St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-04-20
Current Press Comment.

a Democrafic View Of MIR. Clement.
) Clement became dangerous man two
years ago because he took MP popular
Issue and forced ii to success though he
failed to secure personal advancement.
He was derided then as now as politi-
cal >mouutebank. He and his methods
and purposes were ridiculed but his
methods won success for his purposes.
So this year, the attacks on him seem
unwise to an outsider, If his issues are
popular, if hetis advocating something
the state needs, that will be demon
strated to the people and Clement will
be the gamer thereby. Neither Clement
nor his demands will be injured, but
those who thus oppose him will be
harmed.
It is curious state of political affairs
that leads to belittling good issues for
the sake of destroying one mans ambi-
tions or that would take up the issues
to down the man. Montpelier Argus.
Foster and the r.. r. ID. Carriers.
Thanks. partly, to Congressman Fos-
ter, rural free delivery carriers after July
next will receive salary of $72O a year.
After that date they shall not solicit
business or receive orders OF any kind
for any person, firm or corporation and
shall not during their hours of employ
ment carry any merchandise or hire.
Carriers may carry merchandise or hire
for and upon the request of patrons
residing upon their respective routes,
whenever the same shall not interfere
with the proper discharge of their official
duties and under such regulations as the
postmaster general may prescribe.-L Bur-
lington News.
Roosevelt's Attitude Toward the Trusts.
President Roosevelt and his admins
tration have faced the problems of i'm
proving the laws and enforcing the laws
with a good faith so entirely above
reproach that no criticism can Justly be
brought against their policy, their meth
DDS, or their motives. They have been
just as ready and willing to bring action
against the coal trust as against the
Northern Securities. But the present
authority of the United States over COM
merce is confined to interstate matters.
The anthracite coal industry is wholly
within the boundaries of Pennsylvania.
No one knowing President Roosevelt's
relation to the great coal strike could
possibly suppose that any personal dis
position to shield particular combina-
ton Furnished a re ason for failure to pro-
coed against the anthracite monopoly
under the Sherman Act. The great SER
vice that President Roosevelt has rend-
cred, - and its Importance cannot be
overstated,-is to give the whole coun-
try a new sense of respect for law. The
gentlemen who form the Northern Sect
rites Company certainly had no evil
designs against the welfare of any class
of people; but it may fairly be said that
they tried to do in an indirect way what
the laws forbade them to do in direct
way.-lFrom 1.-THE Progress of the
World,'' in the American Monthly Re-
view of Reviews for April.
RUM Did 1t, That's All.
The analytical moralists have been
putting in their fine touches on the Essex
county murder case. There is the usual
argument about rural decadence, degen-
eracy of the old English stock, and the
theory of isolation and crime on One hand
and refutation on the other to the effect
that quietude and the beautiful natural
surroundings of Vermont are more up-
lifting than congregate life to all except
twisted characters. This is all well
enough for augmentation, but the fact is
ton of the state, where the crime was
committed. has had only one murder trial
in 100 years. About four years ago
man was shot in drunken row at Lem
ington in the county and the assailant
was indicted for murder. but on plea OF
manslaughter was sentenced to state
shooting in Bloomfield was the culmina-
ton of drunken brawl, and the ex-
PLANTATION, as in the affair at Lemingt on.
is simply this: Rum did it, Brattleboro
Phoenix.