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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20

ly rivalled by any other country. Her
coast is almost continuous line of safe
bays and harbors. The land is 30 deep
ly indented that, in connection with
the means of internal navigation, every
part is in close proximity to the sea.
In geographical position no land OF
Europe, not even England, is more IA
vorable for commerce, either with the
continent and the East or with the
Americas and the West.
Ireland was prepared to make use of
these advantages, but England's selfish
and impolitic trade res rictions, impos-
ed for the benefit of English manufsc-
turers and shopkeepers, prevented her
from developing commerce that would
have We'd with that OF Great Britain
and in the end Great Britain would un-
doubleday have been the gamer by the
development she feared and blighted.
These restrictions, imposed when mod
ern industry was in its infancy, not
only destroyed the possibility of Ire
lands commercial greatness, but, as
sisted by other causes and inimical
legislation, doomed her to agricultural
stagnation, to poverty and distress, and
to resulting depopulation. Proximity
TO Europe and the avenues to the East
has been shorn OF commercial advan-
tage, and America has supplied an asy-
lurn for her poverty stricken and OPP
pressed children rather thaa market
for teeming manufactures.
So sleeps the pride of former days;
So glory's thrill is Ger.
Irshmen may be pardoned for think
ing bitterly, for some intemperance of
speech and action, as they recall on this
anniversary, or in the House of Com
mons, the dismal chapters of England's
devastating and blighting rule in the
Emerald Isle.
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but the foreign market was left open.
When the export of Irish cattle to
England was prohibited the Irish farm
or turned his attention to breeding
sheep, aud wooden manufacturing in
creased with great rapdity. Owing to
the superiority of the wool the materi.
ais made from it were of a quality that
alarmed English manufacturers, during
the reign of William III, who petition
ed Parliament to come to the rescue.
Then heavier duties were imposed on
all wooden clothing, except frieze, and,
a little later, about the close of the
seventeenth century, the British gov
eminent prohibited the export from
Ireland Of all wooden goods to any coun-
try save England, to any port in Eng
land save six, and from any town in
Ireland save six 1t was an ingenious.
ly contrived scheme of strangulation.
At this time thore were 10000 WOODEN
workers in Ireland. The effect OF the
act was dIsastrou D, practical. y annihilat-
ing the wooden industry and reducing
large districts aud towns to the last
verge of poverty and gripping the
revenues of the Kingdom. Ireland
ceased to make her home supply, ex
cepting only the coarser articles, and
was forced to buy the finer goods from
| "a iu 10
England, also. The skilled Irish work
ers scattered through France, Spain
and the Netherlands, aud by means OF
the wool smuggled from Ireland, made
at small cost cloths equal to those OF
England, and for time swallowed up
her foreign trade. Toward the end OF
the eighteenth century these prohibit
i've acts were repealed or modified, but
the wo lien manufactures of Ireland
had been slain. A spasmodc life was
impaired by the repeal but other causes
and the influence of remaining statutes
led to disappointment; failure and dis
tress followed, and production was linn
tied to home demand.
Ireland was without the stimulus tC
industry produced by an abundant sup
ply of coal, but with lis great command
of water power it might have widely
developed its manufactures before the
Introduction OF steam but for the oper
alton of the causes here referred to
The unsatisfactory social aud politica
relations of the country and the legisla
ton which had blighted her agriculture
indirectly would have stunted her man
ufactu,es, for they were specially dis
couraged by the restrictive and repres
sive acts of Parliament, aimed directly
al the life of Irish industry, as similar
acts were aimed at industry in thu
American colonies. Fortunately TO
the latter their geographical position
their own military resistance and tn,
timely aid of France defeated here th'
murderous policy that had triumphet
in Ireland.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20
Ireland's Wooden Industry.

Ireland was famed for the excellence
OF wooden products, for her serge and
frieze in particular, in the latter part
of the fourteenth century. England's
selfshness soon made Irish manufac-
turers the target of prohibitory legisla-
ton. The export of wool from Ireland
was prohibited, but the prohibition
was harmless and Intellectual. Then
Ireland was debarred from English
markets by heavy duties on wooden
manufactures, and also from the colon
ial market by act Of Parliament in 1868,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20
The Race OF the Oregon.

