St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-31
PRESS COMMENTS.
No Further Use for Them.

cal disease of vigorous and luxu
rious crop Of candidates this year,
and the village authorities have
taken time by the forelock and voted
to locate telephone in Green Noun
tain cemetery. We consider this
either an error in judgment or a
misapprehension of public feeling.
No political remains are likely to be
"called back" this year [Hardwick
Gazette.
Prohibition in Iowa.
The republican party accepted pro-
hibition as the will of the people of
Iowa, as declared at non-partisan
election. The people are sovereign
and superior to all parties and all
courts. Prohibition is just as much
part of the constitution of Iowa
today as any portion of that instru-
ment. 1t is also part of Iowa's
statutes, but nearly all democrats
and some republicans are opposing
it, just as many democrats and some
republicans are opposing and vlolat-
lug the laws against horse stealing
and other crimes that are not, all
combined, SO injurious to the people
or SO destructive to good govern
ment and the happiness and prosper
ity of all the citizens of the state and
nation as the saloon curse, which is
the chief source of all crimes.
Prohibition is right, and it is the
most necessary law tina t has ever been
placed upon the statutes of Iowa or
any other state. Non-enforcement
is not the fault OF the law but of de-
PRAYED public sentiment and of the
executive and judicial officials who
draw salaries as recOmpense for en-
forcing all laws in accordance with
the statutes, and yet permit nearly
all the criminals to escape through
technicalities and bubbles that would
disgrace the customs of Sioux In
dams. Every one of the ten COM
mandments is violated more fire.
quently in every town and city of
Iowa than the laws prohibiting the
illegal sales of liquors and yet no
party demands their repeal ''in the
interest of true" religion or good
government. The Register believes
in prohibition and advocates its en-
forcement because it IS right, and
knows that if it is vigorously en-
lOICSO ali OlilCI Will NC
| " decreased, and, in time, nearly al
together suppressed.-[I Iowa State
Register.
! Gov. Flower.
! Attention is being directed in sew
eral quarters at present to Gov.
Flower OF New York as candidate
| for the presidency. The Herald pro-
phesied several months ago that if
any New York candidate other than
Cleveland were taken for that office,
it would be Flower Gov. Flower is
right on the currency and right on
the tariff. HIS is held in high estima-
ton in Washington, where he long
served in congress, as a man of SUI
perior business capacity and general
good judgment and good sense. The
fact that Hill supported him for the
governorship led men to look with
doubt upon Mr.. Flower, and, after
he was elected to his present Office,
some of his actions tended to injure
the estimation had of him but Ia te-
ly he has shown disposition to act
independently of HILL and his fair
stand upon the apportionment bill
has gained him commemorate Gov
Flower is not so we'll fitted for the
presidency as Grover Cleveland, but,
if he could be cut clear of entangle-
nent with Hill, he might prove to be
a candidate who could carry his