St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-08-19
Public Opinion.
THE NOVEL EVIL.

Jobs asses who snuffed up the east
wind were not fed on such utterly
empty and poor stuff as the Ned Blunt
lines and Buffalo Bills and the writers
of the dime novels furnish to their ca
ger admirers; nor does the worst east
wind that ever blew do anything like
the harm of these sensational produc-
lions. Every week develops some
| fresh case of foolish boys who have
armed themselves and run away from
| their homes to 90 out upon Il life of
fancied excitement and adventure, and
who, in most cases, have to be cared
for by the police and returned to their
parents. 1t is the vicious ''dime nov
els" and the opportunities afforded by
the cheap upper tier of the theatre to
witness the blood-curdling joaquin
Miller style of humbug herOism on the
stage, that may be charged with the re-
sponsibility for this state OfthingS.-
Hartford Times.
STALwARTISM NOT DEAD YET.
Has the type disappeared Is the
thing itself no more because Guiteau
made the name odious Has the
downfall of Mr.. Conkling changed the
ideas or purposes of the men who
threw up their caps for him six months
ago. Is the energy of reform that is
now agitating the Republican party the
normal activity of an organization
| freed from e. e seven devils OF Stalwart-
ism, or only spasm, superinduced by
fear of public opinion? Have the
COnklings, the Arthurs, the Logans,
Camerons, Blaines, Chambers, Cor
nells, all been born again politically
1t does not seem likely. A decent re-
gard for the opinions of mankind
would cause partisan and factiOnal
strife to be hushed while the President,
its victim, lay vacillating between life
and death. But, when this truce Is
ended, it will be found that the same
forces contend for the mastery. Right
public opinion has been greatly in
creased and strengthened by the events
of the past five months, but the essen
tial conditions of our politics are not
otherwise changed. StalwartiSm Is not
dead. The people have yet to assume
the management of their own affairs
The ancient right of Republicans ia
CHOOSE everywhere, and at all times
the bestn-in other words, indePend-
ency of political actiOn-rcmains to bc
asserted. While there is slavery to
party stalwartism will rule Boston
Herald.
WHERE 1T PAYS TO INVESTIGATE.
But marriage remains Il matter on
! Il Il
much taken for granted, and hundreds
of marriage notices might end ''and ne
questions asked" as some other adVer-
tisements do. There is fair side to il
all. Few things are better i'll Amcri-
can life than the absence of money
considerations i'll marriage. Young
men make no question about Il dOwry
and young men about Il settlement
The two most interested decide foI
themselves, and the parents leave the
decision where its consequences must
fall for good or i'll. But every decade
makes this more dangerous.
Some knowledge of the world is need
ed to comprehend how easily II man
can break off in one place and reap
pear in another every man of whom
little is known is Il man of whom little
is to be trusted, and there are easier
ways of investigating than by mar
riage. A young woman'S training is OF
small good to her in these matters, and
the blame falls justly on friends when
"A blunder is made. How often mar
riage brings the knowledge that would
have made marriage impossible, few
know, and, even then, the saddest
cases are not those that end in il catas-
trophe as this has but which weal
away in suffering - suffering which
might be avoided, if more women faced
marriage as men do, as desirable but
not necessary. -[Springtield Republi-
can.