St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-03-20
PRESS COMMENTS.
III Is q Back Number.

The Rutland Herald is becoming
frantic in its crusade for high-license
law III Vermont. 1t now offers the pro-
hibitionists $1,000 to prove certain
statements concerning prohibition,
the ma tier to be submitted to one or
more Judges of the state supreme
court. The Herald has the credit of
giving the newspapers and politi-
clans of the Green Mountain state
something to talk about, even if it is
a worn and tattered issue.
Good Word for Mr.. Page.
Our old and highly-esteemedf friend,
Hon. c. 5. Page, is being favorably
mentioned i'll our Vermont exchanges
as the candidate of his party for
gubernatOrial honOrs- This sugges-
ton brings to mind many and happy
memories Our first parish, Hyde
Park, is the home of Mr.. Page. AS
personal friend and the most gener-
Gus helper of the church, his kind Off
ces are gratefully recalled. He is CON
nectcd with one of the most reputa-
BILE families in the Green Mountain
state He is man of signal purity
of private life In business he is saga
cious, alert and successful. AS citi-
zen he is liberal and philosophical.
If selected as worthy successor to
Governor Dillingham;, who has borne
himself SO honorably i'll his high of
ceive personal, conscientious and
able supcrvision.-[Z lions Herald.
Still with Us.
The talk of supplanting Senator
Morrill, still crops out occasionally,
Indicating the desire of ambitious
state has long been held far above all
sell-sceking. We do not believe that
this talk has anything substantial
behind it. 1t certainly should not be
allowed to influence the people or the
legislature. With all due respect to
the estimablc gentlemen who think
the path of a United States senator
IS strewn with roses of just about
their iavOrite kind and hue, there is
not man who has yet been brought
forward who can fill the shoes of the
venerable but still vigorous author
of the Morrill, tariff, who for over a
quarter of a century has been lead
or in the congress of the United
States The pride which should be-
long to everyone in the state fOrbids
that the long line of distinguished
men who have served their country
and hOnOred Vermont in the senate
should not be broken by the choice of
anv of lesser mould Let us have
only brainy, earnest loyal statesmen,
to whom nation stands above self
every time and always. Such men
have been ours i'll the past. Is the
old race dying out
Meanwhile, Senator Morrill, still
lives, with all his powers alert and
vigorous as of vore. When he asks
for retirement it will be time enough
to consider whether Vermont can let
him 90. That Vermont will vOlun-
tarily give him up is not to be
thought Of Bellows Falls Times.
The Firm of Machine d Money.
The facts show what is today the
dominant force i'll our national gov
ernmcnt-the close alliance between
combination of men who want
office and a combination of men who
want to enrich themselves by legisla-
ton The Offices and legislation are
the peoples, and it is only by quilting
the people that the firm of Machine
& Money can carry on its opera tiOns.
1t gulls them through their patriot
ism, telling them they are supporting
the glorious old party which freed
the slaves and saved the Union. 1t
gulls them through their religion,
pointing out what exemplary and
devOut church members are Gen.
Harrison and Mr. Wannamaker, and
what respectable church-going men
are many of the local leaders. 1t
gulls them through their ignorance.
the burden of taxation being hidden
because it is Indirect, and the citizen
forgetting that in every purchase of a
coat, a blanket, a load of lumber, q
pound of sugar, a tin dish or pen
knife he pays heavy toll to the high
tariff 1t gulls them through their
cupidity, playing on the fancy that
the government is 4 kind of god who
pays out pensions and bounties and
saves men from earning their bread
by the sweat of their brow.
But as Abraham Lincoln said, You
can fool all the people some of the
time and you can fool some of the peo-
pie all the time, but you can't fool all
the people all the time" And some
day Machine & Money will have to
reckon with a partnerin the nations
business who may at present be
called a sleeping partner, but who
already shows signs of waking
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