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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-01

put emphasis on the kingdom rather
than on the church; that the kingdom
represents the divine life, and the church
the institution by which that life mani
tests itself; that men have come to think
more about the institution than about
the life; and consequently mechanism
has come to hinder that which is vital
and fundamental. The argument is pre-
sented with great perspicuity and vigor.
President Gates believes that the time is
ripe for a revolution as great as the Re-
nation; that we are not yet living
the Christ-life; that selhshness is still
dominant; and that, in way of which
we have as yet hardly dreamed, those
who bear the name Of Christ are called
to be the followers of Christ. His paper
is the strongest note we have yet heard
from what may be called the School of
Applied Christianity. 1t will elicit
many criticisms and many condemna-
TONS
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-01

Apropos of the income tax talk
the republicans in congress seem in
clined to vote for the incorporation of
that measure as a part of the tariff
bill. Not that they have any special
love for the principle involved in an
income tax, but because they want
to meet both this and the tariff in
one bill and get fair chance at it.
The republican part of the house
will do what it can to ensure the
death of the Wilson bill and it's in
come tax attachment if the measure
comes up in that sort of combina-
ton.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-01
OUR FISH AND GAME.

In accordance with action taken
at the last meeting of the Vermont
Fish and Game League, Chairman
Leach and his associates on the
special committee are moving TO Sc
cure fund to enhance the introduce
ton and propagation of new varieties
of game in our state. The subscrip
tions, as we understand the matter,
are to hold good only when a suffi-
cient amount is secured to warrant
going ahead.
Those who call themselves sports
men," and others who are directly
or indirectly interested, are asked to
contribute to this fund, and we sim
cerely hope that the committee will
meet with such measure Of success as
to ensure the attainment of the end
in view. There is abundant room
for the introduction of new game in
Vermont, and If the matter is taken
hold of vigorously it may mean
more to the state than the mere
grati6ca ton of the local sportsmen' s
ambition; the beneficial effect will be
felt in several ways.
Blanks are now being sent out by
the committee, and it will be of in
terest to note how hearty may be the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-01

California is happy. Her mid
winter Exposition was opened in
due form on Saturday, and this off
shoot from the Worlds Fair is now
attracting the attention ofthousands
upon thousands of people in that
section of the country. The attend
ants from the East will be COM
paratively few in number, but
there are people enough, and interest
enough, west of the Mississippi river
to ensure the success of the great
undertaking. Many of the exhibit
ors at Chicago have transferred
their displays to San Francisco, and
it is said that every county in Cali
fornia has something to show at
this exposition. Several features of
the Midway Plaisance are also re-
tanned, and California, the state of
fruits and flowers. will leave no
stone unturned to make the fair a
big success. 1t will prove, no doubt,
an extra inducement TO Eastern peo-
pie who have contemplated trip
to the Pacific slope.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-01
CONCERNING FAIR PREMIUMS.

In looking over the premiums
given at the 1893 Caledonia county
fair, l noticed that the premiums on
fruit and vegetables, according to
the CALIFORNIAN, amounted to be-
tween $40 and $50 (aside from the
children's Department., while the
premiums on butter alone amounted
SIP or over.
Now this county fair has become
noted for its fine display OF butter
for the past few years, which l think
has been brought about mainly by
the liberal premiums offered on the
same.
would like to ask the gentlemen
of the Agricultural Society if it would
not be we'll to deal as literally in offer
ing premiums on fruit and vegeta-
bles? Will it not tend to fill up the
north end of Agricultural Hall with
fruit and vegetables, as well as with
fair visitors, and prove a gain to both
the Agricultural Association and the
exhibitors? Also, will not the same
amount of premiums on fruits and
vegetables bring out four times as
much of show as the same amount
expended on butter? | think it will.
| would like to hear from others in
regard to this, through the columns
OF the CALIFORNIAN. Let this sub
ject be agitated until we see good re-
suits from it. Let the committee
who have that matter in hand
notify the public, through the papers,
of their willingness to give US a trial,
and publish each article that pre-
MUM is offered on and the amount
offered on same as early as possible,
and 1 believe that they will see a
grand result. l think the GALE
DOMAIN and other papers will gladly
print the same in their columns.
D. Q. WOODRUFF.
St. Johnsbury, Jan. &c.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-01
THE LOGICAL CANDIDATE.

