Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-12-24

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more active and more Independent in
tcrest In public affairs and by more active
WORK III the Offices of the State. As an
IDEA 1t may be called optimistic or scnti.
mental or both, but 1t has the weight Of
iact ana as working proposition, IL is
nightly more friendly to the best inter-
ests OF our peoples future than inaction
or destructive criticism
say inns from some acquaintance with
the history of Vermont believing that il
mas made progress all of tho time, and
mat to-day it is stronger, Weather and
petter as state in which to live and
WORK ana ENJOY the benefits of republican
INSTITUTIONS than ever before. 1t has
chhHeed IN some aspects of its social and
family life, but not for the worse. It's
position in the country at large is rela-
tlNciN as good At no time have its sons
NJ nom" ana Its graduates abroad been
more nlmerOusly identified with the Coun-
try $ military. civil commercial colonial
ana diplomatic work. Never have it's ma
t"raI resources undergone moro active
| conversion. At no time in half a century
mas the public conscience been more active
or more open on questions of State and
Iodcral policies than now. except, of
course, the period of the Civil War, when
all Vermont, without regard to parties
rose to heroic heights in the discharge
or lis duty as Il State. Hence to-day men
are found advocating measures which for
|.
! me ldoh Is dominant once more that re-
forms and progress come from the people
ana not within party organization and
| tlAt slender voting margins between par
tles may mean greater margins of public
service, and, finally. that public trusts
are best discharged by the best men with
out so drastic q regard tor party super
vision as used to he the rule. The idea
stands for clean towns, good streets
/ plenty of light, pure water supply. decent
sewers. fire protection. proper sanitation,
Well-kept homes, attractive public build
/ inee the best attainable SChools.-cvery-
/ thing. in short, that will do most men
/ the most good on the pure merits of these
questions. Men interested in talking this
! ldca are merely good on the pure merit
/ OF these questions. Men interested in
! talking this idea are merely seeking to
do work on living basis. They arc for
arbitrating troubles instead of Matching
them. They are trying to be honest in
their logic and its use and simply urge
that in our times we shall strive for
what the forefathers sought in theirs, to
ind out what is right and best for the
greatest number and do that with the
utmost speed ourselves rather than in the
slow hope that it will do itself.
! There Is much of this new impulse at
work. III Vermont. as Will be indicated in
| the special articles to which these words
are only insufficient preface. 1t is not
That the advocates of a new, or greater
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