St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-07-26

itself. While nobody ever claimed for
Mr.. Depew genius Of high order or
sternly ascetic ideals, his has been dis
tinctly likable character. He might have
been set down with Abou Ben Adhem as
one who loved his fellow.men. He could
have said to them as Kipling said to the
English of India
I have eaten your bread and salt,
l have drunk your water and wine;
The deaths ye died have watched beside
The lives that ye led were mine.
Although Mr.. Depews political services
in behalf of corporations have long been
| known, most men preferred to believe
| that at heart he was better than his
business, and that the closing years of
his life might atone for earlier in
discretions. 1t is not pleasant to see
this man, now past the allotment Of
threescore years and ten, branded with
shame and stripped of the last shreds OF
responsibility. 1t is not pleasant to
know that he too shared in footing the
heritage of the widow and orphan. 1t Is
not pleasant to know that he has COM
mitted offenses which make him unfit to
hold his high office and which might
warrant proceedings for disbarment il
not criminal prosecution.
This is not a joke, as some of our
friends believe. tits tragedy, and the
World can contemplate it only with feel
ings of genuine regret and sorrow.-[ New
York World.
The Vermont School Teacher.
The schoolma am continues the subject
of piteous appeal on the part Of some
Vermont newspapers. 1t is stated and
truthfully, that the girls are not being
paid as high salaries as they ought to
receive. 1t is stated, also truthfully,
that there are more schoolma ANS than
Jobs and that the law of demand and
supply operates in bringing about low
wages. If some of the girls who get IS
to 81 per week teaching and board them
selves would do homework, they would
increase their own income, raise the
standard Of wages among those who
continue to teach and help solve the
great hired girl problem which looms
ominouslv before the Vermont house
keeper Bellows Falls Times.
vigerous Law Enforce naentin Caledonia
Ceumty.
The States legal representative in
Caledonia county. Frank D. Thompson,
has been doing some remarkably effective
work during the past few weeks among
the liquor sellers of that no.liceuse county,
bringing. literally, scores of indictments
against persons who up to. this time,
have had nothing but derision for the
liquor laws OF Vermont, who have piled
their traffic unhindered and who have
thrived. Now, however, there is
change. A different sentiment prevails.
There always was more or less Of
desire to have the no-license side OF the
been the backbone stiff enough to carry
out that enforcement. Caledonia county
has submitted to the humiliation Of
voting year after year against the Ii
censing OF liquor selling conducted al
most as openly as in license communities.
But this new states attorney brought
different spirit into the county's prose-
cutting machinery when he was elected to
Office. This term of Caledonia county
court has had a calendar full OF liquor
| cases, with the result that many trans
gressors of the law have been convicted
| and fined or sentenced. Places which
have thrived under the inactivity are
closed or are conducting their illegal sale
under strict cover and they do not feel
at all safe so longi as they continue the
sale.-[Barr Times.
The District AttoPnevshim
1.-The Brattleboro Phoenix thinks
District Attorney Martin ought to hold
the job another year. Would the
Phoenix think 80 if it were located in ST..
| Johnsbury:"
That's very pertinent query and one
that practically goes to the nub OF the
whole matter. The fact is, notwith-
standing the very ingenious and plausible
argument put forth by the Phoenix, that
the office of United States district attor.
nev for Vermont is not so burdened with
professional cares as to even suggest the
necessity for it's inclusion among those
posts in the public service where retention
in office is for the public interest. Unless
the Messenger is misinformed, Mr.. Mar
tin has no difficulty whatever in conduct
ing his personal law practice In conjunc-
ton with his duties as district attorney.
Not only that, but comparatively few
cases are tried in the United States
courts by the district attorney for YER
mont and the entire bar of the state
understands the fact very well. 1t is
useless to attempt to represent Mr..
Martins Office as anything more serious
than the collectorships of customs, a
comfortable berth with snug salary and
little to do.
| "There are Others"
According to prominent Vermont
politician" in the Springfield, Mass.
Republican, the next republican, state
ticket will be o. M. Barber of Benning
ton for governor and Z. NJ. Mansur OF
Island Pond (if he wants it) for the
second place on the ticket. Such COM
bination might appropriately be headed
Disappointed Candidates for Collector.
, ships Party" There are others qualified
for places on this ticket Rutland News
Water Meters for st. JOhnsbusy.
The committee appointed to invest
gate the water question at st. Johnsbury
unanimously recommended the use O.
meters with any system that the village
might put in. Every business man, every
committee that investigates this question
will reach the same conclusion. Without
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