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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-04-24
From the N. Y. Observer.
m.GOtten Prize Money,

Mr.. X. b. Roosevelt, member of
Congress from this city, has offered to
the Board of Education the back pay
which was voted to him and the other
members. 1t amounts to $4,000, and
he proposes to the Board to accept the
money and invest it, the interest to be
applied to the distribution of prizes
among the best scholars of the public
schools. We do not know what ac
ton the Board has taken on this re,
markable proposition, and we trust
that they deliberate with some caution
before they adopt the SUGGESTION
There is a moral in the matter.
That "back pay" was little better
than robbery of the public treasury
The moral sense Of an enlightened
people, which is rarely at fault, has,
with unexampled unanimity, set its
seal of condemnation upon this act of
Congress. Mr.. Roosevelt voted
against the measure. That is to his
credit. If he has moral right his
legal right is unquestioneD to draw
this money from the treasury, he has
both moral and legal right to keep it.
But if the act is intrinsically wrong,
then his giving the money to a CHART
able object does not justify him in
taking money that ought not to be in
his hands at ALL The money belongs
of right to the people Of the United
States-it was improperly voted away
by Congress, some of the members
thought so at the time, and said so by
their votes. They sure surely cannot
consistently take the money, after
having said by their votes that they
ought not to receive it. And if they
do so receive it, by no means would
we have the boys of the city stimulat.
ed to diligence by the offer of prizes
derived from such fund. 1t would
forever perpetuate the fact that the
Congress of the United States, with
the appreciation of the President,
voted themselves "back pay" and
while a few declined to receive, the
most of them had no scruples, and
some of them, after taking it, gave ii
away, and out OF this ill-gotten pay
these prizes were purchased That
is not good lesson for the boys
The Board of Education will do well
to decline the proposition.
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lily dismissed as unsustained but the
scope of the argument is much wider.
1t is with refreshing vigor that the
Court denounces the supposition that
it can be made ga perpetual censor
upon all Legislation of the State on the
civil rights of their own citizens with
authority to nullfy such as it does not
approve" So great departure from
the structure and spirit of our insti-
buttons, says the Court, is to fetter
and degrade the State Governments
by subjecting them to the control of
Congress in the exercise of powers
heretofore universally conceded to
them. 1t is encouraging to observe
the highest tribunal in the land, in the
midst of a swiftly running current of
Capitalization, stoutly maintaining its
purpose to ''hold with steady and
even hand the balance between State
and Federal power. The New Or
leans butchers have done the country
service in their defeat on this ques-
tion.-B0stOn Post.
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M1RRLED.
y I e D.

In Woodstock, April 10th, Thomas Leonard
aged As years.
In Woodstock, April 10th, John A. Mckenzie
aged 80 years.
In Ludlow, April 18th, JosephJ. Bixby, form
erly Of Mt. Holly, aged A years.
In Ludlow, April 18th, Mrs. Martha j., wife
of j. N. Pratt, aged 46 years.
In Bethel April 70, George Wheeler, after
short illness of typhoid pneumonia, aged 5.
years.
In Be thel April Is. Mrs. Zebina spaulding
after a long and painful lines.
In Cavendish, April 18th, Mrs. Sally Howard
aged II years, months and IA days.
In Windsor, April 18th, suddenly, Of heart
disease, Salmon ". Dole, aged 6s years, 8 mos
In Windsor, Aprill4th, of pneumonia, Mrs
Philena, wife of the late Thomas W. Savage
aged 70 years.
In Weathersfeld, April 18th, Grin Chitten.
den, aged 72 wears.
In Chester, Don f., son of Fuller and Mary
Bates, aged year, 8 months.
In Chester, April 9Th, Rhuma, wife of the
late Elijah Marshall, aged 70 years.
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1.-THE proper business of Govern
ments is simply to give protection and
enforce justice amongst all men under
its control. Except for this purpose,
it has no right, reason Or pretext to
NEEDLE with the life, liberty or prop
ety of any who live under it's authori-
ty." This is about the true doctrine.
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President MAKING.

