Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-07-21
nIpkoyING vERMoNT.

dolph, recent contributor to the St.
Johnsbury Republicans series of arti-
cles ON Vermont, thinks the future is
full Of hope for the people ofthis State.
The closing paragraphs of his letter are
pointed and sensible. He says:
We should not, however, sit down
and wait for the change, and we could
not if we would. Vermonters are not
built that way. The air on which we
are bred precludes the possibility of
idleness whether at home or abroad,
and there are many things we can do
and some we can refrain from doing to
our advantage.
1st. We can stop sending all our
spare money to the west and south and
build up profitable industries at home.
I'd. We can make our beautiful
farms and villages more attractive by a
more liberal expenditure of money and
reap our reward from the increased tide
OF summer travel.
Sd. We can most profitably improve
our highways with the same end in
view.
4th. We can improve our school
system and thereby our schools, and
support a university which shall be the
pride and glory of the state; with a
department of agriculture and the me-
chanic arts SO fostered as to realize the
dream of our venerated senator who
founded it, whereby in future agricul-
ture shall derive the advantages from
scientific preparation that are now en-
joyed by other occupations.
9TH. We can stop croaking, con-
template the millions in our savings
banks, the still greater millions in our
western investments, and the abundant
possibilities o: adding to them from our
own boundless resources.
9th. We can thank God we live in
Vermont and induce all who come here
to join in our song of praise.
eth. We can each one of us sit
down and think what he can individ-
ually do to bring prosperity, and when
he has thought it out, set about doing
it.
Robert J. Kimball, Esq, of West
Randolph, says:
! think it is generally conceded that
the effort to import foreigners to occu-
py our abandoned" farms was a mis-
take. The present plan to advertise
and make known the advantages ofour
state, is step in the right direction.
We must make our state, like our
homes, so attractive that our sons will
not wish to go elsewhere.
You say, "There is absolutely moth
ing in the way of legislation ex-
cept the abolition of double taxation of
real estate" Don't except anything.
1t is like Salisbury's free trade. The
theory is all right but it isn't business.
| am told there are plenty of very
smart men in the asylum now, trying
to solve that problem. There is no
law, and can be none, that will make
the capitalist lend his money at any
price, unless he chooses and no mat
ter what the law says, as to vote, it is
governed by the law of supply and de-
mand, just the same as silver, or any
other commodity. | have been glad
to get money at one per cent per day
and that was the market rate-when
the law said. six per cent per annum,
was all that it was legal to require.
If a law should be passed that the
lender should pay the taxes, and the
nominal owner should not be taxed for
lat amount, of course it would in
crease the tax, and the lender would
make the rate TO cover il, or would
say, ''pay the mortgage" Consider
ing the small value of our real estate,
l do not see how the law can be i'm
proved. AS it is, the taxing of per-
sonal property drives an immense "a
m )unt of capital oIt of the state. i
see it in my own business, every week.
Investors want securities that pay their
own taxes in the state where they are
located, and they get them.
There is danger of legislation that
is likely to do much harm, and keep
manufacturers, who are now coming
into the state, from doing so. At the
last legislation an effort was made to
pass bill to compel weekly payments,
and, you remember, it failed. AT the
last Republican Convention, an effort
was made from the same direction
(Rutland county, to incorporate it in
The resolutions ard commit the party
to it, and had it not been for your dele
gate, L. ID. Hazen, it is likely it would
have been done. All such tinkering
with our laws, win keep capital and
manufactures from coming into the
state. The liberty to have your own
labor and pay what you agree to, is
what is now inviting them.
The season Of Commencement" !"
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