St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-09-01

University, then located in the town
of Norwich.-Barre Times.
] Work for Town Correspondents.
| The Manchester Journal has a
word to say for the local correspond
emit and pays them the following de-
served compliment: IF there are
any more painstaking workers for the
good of their respective towns than
the correspondents for local papers
from such town we would like to be-
come acquainted with them. Those
who do that labor for the average
weekly paper have mainly their
| trouble for their pains however, as
there are very few weekly papers that
are able to pay their correspondents
and the only compensation that they
receive for helping to keep their
towns on the map are more likely to
be kicks for some few mistakes that
creep in occasionally" The Journal
is right, town correspondents are do
ling a large service for their home
towns by sending in week by week
the happenings, which go to make
| up community life. The editors ap
preciate their work and those who
have once lived in these towns and
moved away feel like the town cor
respondent has sent them a personal,
weekly letter While it is human to
kick, the home folks like to see their
names in print and find out what
their neighbors have been doing.
Long life to the town correspondents.
limited Opinion.
Why Not Now?
Republican newspapers and stump
speakers, recognizing the futility of
attacking President Wilson's policy
with regard to the European war, are
once more trying to make political
/ capital of his handling of the Next
| can problem-of "watchful waiting"
| in other. words.
These newspapers and orators
have short memories.
In 1910, when Mr.. Taft was Presi-
ident, the Madero revolt broke out.
Things were in such a fearful mess
| in Mexico and along our border that
| troops were more than once sent to
Texas. The American minister. Re-
publican appointee, mixed into the
Imuddle with disgraceful results.
President Taft was greatly disturbed,
| but not at all ready to use force. At
la peace banquet in New York he
thus expressed himself:
Mexico for two years has present
| ed a very sad picture to every lover
Of his kind, to every supporter of pop
ular government, to every man hope
full of establishing peace under a
stable government. But we must not
despair. We must avoid in every
way that which is called Intervention
and USE all the patience possible,
with the prayers that some power
may arise there to bring about peace
| throughout that great country.
| hn 2
| ure of President Madero. Mr.. Taft
served notice on Huerta and his
crowd that this country would take
lit i'll if Madero were not given a fair
| trial. In a few days he was foully
assassinated. Ten thousand United
States troops were rushed to the
border, and left, together with the
whole problem, for President Will
sons administration to handle. MI.
Taft neither interviewed nor recogniz-
ed Huerta, though he had ample
time to do either.
The Mexican trouble still per-
sists, though it is not bit worse as
regards American interests than it
was in President Taft's time. HUI
erta, whom the Republican President
threatened in vain, has been made to
get out We have been saved long
and costly war. There is more nope
today for a peaceful and effective
settlement of the difficulty than there
has been for several years. And yet
the short.memoried Republicans pre-
tend to find grounds for criticising
the way in which the terribly deli
cate problem has been handled.
If a policy of patience and non-in-
PREVENTION was so good as to be in
dorsed by President Taft in 1912,
why is it not g God noU?-Boston
Post.