Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-03-22
RUTLAND HERALD.
TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1866.
Vermont.

seSsmenJ ana COLLECTION, ~ - aihohS tho
terri cries OF the West. With about the
same 'erritory as New Hampshire, its
contri nutions IRE but little more than
one-fourth as much with a cost of col
lection 'wo-thiris AZ much. "-Erchang'.
As Vermont Is much behind other New
England States in the amount collected,
the cost of collection is proportionately
enlarged. But why Is Vermont behind
in the amount of revenue paid to the
United States The answer is ready
and plain; Vermont is far behind her
sister New England States in manufac-
lures, which are heavily taxed and
ahead in agriculture, which is taxed
more lightly. Vermont ranks with
Western States, not with Eastern.-hoHt-
peliv Journal.
Is this all that veteran Vermont
Editor is disposed TO say in behalf of his
native State Is the editor satisfied
with thus passing over the great weak
ness-almost criminal neglected. the
people of the State Is not the editor
aware that the State is actually on the
decline, because she has neglected to i'm
prove her immense manufacturing re-
sources, and is in real danger OF losing
what little influence she has in the ma
ton, and of sinking her representation
in Congress TO one member, while all
the New England States are likely to
hold their own or TO do even better'
Agriculture is noble thing, and we
would not diminish its interest among
our people, but would rather encourage
and enlarge it, by urging our people to
20 into manufacturing enterprises-to
improve the almost innumerable places
of water power and give to our com
monwealth a population and wealth
that her climate, soil and other natural
resources demand We should have to-
day a hundred thousand more people
upon our fertile soil than New Hamp-
shire. Yet We have less than our small,
rocky, and comparatively barren neigh
Dor, with lair prospect that after the
next national census Is taken, we shall
be entitled to one member Of Congress
less.
One great cause why Vermont ia 80
little advanced in manufacturing, and
consequently in population, wealth and
influence, is the fiattery her people are
constantly receiving from the newspa-
per press for the fine sheep and horses
she produces, the maple sugar she
makes, and her good agricultural pro-
auctions generally. But these give en-
ployment TO but very small portion OF
our young men, and suffice barely to
give the comparatively few engaged in
Agriculture a respectable living.
Now If the press, and the men who at
Agricultural Fairs talk and flatter con-
tinually in one strain, would give half
as much time TO earnestly discussing
and advocating the advantages of more
manufacturing, we should soon see a
wonderful change. We would soon see
our population increasing hundred per
for the past fifteen years, while our Ag-
ricultural productions would be doubled
both in quantity and market value.
We ask our Montpelier friend, in all
seriousness If this continual bIarHcy
about our unparalleled sheep, sugar and
horses, has not enjoyed monopoly of our
attention about long enough? Would
not praise of those things sound better
and more worthy of the noble little
State, if our manufacturing resources
were all well improved, and our popula-
ton increasing at rate sufficient to
double itself in the next twenty years,
instead of Just holding its own, and we
running ahead of our sister New Eng
land States, instead of running behind
them all. as we now are-while all our
agricultural productions were increasing
and improving an hundred fold by rea-
son of this manufacturing stimulous?
Come friend WALTON and all oar edito-
rial brethren Of what name or party So
ever, let US see If we can't help lift our
green mountain S tate from its stand-still
position, and set L 'er on the advancing
swelling tide of p rosperity, Let ut
cease this continual iattering her fol
what she has done and Is doing, apoIo
giving for what she fail 10 do' ano
unite in urging her to go 70 mahulac
turing, so that not only our " 'ung met
and women can find ready and remun
erative employment, but Thousand. s anc
tens Of thousands of Others will be III
duced to come to us from other State.
and from foreign climes. There are mil
lions of industrious young men in En-
rope seeking American homes, but few,
if any, think of coming to Vermont,
where the young men are going away
for want of remunerative employment.
There never was better time to COM
mence the agitation of this needed re-
form than now.