Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-09
SOUND ADVICE FOR VERMONTeRs.
What Resident of Georgia Has to Say
About Vermont aud southern Prospects.
From the Rutland News.)

/ A correspondent. c. II. Wilson, writes
TO the HardWick Gazette from Georgia a
very sensible and timely letter. 1t is par
tioularly timely in view of the trip now
being made through the Southern States
by party Of New England editors who
VIII soon doubtless begin to flood this
section with glowing tales of the wealth
and the ailurements and the prospects of
the South, becoming thereby parties 10
the great advertising scheme that thu
landowners and boomers and railroads in
the South are engaged in. The private
car OF the editors. thciV sleeping car and
railroad passes, their banquets and car
rage rides and receptions through the
land of pome-cake and molasses are ant
TO make their impressions of that country
rather too roseate. lieaC what a GeOr-
gian who has been through the mill and
knows what he is talking about mas to
say. 1t will probably save lots Of good
Eermonters from the mistake of anan-
doning fair thing for something worse.
Among other things Mr.. Wilson writes
from Columbus Georgia.
Most of the South Atlantic States are
raising large funds to advertise the re-
sources of those States and the New:
England States will be Hooded with H.
tcrature setting forth in a highly colored
way the easy ways one can make a ,iv-
ing in tho South and get rich farming
No doubt the good people of your section
Will receive lots of this stuff, and perhaps
may he induced TO leave home looking for
easy fortunes
Now let mo sound a note of warning
The South has come advantages. New
England has some advantages. too. The
New England States are healthy as any
place on earth. The natural beauty and
grand sceuery can nowhere be surpassed.
The natural richness of the soil is evident
to everyone. The Green Mountains OF
Vermont are famous for their beauty ana
Vermont Is famous for her products, chief
of which is her unequalled dairy products.
which have no equal in the world. Let a
stranger within her borders once drink
glass of pure Vermont milk and he Is so
pleased that he feels like taking off his
hat TO a Vermont COW every time he
meets one. Her maple sugar Is unelualed
for flavor, healthfulness and purity Beef
fattened on the grains and grasses OF
Vermont Is equal to any Western product
ana vastly supecor To anything in the
South. Vermont is the natural
home of the sheep. Its soil
Is productive. its fruits and vege-
tables unsurpassed. Farming in Vermont
Is profitable to those who farm, but to
the so-called farmer who does his farm
Ing around tho grocery store stove it is
Vermont people are educated, refined,
vigorous and healthy, but they grow so
itlHlllU WIN tne beauties ana adNantdSCS
or their surroundings in their own State
that they 10 not properly appreciate
them. Stay At home young man, stay in
Grand Old Vermont. Within her welcome
borders are good people and rich lands
You are free from earthquakes, cyclones
and yellow fever epldendcs You have
not got to run up against m odorous
black niger 1t every turn. Stay in Ner-
mont, Old Vermont is good enough. She
may be wrong In politics according to the |
writer's idea, but she is a paradise COM |
pared with the cyclone West OF the en- |
arvating climate OF tho South. To those /
who have any idea of migrating to the
West Indies or the South. stay in Yer |
mont Is my humble ndNice