The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-09
1.-THE NEW VERMONT. ("

Where is it? What is it? Merely n
matter of rhetoric. At present it is
non existent outside the columns of
some newspapers whose editors appear
to believe the thing can be blown up
like soap bubble There is little
sign of its coming, except that new
ness of a certain sort is arriving in
the movements to put the license law
and the open saloon into operation.
The Messenger of st. Adams writes
a column and half editorial article
to tell how the NEW Vermont" can
not be brought into the world. 1t
would have been vastly easier and
more rational, and far more produc-
tive of good and important results, if
the editor had abjured negations
and the labored palliation of the exist
ing status and struck out boldly along
the direct line of positive, practical
effort to induce the "New Vermont"
to spread its wings. He misappre-
bends utterly the spirit and purpose
of the movement instituted by the
Vermont Industrial Association. 1.-THE
State is not made to prosper by any
boom policy put into operation at any
one headquarters under any board of
management. " Like Captain Bunsby's
sententious remarks, the bearing of
this observation lies i'll its application;
but it has no application to anything
proposed by the Vermont Industrial
Association, and hence no bearing
whatever on the movement that organ
ization is heading for the material
betterment of Vermont. There is IN
it's prospectus no 1ap-doodle about a
"New Vermont, or Gre alter Yer
mont" 1t embodies no "boom pol
ICY" it's plan is plain and simple,
fundamental in its beginning, pro-
gressive in its aspirations, practical in
it's proposed ways and means, and is
business from the bottom up. Its plan
of work does not purport to be all
comprehensive, a panacea for stag
uant liver, or a cure-all for the ailing
luuuSJIldl pOuy' LhOlC 10 iOoAh AOA
forty other "headquarter', " under
forty other ''boards of management,
without interference with this par
ticular one. The association proposes
to employ precisely the same agencies
that every successful business man or
organization has used, and is using to-
day, to advance his or its interests, and
without the employment of which
there would be stagnation, or failure
and bankruptcy. So, instead of can
didly laying out the real work the as
ISOLATION proposes to undertake land
giving it--as the press of Vermont,
with hardly an exception, has been
doing-a hearty support and making
a ringing appeal to individual YER
monters to come to it's assistance, the
Messenger wanders around in a laby
rinth of wordy abstraction and sophis-
tical disquisition that promises as
much for the evolution of its mythical
"New Vermont as the incubation of
misguided hen brood of chickens
from porcelain nest eggs.
, Far more to the purpose are these
plain, blunt paragraphs from the Bur-
lington Clipper under the pertinent
heading, progress VS.. Hedgehogs, y
taking It's text and deriving its in.
spiration from the article and letter
recently published in the Waterman
and Journal
PROGRESS VS.. HEDGEHOGS.
Here is sad comment ON the lack
of progress in the State. Among the
acts of creation by the last Leg isla'
ture was that of the Vermont Indus
trial Association, an institution witt
the purpose in view of interesting peo
pie from other States to locate here,
taking up the farms abandoned and il
improvements in other lines, such al
interesting the farmers in the Angort
goat question.
The association is not slipping along
upward with the ease and success tina
should attend it. But this ism
strange and the parents of the move
ment should not be discouraged. L
takes longer time to accomplish
things progressive in the State than il
most commonwealth. Good thing
have been done in Vermont Before ant
the Industrial Association can sue
coed if it hangs on with tenacit.
that knows no let up and RECEIVERS 1T
second wind as often as is necessary.
Still If is a sad comment on "A neODl