The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-26
AS OTHERS SEE US.

The ermOnt Industrial Association
was incorporated by the Legislature
at the laUe session. Its purpose has
been fully explained by the newspa-
pers of the State. Any further eluci-
datiun is not just now needed. Some
months have passed since the act of
incorporation. The movement was
greeted with warm approval on all
sides. 81 shall be pleased to sign that
bill, - said Governor Mccullough with
enthusiasm, when draft of the pro-
posed charter was shown him. 81
have so many other things to engage
my time and means | can take no
have me excused" in effect was his
answer to solicitation for substantial
support of the matured project for the
material betterment of his beloved
adopted State. The ex-Governors,
also, having climbed or been boosted
up the ladder of their AMBITION hav-
ing reached the top and got all the
honOrs they could harvest by self-sac-
rifcing devotion to the interests of
the dear people, when this p-oposi-
tion has been presented to them in a
practical way, have suddenly become
"sicklied DER with the pale cast of
thought, ~ and lost the spirit of enter
prise.
The good the incorporators of the
Vermont Industrial Association pro-
posed to do for the State was pro-
position entertained also by many
sons of Vermont living in other States
of the Union. They have been inter-
ested observers of the course of events
since the charter was obtained. They
are willing to do their full share to
put the association on its feet so soon
as the Nermonters on their native
heath show practical interest in this
means of renovating the old State.
Here are some extracts from letter
by one of these sons, who has bought
a farm in the State for the purpose of
developing its resources and for breed
ing Angora goats and other stock. His
intention was to buy other properties
for similar purposes, if VeImonters
would put their shoulders to the move
ment proposed in the charter taken
out last fall, and with him would
come others, men of means DESTROYS
of establishing summer homes in Yer
mont. The letter is a private COM
munication to a citizen of this State
and like similar productions, written
in the unreserve of personal intimacy,
is characterized by extreme candor:
"There does not seem to be much
more in the Vt. |. ASSIGN business,
and have some misgivings as to the
outcome of it unless the wealthy men
take hold of the matter in some sub
stantial way. What is 500 to any of
those men that have money, even if
they give it outright? | don't think
you need to expect any of them to
take any amount of stock to exceed
800 or 5000. They are not western
men who put their hands into their
pockets for any great purpose of pub
lie benefit. About ten men here have
just bought the greatest marble that
was ever cut or chiseled in the world
to plant down on Bridge Square to
represent the Mississippi, or The
Father of Waters made in Florence,
Italy. If the Vermont Industrial Asso-
citation was in this town we could raise
that money in one afternoon if it
would be benefit to our State and
yet, it being a matter of so much i'm
portance to your State, there isn't 90
men to give 500 a piece in the whole
State. | hate to think of going back
among such people to live, if they
are so pickayunish as to throw down
so important matter for 500, when
it would add to their prosperity ten
times as much in value, if it proved a
success. 1t cannot help but go if we
have little money to push it. A
thing cannot go without runners or
wheels, or something to grease the
ways. F., you have got to go
down for their intestinal fat, and
make them cough up or choke
"The time is ripe now to make a
move, as the papers have stirred the
thing up and it is fresh in everyone's
mind, and with the opening of spring
their aspirations and inspirations will
come-if ever. 1t might as well be
understood one time as well rs anoth-
er just what the State will do. For
my own part | don't care. AS to its
doing any great thing for me, 1 will
do more for Vermont than.it can for
~ & - ~ ~ "