St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-05-27
PRESS COMMENT
Individual AmalgamatiOn

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ton of the progressive and republi.
can parties, the writer being seem
ingly haunted by some frightful bogy
of plot, intrigue and Darkroom con-
spiracy, which he deems it his duty
to expose.
This is an extremely healthful and
harmless amusement which need not
be taken at all seriously and which
the shreWd observer may very heart
lily commend as tending toward the
proper hilarity of an early summer.
Amalgamation as a formal act, for
INFLATED by party leaders and adopt
ed as a party measure, is not to be
expected. 1t would not be particu-
larly acceptable to republican lead
ers and it would deprive certain pro-
gressive leaders of their occupations
and accompanying stipends. Anal
gamation of another sort, however,
is going on continuously.
The people themselves, in Vermont
and elsewhere, are pretty thoroughly
awake to the situation and are ex-
tremely unlikely to follow strange
gods again when they are now well
assured that such an unhappy i'm
pulse will simply confirm the dem
ocratic party in power. If by pro-
gressivism they could at once GUST
the democrats and confirm progress
sive republicans in Office, the radical
element in the party might try the
experiment.
Republicans of all shades of be-
lief, however, must realize that the
progressive movement of 1912 has
simply turned the reins of govern
ment over to the democrats, enacted
a ruinous free trade bill, reversed
the balance of trade against this
country, paralyzed business, and
plunged the nation in a costly i'm
broglio with Mexico.
The trend back to the old parties
is irresistible. The democrats are
all returned, because where the
spoils are there will the faithful be
gathered together. Republicans,
both radical and conservative, are
looking each other in the eye and are
finding that they are one on nation
al policies. All that keeps them
apart is pride and the self-interest
of their leaders.
In a sense the organization of the
progressive party was a punitive
measure, designed to rebuke certain
leaders who are now effectually dis
credited. There was never an eX-
OhOC III Tic Spit O0IOA0C VI a OOA ScAA
abuse of party machinery. and there
is every prospect that such an abuse
will be made impossible hereafter.
The people are doing their own
amalgamating without regard to the
furious protests of the progressive
leaders or the frantic outbursts Of
the progressive press. They are COM
ing back to republican principles and
the Bull Moose is dwindling to a
skeleton. Soon all that will be left
will be a picturesque rack of bones,
a set of antlers and a mask of grin
ming teeth!
Yet one must have a tempera-
ment singularly devoid of sentiment
and love for the simpler gaieties OF
life if he would deny the progressive
leaders such enjoyment as the clang
of tocsin and the thunders of little
Sinai must provide.-Rutland Her
aid.
DIR. Mead's Gift to MiddIebury
Ex-Gov. John A. Mead has given
a chapel to Middlebury college. 1t is
the fifth building to be added to the
college group in six years. Mr.. Mead
makes the gift in honor of the 50th
of his graduation from
In his letter to President
is this pretty thought: ''It
was my great-great-grand the
first white settler of this valley, who
brought the first copy of the Holy
Bible into this unbroken wilderness,
and it was his wife, my great-great-
who gathered her
large family about her in an Indian
wigwam for the first Christian SER
vice of the Vermont pioneers of this
region. With this mem
DRY ever present, it has been my hope |
and prayer that I might be able and |
permitted to build a suitable place |
for divine worship and that it might |
rise from the highest point on it's |
campus to a symbol of the position, |
most prominent in every respect, |
which Christian character and re-
ligious faith should always maintain |
in it's work for our youth. "-Brattle- |
boro Reformer.
A Fine Cata1Og
The combined annual catalog of /
Lyndon Institute and Lyndon School |
Of Agriculture, just issued, is not |
only neat in its make up but is a |
skillful presentation of all that per-
tains to the schools, their advantages |
and opportunities. AS The Land
mark has said upon other occasions /
the management of these correlated |
and cooperative yet Independent in
situations of learning seems to have |
grasped the right idea as to what |
methods and lines of study are most |
needed by the boy or girl attending
the one or the other.
An Enthusiastic Vermonter
Geo. H. Bickford spoke before the |
Association of Burling- /
ton at one of their weekly luncheons
today on the subject: 1.-THE Industrial
Future of Vermont" Mr.. Bickford
Is enthusiastic on that subject. He
believes that perhaps first of all, the
Industries and the opportunities for
development of resources of our state
should be advertised and encouraged
and that advancement along other
ines will follow. In a little more
han a decade he has seen, and as
of the Woodbury. Granite
Company, has been behind one of
he largest industrial developments
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