Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1846-10-22
VERMONT PHOENIX.
BrattlcbOrO, Thursday, Oct. p, 1916.

/ "GLoRious RrsuLr WmiseERr.-"Yermont is free
from debt snd balance in her treasury says the PhenK
Aye neghbor and the hundreds Of thousands who
the benefit Of the Bankrupt Act free IRON debt, but
do they rumphaniy noise abroad that same How would
community respond to them they DID How would you
ghbor, when the exuaBt bankrupt happened Be a
debtor y0ur book We have waited to see who would
take up the triumphant note, "ffee FROM debt and residue
in the treasury but whig paper in all Vermont
eept neghbors has whispered the fact they choose
10 eonsIgn TO iorgeliulness, and they wise. The
least said about this wing liquidation Of the Vermont State
Debt the better Aye Vermont free from debt and
residue in her treasury by the gnohe Actie dis
charging herself from the School FUND.-
fund sneedy sci apart Tor special purpose by fathers
and her treasury repenshed by what she had
not already appropraedand not the plea OF pnvery
10 exienuate The robbery Let the wings erow-ihe de.
mocracy will hide their heads for shame that maor-
ty could be found in the Of old Vermont nd
such thinkers to Montpelier 10 mend the public credit Ev
cry rascal in community il he Md the power has the will
and the wit TO do cute thing has the assembled wis
dom Of Vermont Whiggery Mark that, neighbor, and
crow again rs broad doy hgh!'
give find the above candid truthful gsntlemany srti-
Gle in the last Democrat We congratulate our neighbor
the aeueness of his moral perceptions rejoice that
we live in community where The healthul influence Of
this guardian OF the public morals is felt the
great game Of deception played by his party in 1884,
passed by him in silence to be the grand nation
al robbery Of New Mexico and the CALIFORNIA; meets
his hearty approval but the holy horror with which he
CARDS the seques,ou OF the School Fund proof posi-
tive of the upHghiness OF his heart, and fully for
any previous oblquy.
Now the editor ofihe Democrat II he knows am thing a,
all about the natter be that all this talk Of
"robbng the School Fund and "deIaudng the poor man
children is the meres CANNON and the ridiculous
balderdash, It perhaps be expected that Loeofoco
editor should before election deal such humbugs; bat
to talk sincerely after such style, Of ignorance
than knaveryi perhaps little Of both.
The State Of Vermont really nepsr ,sas in debt The
Legislature Of 1925 established the School Fund principal.
because knew what else to do with the overplus in
the treasury. 1t gin, nor was collected for
that specific purpose but then and has been
ufey at the disposal of the Legislature Ia the course Of
time The State concluded build new Capitol and &C.
cordngly edfce which will stand for ages for the &C.
eommodnon of the present and all future generations was
erected and the State borrowed from the School Fund to
pay for H. And the Loeoocos raised the cry estate
Debt and talked largely of" Wing extravaganza albeit
the very persons who had the OF the whole hu
sness Locoiucos The consideration that long time
must eupse before the fund would become available and
even when that time should arrive the fact that all past
experience has gone 10 prove that large school fund is
curse to the cause Of educaton and blessing induced
the Legislature Of last year to pay of the State Debt
as It was called, by abolishing this Fund.
Let us suppose case. Our neghbor 10 the abundance
Of his possessions has laid by certain sum- which he in.
tends for his descendants of the nh generation in few
years he wishes TO build him house and seeing the fol-
of providing for children unborn he swerycs on his
"HN "FPl"pilhNs MS una TO his own
use and for his own benefit What would he think Of the
man who should accuse him Of obbing his children and
! "Pnndering the poor
The State Of Vermont oiOned School Fund and o,ced
nominal detf She took her property and paid her
dues and II II Is not matter for congraualon and
ocing to the editor of the Democrat that Vermont is free
from debt with balance in her treasury he perhaps would
do well to emgrue to Iepnduing Mississippi bankrupt
Arkansas where demagoguism finds congenal soil
than among the hills OF honest Ysrmoat
The article ia certainly appropriate dedication Of his
new press to the service of modern democracy.