Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-10-12
BARTON VERMONT, MONDAY, OCTOBER u, 1896.

YOUR hands: vet you can depend upon
/ my hearty cooperation in any effort you
| may make to keep the money flow from
| the treasury at neap tide.
Special appropriations should be, IN
deed, very special to receive your sane
| ton.
Small appropriations, incidental to
| state institutions and necessary to their
| preservation or more economical man
| agement, will be expected
/ We are committed to care for our own,
| and an economical provision of a busi-
nesslike character, for all state institu-
! tons is an evident duty.
In conidering retrenchment ascertain,
| in the interest of public welfare, what We
can do without, and then do without all
such things. Apply the same economy
| to public, as acting prudently, you
would in private life, to your own af-
fairs, and the state will be conserved to
the best of your ability
| Roads and State Road Commission.
| Good roads are an index of civilization,
ard poor roads are q heavy tax upon any
community. A general interest in road
| Improvement exists throughout the
| states. Earlg in our history national
| appropriation were made for Interstate
/ turnpikes, tFfen came railroad building,
] absorbing al thought concerning trav-
eled ways, and now we are returning to
| first principles, in which the better road
| figures con pspicupusly.
Vermont is interested in all her roads
| alike, and encouraged by the progress
made, it is hoped she will extend the
| system of permanent road improvement
| already SO successfully begun. The !.
| per cent state tax and any enlargement
| cI,~ i
| aid of this system. Successful road in-
| provement has been accomplished in
| other states through individual contri-
| button from the locality to be directly
benefited.
| A measure authorizing competitive
subscriptions from neighborhoods, ask
| ing that state tax be used upon it's roads
| and awarding the tax to the locality Of
/ fering the largest contribution, would
carry out this thought and would ma
terially aid in realizing the object sought
Expensive road building should be
avoided the minimum and not the maxi.
mum cost of a good road should be the
| guide in carrying out the reform. Prob
ably no one thing will attract temper.
ary and permanent dwellers to the
| state, more than good roads.
If the policy of permanent improve
ment is continued by means of state
] funds there should be a state super
| vision of their expenditure and perhaps
| this cannot be provided any better thar
/ TO make permanent State Road Com
| mission, giving it more voice in deter.
| mining the character and location OF
reform. Regarding this subject nearer
than almost any other to the material
prosperity of the state it is consigned
| to your care.
ID
For full particulars regarding the con.
j. dition, business and mana cement of the
railroads of the state reference should
/ be made to the able reportef theirailroad
| commissioners, where a full account is
| given of the different, systems within
the jurisdiction of the State.
The railroad commission born of
right to supervise the doings of rail-
roads is now ten years old. Its powers
are said to be too limited. 1t is old
enough to speak, through it's record, for
itself. If it can be strengthened to rem
der the people any better service than
they now receive let it be SO strengthen
ed. Let it be made complete in all re-
spects for doing in a fair, just way the
most good to all concerned. You viii.
give this subject your attention and con-
slider whether the railroads should not
pay portion of the expense of this COM
mission.
Board of Agriculture
This board is rendering faithful SER
vice along the different lines of work
it conducts and doing much good ir
various ways. It's meetings held in ali
parts of the state supply food for
thought, awaken interest and quicken
endeavor among the farmers. 1t is
state institution that goes about doing
good 1t has rendered an important SER
vice in furnishing statistical informa
ton to sellers and buyers of farms anc
summer touristsi
Tuberculosis.
This dread disease among stock has
created deep interest ard incurred not
a little expense The Mystery of the
disease and uncertainty of it's treatment
dwell so much in the unknown, that more
than ordinary interest has centered in
the methods employed to eradicate it.
The tests, made upon which slaught-
ers have been based, are as convincing
as experimental work can be and un-
doubtedly point the way to extermina-
ton as clearly as present knowledge
upon the subject is able to.
After examinations have covered the
state and should they not do so as soon
as possible whether invited or not,
more definate account of presence,
progress and control of the disease can
Concluded on last pdqe