, 1874-09-12
FAIRS.
Senator Morrill, Talks to tho Vermont
Farmers,
He Favors Hard Currency and the
Reciprocity, Treaty.
Favorable Reports from Western State
and County Exhibitions.

VERMONT STATE FAIR.3
RUTLAND, VT, Sopt. 11.--Ihe Fair of tho Vor-
mont Agricultural Society, held hero to-day, MAS
worry successful.
sonator Justin 8. Morrill, delivered m: addroas
before tho Society. Ho said: 'Tho asccndoncy
Of tho agricultural intercs: will most surely. as1
llnvc thought, prcaervo our froo institutions. 10
Induce men to ombark aud remain In pursuit Of
agriculture, it LAS seemed to me bcttor to secure
for It q homo market by protection to mannfno-
ttroY ratller tllnn to waHto ono-half or moro of
tho bulky products OH long journeys IN reaching
consumers, and fur bottcs than to conquer
fifty provinces after tho mannor Of Great
britain. to be hold for no other putpoHo
tllan for what can DO squoozod out Of them
by trade. Tho farmoE who soils puio-b!ooded
stock. who must wash his wool as
whito as snow, who fans every particle Of chnfr
from his grain is ontitlod to ptiro, oloan. chal-
less money. 10 tho 1euoral Government be-
longs tho right tn coin money aud regulate tho
valNo theroof, md 6tato Danla haye bcon eup-
planted by National Banks. We complain OF
this only in one respect, and any thnt, if tho
General Government undertakes to coin md reg
lnto tic valuo OF money, It IL its duty to provide
good money, anil prevent tho issllo Of any other,
Ulippod coin, ~ d 1egal-iondos, would bo no
neYor chartered banks With the privilege of iB-
eung toprocinted paper aud calling It money.
The neccasity for such false standard long ago
parsed away; nnl while itB continuance Ia per-
nteoas to all hoa!thy businoas. 1t s exceptionally
oppressive to tho agricultu.sts. whose farms at
nu time could haSo lcen sold for inflated prices.
and tho vatuo OF whose products las boEno no
Just proportion to the Increased cost.
"1ho farmers aro deeply Interested IN tho pro-
posed treaty with Groat Britain, by which GER
tain products and manufactures arc to bo admit
ted froo Of duty to aud from tho Canadian
Dominion" III regard to the cfreet Of rcci-
procity on wool. he said :: "They want foreign
inarkot, but wo wans and must keep our own, or
abandon Hhcep htlH1nndry. III no event will
tl,cy buy pound Of our woola. That would ha
like carrying pepper to Hindoosthn. or owls to
Athens, hut with reciprocity they conld sell llcro
their ontire clip for Higher prices than aro olsc-
wllero ohtainablo, aud then supply their wauta
fur home consumption by tho admission Of tho
tho bulk OF articles which they mnko rocipro-
cally fsoo, III already exempt from duty undor
tho present Canadian tariff. Thrty-lyo Of the
articles which they propose to oxompt from
twenty three aro subject to duty. How long
would our fnrmors agree to prntcct everybody
else and loavo themselves exposed to tie hungry
assautH Of frco trade? a remarkable feature Of
reciprocity III cana1h, It all should ho dono TINT
Canada proposes IL TINT NO grant tho uso Of
for tho ,leo Of 831l miles Of Canadian canals, or
abnut 12 for i.
'.The Cauehnawaga Caual should, of courao,
bo built. md will bo bttilt, treaty or no troaty.
Tho benefits to nccrtlo to tho owners of Canadian
timbor-lanils, by their Increased vn}ue, will In
sure tho bnitt1tng of this canal, and when it
Ia built the owners OF tho CANAL will glatly
accept OF any sul for it's support, and as read
ily FROM Amorican al from their ulastara'
griAts."
Tho aldreaa waB cloaod By a Recommendation
thnt q lszo 10 established for tho bost farm In
tho State, md to tp Eiyell annually.