St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-04-25
Current Press Comment.

current Press Comment.
Pressure on Bryan that may induce
him to attend the National Conven-
tion.-lSt. Louis Republic. "Pres-
sure" is good. Probably his speech
OF acceptance and delirium is already
in hot storage.-[ New York Sun.
The Springfield Reporter has said
that Cashier Mussey cashed musical
notes for hard cash. Yes, Mcclure
got it for song and the depositors
OF the bank are now whistling for
their Wilmington Times.
There is less excuse for the trusted
but faithless employee who has been
surrounded by all the restraining in
tiuences of Christian community
than for the offending individual
born in squalor and nurtured in vice;
and to shield the one while Furnishing
the other is to weaken respect for the
law and lower the tone of public
morality. The safety of the commu.
nifty and the welfare of society de-
mand that the man who week after
week and month after month appro-
PIRATES to his own use the funds of
an institution entrusted to his care
be held strictly accountable for his
crime, and not made the recipient of
misdirected charity and maudlin
sympathy. To make hero of the
embezzler, the absconder, the bank
thief, is to place a premium on dis
honesty anu crime Burlington
Free Press.
Advices from the national capital
for some days past have had consid-
cradle to say about the rumored
issuance Of an ultimatum to Turkey
to enforce the payment of an indem-
nifty for injuries done to American
missionaries in Armenia. AS often
happens in such cases, no definite in
formation upon the subject is obtain
able at the seat of government. Un-
der the circumstances the incident
might pass without mention here
were it not for the light which foreign
comment upon it throws upon the
view entertained by the world abroad
as to American diplomacy. The be-
lief appears to be generally enter
tanned that what has been sometimes
called the game of diplomacy has
little or no attraction for Americans,
who do not generally indulge in
demonstrat tons behind which there
is not firm and definite purpose.
Taking all in all, this is not such a
bad reputation to have established
in international circles Brad
streets.
Vermont is, indeed, a famous state
and inasmuch as she is our native
state, we have peculiar right to bt
proud of her. She is the state O.
Foote, Collamer, Phelps, Dewey,
Hood Of sarsaparilla fame, and Far
rar. She loves her sons, and wher
ever one distinguishes himself she
pays him grateful homage. Thus to
the returning Farrar was awarded
what is known in newspaper Ian.
guage as an ovation" People met
him at railway stations, stared at
him through car windows, insisted
on shaking his hand. At Waterbury
he was "escorted"-and was there a
brass band? The fact that he had
slept in prison ranked in his heart u
but the loving words of his fellow
townsmen were as balm to his sensi.
tive soul. In the train he put for
two hours "his whole soul and
mind" into games of whist; nor did
he once lead from short suit.
No, Vermont has not changed since
Jebediah Morse, D. D., minister of the
Congregational church in Charles
town, near Boston, described the
Green Mountain boys, toward the
end of the 18th century, as living
together amicably, and assisting each
other through the tolls and difficulties
Of life. II Boston Journal,