St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-07
Gbe Californian,
PRESS COM MENTS.
Partisan Renorffne.

narrow partISanSh1p taxes that is
more offensive than i'll reporting the
doings at Washington. Those cor
respondents who send dispatches to
their journals disparaging every act
of men in public life with whom they
do not politically agree, and giving
a distorted account of all that trans
pires which can be made to have a
partisan twist, are anything but a
credit to journalism They are false
to their position, which implies an
obligation to at least allow their
readers to have an intelligent picture
of proceedings at the capital. There
is a littleness about such action also
that is out of place in the centre of a
great and enlightened nation like our
own Boston Herald.
What the Railroad to Stowe VIII ccOm-
pIish.
The pretty village of Stowe, in
Vermont, distant a few miles drive
through lovely country from the
nearest railway station, has pre-
served up to this time its rare charm
of SecluSiOn, which has made the
place attractive to people of taste
whose summer lettering there has
been undisturbed by noise of trains
and the throngs of cheap ''trippers."
Unhappily the Stowe farmers are in
sensible to the power of such attrac-
tions, and to their money value, and
just now actually have voted $780,
600 out of their moderate means to
promote a railway through the
place The railway will deface the
pretty valleys and destroy the retir
ed and tranquil air of the village
which has been the chief cause of its
summer patronage with the accom-
panving stimulus to the ''hOme mar
ket;' it will ruin the local staging
and teaming industries, it will bring
in tramps, and carry away the Gus
tom of the Stowe stOrekeepcrS to the
larger towns north and south. One
such instance more or less is not by
itself important; what is important
IS that the uncalculat ting rage for
railways is so fast spelling our quiet
spots, to the injury of their inhabi-
tants, and to the grief of the summer
visitors, whose one longing is to get
away from railroads, and all other
forms of dirt, noise, and progress.
Il New York Evening Post.
Good for Bufterworth!
The debate in the House of Repre-
sentatives at Washington, in which
Mr. ButterwOrth of Ohio valiantly
defended the individual liberty of the
workman, was healthy. The use of
organizations for the most odious
purposes of tyranny has never re-
ceived the rebuke it ought long ago
to have had. What perfect nonsense
Ill I'll III
is, when industrial and social freedom
are denied to mem In the interests
of wOrkingmen themselves it is eS-
sential that the nature of much of
the persecution to which they are
exposed from each other be plainly
shown. This is still America" (SayS
Mr.. Butterworth,) and my boy has
a right to work without asking the
permission of any Organiza ton of
men. If he cannot, | am in favor of
revolution The right of a man to
earn his bread i'll any legitimate way,
without dictatiOn, is surely mans
first and inalienable right. Whenever
any man is deprived of that right,
not the laws of the United States
alone are trampled upon, but Divine
laws also. There are purposes, &C
knowledged by all men of all parties,
for which unions are good and law
full. There are uses made of these
unions to the last degree tyrannical
and SO indefensible. IF this House
had done its duty" says Mr.. Butter
worth, the children of the men who
had made and kept the Republic
would not be crowded out of en-
ployment by the shiploads of lazza
roni from Europe who landed daily
on our shores" If a majority of the
House of Representatives could be
awakened into condition of unself-
ish patriotism for a session or two,
we should hear few more breezy
speeches like that of Mr.. Butter
worth, and the atmosphere would
become a little more tonic and invig-
Grating than of late. There are too
many men i'll Congress who remind
us of that ancient creature concern
ing whom it was written, Upon thy
belly shalt thou GO, and dust shalt
thou eat all the DAYS of thy life" 1t
is quite encouraging to look once and
again upon Il good erect Butter
worth lions Herald, Religious.
Mr.. Wanamaker's Campaign Fund.
A correspondent asks our opinion
of the independent verdict upon
Mr.. Wanamaker' Pecuniary activity
during the late election. The verdict
is, as we understand, that Mr.. Wan
amaker personally gave $4,000 to
the election fund; that neither the
books and papers of his committee
nor of the national committee were
burned, but are still preserved; that
his committee were not asked to
raise money for any illegitimate pur-
pose, land knew that all appropria-
tions were made for legitimate pur-
SEES" that they do not believe that |
any money was used illegitimately;
and that Mr. Wanamaker and his |
committee are not ashamed of their
part in the campaign
In reply to our correspondent we |
say that what we think is that if !
Mr. Wanamaker does not believe |
that money was used illegitirnately |
he is very greatly mistaken, and is |
totally unfamiliar with election cam
paigns. That he collected money |
specifically for illegitimate purposes
we have no reason to believe; that it |
was used for such purposes we have |
no doubt What we have said, |
which probably occasions our cor
respondents inquiry, IS that Mr. !
Wanamaker's sole appearance in
public life, so far as we know, is as a |
PurveyOr of money to be used in an
election by Mr.. Quay and Mr. Dud-
ley; that Mr.. Quay's conduct in cleo
ton management III Pennsylvania is
best known to the country by the |