St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-01-15
PRESS COMMENT
A Fallen Idol

A Fallen Idol
BY a piece of political treachery
that has won the contempt of even
his democratic allies, Robert P.
Bass has put the republican party
in New Hampshire out of power
and eliminated himself from the
party for good and viii henceforth
be a nonenity so far as that party is
concerned in New Hampshire. So
long as he was tagged with the
name and had won political pre-
ferment regularly, he was tOlerat-
ed, but not trusted. Now that he
has openly bartered honor for am
bition and disclosed his real char
acter the progressive republicans
whom he has fooled into being his
tools will have no more use for
him than he now has for them. If
the contamination of the deal
should land him in the United
States Senate, however he will soon
find his level there.-[Lancaster
| Gazette
Good Word for DIR. Aldrich
Representative Aldrich of st.
Johnsbury, in introducing in the
General Assembly, a resolution call
! ing for a commission from this state
| to cooperate with similar COM
missions from other states, to in
| quire into the generally prevalent
| scarcity of coal and to report on it's
/ causes and remedy, has struck
popular chord. 1t is apparent
! that something is wrong some
| where, and the people are entitled
| to know just what it is and where
| it is and to compel relief, if such
be in their power--[Rutland
News.
The VermOnter's Home Loyalty
A contributor to the columns of
| the Boston Herald remarks upon
the native state loyalty of Yer
monters who are now residents in
| and around Boston, declaring that
while other state societies have
| come and gone, the Vermont society
goes on forever, and, what is more,
conducts a lively existence, too,
holding frequent meetings and hav-
! ing a Vermont headquarters in one
of the most accessible parts of the
city. This sort of thing is not pc
culiar to the Vermonters in Boston;
| everywhere VermOnters are assem-
| bled, or where there are enough to
! form a quorum, their home-loving
| instincts have caused them to to
| band together in organizations to
recall old times and to do some
| thing for the betterment of their ma
tive state. From coast to coast,
| there are a great many societies of
| this nature, and most of them are
in 1ourishing condition, both with
respect to membership and to inter
est Indeed, if the census of the
states could be taken, it probably
would be found that nearly every
one of them has an association of
Vermonters in some town or city,
because there is not a state in the
union which has not attracted a GER
tain number of Vermont people who
have settled there because of the
allurements of business, climate or
something which they thought they
could not find in Vermont.
But whether they have wandered
far or near, they retain treasured
memories of a fostering mother,
which was not so harsh to them,
after all, or which while perhaps
harsh, yet fitted them thereby
the best for the duties of life which
were to confront them in some 9TH
er locality. Then, there are the cher
ished thoughts of the old home
which linger in memory of any man
with the slightest degree of senti-
ment about him. These thoughts tie
him inseparably to the old state,
even though in the physical sense
he may be far removed. Vermont
was good to her sons and daughters.
albeit at times seemingly harsh.
This, then, is one of the chief rea-
sons why the Vermont society in
Boston 1ourishes, why similar So
cieties flourish in many other states
: 0e IF
fact, Vermont is drawing back
many of her wandering sons and
daughters. who seek a contented,
happy living amid familiar scenes
BARRE Times.
The Coal Situation
Fortunate, indeed, is it that the
winter thus far has been an
unusually mild one, for had it been
of usual severity the high cost and
scarcity of coal must inevitably have
brought suffering to many people.
Under the circumstances, the joint
resolution introduced in the house
Monday evening by Mr.. Aldrich of
st. Johnsbury, providing for the ap-
pointment by the governor of a COM
mission to cooperate with similar
commissions in other New England
states to inquire into the coal situa-
ton, is particularly timely.
Prevailing conditions demand a
I thorough investigation and this can
better be made by commissions rep
! resenting all the New England states
acting in harmony than by the max
ing of separate inquiries. There is
something radically at fault when
with ample transportation, facilities,
both by rail and water, nearly all
New England is on the verge of a
coal famine almost at the opening
of winter.
The explanation of the coal deal
ers that there is shortage in supply
is denied by those supposed, at
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