Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-08-07
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1t is good to do good by stealth. as it
were but one need not be so sly that the
world cannot find out that he ever did any
good. orleans PjcdHltuc.
The Boston ministers who have been
fined for preaching the gospel on the com
mon may find II pertinent text in the fact
Buffalo Bill has been given permission to
show on Sunday. -PrOridcnCc journal.
In the the heat of battle | have given
orders on the impulse of the moment that
involved thousands of lives, but don't
know one that | would revoke to-day
if the opportunity should return
genera Grant to General s. r. Hunt
Some of the able editors of the country
call upon the President to make the day
of Gen. Grants funeral Il National holt
day. There are II few things that the
President cannot do, and this one of them.
Congress, not the President, desgnates
the holidays -Boston Post.
If one felt inclined to introduce in paral-
lei columns the brutal attacks made upon
Grant and the laudation now bestowed
upon the dead hero by the same news
papers, what profound contempt the
contrast would awaken in the minds of
honest men.-BoStOH JOunul.
"rhe people of the United States may
well mourn the death of General Grant
II career has been remarkable one and
his success has been the result of great
military genius, supplemented by an in
domitable will and steadfast strength of
purpose. "-GCncrdl HdncOck
What Is the patriarch element-the arts
tocracy-of England coming to, anyhow /?
Right upon the heels of the terrible eX-
poSureS of the Pan MuU gazette here we
have two married noblcmen publicly
pounding each other for the love of II
theatrical guinea hen.--N Y. WOrld.
Now that Col. Smalley has been given
the Burlington custom house, the public
is entitled to some relief from the eXuber
ant notoriety of Atkins and Smalley. If
the administration will study into the Yer
mont situation it will discover that the
growing end of the Democratic party up
there is the wing that does not swear by
these men.-SprinNiCld Rcpublicdn
1t has been often remarked of late that
if disclosures such as the Pan MAJ GU
zCttc has made in regard to London could
be published of the great cities in this
country the details would be as shocking
as those which the gazette has given to
the world. This is not so. The great
capitals OF Europe have a large population
which has nothing to do. Standing ar
mics are not conducive to morality. Our
safety rs moral nation is to preserve our
admiration for work and workers. In
idleness is sin.-T'rOy Times.
In the week ending July II, according to
its own figures, the circulation of the
weekly Slu was 40,1 42 In the following
week, ending July IS, the circulation of
weekly Sua (Which reprinted the salacious
stuff from the Pan man Gu:cttc) was
swelled to 1863. 132. Last week, by the sun S
own figures, its weekly dropped. with the
| traditional "sickening thuG,' to ~. 132-
say 800 less than its normal unsensat iOnal
circulation, or possibly showing that 500
| farmers have discontinued drawing upon
the sun for fertilizng materially. y.
| UOrld.
All the, VERMONT Republicans who were
! described as mVing arranged to Gust Mr..
Edmunds from the Senatorship have
placed themselves on record as entertain
ing for that statesman no sentiments save
| those of affectionate awe, and add that III
any case the private business engagements
into which they have entered would not
| allow them to accept Il nomination. Moth
ing 50 beautiful has been seen since pair
of understood tramps stole up to a rose
uncovered cot in Kentucky, intending tO
steal the spoons and bulldoZe the woman
of the house out of her spare cash, and
looking through the window beheld heI
twisting Il poker round her arm and rec
ognized her as Mrs. Bates, the Kentucky
Giantess. PhUddclphid Rccord.
All that is now needed to perfect our
currency is to remove the cheap silver
menace. The coinage has been going on
long enough, and it cannot be continued
with safety. The demagogues and igno
| TtlDllSeS w no 10 see Ill cheap mon
ey something beneficial to the poor man
ought not to be able to deceive anybody
at this time by their absurd clamor. Ii
is the poor man who wants money thai
is good as well as the rich man. He now
has the rich mans money, is paid i'll it OIL
its equivalent, and gets its full worth whel
he buys goods for his own consumption
Once let the country be forced to ii silver
standard, and prices of all kinds of mer
chandise Will rise Immediately, but tn,
poor man will haveto fight for an increas,
of wages or salary. He may get it in time
but before he does he will be a heaV,
loser.-CMcogO Herdld.
1t is suggested that every survivor o
the [ Mon army should procure and wea
mourning for Gen. Grant. This sugges
ton comes from veteran who has alread
acted upon it.-BOstOn TrdrellCr.
The Chicago TTibuHC abuses the city o
New York vllanously because the fam
lily of Gen. Grant has selected one of on
parks as II burial place for the great sol
, dicr. And vet New York was kind Il
Chicago when the great calamity of ls1
. overlook the ambitious metropolis of tn
lakes. " by all this resentment? y. y
= lIOrld.
We shall be glad to count the old Tam
many among the plague spots iron
which the metropolis, in this era of pure
luedlS anu HOHeStcr aims, mas shaken mel
! self free. If new and better Tamman
should arise on the ashes of the Old W
| shall be prepared to weigh it on its merit
! without prejudce.-NeW York Sunda
1 Telegram.
The Springfield Republican says tina
Messrs. Smalley and Atkins do not b,
long to the growing end of the Democr;
: tic party" in Vermont The genera
/; impression is to the contrary. Indeed
l the opinion is quite general that were
not for these two men the few Democrat
in Vermont would forget to 90 to tn
polls.
Every day the number of girls that IA
+ from virtue in civilized countries is large
= than that of the heather converted I
christianity by missionaries. Why, tn Ell
:, do we spend our money in converting tn
5 heather instead of saving the civilized
( Is it because prudery keeps church peopl
q in ignorance of the vice around them an
charity is only for the barbarian on til
. other side of the world
f Joseph W. DreXel, speaking ON the sui
e iect of the memorial which he wishes I