Ligh ouil Aud prov turned toward the
soutu
And a canvas hiding each lannon's mouth,
And a ship, like d silent ghost released
Is seeking her sister ships in the East,
A rush of water, foaming trail,
An ocean hound in a coat OF mail
A deck long-lined with the lines of fate,
She roars good-by at the Golden Gate.
On! Onl Alone, without gong or bell,
But burning fire, like the fire of hell,
Till the lookout starts as his slasses show
The white cathedral OF Callso.
A moments halt meath the slender spire;
Food, food for the men, and food for the
fire,
Then out in She sea to rest no more
Till her keel s grounded on Chili's shore.
South SOUTH God guard through the un.
known wave,
Where chart or compass may help or save,
Where the Kissing wraiths of the sea abide
And few may pass through the stormy tide
North North For harbor far away,
For another breath in the burning day;
For moments shelter from speed and
pain,
And prov to the tropc sea again.
Homel Home With the mother feet to
sleep
Till the call shall rise DER the awful deep;
nd the bell shall clsng for the battle there,
And the voice of guns is the voice of prayer
=
One more to the songs OF the bold and free,
When your children gather about your knee ;
When the Goths and Vandsls come down in
might,
AS they came to the walls OF Rome one
night;
When the lordly William OF Deloraine
Shall ride by the Scottish lake again:
When the Hessian spectres shall fit in air
As Washington crosses the Delaware;
When the eyes of babes shall be closed in
dread
AS the story of Paul Revere is read;
When your boys shall ask what The guns
are for,
Then tell them the tale of the Spanish War,
And the breathless millions chat looked
upon
The matchless race of the Oregon.
John James Meehsn, in Leslies Weekly.
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;;sntraI Vermont Railway
Commencing March 10th, 1901.

Commencing mdfcn lUtnt lSVl
YrssnI Como South and East DiLL Leave Mo
peLier as fOllotoS'
AKA M. MAIL for Fitohburg, Boston spr >
is,A and New York. Parloi Oar 70 bosiop Tth'
,at change,
1880 p. nj. FAST TRAIN, for Boston via ~
IF and New York via Springfield or New London
,pa Worcester vs Nashua. Parlof Gar to Boston
Vi SO r. M. PASSENGER, for windsor.
5I2,bB AM. daily EXPRESS, for Be ton vie 0
veil and all points in New England, New HorA va
Nsld,
Trains GOING North and West
2;6O A. NJ daily EXPRESS, for Montreal and the
g9gt and week days for OgdensbuTg, RiohfoTd snd
8aawa. Sleeping cars Montpelier junction 70
tontreal.
yR;IBA. M. PASSENGER. for Burlington. art
land st Adams, Montreal, and Rich ord, making
;onueotons for Troy, Albany, and New York.
3.3OP. ri. PASSENGERS, for Burlington, - -
bans, Montreal, Rouses Point, Ogdensburg and Rich
ford. Psrlor jar 70 Montreal without change.
zssB y. M. EXPRESS for Burlington, ~ Al
sus ana Montreal. Pullman seeping car from
&ontpelier Junction to Chicago without change
rt 3ogb tickets to Chicago 81 q all points Wei Tor
'' II the principal ststiors'
Suburban Train SERVICES.
-oAve Montpelier Ut 6;35, gilb, 1850, A. NJ, -,
i7g $40 P. NJ Arrive ct Barre twenty mi pteb
.ttts leaving time.
save Barre at 80. $3.50 =. n. l2;,Ol ". siG $40
ElI P, II. Arrive at Montpelier twenty 81. N
$50 after leaving time.
rains leave for wnuamstovD at 1858 ana
rr.N
"a passenger trains viii stop the PioneerN orki
AXIS or leave passengers when signaied
BIB. BAILEY, Agent.
r, S. LOGAN, vice Pres., General Manager
~. nUMMTNGP. Generel papsen0er Agent
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20
The Shamrock.

