Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-24
WHAT OUR NEIGHB0RS SAY.
Noteworthy Growth of Manufacturing
Interests in Vermont.
CFrom the Hardwick Gazette.)

U'rom the Hardwick Gazette.)
Bully for the Barre Times. The Times
is pretty generally right when it speaks
barring ca political matters--and the
editor Of the Times never wrote nearer
right when he took time to write the fol.
lowing:
writer in a Boston paper in an extend
ed article on mausoleum in the town Of
tuttingsville, this state. says: The rude
hamlet has but one pride, one distinction
II holds tomb Is this symbolic OF a dy-
ing state whose population is deserving its
llIls and dales to help colonze the whole
country?" To the clouded intellect of the
writer of that statement the common
wealth of Vermont may seem on the de-
cline But let him sweep away the dust
from the creviccs of his intellect and then
come back and take a good clear look AZ
Vermont. Dying" did you say? Well.
no more dying than is the rich mash
room growth which lnxuriates in the cob
wchby recesses Of that writer's brain. In
fact, very much alive. Vermont in the
past has held an unique place in the sis
terhood of states. For generations she
has produced the brain and Drawn to build
up numbers of her sister states And this
drain has necessarily depleted her
strength. but these rugged hills still pro-
dlc" Normontcrs, as they have produced
them in the PAST. To be sure we look AZ
our population figures with IL feeling Of
dissatisfaction, and to outsiders these fl
cures appear ominous. But the tide is
turning Ola conservative Vermont is be-
coming infused with a new sprit-a spirit
OF Progress. The charge must of neccssi-
T. hc gradual but it is is surely coming
That inertia and staGnation which is con-
stantly being hurled at us is passing
away. Vermont Is becoming. instead Of a
purely agricultural state. a manufacturing
state. These same hills over which herds
of cattle were wont to range, are now re-
\'H'lhg their secrets. ours is u state of
vast natural resources still undevelope1
And the next decade will witness a Won
Ccrful development Of those resources.
Let the coming years decide whether or
rot Vermont is on the decline.
PAY OF MckINLEY'S PHYSICIANS.
Grom the Bradford Opinlon)
one hundred thousand dollars will 10
asked of Congress to pay the physicians
WI" cared for William Mckinley in his
LIST sickness. This is almost twice as
Large as the price paid for medical ltten-
dance upon President Garfield twenty
Years ago during a period ten times as
long. If the precedent Of the Garfield and
Lincoln cases is followed, Mrs. Mckinley
viii be given years salary of fifty thous-
and dollars and an annual pension of five
thousand.
VERMONT MEAT PRODUCTS.
There may be some excuse for the farm
,rs of Vermont hestating to try to COM
pete with their western brcthern in the
raising Of beef cattle, but there Is no OK
cuse for their Surrendering the production
of pork products Meat dealers say that
II is impossible to meet the demand locally
for pork In it's various forms, and price,
have scared to a degree that ought to set
farmers in this section to thinking. Bur
lmEton Free Press.
This is directly ir line with what the
Times has repeatedly urged during the past
few years. Meat. both pork and beef, will
doubtless be lower than 1t is now but with
the steady enrichment of the western
ranges beef and mutton are practically
sure to remain at top notch figures and
where they can be raised at splendid
margin of profit here in Vermont lust as
in Texas or Oklahoma. High prices for
beef and mutton always increase TIE use
Of PORK and therefore increase the pricc
| With salt pork at from l. to Is cents PEI
| pound and lard at II and lb cents as
new Vermont farmer Who had foresight
CROUCH last spring to plant corn and buy
or aise young pigs for fattenng has ma IL
money enough to lift his mortgage.-Barrt
| Times.