St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-01-23
PRESS COMMENTS.
An Incfpfenf Boom.

An Incfpienf Boom.
Someone in the northern part OF
the state is trying to work up a
boom for Hon. H. Henry Powers OF
Morrisville, for Congressman to fill
the position now held by Hon. John
w. Stewart. Such incipient booms
appear i'll advised so long as there is
no other reason for removal than the
one of the place being wanted by
some one else Fair Haven Era.
They VIII Survive the Attacks.
Being in hopelessly small minor
ity has no terrOrs for General Butler.
Speaking at the annual dinner of the
club which exists for the sole purpose
of his glory, he pronounced judgment
on the Australian ballot system as
the most complete and perfect de
vice for defrauding the poor, ignor-
ant and laboring men of their votes.
On the same occasion Corporal Tan
ner attacked civil service reform in
his lively style. Both reforms will
survive.-[Greenfeld, Mass, Gazette
and Courier.
The Senatorial Barber.
Der seems to be a fixture. The Sena-
tors have lately been hunting about
the capitol for more committee
rooms, and one of the unkempt mem
bers suggested that the barber shop
be abolished, but he was laughed
to scorn by his colleagues. The SEN
atorial barber shop is kept open
twelve months in the year, and every
senator is shaved and shorn at the
public expense while he is in Wash
ingtOn. The barber will remain, but
the supreme court will probably have
to GO Boston Herald.
Liquor Men Satisfied.
Weare so tenacious in behalf of the
independence of the judiciary, that
we were disposed to regret the
movement of antagonism to the
confirmation of the appointment
of Judge Brewer of Kansas to the
United States supreme court. But
we are compelled to admit that we
do not enjoy reading the current
declaration that the editor of the
Wine and Spirit Circular says, con-
corning the appointment in question;
$50 far as the interests of the liquor
men are concerned, there could not
have been better man appointed. "
Such utteranceS are Om1nOuS IN
their significance because of our con-
viction that the ''liquor men" are
not accustomed to make mistakes in
theinterpretation oftheir interests. :"
Il Pawtucket Gazette.
A Silly idea.
The correspondent of an exchange
comes out with the proposition to
make Col. G. w. Hooker of Brattle-
boro the high-license candidate for
governor. A more absurd scheme it
is hard to imagine. In the first place,
there is no call for this kind of a
candidate. The great mass of the
people of Vermont are content with
the present liquor law, and are not
going to follow Col. Hooker or any
body else on a crusade for high IL
cense Again, Col. Hooker is too
astute a politician to enter into such
plan, even if he favored high license
for Vermont, which he probably
doesn't The contest between pro-
hibition and high license next sum-
mer, if there is any, will not be car
ried on in the line of the governor
ship; it will be in the choice of repre-
sentatives in the several towns
Here is where the friends of the pres
ent law will need to get in their work
and hereis where they may be worst
ed if they are not careful Middle
bury Register.
The Race Problem North and South.
Two colored men, respectable in
appearance and well educated, the
one principal and the other a teacher
in public school of the city, entered
a restaurant in Cincinnati the other
day They seated themselves at a
table, but no waiter went near them
and when they finally asked to be
served, they were thrown out into
the street. The sole trouble was the
fact that they were colored. Doubt
less there will be thoughtless people
ready to say that the federal govern
ment ought to stop such OutrageS
upon negroes in the North, and the
demand is as reasonable as the de-
mand for federal interference to re-
dress the grievances of negroes in the
South But the truth is that all
these grievances are beyond the reach
of the federal government. The out
RACES will continue, North and South,
solong as local public sentiment fails
to punish those guilty of them. AS
Mr. Harrison put it in his speech of
March 8, 1886: ''In the states and
in the tribunals which they establish,
and in the venue where the offences
are committed, crimes against the
colored people must be tried. OF ne
cessity the successful vindication of
the rights of these people fails unless
there is a sentiment in the locality
where the offences are to be examined
into and punished that reprobates
and condemns them. ~ New York
Evening Post.
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