St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-06-13

less leader, ga man with the executive
intellect of Cesar, Napoleon, and Bis
mark, and the lofty impulses of Leoni-
das, Cincinnatus, and Washington To
continue the description of this per-
sonage, che was man of huge bulk
and Drawn. His head was the size and
shape of Daniel Webster's, whom he
greatly resembled, except in being of
the blonde type. His awful gray eyes
had power in them far beyond that
OF the orbs of the indolent Webster
The workingmen, soldiers of the new
revolution, are instructed by their hero
TO supply their own needs from the
abundant stores of their neighbors, Civ
ing them receipts in the name of the
revolution for the property thus forci-
ply appropriated. They accordingly
seize the national banks, and help
themselves to as much money as thev
deslre. This story was read with deep
interest by many of the older opera
tlVes, especially those who were inter
ested in labor reform. The paper con-
tanning it prints each week declaration
OF principles, which affirms that the
government should hold all the land of
the nation that it should be without
price (the free use of as much of it as
he can cultivate being secured to every
man J that ground rents of towns and
cities should be controlled by govern
ment that gold and silver should be
demOnetized, and that in their stead
absolute paper money should be issued
by the government that interest on
money should be forbidden that all
mines, railroads, and highways should
be owned and controlled by the govern
ment that the government ought not
to interfere for the collection of debts
between individuals, but that the pay
ment of debts should be left entirely TO
the honor of the debtor. There should
be an income tax on all incomes above
one thousand dollars, growing heavier
for lager sums. Eight hours labor
should be legal days work, and the
Senate of the United States should be
abolished. Recently the paper has de-
voted much space to the advocacy of
''the right of the people to free travel :"
the government should own the rail-
roads, and tax capitalists to obtain
means for operating them, and people
who do not wish to pay fares should be
permitted to ride free. This paper has
a large circulation among operatives,
miners, and city mechanics in nearly
all parts of the country. 1t is large
sheet, and is conducted with much abil-
ity. 1t always contains two or three
serial stories by popular writers, which
are designed to ''hoatn the heavier ar
ticles devoted to the propagation of the
doctrines of the agitators, who seek to
establish n universal, international
sovereignty of workingmen upon prin-
ciples and methods which contradict
and oppose every essential of civiliza-
ton. The tone and spirit of the paper
are indescrihably bitter, and expressive
of intense hostility against the posses
sors of property and culture. 1t repre-
sents capitalists as a class of cruel and
inhuman Oppressors, and instructs the
working people that the time is at hand
for them to seize the rights of which
they have been so long deprived. All
its teaching is opposed to the spirit and
principle of nationality, and tends, so
ia @s it has any effect, to produce social
and political disintegration.-June At
ldRtic.