Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-10-07

couraging manufacturing industry, have
attained a power, wealth, independence,
civilization, that rival even that of Eng
land herself. Within half a century,
Russia was scarcely anything but an ag-
ricultural people, and every laborer serf
With the building up of her manufac-
lures under the system of encourage
ment and protection, inaugurated by
Count Nesselrode in 1924, she has advanc-
ed in civilization, until every serf is now
freeman, her wealth almost fabulous,
and her power well nigh irresistible.
Switzerland, small, mountainous, cold,
sterile, but full of skilled artisans. is
wealthy and enlightened, and free and in
dependent. On the other hand Portugal,
fertile, salubrious, luxuriant, but supplied
| almost entirely by foreign wares, is poor
and thriftless and dependent.
Fellow-citizens, there is scarcely limit
to these teachings OF history to show that
state only reaches the highest attain
able prosperity and civilization when
| agriculture and manufacture march hand
| in hand. And he is no true son of Yer
mont who is satisfied with anything less.
| With the education, ingenuity and skill
of our people, is it not strange spectacle
to see the timber stripped from these
mountains, upon every slope Of which Is
abundant water power, and transported
to New Hampshire, to Mass, to Con-
necticut, to New York, and the sons of
Vermont sent along with it to man fac-
ture it, by the aid il many cases, of steam
power, into carriages, and furniture, and
farm tools, to be brought back to Vermont
for our use ? Is it not a strange spectacle
to behold our wool going to other States
to be made into cloth to be sent back for
our wear, and we paying the enhanced
price resulting from the double transpor-
tation, and the profits that make the deal
| ers rich through whose hands it passes ?
Why send our sons and daughters to
operate the looms and spindles OF Man
chester and Lowell when we can have a
Manchester and Lowell within our own
borders Why send our butter and cheese,
our potatoes and beef through Boston to
Lawrence and Lynn to feed Nermonters
making prints and boots for us there when
they could as well do the same work
! here
But it may be asked how can this
change be wrought--this adyant age gain
ed Z Protection is essential to the building
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the general goverumen.-no the State.
This IL true but protection We are going
10 have. II in the tendency Of tbs age.
Our heavy debt has driven III 10 protec-
tion already, and will neccH.itatc protcc.
| ton in tho future. believe we arc about
10 enter upon career Of national proper
/ ity hitherto uncqualled in our history. /
would have Vermont avail hcraelf Of the
tide IN itH flood The jarrng in bu-inoH
and the disturbance in finance in the
transition through this post-reyolutionnry
/ period are not unusual or unexpected
Tho wave Of misfortune is not uuire-
1 qucntly, III its rehuence, frcightcd with
| blessings.
| We can, to the extent Of our repres n
tation, help TO secure protection. We can
modify our own laws so az TO adapt them
TO the encouragement Of manufactures
We can invest some Of our own capital,
and thereby more readily secure foreign
capital We can build additional rail
| roads, and thereby make ourselves more
accessible to the outside world We must
rid our minds Of deal Of prejudice and be-
comemore liberal in our View. we can tenn
porarily exempt manufacturing property
from taxation when that will secure it
establishment. Indeed, to say that We
cannot effect this change is to admit our
inferiority. The manner Of producing the
desired results Is of little consequence to
consider to-day. The resolution to pro-
duce them is what we first need
Eellow-citizens, it is out of regard for
the agriculture and for the bert interests
Of my adopted State, that | make these
these suggestions. A. "a citizen Of YER
mont, identified with her alike in her
prosperity and adversely, desire to see
her future as glorious ar her past, III de-
vciopment and growth leading the van.
not following in the wake of her sisters /
would see hcr sons and daughters retained
within the mothers fold, and her absent
children returning. | would stc her l,y her
enterprise drawing within her borders The
best of orhcr States, and that too without
requiring them To pronounce tho Shib-
bolcth ! would see the farmer realizng
profit from bis landed investment. and
fair remuucratlou FIR his labor | would
see the poor becoming rich, sud the rich
secure ~ lis p"sze--ious. | would See
these feld- blge-oming as the ro-c and
hear tho music If these mountain streams
miuglinE with the hmm Of machinery. /
would sec tho star Of Vermont ever in the
zenlth, not palinR before brighter attcu-
dant consultations, but constantly ~
crcaslnp III spleudor. To aid in seeming
this, appeal to the intelligent fa:mera
and mechanics Of Rutland County.
ALARM or FIRE Last ,scniuZ be-
tween seven and eight o'cl.oa our citizens
were startled with the cry Of fire, the
first alarm that haa b.4n raised in our vii.
llge Tor many lseeAs. [, originated from
a tire that had eancht in the roof Of one
OF the Rutland rail road wood sheds from
the sparss Of a portable engine that had
been used for saving wood under it,
fortunately the IRE was discovered he
fare II had made much head way, and by
krr, iiue off the boards and bringing n
Fire ETfingu.sher from tie HERALD
Office TO bear upon it, it VIZ soon cxtin-
lui-hed.
Col. VEAZEY's AID DRESS. - We are
era'ihed to be able to present TO the read
ers o. the HERALD mis- morning the adj
dress of Col Whee' ock G. Veazay deliver
90 on IhuradAE a he Rutland County
ar. Ia $40 FIR essrre upon our columns
on Iritax naT ming we were unable to
make any not ce of this excellent address.
At 7 o'clock Henry Clark, Secretary Of the
SAFETY IN roducedf Col. Veazey to the
large aud fence that had assembled to
listen "a nim
Tie . idress is well conceived, chaste in
style, lstrnctive, Astounding in sugges-