Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-28


for S1.09 5-8, which fact is looked
upon as evidence of financial ability
and integrity. The state is about to
receive $75O,000 from the govern
ment, which is the amount of the per-
centage allowed for the land re-
Gently opened to settlers. A railroad
is being constructed from Sioux City
from the same point to Denver.
Work is plenty and the outlook is
bright The senator represents the
inhabitants of his state as honest,
steady and of good stock. Many of
them came from Vermont and other
New England states. They can be
relied upon to remain to share and
advance the prosperity of the new
state.
Bro Davis of the LyndonUiIte Jour
nal seems to be wrathy the whole
length of himself on account of some
thing he saw in the MONITOR last
week. We were frank to state that we
considered the Journal one of those
papers which has so put the matter
of pensions before its readers as to
tend to bring the pension business
into disrepute. We repeat the state
ment here. If we are mistaken, we
shall be glad to make due apologies.
But to bring the thing out into clear
light we challenge Bro. Davis to pub
lish any one, or any dozen, editorial
or clipped articles that were ever pub
lished in the Journal which favored
pensions or pension increases. On
the other hand, if we can have access
to the Journal files and can not find
articles which have so set forth the
enormous sums paid to pensioners,
or proposed to be paid to them, as to
tend to throw the matter of pensions
into disrepute, we will make s, double
apology. In order to show the spirit
of the article to which this refers, we
quote the last paragraph:
ssThere are men who are fit to
draw a pension who are not fit to run
newspaper, and such men are those
who maliciously place another Jour
nal in false position before the pub
lic."
This doubtless was written as a
personal compliment to the editor of
the MONITOR; it would have no point
otherwise. We accept as to the ''who
are not fit to run newspaper )" but
we do not come into the list of those
"who are fit to draw pensions. This
fling must apply to some other man
somewhere who is running a news
paper who is eligible to a pension.
But trot out your articles, Bro. Davis,
where you have boon arguing for PEN
sions.
The decision of the United States
supreme court in in the case of Unit
ed States Marshal Nagle of Califor-
MIA sustalns in a new manner, but in
direct and solemn terms, the sover-
eighty of the nation, and is another
blow at the old state rights doctrine.
Marshal Nagle was instructed by the
department of justice at Washington
to protect Mr.. Justice Field, whose
life was threatened by Judge Terry.
In the performance of that duty and
to save Justice Field from murder
Gus assault, Nagle shot and killed
Terry. He was arrested for murder
by the California authorities, but TAX
en- from them on writ of habeas
corpus granted by the United States
circuit court, which decided that the
United States and not the state had
jurisdiction, because Nagle was act
ing in an official capacity; that Ma
giles act was justifable and that he
was entitled to discharge. 1t is this
decision which is now reaffirmed by
the United States supreme court. The
power of the federal government to
protect each and every one of its of
ficers in the discharge of duty, which
| is thus declared. is broader than any
ruling yet made affecting the relations
of the states and the national govern
ment, and it's wisdom can not be dis
puted, however lawyers may divide
over it. We are a nation.
Nobody but one who has been
through the same experience himself
can imagine the enormous amount of
arduons physical and mental labor
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