Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-24

. 4ubuTG WILL bu6 we'll 1OuuuOu nope O1 the numerous exhausted lakes and rivers of the State with the choicest game and food fishes known to epicures They have re- plenished the Hudson with millions of shad, thereby largely reducing the price and aug menting the supply of one of the most healthful articles of food. A similar benefit has been wrought in every part of the State, and the scientifically organized hatchery at Caledonia is recognized as containing the completest appliances of the kind in Amer ica The natural effect of this veto would be the immediate ruin of valuable and flourish ing establishment which could not be replaced for years. From such misfortune, howev- CT, the State will be temporarily saved by the public spirited and patriotic conduct of the mmissioners-Messrs Roosevelt, Sherman and Blackford-in continuing the operations of the State hatchery upon their personal responsibility until the next Legislature can review the action of the Governor.
 Lord Beaconsield in the course of his re- cent speech on the Compensation for Dis turbance bill made this contemptuous refer ence to progressive Liberalism "There is at the present day too great tendency to be- lieve that it is impossible to resist the prog ress of a new idea. There is a fashionable phrase now that everything is inevitable, and that every event is the production of com manding cause of Nature which human will cannot resist The despotism of public opin- ion is in everybody's mouth But should like to know, when we are called upon to bow to this public opinion, who will define public opinion. Any human conclusion that is arrived at with adequate knowledge and with sufficient thought is en- titled to respect and the public opinion of great nation under such conditions is irresist- ible, and ought to be so. But what we call public opinion is generally public sentiment. We who live in this busy age and in this busy country know very we'll how few there are who can obtain even the knowledge neces- sary for the comprehension of great political subjects, and how much fewer there are who, having obtained that knowledge, can supply the thought which would mature it into opin- ion. Mo- my lords, it is public sentiment, not public opinion, and frequently it is public passion" This is at least 'thalf -truth''
 The liar tford correspondent of the Spring field Sunday Republican, whose letters, by the way, are very attraqaive and valuable feature of that paper, truly remarks that the more the nomination of English is studied the less it is feared. He continues as fol lows:
 English for some time ran & remarkable career of success in our politics. but it ended in 1872. He was the first 'srich man" candl- date, and the corruption of our politics with money is directly traceable to his appearance in them. His main strength has always been found in the low wards of our large cities where year after year votes, bought like cat tie for so much head, have decided the cleo tions of the State. Things are now changed, though, and in several ways. For one thing our registry laws make false voting far more difficult than it used to be. For another thing a reasonable man cannot expect the English method, unless it is patented, to go on for very many years without being imitat- ed and adopted. For 8 third thing, the par able of the laborers in the vineyard has not yet been incorporated in the Democratic platform, and those laborers who have toiled faithfully for years and no pay cannot view with religious resignation the liberal rewards of the hundreds who are bought up at high prices and brought in at the eleventh hour. The result has been natural demorahzation of the workers" among the Democrats. They all have to be paid to stay in their own party. Already their speakers have begun appealing to the ''old-fashioned Democratic mejorities of the cities' to come forward and save them this time, but in the opinion of very many wise observers those majorities are gone forever. Look at New Haven giving Bigelow ? 300 majority while it used to be 1,50O Democratic, and Hartford going Re publican for State Senator, Congressman and Overwhelmingly so for Mayor Bulkeley, and it is hard to see where the Democratic reli- ance can rest except on the most lavish use of money.
 Pond, the nominee for Lieutenant Govern is correctly described as "a close e-mouthed, close listed, unsocial fellow of as little per sonal popularity as any other man of his wealth in Hartford.