Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-06-14


and every other enterprise and industry
would anguish. We have already seen
that the dairy interest is the very soul It,
self of our agriculture. Now, shall this
interest be preserved, or shall it be sacrl-
feed not to a fair competition-if the
competition were fair, no fault would be
tound-but to a downright fraud, to
filthy counterfeit, incorporating in the
stolen livery of the very industry it is
seeking to overthrow.
Even if the competition were fair it
public policy; one not only involving
public health but the public intelligence
and morals also, namely, whether we
should kin out the dairy industry and
cease to be a butter eating people and
feed upon the coarser and more cloying
animal fats, thus taking step back
toward the raw tallow and lard which
were the delight of our Saxon ancestors
in the forests of Germany. 1t involves
also another question which takes strong
hold upon the labor problem, which has
and now threatens the peace and pros
perity of the Republic. 1t is this Wheth-
er few capitalists giving employment to
a few thousand men shall be allowed to
overwhelm with fraudulent business an
honest industry which gives employment
to millions, and which is the very cream
of that grand pursuit which through
the common mother of the race, provides
for us all.
You have just passed labor-arbitra-
ton bill and sent out Il special committee
to collect data for the adjustment Of the
delicate relations between capital and la
Dor. But right here, in the disposition
of this bill, is an opportunity to deal with
the labor question from the very founda-
ton, and in way to dispense with arbi-
tration bills and special committees to
make them standing necessity. 1t has
been said that can ounce of prevention is
worth pound Of cure" Enactments pre-
ventive of threatening evils are always
wiser than the wisest provisions for the
correct ton Of those evils after they are
developed. 1t is always the highest
achievement of legislation to formulate
laws which in their practical operation
shall reconcile antagonisms and bring all
interests into harmony. This can only
| be done by giving all men and all honest
| enterprises a fair chance.
Now, pass this bill and you take an i'm,
ventive legislation. You at once relieve
the dairy industry of the killing FRAUD
which now completely paralyzes it. And
as one of the immediate results the mich
COWS, which as shown by the last report
of the commissioner of agriculture were
| deprecated during the last year to the
amount of $32, 751, 1892, will be restored
and doubtless somewhat advanced. Thi,
vast sum will thus be added to the ex
changeable value of property not belong
ing to capitalists but to the millions O
|
and are struggling to pay with the income
from them the mortgages which capita
holds upon their farms. Not only this
but the number of cows will be greatl
increased. There will not be slaughtere,
10000 of them for beef in the city of Chi
cago for the year to come, as your com
| Al
that is past. They will be wanted 70
the dairy. To this extent certainly Their
will be an increased demand upon thos
who breed cattle for beef; and tina
branch of agriculture, now sadly discoul
aged, will take fresh start. More ha
and grain must be provided for the sur
port of this increased number Of animals
both for beef and the dairy, and nor
men found to feed and care for them.
corresponding demand for labor on tn
farm will surely follow and will draw O
from the employ of the great corpor;
tions, to which all surplus labor tend
the discontinued ones who are now I'll
leaders in labor disturbances, but VIII
would find in the great, open field of Il:
riculture, every department of whic
would feel the impulse of a restored dali
industry. an opportunity to gain IL
themselves and families a subsistence
nay, more, Il competence; and this is no
the passage Of this bill would begin
| solve the labor problem | would beg
at the right end of it.