! " "' pony '"''. S'N "
Washington city, where quite large
number Of prominent politicians were
present, among them six Republican
members Of Congress, the name of
speaker Blaine was proposed for the
next Presidency. The name of the
most contemplate, unprincibled and
heortless man in America. which is
that of Benz. +. Butler, is named also
as a candidate for that exalted posi-.
ton Upon this matter, and these
prepared Presidential candidates, the
" y SIN, truly says:
"a few toadies and office seekers flat
ter Grant with the idea of running a
third time and measuring himself by
the small men with whom he mainly
counsels, perhaps Grant entertains the
notion. But when his patronage is all
fooled out of him by this sort of talk
he will begin to learn, say about six
months hence, Of how little consc-
quence to anybody a President is after
getting well into his last term
Mr.. Blaine has long had his eye
upon the succession. After looking
into it he was sly enough to keep out
Of the Credit Mobilier, and got Ames
to let him have something else instead
oft which was quite as good. Having
in this mode technically escaped the
Mobiier scandal, Blaine staggered
around the country towards the close
of the last Presidential campaign defy
ing an investigation, and on the as
sembling Of Congress, very much to
the disgust of corruptionists generally
and the dismay of the Mobilier lame
ducks in particular, he got up the
Poland committee. Secretary cursed
for this by the implicated parties, he
got frightened and undertook to 50
engineer the matter as to make Ames
and Brooks the scapegoats for the
Others, and so far as expulsion or CEN
sure was concerned, he succeeded.
But his trickery in the last Congress
is too transparent to serve him in the
close scrutiny of 4 Presidential cam
paign; and therefore, as n candidate
for 1876, he is as much out OF the
question as Ames OF Dawes.
OF all men in the Union one would
think that Benjamin f. Butler was the
last who would imagine he could be
the Republican nominee for President
three years hence. But Butler has
such strange way oflooking at things
that we can readily believe, murky as
the skies appear for such men, that he
has his weather eye upon the White
House. Whatever prospects Ben may
have previously had, his course in the
Credit Mobilier debate destroyed them
forever. He appeared as the special
champion of corruption. He malign-
edthepress for.exposingbribery in Con-
gress. He seemed incapable of talk
ing a higher Or broader view of the
momentous subject under discussion
than would befit y wrangle in the po-
lice court of Lowell over Il prosecution
for petty larceny. Butler is only
colossal shyster, and the people don't
want him in the White House"
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SPIRIT OF THE AGE
Thursday April "a, 1873.
"The Salary Steal"

The papers state that our Senator
the Hon. Justin S. Morrill,, has giver
the back pay Che received) under the
Salary Steal Bill, $4,3s6,sO, to the
State Treasurer, to be applied towaro
paying our State debt. The people Of
Vermont will doubtlessly thank Mr.
Morrill, for the generous gift, and as
will also the people Of the nation fol
the ability and energy with which he
fought the swindling measure publicly
however he may have felt privately
There is no doubt in our mind but
some of those chaps who voted against
it, Or lodged were pretty sure before
hand that the prize would be theirs,
in any event. We do not h1aop that
Mr.. Morrill, belongs to this class.
We believe the only proper way for
q Member of Congress who has any
conscientious scruples about receiving
the "back pay" under said law, is to
return the same to the Treasurer Of
the United States. And better still,
had he not put himself to the trouble
Of drawing it out Of the Treasury. If a
Congressman draws bis allowance,
under this unjust act, no matter for
what purpose he may apply it, he is
guilty Of using money wRoNGruLLr
obtained, to say the least. Hence the
better way, in our opinion as suggest
ed above, is to return the i'll gotten
bounty back to the source from
whence it was received. Popular
opinion has made many Congressman
somewhat sensitive about taking their
''back pay" and rather liberal in dis
posing of the same. This robbing
Peter to give to Paul can hardly be
cassed as one OF ''the christian graces.'
We copy, in another place in this
paper, an editorial article on this
SALARY Steal from the Nen York
Observer, one of the leading relgi-
Gus journals in the country, which
our ''pious" and ''liberal' Congressman
would do well to read and practice.
The Hon. Albert Fearing Of
Massachusetts, has given permanent
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The Governor of South Carolina
is poor but honest. The fact that he
receives salary Of $1,000 year and
spends $4,000 is sufficient evidence
Of that theory.
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If by any chance an honest man
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his falling is discovered, says the n.
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The people of Whitehall lately
voted to raise $1,000, with which TO
fight the payment eff bonds issued by
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