St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-09-06
THE POLITICAL ARENA.
Another English Opinion.
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ing made to represent Mr.. Cleveland
as the English candidate" in order to
draw away the Irish votes usually Civ
en- to the democratic party. For this
purpose, extracts purporting to be from
English newspapers favoring Mr..
Cleveland, are being scattered broad
cast. The Irish World, indeed, goes
SO far, in its anti-English fury, as to
declare that the democratic candidate
is supported by "English gold.
Whether these tactics will succeed, or
whether the Americans will realize
that it is they, not England, who will
gain by free trade-American free
trade would utterly destroy our pre-
ponderance in the neutral markets of
Asia-remains to be seen.
Talmage's Prophecy.
/ give fair notice to all politicians
in America of what is coming. Better
lead off than follow on afterwards as
stragglers. Many of the strongest men
in both political parties, North and
South, see the rising tide of this refor-
nation and they are preparing to fight
the red dragon. There may be many
defeats before we get the final victory,
but victory will come as surely as there
is God in heaven, and as this nation
was not intended for one great drunk
cry.
Oh, what a country this would be
with no dram shops. No dram shops !
Then no pOOrhOuses, no penitentiaries,
fewer broken hearts, and fewer discon-
ISOLATE homes no woman brought up
in luxury afterward married to a man
who sets her, with her shriveled
arm and hollow eye and pallid cheek
and consuming lung, to fight back the
wolf that thrusts it's nostrils through
the broken window pane, shutting for
the blood of her helpless babe.
Geo. w. Cables Advice to the Negroes.
August Forum.
Vote! Cast your vote though taxed
for it. Cast your vote though defraud
ed of it, as many a white man is to-
day. Cast your vote though you die
for it. Let no man cry, elderly or
blood;" leave that for socialists and
Partisan mobs but when liberty means
duty, and death means ones own ex-
tinction, then the cry of "Liberty or
death" is holy cry, and the man who
will not make it his own even in free
dom is not free. Seek not to buy lib
erty with the blood either of friends or
of enemies it is only mems own blood
at last that counts in the purchase of
liberty. Whatever may have been the
true philosophy for more ferocious
times, this is the true philosophy for
ours. Cast your votes, then, even
though many of you die for it. Some
of you have died, but in comparison
how few 10000 white men poured
out their blood to keep you bound,
other 3OO, 900 died to set you free, and
still the full measure of American free
dom is not yours. A fiftieth as much
of your own blood shed in the inoffen-
sive activities of public duty will buy
it. Keep your vote alive better nine
free men than ten half free. In most |
of the southern states the negro vote
has been diminishing steadily for
years, to the profound satisfaction of
those white men whose suicidal policy |
is to keep you in alienism. In the
name of the dead, black and white, of
the living, and of your children yet IN
born, not as one party or another, but
as American freemen, vote! For in
this free land the people that do not
vote do not get and do not deserve
their rights.