Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-03-24

thither by the roseate pictures of PRO
moters." He knows what he is talking
about. He has had experience in both
sections. He gets at the "true inward
ness of things" when he intimates that
familiarity with our surroundings and
advantages has bred in many of us a
contempt for old Vermont. We hear
glowing tales of the resourcefulness of
some other country, and straightway we
are dazzled by the alleged opportunities
there offered us and are made blind to
far greater opportunities at home.
"Dstance lends enchantment to the
view" But just look at the Vermont
associations all over this broad land.
You will notice that Vermonters every
where are exceedingly proud of the old
Green Mountain state. There's meat In
that little fact. When our people haye
burnt their ships-have severed all the
material ties that bind them to Vermont
and have taken up their abode in the
land which has been pictured to them
as flowing with milk and honey, it isn't
many moons ere their hearts are filled
with a longing for the maple sugar and
prize dairy butter of the old home.
They are disenchanted. They gain a
position in which to weigh impartially
the relative merits of Vermont and other
sections. And then they sit down and
write letter like this one from the
Georgia man:
Most of the South Atlantic states are
raising large funds to advertise the resources
of the states; also, various Porto Rico and
Cuban emmigration schemes are being float.
ed, and the New England states will be flood.
ed with literature setting forth in highly
colored way the easy ways one can make
living in the south and get rich farming, etc
No doubt the good people of your section
will receive ,lots of this stuff, and perhaps
may be induced to leave home, looking for
easy fortunes. Now let me sound note of
warning. The south has some advantages
New England has some advan ages, too. The
New England states are as healthy as any
place on earth. The natural beauty and
grand scenery can nowhere be surpassed
The natural richness of the soil is evident to
everyone. The Green Mountains of Vermont
are famous for their beauty, and Vermont is
famous for her products chief of which is her
dairy products, which have no equal in the
world. Let n stranger within her borders
once drink a glass of pure Vermont milk and
he is so pleased that he feels like taking off
his hat to Vermont COW every time he meets
one Her maple sugar is unequaed for
flavor, heathfulness and purity Beef fatten
ed on The grains and grasses of Vermont is
equal to any western product and vastly
superior to anything in the south. Vermont
is the natural home of the sheep. Its soil is
productive, its fruits and vegetables I'M.
surpassed. Farming in Vermont is profitable
to those who farm, but to the so-calied
farmer who does his farming around
the gocery store stove It is un-
profitable. Vermont people are educated,
refined, vigorous and healthy, but they grow
so familiar with the beauties and advantages
of the surroundings in their own state that
they do not properly appreciate them. Stay
at home, young man; stay in grand old Yer
mont! Within her welcome borders are
good people and rich lands. You are free
from earthquakes, cyclones, yellow fever
epidenics. etc. Stay in Vermont Old Yer
mot is good enough. She may be wrong in
politics according to the writer's idea, but she
is a paradise compared with the cyclone " est
or the enervating climate of the south. To
those who have any idea of migrating to the
West Indies or the South, "Stay in Vermont"
l. nv humble advice,