Through Eriu's Isle
To sport awhile
As Love and Vslor wandered,
With Wit, the sprite.
Whose culver bright
A thousand arrows squsndered,
Where'er they pass
A triple grass
Shoots up wi h dew drops st canning,
AS softly green
As emerald seen
Through purest crystal cleaning.
o the shamrock, the green immortal sham
rock,
Chosen leaf
or bard and chief,
Old Erin's native shamrock.
So firmly fond
May last the bond
They wove that morn together,
And ne'er may fall
One drop of gall
On Wits celestial feather.
May Love, as Irvine
His flowers divine
OF thorny falsehood weed 'em,
May Valor meier
His standard rear
Against the cause of Freedoml
MOORE.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20
As to Gag Rule.

Here are two views of the proposi-
ton of Senator Plat OF Connecticut to
so amend the Senate rules as to bring
about vote on any measure on which
the majority may wish to act conclu-
sively, after discussion and deliberation
have been exhausted and the period of
talk and the employment of dilatory
tactics to defeat the measure begins.
The Philadelphia Record calls this re-
uonal proposition gag rule", and of
the movement says:
No time has been lost by the Repub-
lican majority of the federal Senate in
setting about the work of limiting de-
bate in that body. Notice has already
been given of amendments to the Sen
ate rules, which, if adopted, would rem
der operative the parliamentary meth
DDS by which the House of Representa-
tives has been bound hand and foot at
the feet of the committee on rules.
Mr.. Morton was asked to lend his aid
to such 9 scheme, but peremptorily de-
clined, and Mr. Hobart was never ap
preached in regard to the matter. But
the party leaders seem to see in the
strenuous Roosevelt fitting agent for
perilous undertaking.
The difficulty with this view of the
matter is that the amendment is not
proposed for "limiting debate;" it is
designed, and would unquestionably be
conscientiously periodically employed,
to protect and encourage elaboration;
but when the majority is ripe for de-
cislve action, and, being responsible to
the people for the execution of their
commands, desires to act conclusively
by voting on a measure, the amend
ment is further designed to defeat rev.
olution or usurpation on the part of
the minority in depriving by violent or
factional opposition the majority of its
fundamental right to rule. The Rec
ord's view of the:proposed amendment,
a view the opposition generally takes,
is specious and like many couuterfeits
Of the currency of the realm "well cal
OutoIou w uOOClfO' huOlucE Vl6W IL
presented byss the Pittsburg Dispatch
Whatever motive may have prompted
Senator Plat of Connecticut, to pro-
pose a rule of closure of debate in the
Senate, it has plenty of justification in
the public welfare. 1t may be freely
admitted that 6libustering has pre-
vented the enactment OF many O mis-
chievous bill; yet it cannot be admit.
ted that filibustering should be pro-
tected on that account. Even mischiev-
GUS legislation has its uses, under re-
publican form of government, that of
arousing the sovereign citizen to the
importance of holding his public rep
resentatives strictly accountable for
their acts and of looking closely to the
character of men seeking office.
The amendment consists entirely
with the requirement that the majority
shall be responsible for its use of pow
er. 1t has no right to slough off re-
sponsibility on to a truculent minority.
If the irrational practice sometimes pre-
vents the passage of mischievous
measure, it more frequently defeats or
postpones, to the detriment of the
country at large, the enactment of laws
or the establishing of policies that are
wise and wholesome. Its use has ever
been to serve partisan, or selfish, or
mischievous ends.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20
The Friendly Hand.

When man amt got a cent, an he's feeling kind
o. blue,
An the clouds hang dark an heavy an won't let
the sunshine through;
It's great thing, o, my brethren for a fellow Just
to lay
His hand upon your shoulder in friendly sort o.
wayl
1t makes man feel curious, it makes the teardrops
start,
An you sort O. feel fiutter in the region of the
heart,
You can't look up and meet his eyes, you don't know
what to say,
When his hands, on your shouldern friendly sort
o'way
Oh, the worlds curious compound, with its honey
an its gall,
With its an bitter crosses; but a good world
after all
An a, good God must have made it-leastways
that's what / say
When a hand rests on my shoulder in friendly
sort o. way.
james Whitcomb Riley
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20
State Printing.

