Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1843-08-25

the state 10 the School Fund and the Safety Fund,
(which was incurred by the Palmer administration |
in building The statehouse, and now leave both OF
these funds whole and in addition to all this, 1t
would have put into our Treasury more than
HALF A MILLION OF DOLLARS to be devo-
ted to education and the Development and i'm.
provenlent of the resources of the State. So
great was the loss which Vermont sustained by
ocofocoism in the defeat Of the Land Bill OF 1888
and yet the ocotoco party in Vermont is pledg-
ed against Distribution, aud virtually makes the
robbery of our own people prime article in their
political creed! This robbery, too, was unntceS
sary; it was made when we had descending
Tariff; and this is an aggravaton OF the gross
outrage perpetrated upon our rights and interests,
that while Locofocoism robbed US of the land mo-
ney to supply the wants of prohigaie admins
,ralion, also robbed us of Protection, by contn
uing in force the Compromise Act, in defiance of
the mutual understanding Of oil parties when that
act was assenled TO.
But we turn from the Ubiquitous course of the
ocofoco parry, to = consideration of what the
Wings have done. They hold 10 the doctrine
that the rights Of the states should be honestly re-
garded, and one Of the FIRST acts of the Wing
Congress of 1871 was TO pass Land Bill. I'm
der that act, division of the sales for six months
was made, aud Vermont received as her share,
nore than 0000-forlunutey a sun sufficient
to pay The cost of the late lOcoioco constitutional
convention, which would not trust the people to
elect their own county officers. Tyler the traitor
refused TO sign the Tariff hill until the Distribution
act was suspended. The Wigs, however, immsd-
atey passed another bill 10 restore the Dislribu-
ton act in full force, and the President refused to
sign it, Al this moment, then, the Wings of YER
mont aud of the Union slnnd forth, the advocates
of the rights Of the states to the Public Lands
and we now maintain as we have always insisted
that should the Wing policy be carried out, YER
mont would receive fund from the public do.
main averaging more than $4,000 n year. We
I study to keep within the truth rather han to ex-
aggerate it, and we therefore assume rs perfectly
fair and reasonable basis OF calculation, that the
annual sales Of the public lands will in future av-
erage quite as much as they have done from the
beginning 10 this day. We do not mean that tie
sales will Increase in proportion to the increase OF
| population, but that they Will amount TO the same
average sum as was realized from 1900 to 1912
when, of course, the population was FAR less
than it is now. To the documents, theB from
the opening oC The land offices in 1900 to the 30
Sept. 1S42, the amount of sales was $l70,93994l
GO, and The average for each year was S4069,90S
CD, BY the Wing land bill of le4l which divid
ed the proceeds according to the population o
| 1910, Vermont would receive one 55lh part an
nually, after deducting per cent for the state'
in which the lands lie. Making this deduction
the average annual sales would be S3,662995 II
and the share of Vermont would be tone 55th)