The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-05


there has been quiet and steady growth |
of the Order in this state, until now I see
it Is stated that in the number of Oranges
Vermont IL ahead of all other New Eng
land states. Outside of the New England
states the number of Oranges in the United
States are as follows; Illinois, GSS f: lndi-
ana, 1902 Iowa, 1872 Kansas, G2j Mich
igan, lOl Minnesota, 3Gj Mississippi,
4l5 Missouri, 95G; Nebraska $50 Ohio,
10; Oregon, 80 Pennsylvania, 30 South
Carolina, l76: Tennessee, 1856 W soon
sin, 221.
You will surely give the agrculluriSis Of
Vermont the credit If Icing at least Of
average intelligence and cultivation, and
having fair understanding of thcir rights
They arc not politicians, in the ordinary
sense of the term, but their training in the
school of The town make them apt and dis
scriminating legislators. The great major ,
ity Of our people, being engaged in agli- .
cultural pursuits, there has been no time in |
the history of our state, ! think, when, if |
carry particular reform, they had mol the /
numerical strength to do it,
The organization of Oranges which is
| steadily going on, shows that they have
awakened to Il consciousness of their num-
ical and moral power, and it is fair 10 pre-
sumo that our next legislature will slow in
it purpose to relieve the people of some
| of the burthcns of taxation that have GRIP
pied their industry, and made them, in
fact, the subjects of the great monopolics
that have controlled the state for years
The farmer on the prairies of Iowa or
| Kansas claims that he must deliver to the
railroad two car loads of corn to pay for
the transportation of third car to our
consumers in Vermont. As Vermont i'm
ports largely of the beef, pork, flour and
grain that she consume, every consumer of
these products is Patron in heart and
interest 4 cheapcning in the cost Of
transportation would tell at once in the
decreased price of the article consumed. So
it will be seen that the laborer in our mills
andmanuactories of all kinds has precisely
the same interest in the success of the Or
der that the Patrons of IIusbandry in Iowa
have.
= 1t is a noticeable fact that from the stand
I point of the Patrons in the western states,
great stress is laid on what they assert to
| be the unequal taxation of railroads as
compared with farm property or real cs-
0 tate. The argument comedies that there is
i of course taxation of railroads, but they
e claim that they are not taxed to their value
I as compared with farms How would tho
!, case be aggravated there could the littl,
,. state OF Normoet be set down on thei
J. prairics, with belts of railroads cncircin!
+ it, and cross lines intcrsecting them;
C source of immense revenue TO their mana
;, gers taking from the earnings of the pcopl
# their millions, and yet in all the years o
It their existence never paying single dolla
J. of taxation for any purpose whatever
+ This the agriculturists of Vermont hay
lc endured. with here and there solitary in
l. dividual to protest in all these years-ycar
st | Wucll war WIS u DuIlUtn anu WHICH llNt
IL ton Of two and three hundred per cent
&c was no common imposition Little ca
T., be ventured in saying that so serious Il bul
ut then has not been imposed upon any othC
al agricultural community in the Union Ca
G. it be that another session of our legislator
v. will pass without active and determine
G. effort to rcctify this wrong
tv The constitution of our state rcqur,
V lcctcd, and to assure this being well an
nd faithfully done our old Council of Ccnso
o. were expressly cnioincd to see to it in cac
IT, and every session thereof, that this h
e. been done and if not, to publicly prcscl
%. the legislature to the people on account
no such malfcasancc.
to Assuming then that the existence of Il
n Patrons of Iusbandry in the west is call,
he into being there, to redress and rcctfy Il
re public and private wrongs under whlt
se they labor may be permitted to say tn
he the laboring classcs-thc farmers, mocha
he les and day laborers of Vermont have eve
Inc cess of the Patrons of IIusbandry til
he the farmers of Illinois have, and the furt
Vi er and paramount reason, that while N
ed have borne the great burthcn of taXatio
90 the vast lines OF railroads that enclrcle n
10 intcrscct our statc--whosc value in millio
nal it is difficult to compute, have left to
re- industrial classes the whole expense
bid maintaining the state government. 1t is
Iue humiliating fact in our history, that t
bare poll of the poor, with no wealth |
their children, and these to be clothed a
!. fed by their naked ands, has been ind
triously sought and taxed, and at the sal
on time the great wealth of our railroad G.
IN porations has escaped all taxation and
contribution to the support and defence
/. the commonwealth.
has 1t will, perhaps, be answered that
out industrial classes are themselves respoi
out BILE for the existence of this state of thin
; to that being numerically the stronger IL
ion had at any time the power to compel
self taxation of railroad property This N
has be granted. But the fact is, the farm
out are the many /; and the difficulty thus
ma has been in eifectiug unity of action !
our managers of railroads are .te'r and the
Ter tercsts of each and all are identical W
us their paid agents, always on hand, wat
| at ing the course and tendency of legislat
flu and cheap rctainers to Il few members "
?. had some influence aud little moral sta
=, it ma, they have thus far been able to man
the the question successfully in their own
pa terests. They have thus succeeded beca
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