Under the administration of Wyn-
koop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., the
new State printers, two new towns are
added to the Windham county list
Londonderry" and "Westminister."
In the summary by counties, Lamoille
figures as "Lamville." Shades of Car
roll S. Page! The question is, do the
commissioners of State printing m can
to pay full price for work of this kind.
Any Vermont printer would expect to
be summarily and severely turned down
for such ignorant and inexcusable blum
dering.-Brattleboro Phoenix.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20
B'airlee.

DR.. Flint has moved from Mr.. Abbott's
tenement into Mrs. Wilmot's house.
III. p. Warren has sold his hotel property
to Mr.. Gale of Newbury who Is to take pos
sion in few days. Mr.. Warren moves his
family into the tenement over his store.
Elmer Freeman is to move back to his
old home at the head OF Lake Mercy. Mr..
Leach Is to occupy the house he vacstes.
The epidemic OF grip seems to be abating;
most OF the sick ones seem to be recovering
and no new cases are reported for few
days past
Mr.. and Mrs. W. II. Long are in Mont
pelier to spend few weeks with their sis
ter, Miss Martha Long.
q. II. Pierce has moved to Thetford hill
to give his children an opportunity to at
tend the Academy.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20
@a.tgman 4 yOurmaL.
ARTHUR ROPES. General Editor.
tbe parp Of CARA.

The harp that once through Tara's halls
The soul of music shed,
Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls
AS if that soul were fled.
So sleeps the pride of former days.
So glory's thrill is DER,
And hearts that once beat high for praise
Now feel that pulse no more.
No more to chiefs and ladies bright
The harp of Tara swells;
The cord alone, that breaks at night,
Its tale of ruin tells.
Thus Freedom now so seldom wakes;
The only throb she gives
Is when some heart indignant breaks
To show that still she lives.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20

Secretary Roo. is a patient man, but
those American and European inter
ests, which, having failed to accom-
plish their purpose in Washington, are
now working in Cuba to prevent the
acceptance in Cuba of the conditions
named by Congress, may discover that
there is limit to his patience, and the
discovery may be accompanied by an
exposure that will not be to the ad-
vantage of the exposed. The represent
tatives of these interests would like to
have the Cubans think that they are
working for them, but they are doing
nothing of the kind. On the contrary,
they are working to make American con-
troll permanent, forgetting, or rather ig-
noring, the fact that our national honor
is pledged to turn Cuba over to the Gu
bans just as soon as they demonstrate
their ability to undertake the RESPONSE
bllities of self-government. When
these interests were working in Wash
ington, their arguments were that it
was necessary for the great property in
terests of the island that American con-
troll should be continued indefinitely;
now they are seeking the same end by
trying to persuade the Cubans that the
conditions named are hard and unjust
and that if they refuse to accept them
they will be modified by the next Con-
gress. They know better, but they can
have a new argument ready after the
next Congress fails to change the con-
ditions, if they succeed in beguiling the
Cubans into standing in their own
light. Meanwhile American control
will cont nue..
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20
Jack and Jill on Linden.

They clambered when the son was low
Across the swiftly melting snow,
And strove TO intercept its flow
With pals Of iron .mongery
He fell, and broke his golden head,
And she-believing he was dead
Decided to remain unwed,
In Difference to his memory.
Then, having heard OF the Suffice
She cried, "Ahl it were well with me
II L lay dead along with thee,
Thou pearl Of English chvalrylr
So down she flung her body fat,
Which reused him from his swoon wherea
She answered to his cry-"Who's that?"
otis l. sir, rolling rapidly"
Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
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HarrisOn's Home Tribute.

Bowed midst universal grief that makes
Coumba's self stricken mourner cast
In tears beneath the old flag at half.mast,
A sense OF glory rousee us, and breaks
Like song upon sorrowtng and shakes
The dew from our drenched eyes tina smile at las
In childish pride-as though the great man passed
To his most high reward for our poor sakes
Loved OF all men-we muBe-yet ours he was;-
Choice of the nations mighty brotherhood
Her soldier, statesman, ruler-aye, but then,
And after-as q neighbour kind and good,
Our common friend and fellow.citizen.
james Whitcomb Riley.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20

The Workmanship of the little count
and the editor of the Figaro does not
appear to have been extraordinary.
The newspaper man didn't even prick
his man, and the count managed to get
bullet into the thigh of his antagonist.
Ii he was aiming at the thigh that was
credit to his shooting.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20

