St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-11-03
Public Opinion.
WHAT REPUBLIcAN1sM MEANS.

WHAT REPUBLICANIsM MEANS.
Those republicans who fear that the
present political situation endangers
republican success in 1884 must reflect
that success in 1884 depends wholly
upon what 1882 shows republicanism
to mean Harper's Weekly.
THANKSGIVING DAY.
There is not much use, beyond the
form of it, in appointing Thanksgiving
day for the state or the nation. BY
this time it is pretty we'll understood
that it is always to occur on the last
Thursday in November and we should
all observe that date even if we were
served with no annual proclamatiOns.
= Boston Star.
WHERE THE REvOLTS ARE.
1t is a striking comment upon the
results of the administration methods
of bossing state politics that in what
are known as the cabinet states, New
York, Pennsylvania, Colorado and
New Hampshire, where the cabinet
representatives have been most active
in trying to control state politics,
there are the most formidable revolts.
i Philadelphia Times.
THE TIME Is COMING.
1t is many years since the politics of
this country have been in a normal
condition, in which there was a chance
to put the claims of one party to conf
dence against those of the other. 1t is
question whether the existence of
slavery did not preclude such con-
dition, even in the older days of the
republic. But the time is coming for
it. There may be need of transfer
nation in the parties themselves be-
fore it is fairly brought about, or it
may come through present parties
modified only by gradual changes
New York Times.
MAKING RODS FOR THEIR OWN BACKS.
Political cant, party machinery, pO-
litical corruption and the tyranny OF
capital are among the foes which
threaten, and which even now restrict
our freedom. The fact is that we, to
some extent, choose our own masters
and then delude ourselves with the
notion that we are free. Modern des-
! potism is beginning to learn how tC
use the forms of freedom to destroy
the substance, and our free and indie
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to making rods for their own backs
providing they can do so in the name
of liberty and persuade themselve:
that they rather like being whipped
Montreal Star.
PISTOLS AND WHISKY.
3 Edward Hovey, who has been founC
guilty of murder in New York by ;
: jury out only fifteen minutes, appear
= to have been pistol fend of the wOrs
p kind. He has carried pistol since HI
: knew what a pistol was. His sister-in
law, the murdered woman, took a pts
toll away from him the day before tn,
= murder. Then he left the house an,
: pawned his coat for a fifty-cent pistO
and some drinks of whisky. The mex
day his victim saw the new pistol ant
: he shot her, he claims, as he was hand
j ing it to her. A more worthless an,
= degraded kind of human vermin thai
that which exists on cheap pistols an,
whisky it is difficult to find Spring
field Republican.
LEAVES OF GRASS"
The satisfaction that one would Xix
to feel in E. H. Heywood's committa
e to Jail is spoiled by the fact that tn
h nasty fellow will enjoy it and brag G
it as martyrdom for principle. The OF
lenses of Whitman's "Leaves of Grass,
o gross as they are, are in their plac
IS cOndOnable and not ground for lega
4 interference, but selected, printed an
- distributed because of their glossnes
: they become truly obscene. A parable
y case occurred in New York whe
: Stephen Pearl Andrews circulated eN
IS tracts from the Bible chosen for til
= same reason. 1t is the motive thu
:, distinguishes. Unfortunately not tn
l. arrest nor even the sentence of a cOul
y can more than temporarily suppress
1t such a pestiferous nuisance as Hey
wood II Snrin ptield Rennhlican