberl,
and deliberately make up his mind, un
der all the circumstances OF the case
to expose his country to the imminen
dangers that would threaten this Ma
top, and the humiliation that woul,
befall the American name, if the treat,
should be rejected, if the legitimat
fruits of the victories at Manila an
Santiago shall be spurned. 1t woul
be an insult to the splendid valor an
enduring patriotism of the America
sailor aud soldier, discouragemen
and handicap In any future war, an
an affront to humanity itself. Tn
ratification of the treaty is matter {
30 great magnitude and 80 vital impol
that its rejection is not possibility t
be contemplated.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25

The state of the Delaware Legisla-
ture shows that Addicks cannot be
elected Senator by the Republicans,
who are in the majority, and Addicks
performances few years ago, show
that he ought not to be elected. The
candidate who insists that the Senator
shall be himself or nobody in the party
he pretends to belong to cannot be
trusted as the representative of any
party. New York.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25
Bright Future Assured.

The Montpelier Daily RECORD has
bee sold to the Waterman Company
and will hereafter be issued from the
WATCHMAN office as an evening daily.
The RECORD was an excellent paper
and, as it has fallen into the hands of
people who know thing or two about
the newspaper business, a bright fu-
ture is assured.-Bellows Falls Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25

Rather startling war news this from
Prof. Sumner of New Haven, who says
Spain has conquered the United States,
instead of the United States conquering
Spain. 1t recalls the general tenor of
the war news we used to get from
Madrid during the progress of hostil-
ities.--Boston Herald.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25
The New Judge.

The appointment by Governor Smith
of the Hon John II. Watson to the va-
cancy on the bench made by the res
ignstion of Judge Ross is received
with general approval. Governor Smith
will probably hope that this will be the
last duty of this nature death or any
other change will impose upon him
during bis term of office. When can
didates are numerous and meritorious,
and friends are strenuous, official duty
has it's embarrassments.
Mr.. Watson has the judicial ability
that justifies his selection in the first
instance-and this is the important
thing-and among the secondary con-
siderations that may have combined
with others to influence the Governor
conclusively were the age, or rather
the youth, Of this particular candidate,
and the desirability of having a
Judge resident at the State Capital, for
ii is commonly understood that Judge
Watson will take up his residence in
Montpelier. Otherwise, it is not prob
ably that the appointment would have
gone to Orange county, the home of
Judge Rowell.
Judge Watson was born in 1851, and
has fought his way up the ladder of
fortune from the lowest rung. Judges
Taft, Rowell and Tyler were each born
in 1885, Munson in 1S43, Start in 1916,
and Thompson in l848. Thus the new
appointee is the only member of the
court under fifty years of age. The
way up the judicial ladder is long
one in years. Judge Watson will be
older when he attains to the CHIEF judg
ship, in the due course of promotion.
The Governor has done we'll in giving
the question of years its proper weight
in making this appointment.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25

If the American people, with these
figures staring them in the face, can be
fooled again into more Wilson law ex-
periments, they deserve to take the
poverty medicine which the Free Trade
quack always puts down their throats.-
New York Press.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25

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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25
Clubbing List.

The following offers are for the benefit
only OF subscribers to this paper who pay
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the club rate, must invariably accompany
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25
MEETING or TOWN OFFICERS or BERLIN.

The several officers of the town of Berlin
will meet at the Town Hall ON Berlin street on
Saturday Jan %, to settle all unsettled ac-
counts of said town.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25

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