St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-10-18
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Copperhends Then and Now.

Copperheads Then and Now.
To-day, oblivious Of the lesson OF
the Civil War, the Copperhead
Aguinaldists in Iowa, Ohio and
Massachusetts are again making in
sidious and sinister appeals to the
foreign born electors to array them.
selves in opposition to their adopted
country on the old theory that as
sault upon American sovereignty
and an attempt to degrade it in the
eyes of the world are likely to com.
mand their sympathy.
That such an assumption is an in
suit to the naturalized citizens and
will be resented by them is as mani
fest in 1899 as it was in 1864; but
the Copperhead is always creature
dull of apprehension and incapable
of understanding the impulses of pa
triotism.-[ New York Sun.
Votes that will not Count Again.
81 do not believe" said Mr.. Bryan,
in recent speech, "that all the votes
cast for me last time were counted,
and many more were also counted
against me which were not cast"
Prehaps-but many votes were cast
for him in 1896 which will never be
cast that way again Rutland
Herald.
What the American Girl is UP To.
With New York girl as the wife
of the man who will be lord mayor
of London for the next FIVE years, as
well as Chicago girl as the vice
refine of India, not to speak of a Sa'
lem girl as Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain
and lot ofduchesses and countesses.
the American girl is certainly getting
her hand on the management OF the
British empire Boston Record.
Some "Permanent' Subscribers.
An eminent citizen OF Burlington is
a paid-up subscriber to certain
American magazine for forty-nine
years. An Ohio man has gone him
one better. By paying $75 he has
secured a perpetual subscription to
Harper's Magazine. This sum
would pay for the magazine for only
fifteen years, but it is to he noticed
that 4 per cent. of it is So, which is
the annual subscription price of the
publication. The subscription is as
signable to the subscribers heirs and
since there can be little doubt but
that the magazine will be published
for at least fifteen years longer, the
arrangement seems to be favorable
to both parties.-[ Burlington News.
A Chance for Vacancy.
AS the session of congress ap-
proaches more and more will be
heard in the way of protest against
the admission of polygamist Roberts
to the seat to which he was elected
by the people of Utah. If he is al
lowed to remain a member, it will
be as an acknowledged violator Of
the laws of the United States and OF
the compact of Utah when it entered
the Union. He not only is possessed
of three wives. but he co-habits with
them. The moral sense of the nation
is against allowing such a man to
help in the making of federal laws.
There have already been multitudin-
Gus protests from religious and phil
antrophic bodies which the members
will meet when congress opens
| Fall River News.
Hetty Green's Latest.
Hetty Green, the richest woman in
America, now calls herself Dewey.
She says Dewey's grandmother was
Storey, and lots of her folks were
Storeys, and the Storeys married
the Deweys, and there you are.
You see," she says, when we
Deweys.know we are right, loco
motive and a train of cars going
down hill can't stop us. That is the
way with US Deweys, especially with
me and my cousin, the admiral."-
Boston Globe.
Sanguine. View.
1t looks indeed as if it were soon to
be New Vermont, great centre OF
manufacturing industry that will
rival it's sister states OF Massachu-
sets and Connecticut Rutland
News.
Wanted BadIy-That Nicaragua Canal.
Warner Miller condemns ex-Speaker
Reed for the failure to pass Nicara-
qua canal bill in the recent congress.
1t is reasonably certain, however,
that a bill of that sort will be enacted
in the congress which is to meet in a
few weeks, and it will be promptly
signed by the President. The Near
aqua canal would have shortened
the Spanish war somewhat if it had
been built at that time, but it is
, needed now for commercial purposes
and this consideration will last
: longer than any military exigences
, The need for an interoceanic water
way for quick communication be-
our Atlantic and guilt coasts and the
j, Pacific side of the country, and also