Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-06-20
Why Vermont Does Not Boom.
a FEW PLAIN REASONS.

from Denison, Texas and other points
would indicate that New England cap
italists are making things boom down
there. SIN Vermont, it says, ''these
same capitalists insist upon waiting for
an enterprise to become an assured sue
cess before they invest in it."
Is this true?
If so, why?
Having taken quite an extensive
trip west and south this year visiting
those "magic cities, etc, and closely
studying the conditions there and here,
we firmly believe the following to be
true:
Vermont does not boom because at
least one half her people have no faith
in her resources and worse than that,
take every possible opportunity to run
down the town and state they live in,
and every enterprise in them.
These places south and west do
grow, NOT so much from their greater
advantages, but because every man,
woman and child in them, whether at
heart they believe or not, are enthus-
astic for them, talk of little else than
their advantages, location, ETC., etc.
1t is not healthy to live in western
town and run ii down. Nothing inn
presses a stranger more than this.
There are plenty Of people who have
property to sell in these places, but
they viii tell you ii is not because they
want to go away they will sell, far
from it. They viii sell ouly to buy
again. Take any town in Vermont
and half the people want to sell out.
WhyY To get out of the town and
state they openly declare, alleging that
nothing pays and any change is for the
better.
What capitalist would dare to invest
in town where half the people want
to leave and say it is going to decayY
Who is to blame? No one but the
people themselves. Why not every
body talk up, not down, the town and
state they live in 1t would not be long
if the people could only see this point,
before all could get out of the state
who wanted to 90 and property would
sell at good prices and quick at that.
Right here is the whole thing in a
nutshell. Stop growing and 60 to
booming your town and state,
Let a hundred capitalists visit any
town in the state with capital to invest
and they will find any amount of peo-
pie who will advise them not to buy
this farm, or that property. Is this
good policys Go into any town in
Vermont and try to start 100000
manufactory, ask the people in the town
to take one quarter of the stock aud
they won't do it.
Go into a place Of the same size
south OF west and they would take
twice that, everybody would take stock.
They would not wait Tor the rich men
to take it, every man would take hold
to the extent Of his ability, and thus
show his faith in his town.
We honestly believe Vermont can
offer as great, if not greater opportumi-
ties tor capital to make safe and big
paying investments, but we can never
get capital to do so till people will Tgo
to work with viii and all boom their
town and state and every enterprise in
them.
Let stranger go into western or
southern town and want to buy a farm.
The first man he meets viii take his
team and show him around, whether
that man has any farm property to sell
or not. He can spend week or more
looking over farms and it won't cost
him cent. Try that scheme in any
Vermont town and somebody would
sell farm and then somebody else.
and that town would begin to boom.
The question now before Us then is,
Shall we boom Vermont, working up
the opportunities and advantages Just
at hand, making the most Of the re-
sources Of oar own State, or shall We
send our capital and the energy and
activity Of our youth to build up and
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