Commenting on state politics the
Morrisville News and Citizen says:
This reminds us of the very different
conditions that have followed a contest
almost equal in bitterness-the Page
Woodbury. fight of 1890. Thanks, how
ever, to Col Woodbury. and Ex-Gov.
Page, the republicans of the state were
saved any unpleasant ranking in polltl-
cal breasts by their promptly joining
hands across the bloody chasm and
pledging each to the other that when the
sun went down convention night it
should forever shut out the bitterness of
the Page-Woodbury canvass. How
well these parties have kept the faith
the present good feeling, and well-nigh
universal assent to Col. Woodbury. s
candidacy this year. bears witness.
Long before convention day arrives
the state press will, as it should, repre-
sent the unanimity Of feeling among Yer
mont republicans everywhere by heartily
advocating what under all the circum-
stances will be regarded as in accordance
with the eternal fitness of things politi-
cal-the nomination of Urban A. Wood
bury as the next republican candidate
for governor of Vermont,
Col. Woodbury. therefore becomes
the logical candidate of the republi-
can party. He needs no eulogy
from our pen, as his services to the
party. the state and the nation are
well-known to every Vermonter.
He is an honorable man and will
make an excellent governor.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-01

At last Emperor William of Ger
many and Prince Bismarck are friends
again. They have become entirely
reconciled, after some years of
arrangement and the German people
are happy over the afectionate greet
ing given on Friday last to the stern
chancellor by the young emperor.
The latter seems to have done the
proper thing, and the effect of this
reconciliation is expected to be far
reaching. The old chancellor has
loved Germany too well, and done
her altogether too much honor and
service to be continually snubbed by
the emperor, 1.-THE son of his father. "
The powers outside of Germany are
interested and will feel the influence
of this royal making up"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-01

Admiral Cana, the Brazilian rebel.
has been a little careless of late and
allowed some of his warships to fire
upon an American merchantman's
boats. He has been notified that if
the trick is repeated warm response
of shot and shell will be forthcom-
ing. 1t may make considerable differ
ence to Cana whether his bullets are
directed against Peixoto's adherents
or Uncle Sans.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-01

There was another outbreak in the
French chamber of deputies on Sat
urday which indicates condition of
things very menacing to republican
institutions in France, and which
calls for summary treatment. 1t
was a revela ton of the intense So
cialistic feeling which, if given half a
chance, would wreck the established
government and put in its place
what? Anarchy pure and simple.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-01
A NOTABLE ADDRESS.

President George A. Gates of Iowa
College, who was born in ST. Johns
bury, is receiving much praise in
religious journals for an address
which he has delivered in many
places in the West. His subject was
The Church and the Kingdom of
God"
Commenting on his address the
Outlook says:
THE contention of President Gates is
that it is the intention of our Lord to
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-01

Who can deny that St. Johnsbury
has an enviable reputation abroad,
after reading the following from the
Burlington Free Press. Please note
the length and deep significance of
the last word, which proves the ex-
istence of a dictionary in the Free
Press sanctum:
AN ominous rumor comes over the
mountains to the effect that St. Johns
bury has another candidate for lieuten-
ant governor. The depression seems to
have had very little effect on the political
industry of our energetic neighbor, note
for its numerous strong men as well as
for its pulchritude -
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-01

The Boston Journal recently con-
tanned a number of opinions ex-
pressed by prominent men on the
question of third term for Presi-
dent Cleveland. The sentiment was
not in favor of third term in the
White House for anybody-a
change of rulers being considered
best for the interests of the country.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-01

response. Our fish and game are
none too plenty at present, and the
League is doing good work in seek
ing to increase the states attrac-
tions in both these branches of sport
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-01

A tax of fifteen dollars On each
telegraph pole set up in the city
limits seems like crowding things to
an unreasonable extent. But this is
the tax recently assessed by the city
council of Petersburg, Va, who evil
IDENTIFY have no eye for the telegraph
pole S street ornament"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-01

1t is maintained in some quarters
that the Vermont schools are, as a
whole, ahead of those of Massachu-
sets. So great an advance already
since the town systems adoption ?
What will the old Bay state say to
that?
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-01

Forbes, the Vermont correspon-
dent of the Boston Journal, taking
a glance ahead at the state cam
paign, dominates a ticket for the
democrats, on which he places E. E.
Sargent of St. Johnsbury as secre-
tary of state. There is nothing the
matter with the genuineness of the
nominees democracy, and his name
would look well in so prominent a
place, but it would not really be
worth his while to let the old
g Astna" go for the sake of following
such will O. the wisp as demo
cratic nomination in Vermont
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-01

The execution Of Valiant and few
other bomb throwers must needs
be followed by hot campaign
against the socialists if France is to
feel secure
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-01
TO RENT

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In Walkers Block, two pleasant and de-
sirable front and side rooms, up one fight.
Apply to GEO. A. MILES,
81 Main St., st. Johnsbury, VT.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-26
PERNICIOUs ACTIVITY.

