The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-11

Dut never OF Italy.
The remedy is, so far as we are concern
ed, for farmers TO make agriculture more
attractive and more profitable, by pro-
founder study and more scientific prac
tice, by more faith and more good works.
and by such public policy, ms statesmen
may properly sanction, tending to shield 1t
from neglect and secure to ITS golden har-
vests golden rewards
Our hills and valleys will be beautiful
foiever-some Of them grand-but they
cannot be productive and beautiful with
out skill and work. am indebted to one
of our western ministers for the following
incident
A Vermonter had by tough hard work
and some skill made hilIy farm produc-
tive, and then sold it to an easy, sow-going
man from another state. Within n few
years thereafter he met this customer, who
bitterly complained of his bargain, and who
wound pby eycaiming, 81 think there is
cuss on that place; cannot account for
it in any other way" 81 have NJ doubt
you are right" the Vermonler responded,
" there is cuss on it. and il is n lazy
cuss, Il have noticed it ever since you
went there"
A fine crop, like fine maiden, must be
won by labor of love-
knowing that Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her"
Neither a fool nor lazy man should stay
in Vermont hoping to thrive, and, so far
as know, they do not. 1t is wcll-known
| that in the aggregate amount of agricul-
tural products there are few states, III pro-
portion TO area and population, which
equal our own, but we ought to challenge
the very highest competitors, and like the
young prince of oldeD time, refuse TO play
with any but kings. BY such manly ambi-
ton we may keep. and even increase, our
agricultural population Let us make it for
the interest and the honor of the native
born to stick by the soil
FOR GOOD PRODUCTS, GOOD MONEY.
The farmer who sells pure looded stock
who must wash his wool as white az snow,
who winnows every particle of chaff from
his grain, is entitled to pure, clean, chat
hess money. To the general government
belongs the right TO coin money and reg.
ulate the value thereof, and State banks
have been supplanted by National banks.
We complain of this only in one respect,
and say that, if the general government un-
dertakes to coin and regulate the value of
money, it is its duty to provide good money
and prevent the issue of any other. Clip
ped com, as legal tender, would be no
more dishonest than deprecated paper.
The States never chartered banks with the
privilege of issuing deprecated paper and
calling it money. The necessity for such
false standard long ago passed away. and
while its continuance is pernicious to all
healthy business. it is exceptionally OPP
pressive to agriculturists, whose farms at
no time could have been sold for inflated
prices, and the value of whose products
has borne no just proportion to their in
creased cost Some persons, possibly
may have profited by making eighty or
ninety cents pass for dollar, but the far
mer has not and never will. Nor will the
man who works for wages find it possible,
when paid IN such currency, to support
family and have anything left over at the
/ ond of the year. Why should not Amor
leans have as good and as clean money as
Englishmen or Frenchmen? They work rs
hard. fight as well, furnish as good products,
pay almost as heavy taxes, and have been
taught by the gospel from their youth up
to hate .fthy lucre.
An inflated currency is worse than in
computable, useless bulk it is a cumbrous,
circulating snare, whenever and however
disposed Of, returns no equivalent. The
fox which crept through the hole in the
wall, and greedily inflated himself with the
tempting fruits of the garden, found he had
to remain there and by much joyless fast
ing bring down his bulk to its original size
before he could crawl out at the same hole
So our inflated brethren in the end must
contract and crawl out through the same
hole they went in.
RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA.
Farmers are deeply interested in the pro-
posed treaty with Great Britain, by which
certain products and manufactures are to
be admitted free of duty to and from the
Canadian Dominion. | do not propose
here to discuss the merits of this PROPOSE
ton in all its length and breadth, as offer
ed by the Canadian Minister-and as yet
accepted by nobody except Queen Victoria
but as it deserves our most deliberate
scrutiny, | shall venture to comment upon
few of its prominent features. 1t is urged
that cy its acceptance we may escape from
the payment, under the treaty of 1871, of
an indefinite sum, amounting to many mil
lions annually, as the difference in the value
CT fisheries within marine league of the
coasts Of the respective countries. To as
certain and fix the amount of this differ
ence If there be any, commission has al
ready been agreed upon, which is shortly
to assemble at Halifax
For the cod-fisheries the privilege of
their coasts within three miles is hardly
needed, as the deep.sea fisheries are sup
posed to be much better. For mackerel,
it should be borne in mind that our coasts,
where they appear much the earliest, are
quite as valuable rs provincial coasts, and
as menhaden, caught and ground up for
bait for provincial use, as well as our own,
are exclusively Obtained within three miles
of our coasts, from New Jersey to the far
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to be in our favor, however persistently it
may be denied. Taking these facts into
consideration, and the additional one, that
they have our market for their fish, of
more value alone than all the privileges of
their coasts, it is impossible than any i'm
partial commission should award to the
Canadian Dominion any large sum as the
excess in value of their in-shore fisheries,
and certainly not more than they have them
selves estimated it, when they had no free
market here for the products Of the sea, or
any other privileges granted in return
Fortunately, this estimate can be accurate
ly ascertained
After the abrogation by Congress of the
so called Reciprocity Treaty of 1854, they
charged license tax on the tonnage of our
vessels engaged in the in-shore fisheries, at
first, fifty cents per ton, and then two dol
lars per ton. All the tonnage we had thus
engaged in 1872, including both cod and
mackerel, deep-sea and in-shore, amounted
to no more than 1886 tons. More than
half of this may be estimated to have been
engaged in the deep-sea cod fisheries, and
of the remainder not more than half can be
supposed to have visited in the pursuit of
their game, the shores of the Provinces.
Compute the highest annual revenue from
their license system deductinp the cost of