St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-10-27
Public Opinion.
WHO PAY THE TAXES.
IlleIlt.

WHO PAY THE TAXES.
| The Hubbell committees list of the
persons who contribute to the nations
income through the tariff is prepared
to show that only those persons pay
taxes to the national government who
indulge in luXuries. Not one word is
said of those who pay sixty per cent
tax on common thread, seventy per
cent on common window glass, eighty
per cent on jean blOuses, one hundred
per cent on rice and fifty per cent on
sugar Albany Journal.
| CONDUCTED ON THE SPOILS THEORY.
The present administration has thus
far been openly conducted on the spoils
theory and the rapidity with which
this course has created an adverse
public sentiment, and precipitated an
impending popular revolution against
present political methods, is in itself
sufficient condemnation of the presi-
dents system. 1t is only just to say,
however, that the administration has
represented a faction and not the
whole of the republican party PrOvi-
dence Star.
SANCTIONED BY THE PRESIDENT.
This new assessment by Cameron
will have as bad effect in New York as
in Pennsylvania. He would not at
tempt it if he were not sure of the
sanction of the president who gives
his tacit approval by allowing such an
outrage to be perpetrated. Every act
of this kind affects the republican par
ty throughout the country, and in
creases with alarming speed the num-
Der of republicans who think this is a
year to allow their party little whole
some disciplining.-lNew YOrkTrib
une.
PARTY MACHINERY NOT BOSSISM.
OF course, nobody takes the ground
that a party can be run without ma
chinery. There must be some Organi-
cation to start things i'll motion at the
proper time-to mass the party and
! lead it in the charge. But there is a
difference in machinery which derives
all it's motive power from the people,
and a machinery devised solely by the
CROSSES" for their own purposes. The
former kind of machinery will always
be responsive to the popular wishes.
Its prime object will always be to as
certain what is wanted. The other
machinery is calculated to disfranchise
and rob the people. Its effect is to
make everything in the government
salable.-[ San Francisco Bulletin.
AN ENGLIsHMAN's IMPRESSIONS OF
AMERICA.
| landed in America il prospective
admirer of its people and institutions,
and left it, after five months stay,
charmed with the courteous kindness
of its private citizens, astOnished at
the breadth and bOldness of the nation
al mind, and convinced that, so far as
power and prosperity are concerned,
the great republic is on its way to be-
come the foremost nation of the mod
ern world. But | looked for political
enthusiasm, intellectual aspiration and
republican simplicity of life, among
the people of the United States. |
found politics a close profession, mate
rial wellbeing the goal of ambition,
and luxury rampant among the rich.-
can Engineers Holiday" by ID. Pig
con of England.
INFLUENCED SOLELY BY OFFICE.
All machine managers think only of
offices. They exert all their power in
getting control of them, and come I'M
consciously to the conclusion that Off
ces are all powerful. Because they
and the men about them are influenced
solely by office, they jump to the wild
conclusion that the people are no more
patriotic and no higher minded. This
was Mr.. COnkling's mistake, and it led
him into series of most astonishing
plumbers. 1t would be natural to sup
pose that his experience would have
been a lesson to his associates, but it
evidently was not. Like him they are
utterly lacking in political sagacity.
They are not politicians, but pedlers of
offices. When the offices cease to be
powerful they are ruined.-[ New York
| Tribune.
THE TEST OF THE REFORMER.
Reform inside of parties, reform out
side of parties, reform above parties
and for all parties, reform for the sake
of reform, is the spring of action with
every true refOrmer. That his motives
may be questioned and criticised he
must be prepared to expect, but those
whose opinions are of any value will
ultimately apply to the judgment of
his motives that unerring test-the
natural correspondence between the
character of the object proposed and
the motive which is alleged for it and,
whereas, in the agitation for reform,
its advocates can derive no other ben
eft from its success than that which is
shared by the whole public, and that
success brings blessings to the state,
the refOrmer may calmly wait the hap
ply cOnsummatiOn for the vindicatiOn of
his sincerity Baltimore Sun.
THE TARIFF COMMISSION.
They have undoubtedly learned
enough to enable them, if they so in
cline, to make valuable and practical
recommendations with reference to the
tariff. We should not be at all sur
prised if they should do so. We were
of those who expected very little good
| from the commission at the start, be-
cause there was a great deal of evil
dence that it was not created in good
faith. But there are two facts which
must have forced themselves on the
attention of the commission, and which
must have some effect upon their con-
illusions. One of these is that the pub
lie opinion in favor of a reduction of
the tariff is very much stronger than it
had been supposed to be. The second
fact which must have impressed the