St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-06
CURRENT TOPICS.
An Apostle Question.

families is alarm1ngly on the decrease
How does it happen, then, that SO
many colleges and higher institutions
of learning, year after year, report
the Largest freshman Glass; or the
Largest number of students" in their
! history? Surely these institutions
are not recruited from the foreign
| population; and, if American homes
| of the better class are so barren of
children as is represented, where do
these thousands of young men and
Young women come from ?-[ Congre-
! gationalist.
Let the Good Work Go On.
Here is another outcome of Com
| missioner Valentines wretched Swed-
ish immigration scheme: A Swede
from Stockholm has bought and
paid 81 800 for four hundred acres
of land in Jamaica. The tract IS
made up of three or four farms, adj
| Joining. The. purchaser will settle
on one of these himself and COLOMBO
a thrifty, industrious Swedish farmer
and his family on each OF the others.
The outgo for advertising Vermont
advantages is bearing fruit. This IS
not the only case in point. Let the
good work go on. Let no step back
ward be taken. The movement once
fairly begun will sustain itself. Con
tinue this bureau and sustain it with
an adequate appropriation. 1t is,
far and away, the most important
and the most hopeful step toward
increased material prosperity the
state has taken in late years.
Montpelier Daily Journal
Canadian Annexation.
We know this that the majority
of its readers really favor annexation
to the United States] because it is
our business to keep posted on the
opinions of our readers. We know
1t because we read it as we run along
the streets. We know it because the
hand of commercial decay rests upon
the city, and the people look for relief
to the enterprise American capital
would bring if this province was
state in the Union. We speak the
living truth when we say that the
only time a Ouebecer speaks with
emphatic hopes about the future OF
this city is when he says, Il am an
annexationistw Canadian political
issues are of course discussed with
the usual amount of acrimOny; but
if YOU want to hear a Quebecer be-
come enthusiastic over politics, talk
annexation to him. If he speaks to
YOU as he does to us, the chances are
that he will put vim into his utter
ance and tell you that he wants the
bars to be taken down, and the
sooner the better. He sees one part
of the city mouldering III decay. He
sees the people leaving for the United
States by every outgoing tram. He
knows that the Interstate law has
forced hundreds of Quebecers who
used to spend the winter III the south
to strike their camps for good and
pack off, bag and baggage, to
another cline. He sees property
depreciating i'll value-yes, and that
too by nearly one-half-and now, to
crown all, he sees the Nick nley bill,
and he hears q wall from the farmers,
and yet we, we who hear and see
these things day by day, are told by
some distant contemporary, and
told, too, with off-hand hauteur, that
we do not know what we say
OueDGC lcleSIdlJ u
Equity of the Agricultural Fund.
But suppose the University of Yer
mont had clear legal title to the
fund of 1862. Would that be a suffi
cient reason for insisting on holding
on to the money in spite of the wishes
of the farmers of the state? The
University of Vermont partakes of
= Il, Of If
ton tits supposed to inculcate into
it's students the highest honor and
morality Is it Christian, is it moral
even, for such an institution to grasp
for money appropriated by the gov
ernnent for purposes which will not
and can not be realized under its
direction? While the farmers of the
state wish to see these funds devoted
to the highest interests of the agrl-
cultural and mechanical industries OF
the state-purposes for which they
were created-is it fair or honorable
for the University of Vermont to
stand in the way of this progressive
movement? If the university had
an undisputed right to the fund of
1862, even then it would be morally
bound to give it up to the new col
lege. The three measures through
which the $4,000 annually is to be
secured were passed at Washington
for the benefit of the agricultural and
mechanical industries of the state.
In complying with the spirit of these
acts the university is morally bound
to offer no obstacle to the accom-
plishment of the largest results in
this direction. And, while the uni
versity is morally bound to do this,
the state itself, to which the DISPOSE
ton of the funds was confded, is
legally and imperatively under obi
cation to see that this $4,000 a
year reaches the object for which it
was intended Montpelier Daily
Journal.