News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-15
News and Citizen.
Thursday. May Is, 1890.
VERMONT AS 1T Is-As 1T WILL BE.
An Able Paper on the Present and
Future DeXeIopment of Xernont

OONOAO0iAiCiiN VI v
GOD made the country, but MAJ
makes the town" God did his worl
to perfection and man shows hi
weakness when he attempts to crit
else his doings. 1t is as it is, and i
is as it should be, and among the
forty-two States that 90 toward!
making up his handi-work and thi:
grand Republic, the State of Yer
mont in proportion to the extent Of
Its territory, is the peer of any, ano
in many regards superior to many o.
the forty-one others.
l recently read Looking Back
ward" A funny condition of affairs
the author shows up. Let us look
forward a little and l am going to
Confne this brief to nv own little
State of Vermont, a State that pro-
duces more of actual value than
many another of much larger area, a
State, which as has often been said,
makes a specially of raising men,
and always discriminates in their fav-
or, and discourages raising Hell.
| assume, first, the location of the
State of Vermont geographically, is
as near a condition of perfection, as
could be desired for the purposes
for which nature calculated the State
to be utilized for.
Second The physical geography
of the State is in perfect accord with
its geographical condition.
Third The State of Vermont will
in the next fifty years treble its pop
ulation and be the richest State in
the Union in proportion to its popula-
ton.
Let me give some reasons for as
sumption No. I. No State made up
like this, ever did or ever will attain
to any degree of special prominence
or wealth by and through their agri-
cultural resources alone. A farming
community is quiet, and to a certain
extent self sustaining, but in order to
pass certain set limit, and condition
IN life that makes home more desir-
able and progressive, a dependence
of others upon the result of their toll
is necessary. Now, who are those
others =? 1t certainly is not their
neighbor farmer, who produces the
same and more than he does. The
similarity of production, custom and
business methods preclude the posi-
bility of any agricultural community
living wholly through, by, and upon
each other, with their present unlimit-
ed number of wants to be supplied.
Then there must be producer, and
consumer, and a consumer that is
not a producer of the same kind. 1t
is this diversity of want and supply
that has established the principles of
trade with all the intricacies that be-
long thereto.
Now, if some one is to be supplied
with the product of this State, and
its principal product at this time is
the product of the soil, and that does
not pay the cost of production, what
shall we do z? Increase our population
but have them non-producers of the
soil.
Can this be accomplished ? l say
yes. How by developing the latent
resources of the State. Now, in or
der to dc this certain conditions are
necessary among them geographical
location, enabling individuals and
corporations that employ large num-
berS of men, and that result in large
output OF manufactured goods, rapid
and cheap transportation, with a near
ness to the great markets and centers
of trade. Now what have we in this
regard?
Lake Champlain for more than one
hundred miles extends upon our west
ern border, Manageable for vessels and
craft of any description, with first
class anchorage every few miles and
connects with St. Lawrence and Wei
land Canal on the one end, and with |
New York City by canal and Hudson |
River at the other, with Burlington as
the central shipping point A cargo
OF freight can be made up at tide
water and delivered at Burlington for
less cost by the ton than the expense
of hauling the same by team ten
miles. Coal, on the wharf at Bur
lington is as cheap as at the mines,
less a trihe commission and water
shipment, and so it is with all classes
OF goods east and west, and this ave
nue. of transportation is open dur
ing seven and eight months of the
year. OF railroads the Central Yer
mont offers one of the best. cheap
est, and most reliable trunk lines in
the United States, and has immediate
connection with the Grand Trunk 4
and Canadian Pacific, affording cheap
and comparative communication with
the great west. The Delaware and
Hudson, another powerful and rival
company, IS near and will soon be a
part of the State. The Boston and /
Maine runs through the State from
east to west, making close connection
with Portland and Boston, while last
but not least that mighty power of |
transportation, the Canadian Pacific, |
IS within a short distance of our /
State line and its magnificent man
agement compliments the public by |
sending their cars through our State |
as regularly as though they owned |
the steel they pass over. Now the
Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific |
are independent of any interstate
commission, and if they choose to
carry men and freight for nothing
from the favored State of Vermont
to the west and northwest, the COM
mission may inquire, but they have
no power to require. There is not a
State in the multitude that is mare
-Ja0OrabLy located for cheap and rapid
transportation than Vermont, as this
showing verifies.
Now | want to give one illustration
of my claim. c. S. Page lives at
Hyde Park, Lamoille County, Vt, on
the line of the Boston and Maine R.
R., what was once a part of the Port
land and Ogdensburgh road. From
a small beginning he has built up one
of the largest industries and money
using enterprises of the State. In
order to accomplish this, it was nee
essary for him to draw upon the pro-
duct of nearly every State and Terri
tory in the Union and even reach ov-
er into Canada, British Columbia and
Nova Scotia The goods he deals in
are of perishable nature and de
mand not only cheap but rapid trans
DOrtatiOn before Mr. PAGE actab |