Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-09-02
Jim DUMPS" BUT
NEVER SUNNY JIM"
These Burdens Are In Fact
Merely Hot Air, For the Re
publican Party Has Removed
Them---HOw Vermont Fami-
lies Now Pay Nothing For
State Expenses

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still in the Jim bumps stage aud
there is nothing to Indicate that he will
ever become IA sunny Jim, which isn't
remarkable when the quality of the
goods he is obliged to advertise is
taken into consideration.
One of the products of the brain of
this agent deals with the burden of
State expenses as distributed among
families in Vermont According to this
agent the various families in the State
paid the small sum of S3.1Gla each for
State expenses in the sunny year of
1882, while in the dark and gloomy
year of 1903 each ana every family paid
$1052 2-3 for the same purpose.
The agent reckons on the basis of
four and nine-tenths persons for every
family in. the state. So far as the Re-
publicans are concerned there is no de-
sire to mutilate the families of the
State either physically or statistically
and for the purpose in view five persons
will be counted an average Vermont
family, computed on the census fig
ures of the census preceding the date.
We have not examined the figures in
the Democratic agents statement con-
corning this alleged great family bur-
den and the increase therein, but it may
be presumed they are right-from the
agents standpoint at least. What we
desire to call the voters attention to are
some simple statistics which the agent
apparently overlooked in his search,
but which he cannot deny the accuracy
Of.
To more fully show the trend of the
Republican administration of Vermont
affairs we will go back to the biennial
term ending in 1872 and demon
strate how the burden of State ex-
penses has been removed from the peo-
pie until now not vestige remains.
Biennial Families in State Family's
Term. State. Tax. Share
1S71-72 ...66,110 $10o6,S27.S2 Sigh
1SS1-S2 .66, i57 AGA, 753.79 600
1901 -O2 :. IS, 72S 26S,522.49 391
10000 :. .6S,72S none none
If this is not an example of good gov
III ClutC uHullS WhtGe Cuu
such an example be found? The Re-
publican party from the very beginning
of its reign of power in Vermont has
always worked for the best interests
of the State and the people. Yer
mont has today State government that
would be absolutely impossible in al
most any other State in the Union, a
government which keen students of
political economy look upon with ad-
miration and wonder. But it is not
necessary to quote outside theorists,
when every voter in Vermont who has
honestly looked into conditions in other
States knows that in all the country or
In all the world there is no better and
| cleaner government than exists and has
existed in his own mountain common.
wealth.
Why this is so may be attributed to
several causes, but the chief cause is
that the men who have made or laws
and executed them have been and are
thoroughly honest and devoted to the
welfare Of the State and people. That
| is also why the Republican party
has such hold upon ermont, ana that
is the only reason.
Boodleism and graft those twin de-
mons of political corruption which 90
with the rule of the Democratic party
just as surely as night follows sunset
or the buzzard follows where carrion
abounds, have never brought disgrace
to Vermont, and just so long as Yer
monters remain true to the honesty
which now permeates the political life
Of the State, so long may they be proud
OF their Green Mountain home.
If the Democratic advertising agent,
who has been giving the voters of the
State so excellent an example of what
Democratic honesty" really is, knows
the most patent facts concerning the
history of government by his party in
other states and cities, he knows that
the story is one of corruption without
limit and graft without restriction. If
he Is ordinarily intelligent, which may
be gravely doubted when some of his
utterances in this campaign are consid-
cred, he knows just why the very
great majority of Vermonters are Re-
publicans. He knows that their gov
ernors have been honest and able:
that their legislators have been clean
and above suspicion, and he also knows
that as people Vermonters admire
civic decency, and that the Democratic
record as it has been studied and OBJ
served by the people of the State is so
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