St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-02-04
The State Press.
BOURBONISM,

BOURBONISM.
Montpelier Waterman: 1t the re-
funding bill is essentially a democratic
measure. 1t was conceived by the de-
mOcracy, and all the democratic doctors
assisted at its birth. What object they
had in view in bringing this ill-favored
progeny before a disguised world I'M
less it be to form sort of companion
imp to the MOrey bastard, it is difficult
to understand. If it was expected to
create capital for an issue which would
give them fighting chance to win back
the next house of representatives or to
elect the next president, the democracy
are only giving early and fatal proof
that their capacity for laundering has
not been crushed out of the party lead
ers by the disastrous experiences of six
successive defeats in great national con-
tests for the presidency. In the closing
hours of their ill-gotten and ill-used
power in congress, with no pressing
temptation to sin again, it was general
ly thought that the Bourbon democra-
cy might prove capable of some act
that would impart an 0dor of sanctity
to an exceedingly vicious career; but
they have wantonly thrown away the
last of a long list of more brilliant OPP
portunities than ever fell to the lot of
any political party.
"CHIYALRY."
Bellows Falls Times Gen. F. G. But
teIfeld has expressed much indignation
at the reception accorded him by the
South Carolina people. As soon as they
h. h., Il
him with supercillious GOODNESS and sus-
piciOn, and instead of lending him their
aid in an undertaking on whose success
so much of interest to them depended,
they, as a rule, threw obstacles in his
way, or stood aloof. 1t will doubtless
take more than a generation of time
and progress to wipe out the virus of
secession and "chivalry" in the place
where it originated.
HOLD, ENOUGH!
Rutland Herald: Congress would de
good thing if it were to put stop at
once to the coinage of the standard sill
yer dollar. The real value of this coin
now is only about eighty-five cents,
and the proportion of silver to gold in
the treasury reserve is constantly on the
increase. The amount of these dollars
in circulation has been increased by the
various means used by the treasury to
force them 'out of its vaults, such as
compelling government employees to
take a quarter of their wages in silver
dollars, sending them free of expense to
anybody who will exchange greenbacks
for them, and in every way short of
paying an actual premium for the peo-
pie to use them. Members of Congress
avoid the burden which they forced on
the country by taking silver certifi-
Gates
GOVERNMENT EDUCATION FOR THE
SOUTH.
Brattleboro Phenix The world over,
intelligence rules, while ignorance only
obeys. This is in the nature of things,
and can never be otherwise while hui
mainly retains its present characters
tics. 1t is for this reason that the gov
eminent in the Southern states of our
union, though Republican in form, has
never been SO in reality and this con-
ditiOn of things cannot be changed with
any hope of permanence until the peO-
pie of those states have attained pro-
per degree of intelligence.
Aside, therefore, from all considerations
which justice or benevolence suggests
as to what is due to the people of the
South, whether white or black, it be-
comes the duty of the nation, as an act
of self-prOtection, to adopt such meas
ures for the education of the ignorant
classes who compose the bone and sin
ew of the South, as shall enable them
| in maintain their RIGHTS aG pitiZenS and
render impossible the repetition of acts
which threaten the destruction of that
government "Of the people, by the peo-
pie, and for the people," to which our
soil is dedicated.