Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-08-25

EelllSu 1utGf2SUS he cauSoloSSIy deIa hes
and degrades her. He assumes the
role of exemplar and teacher of political
honesty and morality but enters upon
lis new role by teaching that men may
participate in caucus and convention
and without political dishonesty ay
bolt the convention when its action is
not in accord with their own desires.
As an exemplar in political morals he
leads in the most causeless and wicked
bolt known to political history.
He attacks the financial management
of the state and yet his convention ac-
cepts as its Candidates the nominees Of
the Republican party who are the re-
sponsible financial managers of the
state.
He discourses upon the increased
state expenses, expensive commits
slons and unnecessary Offices but names
no change except to establish another
salaried state board to be its purchasing
agent with a large array of clerks and
assistants, for all the different institu-
tons of the state.
No one denies that the state expenses
have largely increased during the years
OF Republican ascendency but it is be-
cause of the settled policy Of the state
regardless of party requiring such ex-
penditures and shifting large burdens
Of expense from the towns to the state
and not through corruption, ineffici-
ency, prOdigality or miSmanagement.
Which part of this settled policy
would Mr.. Clement repudiate?
We have now hospital for the insane
owned and equipped by the state,
equipped with modern conyenences
and conducted in accordance with adj
vanced and approved methods for the
safety and recovery of these unfortu-
nate members of our society, answering
the proper demands of sympathetic
and philanthropic people.
We have House of Correction for
the less incorrigible law breaker where
reformation may be secured; we have
! the industrial school for the young
where virtuous manhood and woman
! hood may be wrought out of what would
otherwise become fixtures among the
criminal classes. Our Colleges are
aided from our state treasury in order
that poverty shall not prevent the am
bilious youth from obtaining broad and
thorough culture. We provide instruc-
ton for the blind, the mute and the
weak-minded. We raise ) percent
state tax to distribute among our towns
which are richer in road mileage than
in grand list. We equalize in Il degree
the burden of school taxation by an
eight percent State tax. We lake lib
eral provision for our State Normal
Schools. We care for the insane poor
at the state expense and thus relieve
each town of this burden and secure
better treatment and care. We eXpend
a considerable amount upon our state
militia and our Soldiers Home
All this and much more is done be-
cause the state has approved of it and
yet this large expenditure has been so
provided for by our system of corpora
ton taxes that the state tax assessed
upon the Grand list is less than it was
twenty years ago. Undoubtedly this
method of corporation taxation can be
improved upon and extended and the
state tax be still further lessened and
even entirely dispensed with.
A commission reporting when Mr.
Clement was in the Senate that the cor
porations were bearing only about one.
fourth of their fair share of the burden
of taxation an effort was made to in
crease corporate taxation, but Mr.. Glenn
ent was strenuous in opposition and il
was defeated. He was then President OF
the Rutland Railroad system. He now
asserts that no state tax was needed anC
that he voted against increased cor
poration taxation because no additional
revenue was required. but as the chair
man of the Senate Finance COMMITTEES
of 1900, he in fact recommended thu
very day, he brought about the defea
of the corporation tax bill. the very
tax which you are now paying.
He describes the method of liquor Law
enforcement in his city and draws man.
illustrations therefrom. He has fo
many years been an influential citizel
of Rutland and has been its Mayor ant
yet these abuses continued without cor
rection when he had official power, ant
without rebuke from him as man.
Mr.. Clement alleges that he doubt
the sincerity of the Republican party il
. Vermont in its plank concerning the sui
mission of the license local option lay
to the vote of the people and seeks thu
to justify his secession. But when wa
the Republican party of Vermont or o
the nation untrue to its pledges? Fror
its inception to the present hour has TIL
party of liberty under Fremont, of til
Constitution and Union under Lincol
' and Grant, of sound money and protet
. ton to American industries unde
, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Harrison an
| Mckinley, crowned by its honorabl
I and philanthropic position toward
, Cuba and the Philippines when an
wherein has it in either state or natio
q betrayed it's trust or wandered frol
; the paths of honor justice and rect
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