Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-09-12
MONTPELIER, V MONT,

vi this programme, some portions appear tc
us to be good, some bad, and some Impractical.
Bile ami visionary.
Justice should be cheaply administered, but
we doubt the policy of administering it gratuit.
ously' Man is, in some degree, litigous ami.
NAL, as well as two legged featherleHs one, and
was justice to be had everywhere in society
strictly gratis, litigation would be enormously
and most unmanageably augmented, and much
of it would be for vexatious and frivolous eau.
ses' Cheap justice, therefore, but not wholly
gratuitous, seems to us to be the true policy.
The present direction of philanthropy seems
to be in favor of abolishing the punishment of
death in every case, 1t may be tried, but it will
be found not to do, whenever and wherever it is.
and the philanthropst will at last make the dis
covery, that lie who said, "whoso sheddeth
mans blood, by him shall his blood be she'd"
understood the subject as well as well as those
who think they understand it better
10 assume the violatos of law, the worst of
criminals included, are nothing but diseased per-
sons, would lead to much bad and ineffective
Legislation, which would have TO be amended or
repealed. We should like to see a commentary
on those two dlctl by Thomas Carlyle, who a.
VOWS ga hatred for scoundrels," and goes for
hanging them out of the way
What is said about education is good-oM
gatory means, that education should be compul-
sorry; that no member of the State should be
suffered to remain unlnstructed, even from
choice
We doubt whether the one tar plan, which
means the consolidation of all sorts of taxes in.
to one, and that direct one, is practicable in
in France or in any other eat commercial and
manufacturing country. The proportonaIity Of
burdens-proportiOnatite des chqrges-is not al
together unreasonable but the socialists, should
they sever come into power" would be sure to
push the principle to an unfair extent, and op
press the rich
The soldiers might be sent 10 the frontier, but
the difficulty would be to keep them there. We
wonder that Blanc did not dispense with the ar
my entirely. Were France under the regimen
of the Socialists, as she may one day be, we
cannot see what use she would have for an army
at all, OR for an army not composed of Socialists
and if composed of the latter, why not employ
them in the interior?
Were the State to assume the direction Of all
the banks, the railroads, the mines, and the in.
surance Offices, some of them would be badly
directed, we fear. We suppose that there never
has been bank, to all intents and purposes
State institution, unless temporary in its nature,
and created for specific purpose, that has been
well managed. Nor do believe that the
State could manage insurance offices TO much
advantage. Railroads and mines are more sim
pie, and yet we are not sure that they would
best flourish in the hands of the public, and the
reason is, that the public has too many hands.
The sort of paper money proposed by Blanc
we conceive to be about the worst substitute
that could have been proposed for convertible
paper assuming to be anything like capital at
all.
We disapprove the conclusion of the pro-
gramme in toto 1t is contradictory in itself, and
whilst purporting to be Pacific, and to be hands
off! it is, in fact full of mtermeddling and inter-
vention. Quoad Hoe, it is the First Revolution
revived. Political propagandism always ends
in war, and the denunciation of Kings and alis'
tocrats is the same as saying they should be
pulled down; to which we should moi object,
could they be kept down; but history tells us
how French propagandism ended some forty or
fifty years ago, and so 1t would end again-in
military despotism.-G Globe.