News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-26
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Mr.. EDIToR:- 1b
Is it not strange tha 10 ,aers of YER
mont choose lawyers d =, ,cturerS to
represent them in LegisA Ciie here is not
one farmer out of ten bu was that the
farmers pay the taxes. a IS so, = ask 9TH
ers to make laws for thef
Have we not got Just orI"en among
the farming class asamOIe Christ It wear
better clothes and have So +bo oh Have
we not got men who are ed]fc N to
the times? Have we rot got I'D SOmeo. NV
the wants of the people at larA ut MAJ
mers in particular who can le - ,oLo,,
for the farmer? As it now stat he pr
sional men, the manufacturer a. he NTH
chant pays simply a pee tate Tie profess
slonal man puts fifteen hund, 4 dGllars for
himself, fifteen hundred for = wife, and fif-
teen for each of his children. the savings
bank, and pays no taxes, wh.!. the merchant
buys stock of goods at say $4,000, pays
four thousand down, and YET swears out his
whole stock, and as fast rs debts are paid
here, he either owes some one out in the far
west, or he goes to marke just before the
first of April, and gets few hundred dollars
worth of goods on thirty days time and
swears out his stock on deb.s. The manufac-
turer does about the same hing. He will run
in debt for little material and out goes his
list and as fast as few hundred dollars can
be spared from his business he gives it to his
wife, or rather pays her little money he
owes her and she has fifteen hundred dollars
in the savings bank, and very soon all of his
children have fifteen hundred to their names
and he is in debt for his stock and help and
syears off his list. That is about the way
lat the professional man, the merchant and
manufacturer work it, and if they get caught
and there happens to be a lister that has the
sand to stand on his own feet and does his
duty there is always enough of their own
class i'll the board of civil authority to clear
them. l tell you brother farmers that as long
as the manufacturers, merchants and lawyers
run our town and State affairs we must bear
all the burdens of taxation.
The farmer buys Il farm, agrees to pay five
thousand dollars for 1T, pays two thousand
down, runs in debt for three thousand, he
has a little stock, few hundred worth he
can get off only just his stock, he must pay
on his debts to make up for what those other
men have sworn Off
Now is it not time that there was a change
in this? If the farmer pays the taxes why not
make the laws? Not let others ride the horse
while we have to cut the hay and threSh the
oats to feed it. 1t is time that the farmers
take hold of this matter and do something to
equalize taxation. The farmers have the
power in their hands if they will only use it to
right this. | hope that next fall the farmers
will not think that there is the lawyer or the
manufacturer because, he has got new suit
of store eIotii-s, ms aIeHU-a
pelier, but rather pick out man of their own
class. Let him wear his home spun and look
after the needs of the farmer and with such
Legislature and man like c. S. Page at the
head to wipe out some of those cobwebs
which are costing our State so much, we can
stand on our own feet and be respected for
something more than for our vote to support
some politician. L.
Johnson, June 81, 1890.