St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-05-23


manly way. His maiden speech
Congress was in favor of estab bills
ID ing a Bureau OF Agriculture and g
Is ing its official head a seat in the Cal
!, iuet-a subject of the very create.
e Importance to the agricultural int
* csts OF the country for all time. H
d has constantly opposed all govern
7. ment appropriations for the supper
r. Of seCtarian institutions; he ha
K stood in the way OF the uunecessar
}. increase OF salaries, whether of clerk
y or teachers. Besides he is presiden
5 OF the Congressional temperance sc
s Getty, the successor Of such men a
b Nelson Dingley, and Vice President
D Wheeler, Wilson and Colfax, ant
p worthy 10 succeed He is a squar
man that will not 60 into a rounC
hole.
Among his Congressional utter
auceS there are none which give al
uncertain sound. Read his speech or
pensions. 1t rings like a stroke or
the anvil. If you desire Christian
sentiment, you will find it in Mr.
brouts tribute to the memory o.
Senator Stockbridge of Michigan
rom which quote this passage,
which illustrates his own ideal of a
public man:
Mr.. Speaker, aside from respect
for the dead il there be any profit to
the American people in the memorial
exercises held from time to time in
the two Houses over deceased sena-
/ atOrs and members, it is to be found
IN the lesson for the living, and es-
peclally tor young men. 1t seems to
me that in the lie of this deceased
senator may be found a valuable les.
son tor American youth. Here was
"A poor boy of humble birth, who
won his way to seat IN the Ameri-
can Senate, with only limited educa-
uonal advantages, and with none of
the gifts or arts of oratory, which
sometimes obsCures defects in iudg-
ment, and are frequently accepted as
substitute tor sounder qualities;
with none OF the arts of the profes.
SionaI politician, but with a life de-
voted to the stern demands of bust.
ness, IN which everything he under
took was thoroughly and conscien-
tiously DONE life of which each dav
gave proof OF his sense of responsible |
tty to his Creator and fellow man: a
lite filled with the everyday heroism
OF the faithful and the just; in short,
a lite worthy of imitation and of com.
Another quotation and then a few
words will close this article. The
NEXT quotation will illustrate how
Mr.. Grout reads history, how warm
~ he responds to the theme of
country. 1t is from his speech on the
reception OF the statues of Gen. Stark
and Daniel Webster to the statuarv
nall Of the U. S. Capitol-a memor.
able occasion.
New Hampshire is fortunate in
he selection OF characters for Statu,
Try hall. Stark and Webster are great
lanes in the Granite state, great
throughout the country, and great
yi,h all English speaking peoples.
'ermont congratulateS New Hamp- ,
hire and welcomes these her sons in
commemorative marble to the com. {
anonship of the great in marble and /
rome from other states. The hero +
t Ticonderoga from Vermont well
ONES the hero of Bennington from G
ew Hampshire. There let them /
tand, typical soldiers of typical t
tates, contemporaries in life and in Z
ne scnlptured reuown OF death. The r
lawyer, jurist and statesman, r
acob COllamer, who came nearer +
laklng good the place of Webster IN {
ne Senate than any other man Of his {
Ime, now welcomes that great law t
err, orator and statesman to this 81.
mt, illustriOus assemblage. h
Vermont will always welcome e
1ese men; they belong together. n
tark was with her in war and Web. n
.er counseled her in peace; his words 2
Ill ringing from the summit of the +
reen mountains, where, standing F
eslde log cabin in 1910, near the II
lace where Stark crossed on his wav o,
Bennington, he spoke. making II
ear then, as always, the points of a NJ
olitlcal faith in which Vermont is as f,
eadIast as her heavenly neighbour, a
le North star, and her light equally 4
~
Yes, Vermont, in common with Il;
i the states of this now glorious
mon,' welcomes the return of Daniel ;r
ebster to the Capitol, and there in 81
onder hall let him forever stand II
mid the undying echoes of those o,
eighty words which have not only Fl
ade his name immortal, but which 7
ave Deen burnt into the very hearts ia
the American people by the fires of
VII war-'Liberty and Union, now II,
"a forever, one and inseparable.'" II
William Wallace Grout has shown w
msef every inch a man; a middle M
ass, homespun man. Every noble 81
rmonter should be proud of him. ne
'es Vermont want soldier? Here b1
IS. A lawyer? law maker? Here 6e
is. A man whom she has proved. n,
q whom the nation has proved 3? A he
IN, that in downright, honest ser, 25
e has measured well up toward Tu
altitude of her noblest sons? Gt
re is the man. Can she better or