St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-10-27

urers, as body, are very far from be
ing united i'll favor of protection a
now applied.-lN New York Times.
1T NEEDS CAUTERIZATIoN.
The revival of boss rule, machin,
appliances and federal dictation il
New York and Pennsylvania have
made these states the battle ground
| The republican voters are determined
to strike down the machine politicians
TO repudiate the tricks and frauds OF
ward politics, to rebuke the national
administration for its intermeddling
and to assert the rights of the people
even at the cost of a republican defeat
The party can well afford to submit tC
the heroic treatment. CauterizatiOn il
the only effective remedy. The demo.
Gratis may carry New York and Penn
sylvania, and may even gain the con-
troll of the next Congress, but the re-
publican party will be the stronger in
1884 for the Punishment of the machine
and by reason of the new demonstra-
ton of its power to reform the abuses
which grow up in its own ranks. 1t ii
also possible that IA democratic Con-
gress may contribute materially to re.
publican success in 1854 Chicago
! Tribune
| LUXURY OF BEING A CANDIDATE.
The luxury of even being a candi-
date for office is rapidly becoming a
monopoly in this country. To the
growing cost of running campaign
which keeps many good men out OF
the field, is now added the cost of eau
cuses. If so much is paid for a chance
of nomination, how much more would
be spent for election 4? The conscience
of the people is yet too dull to see the
danger and disgrace of such tactics
hence the opposition will also be COM
pelled TO use vast sum of money If il
hopes for success. An honest rich
man hesitates to enter such a fight
and it is an utter impossibility for a
poor man, honest OF dishonest, to con-
tend against such odds. The outlook
is dark indeed when viewed through
patriotic eyes. Yet it is the people
who are to blame. An empty name is
more to them than principle, and the
payment of a poll tax is accepted as a
favor instead of being resented as an
insult. Not even ignorance can be
PiSaiuCu as an tACuSC lOI lIC SlllS vi
misgovernment, and the results of evil
legislation have been written on al
most every hearthstOne. The cOntinu-
ance Of this practice will result in this
Only dishonest rich men can be elected
to office. When none but dishonest
men make our laws, how can we ex-
pect anything but dishonest legisla-
ton p Marblehead Statesman.
THE LESSON FOR POLITICIANS TO
LEARN.
The lesson which political managers
most Obstinately refuse to learn is that
this country is governed by opinion
Men keep thinking all the time, and
every year they dare more resolutely
to carry their thoughts into action. In
the long run, the public man who does
not admit this and strive to keep him
self in the center of the current of the
peoples thought must go down and
when once he has suffered this catas-
trOphe he never rises again. By this ii
is not meant that the mere political
boss is never successful. Somebody
must hold office, and it is according to
the law of probabilities that the man
who is forever trying to secure it will
sometimes succeed. Let people be ev-
er so misery, the beggar who patient
ly holds out his battered cap day after
day will receive a penny by and by.
But it has been proved again and
again, and it will be still more crush
ingly demonstrated in the future, that
no one can maintain himself indefinite
ly in power by the use of the spOils and
the machinery of power. 1t is extreme
ly difficult to do so long in IL city; it is
growing to be next to impossible to do
so at all in Il large and enlightened
state it is utterly out of the question
to-day in the nation as a whole. If the
last canvass for presidential candidates
settled anything, it decided for all time
that no man and no combination OF
men can bind the people of this coun-
try to execute their commands.-[St.
Paul PiOneer-Press.
Personal JOURNALISM.
The shooting of Col. Slayback by
Mr.. COckerell, editor of the st. Louis
Post-Dispatch, is fresh illustration of
the evils of personal journalism. There
seems to be some conflict of evidence
as to which of the men concerned drew
his revolver first, but it is clear that
each was armed and ready to shoot if
provoked, and that the miserable quar-
rel which ended in this tragedy grew
out of personal assaults in the news
papers. rheumatism and politics had
been upon higher plane in st. Louis,
such an occurrence would have been
impossible. 1t is surprising that some
journalists fail to see how far they low
er the dignity of their profession when
they avail themselves of the power
which circumstances place in their
hand for the satisfying of private
grudges and the defamation of charac-
ter. There is "A mistaken idea that this
sort of thing indicates wit and brillian-
cy and helps to make a paper "spicy,"
but the influence of every paper which
INDUCES in it is weakened in cOnse-
quence. Nothing repels an intelligent
reader quicker than to find that the
editorial expressions in newspaper
are made the medium for wreaking
personal animOsities. There are "a
good many journals which are given
to this kind of thing, sometimes half
in jest and sometimes wholly in malice.
Much freedom is allowed to newspaper
discussion, and the subjects of news
paper attacks are often recOnciled
to interpreting what is said in the
Pickwickian sense. But that this ten
dency may, even occasionally, end in
some such tragedy as this at st. Louis
ought to serve as a warning to jOurna-
lists who are addicted to the practice.
Vermont News.