St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-16
Public Opinion.
HOW TO DESTROY PRESIDENTIAL
CHANCES.

HOW TO DESTROY PRESIDENTIAL
CHANCES.
We observe that those amiable but
destructive persons, whose mission i'll
life appears to he the premature kill
ing off of presidential candidates, have
begun operations afresh on Senator
EdmundS. His election as president
of the senate is made the excuse for
this outbreak. They are nominating
him for the presidency every few min
utes and will keep it up until he comes
ont, as he did i'll 1880, and requests
them to let him alone. There is no
more certain way to destroy all presi
dental possibility in a man than to
nominate him for the presidency every
time he happens to come into especial
prominence. 1t is not improbable that
the Adams family might have had a
third president in it before this if too
unanimous admirers had not set the
country laughing by jumping up every
time there was IA lull in politics and
shouting; 81 nominate Charles Francis
Adams ~ New York Tribune.
SENATOR MORRILL, AND THE TARIFF
BILL.
For the enactment of this measure,
the chief credit belongs beyond ques-
ton to Senator Morrill, of Vermont.
He has pressed its consideration i'll the
finance committee, of which he is chair
man, and in the senate, against con-
slant declarations that his labor was
hopeless, and against unreasonable OBJ
structiOns from the advocates of both
extreme theories of the tariff. His per
sistence, added to his thorough knowl-
edge of the subject, and the confidence
felt by the senate i'll his prudence and
patriotism, brought the bill to point
when it was just possible for the house
of representatives to redeem itself by a
strange parliamentary device from the
fatality of its delays and blunders.
While that device will be condemned,
the passage of the revenue bill, dimin-
ishing the surplus by S60,000,000 or
0,000,000 annually, will command
the popular apprOval.-IUtica Herald.
A DEMOCRATIC VIEW OF IT.
The movement in favor of making
William Sprague a gubernatOrial can
didate in Rhode Island, which is being
assiduously nursed by various political
elements inside the state, and outside
the state-mOre the latter than the
former, probably would be grOtesque
were it not too serious. We are per
fectly willing that the "citizens' equal
rights convention should nominate
him, because we do not know what the
citizens equal rights convention is; but
if it does nominate him, let it take the
whole responsibility for the act and its
consequences. We should regard it as
rash and unwise in the extreme, fOl
the democrats of the little state to seek
partnership in such a questionable ex-
pertinent. The democrats have suf-
fered enough under King Log, we will
admit, to tax their fund of reasonable
fOrbearance to its utmost limit; but
they would hardly be the gamer by
browning King StOrk. With Sprague
as their candidate, their chances OF
winning the election would hardly be
brilliant, and even should they make
him governor again, what would the
gain be p Boston Post.
WEATHER-FOOLISH VIRGINS.
The spirit Of prophecy does not ex-
list in man, and it is an utter impOssi-
bility for any of earthly mould to pre-
diet what will be the mysterious and
inscrutable workings of Providence
The man who assumes to do such a
thing is knave-and shall we not as
sumo that those who repOse confidence
in him are fools? The amount of loss
which the impudence of this man Wig
gins has OccasiOned the community,
not here alone, but throughout the
maritime provinces, and we dare say
also in England and on the continent
must be something enormous. 1t may
he reckoned by the tens of millions
For nearly week the entire fishing
industry of the country has been
brought to "a standstill, and kindred
occupations have suffered to a greater
or less degree. The wheels of COM
merce have in Il measure, for the time
being, been blocked and such was the
terror brought to the minds of many
who should have arisen superior to the
rawlings of IA blatherskite, that the
great ocean steamships took their de-
parture for Europe well-nigh passen-
gerless. Setting aside the loss of bust
ness, there must withal have beeI
much individual suffering on the par
of the poor who have had the bread
taken out of their mouths by "A compul-
sorry surcease of labor. Who is to bt
= held responsible for this? Certainly
not Virgins, who is entirely irrespon-
sible only in so far as a disturber of the
public peace and security is response
BILE for the outrages inflicted on a com
r munitv.-l Boston Traveller.