Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-06-02

given TO sugar from beet and cane.
A search of the Congressional re-
cords will show that Mr.. Grout made
the only speech in the House in favor
of the maple sugar bounty Does that
look as If Grout was '.wheel horse Pr
There is more to this sugar question.
When the '.Bill for Tariff only became
a law, it swept away the bounty on all
sugar: there was due the makers Of
maple sugar the bounty for the spring
before, but this bill killed the law for
paying the bounty. AT that time Mr..
Grout was member of the appropria-
tions committee and il was largely
through his influence that the money
was paid. Does not this look as if he
was a .'leader'?
But more on the sugar question.
The present tariff law puts tariff on
sugar and when the bill was drafted it
placed the same duty on all foreign
sugar. Mr.. Grout at once prepared,
from statistics, a statement showing
that under the German bill the value
of maple sugar imported was,
more than twice as much per pound
as other sugars and the result of his
is four cents per pound and two cents
on other sugars.
Let us take another subject that not
only interests every farmer, but every
man, woman and child in Vermont
oleomargarine. Most of the farmers
remember that truly grand speech
made by Mr.. Circuit when the original
law on'this subject passed Congress.
1t was then thought that the people
were protected, but when the Supreme
Court gave the "original package de-
cisionn it was necessary, if the farmers
were to be protected, that there should
be more legislation. Mr.. Grout in
troduced bill in the last Congress to
place the matter under the control of
the states into which it was transport
ed. This bill was referred to the
committee on agriculture and later on
was reported favorably, but met with
much opposition which should have
been met by the committee that re-
ported the bill. but instead of their
making the fight, they turned it over
to Gen. Grout, who, after two days
fight, carried his point by Il handsome
majority.
Ii one will turn to the Congressional |
record of the second session of the |
fifty-fourth Congress from pages 767 to |
Sl5 he will see whether he has sever
been in the stream
Today Mr.. Grout is chairman of the
House committee on expenditures of |
the war department.
Does any one think a s.new man. or |
even "second termer.- or any one
who is mot yet in the stream would
be placed in such position?
"a Trader" must be Joking when he
asks, "Can he (Grout) fairly claim for
himself comparison with Abraham
Lincoln?" | say, No! and neither can
any other man that lives or has lived
logged along sixteen years and is
not yet in the stream | will leave
this for my brother farmers to answer,
but will say that Gen. Grout has jog
ged along sixteen years without even a
rumor of blot upon his reputation for
honesty of purpose. temperance and all
that goes to make good citizen and
There is another
thing that | like in him and that is.
when he goes into fight. in Congress
or out of it, he does not lie down un-
til he is whipped.
There are some things that are be-
ing printed that | am sorry to see and
that are gross Misrepresentation.
In this letter | have confined nv .
self to things that are n matter of re-
,ord.
| saw a statement in the Barre paper
hat Randolph was for Mr.. Read, and
% believe it is so far as to be-
leve that he is all that a true Yer
nonter should be. but | hardly think
randolph will instruct delegates to
swap
Recently | heard a gentleman, who
.nows the people of Randolph better
han any other man, say There are
lot twenty Read men in town.
When the time comes for eswap-
ing there will be more Read men
ere, but it is not this year.
1t was not a Stickney town two years
90, but if it was the Eastsiders' term
ow It would be solid for Stickney.
FARMER.
Randolph. Vt. May 81.
SOrna EooIs-R, Nano~ao