When Private Secretary Thurber re-
Gently came from Gray Gables with the
message from Mr.. Cleveland that office
speeches. Assistant Secretary of the
Navy McAdoo was so impressed that he
ave UP his engagements in Virginia
and New York and returned home.
Something has happened to give him
courage, for he has resumed his stump
speaking, undeterred by the fate Of ].
Adam Bede. 1t is reported that Secre-
to assist Hill, and is only waiting until
ne hears from Cleveland. Controller
Eckels, who has spent most of his time
since his appointment in attending BAN
quets and telling bankers things they
knew before he was born, is now pro-
ceeding boldly to the making of political
speeches without so much as a by
your-leave" to the administration. Com
missioner of the General Land Office
Lamoreaux has obtained leave of alb
sence with the avowed of MAX
ing speeches in Wisconsin, while AS
sistant Commissioner of Pensions Muir
ply and Assistant Secretary of State
Uhl are in active campaign work.
These are but a few Of the prominent
Washington officials who are advertised
to appear before their fellow-citizens in
the interests of the Democratic party.
Either they mean to defy the Cleveland
injunction not to be perniciously active
or they have had a tip that the order
is suspended until after election. AS
it is, the unfortunate Bede is likely to
be the only victim, n even he might
take the White House gentleman seri-
ously. But perhaps the men who are
being pernicious needed one example in
order to show how sternly virtuous the
Cleveland administration is.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-26
WHAT MARION COUNTY NEEDS.

The affairs of Marion county are in a
condition which demands a thorough
investigation. There is scarcely a
branch of the service that is not honey
combed with waste and corruption. The
people pay more han they hould for
everything they have in county man.
agement. and get less for 1T. All the
materials used, all the provisions, cloth
ing. etc., which are purchased cost more
than the market price. Ineficiency n
corruption are the rule: anything like
honest business method is the excep-
ton. Every official, from auditor to
~janitor, is either on the make or neg
lecting his duty. The coroner has been
drawing two or three compensations.
The workhouse is rank with wasteful-
ness and pollution The sheriff farms
criminals at the expense of the tax
payers. The auditor has increased his
salary nearly so per cent. since he has
been in office. The finances are in the
worst shape possible. In the past four
years, with a taxation increased 80 per
cent, the xpense have increased As
per cent. The debt is rapidly growing
for the reason that every year the All
nual deficit and overdraft grow larger
and larger. No man knows how large
the county debt is. The auditor is
careful not to make an intelligent state
ment of it lest he betray the t~ax-eating
ring. The uncollected taxes in five
years are a quarter of a million dollars,
and the "overdraft' in the last state
ment was the same amount. Thou
sands of poor people pay all of their
taxes. while scores Of favorites pay lit
tie or none.
Such being the condition of affairs, a
searching investigation is needed, and a
new policy should be i~naugurated. Ca
pacity should take the place of inca
pacity; honesty the place of dishonesty.
The debt should be ascertained and
funded in a low interest rate bond, in
stead of paying to local favorites s per
cent. interest.
There should be a turn over The men
who are responsible for these growing
evils should be turned out. That is
what business men would do if they
found such conditions existing in a cor
poration in which they were interested.
This is what Marion county will do.
sooner or later-probably this year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-26

may possess the land" strike them?
The Englishmen will possess the
land" because the Democratic tariff
makes 1t possible. With the d~efenses of
the Mckinley law it would be impos-
sible that the foreigner could go and
possess the land" Every man who is
interested has an opportunity to check
the purpose of the Britons who boast
that they will possess the land;'' and
every man who is not willfully blind
knows that the Boosting foreigner can
be halted in his proposed conquest of
the markets of America by preventing
the election Of another Democratic
House similar to the one which leveled
the safeguards TO our market and ex-
tended a welcome to every foreigner to
come and possess the and"
If the mechanics and artisans Of In
diana desire to surrender their possess
sion and their markets to their British
foes, let them vote for the Bynums, the
Coopers, the B~rookshires, the Holmans
and the Martins. On the other hand, if
they desire Industrial independence and
he restoration of the United States for
a market by rebuilding the ramparts Of
protection, let them vote for the
Henrys, the Overstreets, the Farises,
the Steeles, the WatsCns and other men
equally as devoted to American in
t~erests.
Elect the Republican candidates, and
the boasting Britons will not possess
the land"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-26

fore for the Republican State ticket and
the candidates for Congressman and men,
bers of the legislature
AS to the Democratic campaign in Madi-
son county the Anderson Herald says: The
party is doing lots OF speechmaking and
reams of bad swearing; but no impression
is made upon the iron wall of public dis
approval.
At the request Of 'ten Democrats. seven
OF whom reside in Rockpoft, and the other
three in the vicinity" the Rockport Jour-
nal publishes reasons why they will not
support Congressman Taylor for %re-eiec-
ton. The Journal adds: Taylor will run
hundreds of votes behind his ticket in
every county in the district, and will be
overwhelmingly defeated"
Terre Haute Express: "When John z.
Lamb said in his speech. at Crawfords-
vile, that he was glad he was a Demo-
crat for the fact that from Grover Cleve-
land down to George w. Cooper the Dem
ocratic party had carried out the princi-
pies of the Chicago platform, an Illinois
gentleman picked up his hat and left the
hall. saying that there were liars up near
Chicago he could hear at any time"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-26

