St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-09-04
Press Comment.

EASSO SVAnhlShGs
Had the mob that burned tae negro in
| Tennessee been challenged and the guilt
less among his accusers commissioned to
| apply the match, is it certain the victim
would have burned? The affair and all
its horrible predecessors is an affront to
the faintest g'immer otdeceDey or justice.
as we'll as to the lowest grade of civiliza-
ton any where on this round earth. A
government that cannot stop or ade
quateIy punish such outrages against
law and humanity is fairly classen with
the unspeakable Turk. = Montpelier
| Journal.
Commerce legislates as we'll as war,
! and that is why Cuba will gladly knock
I at the door for annexation in the course
of few months or years. st. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Kitchenes proclamation against the
| Beers is peculiar document. He threat
ems that the Boer leaders who do not at
once surrender have been promptly ex-
| lied in the past, the proclamation sounds
| funny. 1t makes interesting reading
anyway, in comparison with the terms
which the Beers granted DR.. Jamison
after his freak raid into the Transvaal.-
Boston Record.
Auditor Barber states that unless
some unforeseen event happens, Vermont
will be out of debt at the close Of the
fiscal year. next June. This is good and
a record that this state ought to be
proud Of. There are not many states in
the Union that can boast OF financial
condition ofthis sort Morrisville News
and Citizen.
There is much discussion as to the
reason why the great cities of the United
States are poorly governed, but any
thorough analysis must show that the
fundamental difficulty is the lack of that
pride in the municipality, of that readi-
ness to work for the public welfare which
are indispensable if the best results are
to be achieved New York Evening
Post.
Many people 60 far away for recre-
alton and fail to find it, while Others
who stay at home have it in abundance.
Far away fields are green" But near
or lar, the secret of true enjoyment is
within a man, not from without. The
well-lniormed mind is a palace, and the
contented heart a paradise, and pleasures
are tohnd wherever one possessing these
may go or stay [Woonsocket, r. l.,
Reporter.
A young man who rocked the boat
for fun" and thus caused the drowning
OF young woman companion, has been
found guilty of "willtul and felonious
murder" by coroner's jury at Hagers-
town, Md. He will not finally be con-
victed on that finding, but a pretty
severe lesson is needed for these fools in
the boat Springfield Republican.
Rev. Mr.. Sheldon, the Topeka reform
er, says he would rather drink a boetle
OF red ink than bottle of beer. The cray
ing OF some men for stimulants is awful.
The main constltuene OF red ink is alco.
hol.- Kansas City Journal.
1t will be unnecessary for the United
States Steel Corporation to apply for in
| functions to restrain their strikers, ex-
cept againse the Amalgamated Associa-
ton as party breaking a contract, and
IN such a case the prosecution OF the
labor people will be strictly in accord.
ance with the time-honored legal proce-
dure. Thus no one will be able to declare
that the United States Steel Corporation
is resorting to government by injunction,
and everyone will have to recognize that
its methods are reasonably fair and just.
providence Journal.
Out in Akron, O., a boiler making
plant, employing 600 men, stopped work
the other day. Why? Because there
was one man WHO refused to Join the
union, and the company refused to dis
Charge him because of his refusal. Yet
we understand some of the union leaders
to deplore coercion" What do they
call such case as this at Akron p Bos-
ton Journal.
If to be socialist is to. sympathize
with and help the poor and distressed
an Overwhelmingly majority of the
American people are socialists, for an
overwhelmingly large majority OF the
American sympathize with and in larger
or lesser measure help the poor and dis.
tressed. In the eight years, 1S92-99,
nearly three hundred millions of dollars
were given in charity to help the poor
and the distressed, in sums of five thous.
and dollars ormore, exclusive of all de-
nominational contributions for all pnr-
poses and of all state and municipal ap-
preparations and grants of congress, a
considerable portion of which latter
sums was also contributed by the rich in
taxes. To say, in the presence of this
TACT, that all rich men lack the DISPOSE
ton to relieve misery, argues either
total ignorance of current history or
Lotal indifference to facts. But it is not
oy charity alone that rich men are saving
tne lives OF women and children imperil
ied by starvation and semi starvation.
marty can at the best but alleviate
munger; trade remedies it, The Out