St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-04-27
Public Opinion.
ENFORCING THE SUNDAY LAW IN NEW
YORK.

ENFORCING THE SUNDAY LAW IN NEW
YORK.
The police did their duty well yes
terday III enforcing the Sunday laws in
regard to liquor selling. Even the bar
rooms in the leading hotels in the city,
which have generally been open when
drinking places called disreputable
were shut, were closed in obedience to
hint from the captains of the pre-
cincts. Numerous arrests were made
in some of the more disOrderly neigh
bOrhOOds in the lower wards. 1t does
not matter to what we owe this new
activity among the police. 1t may be
due to change of heart on their part,
or it may be because the term of one of
the Police Commissioners expires soon,
and he would like to be reappOinted
1t is certainly welcome and praise
worthy. 1t shows, too, that the aSser-
tiOns so often made by the authorities,
especially those at the central Office,
about the impossibility of preventing
Sunday law breaking were untrue.
What was done yesterday can be done
on, indefinitely. If not, why not p
lMOuudN IIlDuut.
THE TEwKSBURY AFFAIR.
Gov. Butler awaited himself Monday
of the liberal powers reserved to the
executive under the Talbot Organiza-
ton of our state charitable system and
in the precise language of the law "di-
rected" the board of health, lunacy and
charity to take the state almshouse out
of the hands of its trustees and assume
the control and administration thereof
The trustees and Superintendent Marsh
will cease to Officiate ''from and after
the day on which you comply with this
ordern The board takes until Satur-
day to consult with the attorney-gen-
eral as to their duties and obligations
under this order. While it is wise to
fOrestall any quo warranto proceedings
on the part of the ousted trustees, by
taking legal counsel, the board will
undoubtedly not shrink from any re-
spOnsibility which can be lawfully
placed upon them.
The governor is characteristically
adroit in Selling the moment for this
step when his own ammunition before
the investigating committee is running
low and before the defense have had
an opportunity to put in a word of de
Tense. This is the politics which sticks
out of all he does. We believe that
the Marshes ought not to he continued
longer in the management of the aims
house, but the poorest respect for fair
play requires that they should not be
of an opportunity for defense.
A legislative committee is free court
of scandal and the opportunity to pre-
sent evidence in rebuttal of what is
there alleged is the only redress posi-
BILE to those who may be injured and
maligned before it. The charitable
have erred in not introduc-
ing the rebutting testimony as fast as
it could be brought forward. From
DR.. Dixwell's opening statement about
the dissection of great numbers of in
fants every year, there has been gross
and some falsehOod spread
before the country to the needless dis
grace of Massachusetts,, as will be
shown, if the opportunity to produce
the defense is offered Springfield
DYNAMITE AND THE PHILADELPHIA
CONVENTION.
1t is unfortunate for the interests of
Ireland and the Irish cause that the
Irish convention called for Wednesday
the 25th meets when the dynamite
excitement is at its highest, and when |
the responsibility for dynamite con-
spiracies in England has just been