The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-02-14


G. II. Heath spoke of the bars in roads
high enough to be let down, narrow roads,
ways crowded by economical farmers who
save the land, yet make the roads more
liable TO be INSTRUCTED by snow drifts.
Roads arc also turned into wood yards,
lumber yards and store houses of old carts,
wagons and other farm implements. The
numerous suits against towns are often de-
cdcd against the plaintiff because the citi-
zens and surveyors are so negligent in
keeping the road track clean More attcn-
ton should be given to the subject of high
ways.
Prof. Collier remarked that good roads
IN all parts of the country were expensive
in their first thorough construction and
often engineering skill could be applied
with manifest advantage Rotation in office
IS n doctrine that Is unsound and should
gain no foOthold in the minds of the peo-
pie unless the change brings n better man
TO the place. In the offices where skill is
really necessary for the proper perform
ancc of the duties. rotation should not be
the rule. The Office of road maker or
highway surveyor is of this class, ability
and knowledge is 50 greatly needed, good
man should not he turned out and his place
be filled by Il man ignorant of the ways
and means OF making good road.
Hon. G. H. Heath now addressed the
meeting upon
Our MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES.
The decline of home manufactures was
pointed out and the consequent loss Of la
bOrcrs. our sons and daughters 90 TO the
cities where the cloth. boots and shoes,
and all our nCccssaries are manufactured.
The lumber Of the hills Of Vermont Is car
ried away to I've wrought into cabinet ware
furniture and sent back to Jus at high
price. our water power goes to waste. Our
young men and woman go away to enrich
other cities 10y their productive labor. Our
/ raw material is carried away to be manu-
/ featured. There is capital enough in most
| Of the towns in the state to begin manulac-
| turing enterprises that may in time rival
! the most successful that now exist, such as
/ that OF Fairbanks at st. Johnsbury, Estcy
at Bratlcboro. or dozens of Others in ON
/ towns The address was full Of good
/ points and was appreciated.
DISCUSSION
J. T. Foster of Barnet pictured the
/ growth Of st. .lohnshury and the prosper.
/ ity Of the place due to Fairbanks scale
works and the consequent good market FOL
all the farmers produce.
Prof. Scclcy Of Middlrhury asked 1t
what ndusiic, ac Nermunlcr- most likely
81 succeed:
+ Why 10 small manufacturers fail
and projected io >lcak of the i'll success o
manufacturing in Middlehury. in paper
wooleu yloth. ash ard bllnGs and iron.
G.. II. Heath iu,imalcd thai wood il
nearly all part. OF the state, copper an,
bras, in the copper region marble anC
slate in the west part of the -tatc. cotton
and wool by many waterfall, in the state
and the invention oi articles made %
wood, copper, iron. CLOTH combined in diff
fcrcut ways in articles Useful and ncccs
sary. Then tho company must have rca
capital Invested to use and it i. better +
have several men interested as scyaral cal
conduc, business through crisis bette
than one.
f. d. Douglas believed that cause fail
urcs is the HIGH interest that tho companic
pay on borrowed capital. The none,
lenders OF the large towns not only l0al
their own money but monopolizc the spar
capital of other men and loan it out a
usurous rates and make it impossible 70
legitimate business 10 succeed. II is fac
that laborcrs and skilled laborcrs are nccc.;
rAtl,So' A '"r',''. ." -''e'''" ~ "' wa
cious shylocks. the hest muscle and bran
struggle in vain I" ,-''"'''"'' business in tn
country towns of Vermont .a,and. men
Lewis Mechanics of the Burlington
toned the IL in selling brushes in Yer.
t brush ca they finally sent their product
, meew Yori; where it was marked as a
! New York product and then all the mer-
chants and citizens of Vermont bought and
used these paint, house, stove and scrub
bling brushes that they would not buy when
marked as Vermont mandatory