Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-09-02

receipts was the enormous amount of
$751; 1912, and after the people had paid
a direct state tax Of S464, $3.50 or about
81 so for every man, woman and child in
the state, there was still shortage Of
s1o2, 427.63
During the two years ending June 80,
1904, there was technical deficit of a
very few thousand dollars. and not sin
gle cent was paid into the treasury in
the shape Of a direct state tax upon the
people and no state taxes will be re-
qulred for the next two years. What
matters it to the taxpayers of Vermont if
state expenses do increase. as the state
advances if the Republican party can and
has lcgislated the burden Of taxation from
the shoulders Of the people to the Shout
ders Of the corporations where it belongs.
This is feat in the nagement of state
affairs that cannot but receive the praise
of every ordinary taxpayer, be he Re-
publican. Democrat. Prohibitionist, or
Socialist, and according to the Democrat
ic advertising agent the Republican party
is entirely responsible for it, because he
says the Republicans have been in alb
solute control during the time mentioned.
/ VITAL WILL nOO W ! w
The voters of Vermont are sure Of one
thing at least, and that is, the legis-
lature will always enact the will of the
people If such course is right and hon
orable in every way. In fact this is par
/ ticularly true of the General Assembly
Of Vermont. because the men who COM
pose it are direct from the people and no
/ legislators in the world are so closely in
touch with their constituents as they.
This being the fact the voters of Vermont
can strike from the above list. represent
I ing increased expenses. any or all the
items they choose, for the legislators will
I obey them in all honorable requests.
Keeping in mind that the adminstra-
ton Of Vermont's government does not
cost the taxpayers a single cent in direct
taxes what shall we strike out Of the
list?
As before noted the increase in the
cost of caring for the insane is entirely
due to the fact that whereas in 1882 the
various towns cared for their insane at
home or in Brattleboro as they could with
least expense. in 1904 the entire burden
was carried by the state WITHOUT A
STATE TAX.
1t would be idle to assert that any voter
in Vermont will advocate going back to
the town system in caring for the insane.
An example of a single town viii illus
trate the folly of such a course. In 1852
Chelsea maintained two insane people at
Brattleboro at cost Of about $500. In
1904 Chelsea had ten insane persons be-
ing cared for by the state free of expense
to the town WITHOUT A STATE TAX.
I'm 1852 Vermont let her veterans of the
civil war care for themselves SO far as
the state was concerned. In 1904 the
state paid S11.2S7.50 as her share of main
tanning the Soldiers Home at Bennington
Is there Democrat in the state who will
openly say this item Of expense is a part
of the Republican system of robbery. in
, asmuch as it is maintained entirely
WITHOUT A STATE TAX?
The various school appropriations might
} Doe cut to the old time figure and the
wheels Of progress turned back or stop
ped, but who will be the first to advise it
} especially as the bill is paid WITHOUT 4
/, STATE TAX7
We might go on through the whole list
and perhaps it might he well to put tn,
knife to some of the appropriations men
! toned. IThe Republican platform has
plank upon which this can and will b'
done if it is for the best interests of tn,
state) Some Of the increases mentone,
above originated with Democrats. SOM
, with Republicans, none We're strict,
, party measures. and all were paid WITH
:, OUT A STATE TAX.
. The Dewey portrait and Arthur monu
r ment were the result of resolutions in
A PRODUCED 10y Democrats. The former b.
n Burks OF West Rutland. and the latter b.
! Northrop of Fairfield
4 Finally it may be said that the expen
q SEES Of n commonwealth in these latte
+ days are bound to increase. The trend q
n civil government in Vermont in partic
. ular is in the direction of the state as
4 Stunning the burdens of the towns. espec
= tally the smaller ones, and this in a
e probability will continue. for what tow
e in Vermont will raise an objection so lon
II as it is done WITHOUT A STATE TAX
The advertising agent of Vermont
d Democracy would doubtless attempt t
explain all this away by saying that a ia
: is a tax. and that the people in realit
Il pay the bills no matter whether state ex
g penses are paid by means Of corporatio
- taxes (as AT present, or by means OF al
& rect state tax (as in the pasD. Is Their
a man in Vermont who believes he coul
ride, or have his freight carried on
railroad more cheaply if the state expen
SEES We're paid directly out of his pockt
II instead of by the railroads as at present
d We wonder who will answer.
n Vermont Republicans have guided tn
/ government of Vermont for half a cen
! tury and after a long hard struggle wit
g financial problems of magnitude they hay
s reached the long sought for goal and &c
lie day the people are seeing the entire ma
chinery of the state managed WITHOU
A STATE TAX.