Chairman Taggart has had printed In
writer, with dictated" in the corner
and signed by himself. a letter which
has been addressed to thousands of
Democrats. appealing to them to once
more help the old party. Time and
space would fail to point out any CON
siderable portion of the lies with which
the letter is crowded. but a few may
be given. Calling attention to the work
of the Democratic Congress, Taggart
says: Appropriations nave been cut
down $50, 600, 900 per year: thousands Of
useless employees have been taken off
the public pay rolls" The appropria-
lions of the Democratic Congress, whose
first session closed Aug. %. 1894, ag-
gregated s490, Sos, 1863, while those of the
previous session aggregated S519, 504, 359.
Outside of pensions, the appropriations
for the two years were nearly the same,
but pensions were reduced from $780,
6S1. 074 for the fiscal year ended June 80,
1894, to $151. 5S1. $50 for this year-a reduc-
ton of s29. 099, 504. This reduction of the
pension appropriation is a little more
han the reduction of the total appro-
priations, which Taggart puts at $780,
900, 900. Not a thousand clerks have
been got rid of in the aggregate, while
a score of large salaries. like that of
Minister Gray and the six auditors of
the Treasury, have been increased thou
sands in the aggregate.
Last, but not least" says Taggart.
"a new tariff law has been enacted
which has reduced the cost of living to
every citizen. dealt a death blow to mo-
nopolies and trusts and set in motion
the factory wheels, so long idle under
the Mckinley law" Here are as many
~falsehoods as could well be crowded into
as many lines; but the most impudent
is that the tariff law, which the Demo-
cratic President declared to be a meas
ure of party perfdy." has struck a
blow at m~onopolies! Is Thoma Tag
CART a wag, or has he ceased to e the
Sentinel, and consequently does not
know that it was the Sugar Trust that
controlled the tariff legislation of the
Democratic party? The Mckinley law
was doomed when Mr.. Cleveland and
the Democratic Congress were elected.
At that time every industry was -four
ishing. A year after, because of the
fear of the Democratic tariff policy,
hundreds of factories were closed and
more than a million men were turned
out of employment, and now those who
have employment nav had their wages
cut from Is to 80 per cent.-in the gen.
eral iron industries 80 per cent. 1t is an
insult to a man of ordinary intelligence
to tell him such stupid lies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-26
A BRITISH BOAST.

Fame" is the name of a British trade
paper whose mission is to advise it's
English patrons as to their interests.
In the issue of Sept. 10 there is a leading
article in which II is declared that
"McKinleyism has hit British manufac-
turers and exporters very hard indeed.
and in some instances. where the United
States has been their only market, has
virtually ruined them" This admission
is followed by the following interesting
announcement: "Now that Mckinley
ism has completed its reign Of tinkering.
at least for the present, there is an op-
p~ortunity once more to go in and pos
sess the land"
How does this declaration of a pur-
pose on the part of a foreigner ito go in
and possess the land" strike Americans?
Is there a real American who is pleased
with the prospect of having Great
Britain's manufacturers and merchants
coming here with their goods and their
travelling statesmen to possess the
land?" And the American mechanic,
artisan and laborer-can they regard
with complacency this boastfui purpose
OF beirlg driven from their factories hat
the goods of competitors in Europe,
with 40 TO so per cent. less wages may
take their markets? How does the
proposition Of s~urrendering the home
markets that the British competitor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-26

Senator Hill, in his speech accepting
the nomination for Governor, went out
of his way to drag religion into politics.
He deprecated the growth in some
quarters of a spirit of religious intoler-
ance. and said: 1T is useless to deny
the fact that sympathy for this intol-
Grant spirit has found much support in
Republican circles, much encourage
ment in the Republican press and much
aid at the polls in strong Republican
localities" No doubt Senator Hill, who
does nothing in politics without a mo-
tive, expected to win some votes by
this false and cowardly ~insinuation
against the Republican party, but prob
bly, he did not expect to earn a rebuke
for his demagogy from a Disguised pre-
late of the Catholic Church. Archbish-
OPP Ireland, who is now in New York,
has delivered an address, in which, re-
ferring to Senator Hills speech. he
says:
those who raise the cry OF race or religion
in this land. i predict the death Of the
political party which makes use of Sec
tartan hatred, either to prop up its own
cause or 10 lower the cause of its oppo-
nents. Religious prejudice is a boomerang
which returns upon him VINO launches it.
The cry OF religious prejudice, unfortu-
nately, has been raised. and there is in IL,
! believe, more politics than religion. 1t
should be put down
There are other Democratic leaders
and party managers besides Senator
Hill, and some very near home, Who are
equally deserving of this caustic re-
buke.