Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-09-01
Western Lying.

I THIS F.: Here Is the nome OF SenaJOr
Edmunds. When he went into the
senate these now abandoned farms
were all occupied by prosperous farm
ers. From them came the intellectu-
al vigor that made New England
great. When Mr.. Edmunds was
young the farmers Of his state were
prosperous. They lived in comfort.
They sent their sons and daughters
to college. Now they crowd the cit
les. A very few succeed and many
60 down to poverty. The New Eng
land home of song and story is a
thing of the past. Desolation reigns
where once were prosperous farmers
and thriving villages. Even Yankee
shrewdness, brains and skill could
not succeed where the farmer was
forced by system of law TO pay
twice af much for any tool he used
and every thing he. consumed as his
competitors in the same business in
foreign lands.
Do Mr.. Edmunds and Mr.. Hoar
wish to reduce the whole country to
this same condition? If so, let them
persist in the policy in force for the
last twenty-five years and it will do
| it. But after the farmers are ruined
and the farms abandoned, what
then? %
The above is as ridiculous in its alb
surdities as it Is false in its assertions.
Affairs in Vermont in 1865-the time,
we believe, when Senator Edmunds
went into the senate-were not es-
sentially different from what they are
now. Initiation prices prevailed hill
farms and poor farms were being
abandoned then for better farm !;
people were going to the cities then ::
those who had gone West were writ
ing home for money and friends then !;
the population of the state was just
holding its own then; the thrifty and
the industrious were then, as now,
laying up little from year to year
to be invested where their earnings
could be secure. Almost the same
condition prevailed as to-day. Some
farms in the bleak hills are being left
as unoccupied farms, while the farm
houses are going down into the val
leys, and some of the boys and girls
are going West; but there never was
a day in the history of Vermont when
the West owed her as much as she
owes her to-day; there was, probably,
never a day when she had as much
money in savings banks as to-day !;
never a time when her buildings were
as good as they are now; never a
time when her productive capacity
equalled that of to-day; never a time
when there was more in our homes
that indicated prosperity, culture and
happiness than this day. 1t is true
that we are suffering temporary de-
preston in certain farm products, but
braska. While Nebraska corn sells
in certain localities for from 16 to 20
cents bushel, Yankee corn is worth,
at least, 75 cents bushel. While
the acres of corn and wheat in that
new country are almost unlimited, the
product on each acre, as compared
with Vermont, is small. While Ne
braska is resorting to every means of
putting, and advertising falsehoods to
bring men and money to her aid, Yer
mont is going her rescue. She
is furnishing timber for her governor
candidates, furnishing teachers for
her schools, cashiers for her banks
and money to run them; she is send
ing out men to buy her mortgaged
farms, to run her engines, to build
up her villages, and furnish the life,
energy and financial ability that gives
her standing of honor.
Pity the men out there who will
ridicule Vermont or New England !
The new west is indebted to the
'Ehome of song and story" for almost
all she is. Come into our thrifty vii
lagos and out among our green farms
and see what dire desolation reigns
Come back to our villages and buy at
reasonable rates the farm tools and
farm machinery that are built by our
own busy laborers go out among
their cottages and note what good
wages bring provide and build for
US.
The question is asked, "after the
farmers are ruined, what then?'
Why, then, we can take our money
and go out West and buy pretty good
farms there; we can build dug-out
and dwell under the sods half the
year; we can take our chances with
droughts, grasshoppers, cyclones and
such newspapers as print the above
ISLANDERS on Vermont; we can pass
an existence of some sort and die with
our faces turned toward, and oul
hearts yearning for, the good ole
abandoned" homes of happy, pros
porous New England.
You want our men, our money, oul
boys and girls, our pluck and energy
You want our brains and our Drawn
Cease your SANDER, then
Congressman Mckinley of Ohio
was unanimously renominated by the
Republicans of his district on Tues
day. In his speech on the occasion
he showed that the debt has been re-
duced $40, 1000, 900 under the pres
ent administration, land that the cred
it of the government is SO high tha
the treasury finds the greatest diff
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