St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-03-01
Public Opinion.

6uD1C OpAhOh'
ANY person who thinks OF making al
eccentric will had better give over tnt
notion. 1t would be much more straight
forward and answer the same purpose
to leave the money direct to the Bal
association or to the judges, to be d.
vided among the leading counsel.-Neu
York World.
at is much to be wished" wrote the
Father of His Country, a century ago
''that public faith may be held lnvlola'
BILE. Painful is it, even in thought
that attempts should be made to weaken
it's bands. 1t is dangerous experl'
ment. Once slacken the reiDs and the
power is lost. 1t is an old adage thai
honesty is the best policy. This ap-
plies to public as well as private life
to states as we'll as to individuals"
The mistake in the matter of hazine
has been the assigning over to the col
lege faculties of the duty of suppressing
it. The Rev. DR.. McCosh has been left
to struggle with this lawlessness quite
long enough. These Offenses are com
mitted against the peace and dignity OF
New Jersey. Let New Jersey deal with
the offenders.-NelU York Sun.
First effect: ~ must take the new
dollar must L? Good John, just mark
up that last lot of goods fifteen pei
cent" And so the dealer makes things
square, N. 7. Com. Adv.
The Orleans County Monitor, pub
lished by Captain Blake at Barton, says
that $50 far as the newspapers are con-
cerned, Lieut.. Gov. Redfield Proctor
has the nomination for the next gov
ernor. The republican convention will
probably do the sensible thing and ratify
the nomination"
The Hartford Courant recommends
that the first monthly payment of Con-
gressmen, S4I6-abOut 25 lbs.-6e made
i'll silver, which no bank would take at
its nominal value, and which they would
have to carry to broker to be sold at
a discount.
Mr.. Bland is one of those loose
tOngued scamps who cannot help letting
out now and then the crimes which
they are getting ready to commit.
Shrewder and cooler men cover up
their real intentions with big phrases,
and while they are steadily striving for
one thing, loudly protest that they mean
another. But Mr.. Bland, fortunately,
allows his tongue to run away with him
occasionally, and show him just as he
is. The man who rOared out at the
New York bankers not long ago that, if
they were not sufficiently submissive,
the next Congress would wipe out the
public debt ''as with a SPONGE now
urges the House to tack provision for
unlimited silver initiation on the Appro-
priation bills, and, that FILLING, calls for
paper money "t0 strike down the bond
holder" That is the whole Bland theO-
ry OF finance. 'Strike down the bond
hOlder!" Down with the man who lent
you money when you needed it, and
who naturally wants to be paid Mr.
Bland is doing good without meaning
it.-N. y. Tribune
AN APOLOGY WANTED FROM CONGRESS.
From the Detroit Post and Tribune.
Were Congress to dispose of the Sill
yer Bill one way or the other, dis
miss the tariff for a twelvemouth at
least, and go home and apologize to
their constituents for the ''hard times"
they would be doing something to re-
pair the meddling which has kept the
country downtrodden by business stag
nation and all its consequences of pow
erty, complaint, idleness and discon-
tent. The silver dollar, nor the absence
of the silver dollar, high tariff, low
tariff or free trade, could have any such
disastrous effect as uncertainty in the
legislation on these subjects. 1t is the
fear of the blow, rather than the blow
itself, from which it is possible to suffer
the worse.
reform" PLATFORM FOR 1880.
From the Philadelphia Press
|. Pay all debts in coin worth 90
cents on the dollar.
III. Place all direct taxation on in
dustry, savings, and earnings in the
shape of an income tax.
Ill. Shut up our furnaces, shops, and
by free trade OF low
tariff.
". Pay S7O,OOO,OOO, in the shape of
subsidies, grants, and aids, to the South.
raising it from the Northern working
man.
V. Take off the tax from whiskey and
tobacco, in aid of the industrious Dem
Ocratic poor.
vi. Reduce the army by starvation.
1t had no right to save the Union.
What a magnificent achievement of
this platform is and
every plank of it has been moved in
Congress by Democratic statesmen, and
some of them carried.