The desire in the Dominion to build
up English at the expense of American
trade has been productive of unlocked
for, and, to:the Canadian manufacturer,
most unpleasant results, says the Com
nasrcial Bulletin of Boston. The WOOL
en- industry furnishes the most notable
example. On July l, 1900, the 33A
per cent preference tariff became OPP
erative. For July, August and Septem-
Der, 1900, the value of wooden goods
imported was 1924, 69l, which is at
the rate of $l2, 978,764 for the whole
year, while in the year ending June
30, 1900, when the preference was only
20 per cent, imports were but $685.
O07. Before there was any dickering
OF this sort with the tariff-while, that
is, there was an all-round effective pro-
tection-Canada looked abroad for
comparatively small quantities of wool.
en- goods. In the year 1897, for in
stance, the value of such imports was
$6,295,057. In other words, the re-
duction in the duty in favor of the
British manufacturer threatens to drive
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20

Provided the courage OF both the
parties of the first part holds out,
Count Boni de Castelane--better
known as the husband OF the Amer
can heiress, Auna Gould-and M. De
Rodays, of the Paris Figaro, will Ace
two shots at each other, at twenty
five PAGES, assuming of course that the
first of the two shots shall be chiefly
dangerous to the man that fires it.
The sympathy of the newspaper ira
ternity is naturally with the Figaro
man; and, if he is good shot, and the
friends Of the duchess shall be able to
congratulate her upon good radiance of
bad incumbrance, the issue may save
another kind OF a divorce suit later
on.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20

The war in South Africa has as
many ends as cat is credited with
lives Botha's surrender has not ma
terialized, DeWet was not cornered,
and his disappearing bands, reunited,
may be again descending upon some
British outpost, leading Kitchener off
on another fruitless chase.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20

his Canadian competitor out of the
field. America tariff reformers may
well profit by the lesson, for let it be
remembered that free wool and rev.
enue tariff on goods is what the domin-
ion is now suffering from.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20

Gold in the United States treasury
continues to increase at the rate of
more than $5,000,000 a month, and this
ratio of increase is likely to continue
until July l, when the revenue reduc-
ton law will go into effect. The law
reduced the revenue about S40,O00,0O0
year. Treasurer Roberts thinks that
will stop the increase of gold in the
treasury, but does not sxpect it 70 re-
duce the total, which now amounts TO
$3.50 ,913 OPP, and will probably succeed
half billion of dollars by the first of
July.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20

1t is good sign for Vermont news
paperdom, it is a good sign for Yer
mont generally, that the newspapers
all over the State, with few notable
exceptions, are beginning to speak
their mind.-St. Adams Messenger.
"Beginning" is good, indeed. And
it would be good to have beginning
of editorial mind speaking at st. Al
bans. That place has not always
seemed to be ga fount of every bless
ing" in the matter of freedom of the
press.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20

Respecting the gossip of the exemp-
lars of the real policy of infamy, as il
lustrated daily by the anti imperialistic
press and its followers, to the effect that
Senator Proctor has gone to Cuba on a
mission of annexation, the Senator
puts in an unnecessary denial. Where
upon, one of the crew, the Brattlebor)
RefOrmer, sagely aud assuriugly re-
marks:
"Redield Proctor is not a man who
revamps opinions at any masters bid
ding. We decline to believe that his
journey is undertaken in aid OF the
policy of infamy."
AS usual, the contemporary is hefty
and lugubrious.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20

Senator Allison and Representative
Hepburn, of Iowa, firing of the many
Misrepresentation Of the reason for
the return to the United States of Min
lister Conger, have given out an author
itahve statement based upon informa
ton obtained personally by them from
President Mckinley and Secretary
Hay. This statement is to the effect
that Minister Couger is coming home
on leave of absence, asked for by him
self; his conduct of the important ne
gotiatious in Pekin has been entirely
satisfactory o President Mckinley,
and, so far as the President or secre-
tary of State know, Mr.. Conger intends
to return to his post at Pekin at the
expiration of his leave of absence. If
he does not, it will simply be because
he does not wish to do so.