St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-27
Press Comment.
Returns from our Forests.


Clifford Pinchot in his address at the
Vermont Dairymen's meeting. advocated
the formation of State Forestry asso-
citation and thought the state might for
ward the work of scientific forestry.
Now that people no longer entertain the
idea that believers in scientific forestry
are merely cranks who desire to preserve
forests for the beautifng of the scenery.
such move may be possible. Woodland
yields a crop like other land. and the
effort of the forester is to make that crop
profitable. There is no danger, says
Mr.. Pinchot, of the forests of Vermont
being destroyed, but the question is how
to make them yield the most returns
montpelier Argus.
Marshall Fields Chances.
The Chicago democrats are talking
about putting up as presidential candi-
date Marshall Field, one of the great
merchants of their city. Heretofore all
the chief magistrates of the United
States have been lawyers or soldiers. A
merchant would be something entirely
new. 1t is a novelty that will oever be
realized by the American people. The
military candidates can hope to get in
occasionally, but merchant, never
New Orleans Picayune.
What a "New Vermont should Mean."
If New Vermont" means progress
and development of our own resources,
reaching out for additional trade, the
improvement of roads, the betterment
of social conditions, wherever needed in
the state, free political opinions and
their exei else at the polls, systematic
method of keeping municipal and town
accounts, in a word getting out of old
time ruts and away from moss-back
usuages which have nothing but their
age in their favor, then the sooner we
have New Vermont" the better for the
whole state.-[ White River Junction
Landmark.
Hamna's Fool Friend.
Perry S. Heath has discovered ten rail-
road presidents who favor Hanna for the
presidency and himself is booming the
Ohio Senator for the nomination, though
he says Hanna needs no booming.
Heath, smirched in the Cuban postal
scandals, retains his place as secretary of
the national committee through Hanna's
influence. and seems in this way to be
trying to repay the favor, but if Hanna
is sincere in what he says his friends are
doing him no service in booming him as
a candidate.-[M Montpelier Argus.
Better ahan RattleshIps.
WITH the enlargement or our foreign
interests comes increased peril of friction
with other countries, and this friction it
is the Office of arbitration to reduce to a
minimum, eliminating from the problem
the malevolent factor of national false
pride, which has been responsible for so
many conflicts between governments.
Arbitration is corollary of trade extern
sion, and the new movement should re-en-
list the active support of trade. and
chambers of commerce throughout the
country, most of which, happily, are on
record in favor of the larger measure
which failed in the senate. But deeper
than any commercial consideration is
that OF good will to men. For a people
protesting Christianity not to favor this
advance in civilization would be a con-
tradict1on in terms. Every arbitration
treaty is worth hundred battleships.-
February Century.