St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-09-16
Public Opinion.
THE NEWSPAPERS VALUE.


1t is true, and especially true of our
own country, that newspapers, i'll the
hands of men having convictions and
believing that they could, with this
lever, help to move the world, have
accomplished great things. Without
them the great movements of the past
century for the furtherance of person
al, religious and political liberty would
have travelled at a snai's pace. But
this was possible only because they
had the support and sympathy of the
best men and women i'll the cOmmuni-
ty. The newspapers can lead, but
leadership implies a following, and
where none will follow none will be
brave enough to lead. AS Il rule news
papers are what their readers make
them. The responsibility of the sub
scriber is as great i'll its way as that of
the editor. The surest way of keep
ing the standards of our journalism
high, and of raising them, is for that
portion of the public which knows the
value and necessity of a dignitied and
able press to Withhold its support alto
gether from newspapers which cater to
depraved tastes and are reckless of the
truth, and to give it to newspapers
which can safely be taken into the
family, and are not only decent but
just IN. Y. Tribune.
AN AWKWARD POSITION.
1t has seemed to us from the first
that in the absence of legislation the
Vice-president is placed in a cruelty
embarrassing attitude. Should he
make his appearance in Washington
unlimited, and propose to place him
self at the head of the Executive De
partment Of the government by vitRue
of theory promulgated by himself
that President Garfield is unfit to eXer-
else the powers and discharge the du-
ties of Chief Magistrate, he might be
confronted with awkward compiled
tiOns resulting i'll ruinOus discontinue.
| Suppose the Cabinet, backed by the
medical men in charge of the Presi-
dents case, should declare the latter
perfectly competent to meet any absO-
lutely necessary call upon his attention
in the line of official duty, and the
President in his own behalf were to
reject the proposed interference, what
could the Vice-president do then? In
evitably, it would be necessary for him
to beat an ignOminious retreat, under
a running fire of ridicule and denun-
utterly disastrous to his reputation
TROY On. " Times.
ANGLO SAXON SENTIMENT.
This mixture of rugged, war-Iike
temper with humane sensibiIity to real
woe is the mark of the true born En-
glishman, and the American people in
their times of trial, like the present,
show themselves true sons of English
stock they have hearts that are both
stout and tender; with no patience for
sentimental posturing, real woes,
bravely met, always command the re-
spect and sympathy of English hearts.
Your hero of the Latin race is usually
a sentimentalist, who will blow his
brains out because of woman's frown
or loss ut faro, IL morbid, verse writ
ing, capriciOus creature, weak and
silly when he thinks to be heroic but
it takes your rugged, self-contained,
unyielding, matter-of-fact Anglo-Sax-
on to realize most perfectly what was
meant by the old title Douglass, ten
der and true" This is the nobility of
England and she has given it to Ameri-
ca Rutland Herald.
THE REPRESENTATIVE WOMAN.
But we hope the mistake will not be
made of placing Mrs. Garfield i'll an
isolated niche among American women
and American wives. She is no dis
tinguished exception endowed with the
stern courage of Roman matrons be-
yOnd other women, but a fine repre-
sentative of her sex and class. In the
sympathy that is felt for her and the
admiration of her domestic virtues and
wifely devotion, let us learn to appre-
ciate more truly the women that are
nearer to us than the presidents wife.
Il RoSton Post