The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-02-09

agricultursts of Vermont suffer most In
pecuniary point of view from the want of
an enlarged manufacturing interest
Nil. L. II. GiiswoLD
opened the discussion He said the oucs
ton was broad enough for dozen even
ing's discussion and embraced all the oucs-
tions which had been discussed by the club
for several weeks. Do the farmers suffer
more from the want mentioned than from
any other cause 1t was well known that
Vermont had for ynqra spfferc.l e.
of manufactures the farmer, the trader
and the laboring men. Perhaps old fogy-
ism had kept ont capital from tic state
which might have been employed for man.
ufacturing purposes, and thus increased
the influx of it into Vermont. We certain
ly had the water power and every other fa-
clity for manufacturing purposes. Along
our beautiful rivers there is no reason why
manufactures. in large numbers could not
be built with more success than had been
acquired, even in other states. The dis
lance from market was very trifling. Farm
ers complained of thousand grievances
just at present that were never dreamed of
before, with an abomnable stress of many.
They complained that railroads were sap
ping the very hearts blood of the farmers
by taking their hard savings to carry their
products to market. If we looked back we
should find that never were they so well
provided in that respect as now. A man
had remarked to him, few days ago, that
he had to pay sixty cents per hundred for
transportation TO Boston and thought he
could make money by taking it there him
self But come to figure up he found he
would be in debt in attempting it, The
price OF everything was not as cheap as it
used TO be before the railroads were built.
Then butter could be bought for 121 cents,
eggs for 10 cents dozen and POI
Iatoes for 10 cents per bushel. The
grievance in regard TO railroads did not
exist in fact. These blessings were worth
something and should teach us not to
growl. Some seemed to have a passion for
growing and finding fault. The complaint
of the farmer was because he was Door and
had to labor, He thought not of the weary
and hard life Of other classes of men whose
hardships were tenfold to that of the farm
err. The latter augmented their evils. The
sweat of their brow was painful to them,
when they shonld be ms happy as any class
on the face of the earth. 1t was in part
because they allowed themselves to feel
that they were the servants of everybody
else. They now wear Grape on their hats
or tucked their pants into their boots and
demanded our pity. They had undertaken
20 control all kinds Of labor. in some cases,
which had been failures and would be so In
the future. The speaker said il the rail-
roads were taxed the cars ought to whistle
past our villages and shut up the dcpots.
AS regarded this question of manufgc-
lures supposlng that people should come
to Brandon and commence to establish
manufactures; would il be wise to say ''taX
that property" That mandatory might
double our capital as town, when If taxed
at the start ii would not stay, and our IN
tcIcslS Woulu DC SCI DdcK an hundred fOlQ.
Should the town of Rutland lay tax on
her railroads, which some were now in
favor of dong, they would soon see what
would be the result, and would pray for a
double tax on themselves rather than to
have the railroads taken from them. The
speaker then pointed to the village of Gays
vile, which was built up by manufactures.
The manufacturer was taxed at so heavy n
rate on his property that he became dis
couraged and took away his machinery.
They were now buried people in Gaysvillc,
in trespasses and sin. The large manufac-
tory employed about 100 men, all consum-
crs. Suppose that million of capital
should come here to-day, said the speaker,
would not ncighbor June expect that his
farm would be worth more than II now Is /?
| He knows 1t would.
MR. HORACE BARNES
| thought that some things had been said
which were not material to the question.
This TRADE upon farmers was uncaled for.
The question was, would it benefit the far
merY lie did not doubt that it would be q
benefit In keeping our money at home
Vermont was left out in the cold as to
manufactures, while her facilities were as
great as Massachusetts. In regard TO manu-