Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-05-11
THE RUTLAND HERALD'
TUESDAY, MAY 0, 1871
MiddIebury'

ninety dogs Tor lne BIaho iio' -
These dogs, or rather their owhefs WI
have to pay forty.fve dollars to the otat
Treasury in the shape of tax Inc LAY
oaIs 9 dog'- head worth half as much q
mans. viz the dogs 500 and tn
mans S2OO.
The Champlain Wesleyan Conferenc
has been in session (its annual one) tn
past week at Weybridge Lower Falls. L
adjourned, am told, last Saturday night
The session was harmonious. The differ
ent charges are represented by a clergy
man and lay delegate, as provided for il
their discipline.
hear it rumored that the Rev. Mr.
NELL vain, rector of St. Stephens Protes
tant Episcopal church in our village, il
to accept call to the rectorship of the
church at Whitehall. hope the rumor
may prove unfounded, for Mr.. McIllwair
has endeared himself to our people dur
ing his stay among Us, by his piety and
urbanity. He is an excellent preacher
aud pastor, and not only will his immedi.
ate pari-nioners suffer by his removal, but
the entire community will miss greatly
his christian courtesy and kindness.
Our community are considerably ex-
erci-ed over the exhibition of the petri-
fl d Indian boy now to be seen at the Ad-
Olson House. Our scientific men pro-
nounce it Il wonderful phenomenon of ma
ture, while a boy wanted to know if it
was not son of the Cardiff Giant you
had in Rutland sOme time since? I was
not able to answer the question to his
satisfaction, and I suppose he is still in
quest of some one who will. 1t is most
Certainly great curiosity, and so regard
ed by All who have given it a visit.
i understand company has been
formed. with plenty of capital who are to
engage in manufacturing wooden goods
in the stone building below the present
paper mill in our village. The water
power is ample, and the building good
one for the purpose. certainly hope this
company may succeed. What we want
in Vermont is more manufacturing.
With water power ample, abundantly so,
surrounded with Il prosperous agricultural
community, where all necessary for the
support of operatives is easily raised,
there is no reason why Middletury can
not rank with any town in New England.
The only drawback we have, in common
with Ill manufacturing towns, to fear, IL
that the government may be led to en-
brace the pernicious doctrines of free
trade 81 persistently urged by the paid
agents Of British manufactures, and
throw cH the tariff that affords
protection to these manufacturing
establishments, and lead them either to
anguish and die by degrees, or at once
throw up the business entirely. The
Great West with its boundless resources
for raising grain, etc, can supply New
England with all i: may want in this re-
spect while on our streams should grow
up these industrial agencies that do so
much to develop our natural power and
pr sperity. The New York World and
Ersni0g Post are among the chief organs
Of tree trade that are urging upon the ma
ton the policy of giving up the manu-
imturing interest to Great Britain, send
in over our raw material to Birmingham,
Sheffield, etc, and let the operatives of
tnt-e cities do that work that can and
SHOULD ne done in our own country, thus
jnrgershing our own people and max,
iug Us subsidiary to British capitalists,
bmIding up British power and their com
marce, and running our own. The New
York Tribune is the ablest paper that adj
vucttes the doctrine of protection to Am
ercan industry, and he who gets the start
of Horace Greeley upon this question OF
such vital Importance to our country, and
to no part more so than to Vermont, has
got to WELD a more powerful pen than
any one know of at present.
Vermont has ever been upon the side OF
protection to our manufacturing interests.
and through her Legislature and repre-
sentatives in Congress, has ever exerted
an Influence upon this question that has
commanded respect and strongly aided in
carrying forward this branch of industry
to its present advanced stage of strength
and prosperity. We have all the elements
necessary to enable us to successfully COM
pete with Great Britain in manufacturing
goods for the world. British capitalists
know this. Hence their desire to break
US down before we grow any stronger.
Yankee ingenuity and enterprise cannot
by any fair means be shaokled, and all we
ask is that the government we have built
up and sustained with our blood and
treasure, shall by all constitutional means
aid the people in developing the resources
of the nation. This the people have q
right to demand. This is a government
of the people and for the people, and
cannot believe we shall ever so far forget
the advice of Washington, Jefferson, and
a host of other worthless, as to go back on
their cannsels and throw down and de-
etroy that system they helped organize
and which has done so much for us fol
nearly one hundred years. Ii our manu-
featuring establishments were tripled il
number, still we should find market fol
AL they could produce. Every additional
operative makes au additional demand
for additional products from the farm, and
causes quick market for every species o.
fsod our farmers can raise at their OWE
doors, at fair remunerative price.
Rutland should have twenty thousand
added to her population, and would have
with proper attention to this branch o
industry. Middlebury should have tifteer
thousand more to it's population from THU
,ource, and our State through, instead o
numbering three hundred and thirty
thousand inhabitants, has water powe,
enough to employ three hundred thousand
more in manufacturing employments