Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-11-27
THE RUTLAND HERALD.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1878
VERMONT AND THE CENTEN-
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Yesterday we urged the necessity OF /
making a success of the centennial cele-
bration and industrial exhibition at !
Philadelphia in 1876, and the propriety
of the United States paying the expens-
es of that enterprise. This exposition
of the resources of the country and its
progress in those arts which benefit
mankind, appeals to the people for their
cordial cooperation. tits, not matter
of local importance merely, but extends.
its benefits and advantages from one
extremity Of the country to the other.
aud 10 the most remote nations who COM
pete with us for superiority of resources.
or useful invention. The citizens OF
Vermont are interested, We produce
confessedly the best sheep for wool pro-
duction to be found in the world. This
exhibition will of course. receive some
OF the best fiocks and representations OF
the best fine wooded sheep in our State.
The wool growing nations will come,to.
Philadelphia to compete with us; they
will see our superiority, and Vermont
may thereby become as distinctly an
emporium for fine wooded sheep as. ever
were Spain, Saxony or Silesia. =.
But sheep raising is not the principal
occupation Of but a small portionof our
people. We have other interests that
Vermont would desire to bring before
the world at this exposition. We have all
the facilities of any land for raising cat
tie. Our sweet pastures and nutritious
field, are especially adapted to the rearing
of fine blooled cattle. We have some
splendid herds within our borders and
the public attention is being more and
more attracted every year to the. enter
prise of breeding cattle and horses. Only
few weeks ago at public sale at Utica,
New York, short horn COWS were dis
posed of at auction at prices that in one
instance reached the large sum of forty
thousand dollars. These purchases were
largely made by British herdsmen, to
replenish the fine breeds of England.
ton of supplying all countries with stock
that make cattle breeding studied art,
and this recent sale has shown that
America is to be the field from which
the English breeder is TO make further
improvements in his heads. These enor-
nous prices are the strongest acknowl-
edgment we could have of the superiori-
ty of our stock.
The marble quarries of Vermont send
their products to every State of the
Union, and the dealers of the old world
will meet at this centennial exhibition
with the euarrymen and manufacturers
of Vermont, and make their arrange
ments for a wider trade. The scales
from the works at st. Johnsbury and
Brandon, and the forks of Batcheller &
Sons, will satisfy the representative men
of all civilized countries that here in
Vermont our manufactures keep pace
in excellence with our fine wooded sheep,
fast horses and blooded cattle. We
have brought up some of the advantages
we could derive in Vermont from this
exhibition in business point of view,
simply as an illustration of the desira-
bility of our making it grand success.
Vermont has not the advantages of soil
and climate, or the display of manufac--
turing enterprise that some of our States
have. We are one of the smallest, and
in some respects of minor Importance in
this great sisterhood of States, and the
advantages we should derive from this
celebration as it is proposed to carry out
the scheme, would be small in the COM
parison with the larger and more favored
States.
The glory of our country's history is
national. Our prosperity is as broad as
the continent, and the advantages that
are to flow to this country from this
comparison of productions and progress
in the arts and sciences, will ramify to
every part and corner of the nation. 1t
is great public enterprise for which the
nation should feel responsible, and as
Congress and the Executive declare that
it behooves the nation to do this thing,
it looks to us that it is eminently proper
for the nation in its organized capacity
to pay the expenses. We hope that
Congress will make such an appropria-
ton at its next session for this purpose
that the Centennial Commission can pre-
pare such an exhibition of the nations
industry, as viii awaken a glow of
patriotic pride in every American heart,
and carry the benefit of American skill
and energy to the other nations of the
earth. Vermont can well afford to pay
her part, and as constituent part Of the
great American Union should willingly
enter into an earnest advocacy of every
necessary measure to make everything
connected with this celebration a glorious
success
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