St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-04-11
Ol)e CALIFORNIAN.
PRESS COMMENTS.
Probibifiou sin on DECK.


hearing at the next session. Troy
Times
Slow PROGRESS in Maine.
The progress of the woman suffrage
cause NAV be sure, but it is slow.
Lucy Stone points to the fact that
though it is Sc years since suffrage
petitions began to be sent up women
are still a disfranchised class. The
Maine farmers get legislation offering
a bounty for the dead body of crow,
and the lobster catchers obtain pro-
lection for their Holsters; but Maine
women cannot get municipal suffrage
nor reform school for girls. ''Nei-
ther the mothers nor any women of
Maine have votes, SO they stand out
side and wait while the lobster and
crow are attended to-"-[Springfeld
Homestead.
The Difference Between Them.
Mr. Lincoln made an excellent sec
rotary of war, and has shown capaci-
" and ability in his own profession
and in whatever positions he has fill
ed. On the other hand, the appoint
ment of Col. Fred Grant to Austria
is a grave mistake, and is unaccount
able on any discoverable ground of
deserving. intellectually or otherwise,
in the recipient of the honor, who has
never shown ability of any kind III
any direction, and whose capacity to
fill so important an assignment is
questionable in every way. 1t is true
that he is the ''son of his father" as
is also Mr.. Lincoln; but the latter
can afford to stand upon his merits
independently of the fame that at
taches to his fathers name, while the
former has nothing but his name to
recommend him to attention. BOs
ton Saturday Gazette.
Blaine on Civil Service Reform.
No reform in the civil service will
be valuable that does not release
members of Congress from the care
and the embarrassment of appoint
mentS; and no boon SO great could
be conferred upon Senators and Rep
rcsentatives as to relieve them from
the worry, the annoyance, and the
responsibility which time and habit
have fixed upon them in connection
with the dispensing of patronage, all
of which belongs, under the COnStl-
tuition, to the Executive On the
other hand, the evil of which Presi-
dent William Henry Harrison spoke
the employment of the patronage
by the executive to influence legisla
TOMS far the greatest abuse to
which the civil service has ever been
perverted. To separate the two
great departments of the govern
mcnt, to keep each within its own
sphere, will be an unreasonable ad-
vantage and will enhance the char
acter and dignity of both. y non
political service will be secured when
Congress shall be left to its legitimate
functions, when the President shall
not interfere Herewith by the use of
patronage, and when the response
bility of appointments shall rest sole
~ with the department to which the
organic law of the republic assigns
it 'TWenty Years of Congress,
Vol H., Page 90.
The II. c. d. VI.
Wcare glad to learn that the court
in delivering the opinion in the b. {.
& NJ. railroad cases announced that
it would not adjourn until June, and
gave an intimation that before that
time it would decide the main ques-
ton III these cases, as to whether the
Boston & Maine, as the agent of the
Boston & Lowell, is rightfully in pos
session of the road, or the Concord
syndicate is entitled to take and
operate it, for it IS of the first import
ance that this should be settled as
speedily as possible. 1t should, of
course, be settled right, i'll accordance
with the law and common sense, but
in our view wrong decision now
would not be worse than q postpone
ment until after the matter has been
fought over again i'll the Legislature.
Those who can remember back two
years know how bad, how democrat
izing. how destructive of everything
good a railroad war is when carried
into the House, Senate and Executive
Chamber, and if we leave this all out
of the account there are other con-
sideratiOns which would impcl us if
we were the court to lay aside every
thing else and push to decision on
this question. The mountain bust
ness of this state was smaller in 1888
than it has been for years. 1t Welded
no profit to landlords, and it sOrely
disappointed hundreds of others who
depend upon 1t to furnish them q
market for their produce and Il de
mand for their services. The weather
had much to do with decreasing it,
but if the facts could be shown 1t
would, we think, appear that the
strife for the possession of the b. {.
& NJ. road was quite as potent q fac
TORN reducing it TO its small proper
tons, and if this strife is to continue
the state will continue to suffer in
the same way this year. Somebody
should make large OUTLAWS upon the
road before the season opens, and no
corporation can be expected to make
them until there is some assurance
that the fruits will be enjoyed by
those who pay the bills; and then,
again. so much has been said that
was true and so much more that was
not true about the condition of the
road that business is scared away
from 1T. never to return until the war
IS over.
In the interest not only of stock
holders and managers but of the gen
eral public and the state it should be
settled. and settled now, who has a
right to run, and who is to be held
responsible for the condition and
operation of the B. C & NJ system;
and if the court wants to deserve the
gratitude of all concerned it will give
us a decision that decides, just as
soon asst can Mirror and Farmer.
The fifth annual summer meeting
of the Vermont Horsebreeders' asso-
citation will be held in Rutland, Aug.
2S-30. The premiums and stakes of