The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-08-27
Discussed by Democratic
Speakers
I DEMOCRATIC RALLY
Hon. Thomas W. MOloney and L. W.
ReddingtOn the Speakers
Good Attendance.

The Democrats Of Barre held we'll
attended rally last evening in the opera
house with Hon. Thos. W. Moloney Of
Rutland aud Hon. L. w. Reddlngton of
New York as speakers. Owing to delay
Of the arrival of the train on which the
Speakers came to Barre, it was 20 when
the rally began. Ex Mayor c. w Melch-
er presided and introduced the speakers,
AIr. Moloney speaking FIRST and on state
lssues, and Mr. Reddington following.
taxing up the national issues.
Mr.. Moloney began his speech with a
reference to the number Of Republican
spellbinders travelling up and down the
state lii this campaign, but none Of them
devoting their energies to state issues
1--WE are upon the eve Of state. not
national election, declared Mr.. Moloney.
Ii therefore protest that next September
the verdict ought TO be upon the Issues
right here at home, rather than national. Z
The first duty Of the citizen who is to vote
In September is to determine what are the
state issues, The Republican party Is re-
spoRsible for condition Of things in Yer
mont that would hardly be tolerated any
where else. One of these is the state sys-
TEN OF legislative representation. The
state might be overwhelmingly Democratic
and still have Republican legislature, Ii
the principles upon which it is based are
bad, the results are likely to be bad. The
only logical way out Of this condition of
affairs is at the polls. Until the people Of
Vermont wake up we shall never have
popular government In Vermont.
What has the Republican party Of Yer
mont ever done for the wage earners of
Vermont Absolutely nothing, declared
Mr.. Moloney. The Republican party de-
feated every measure OF labor legislation
In the last session. Mr.. Mol0ney iu-
stanced the weekly payment measures in
troduced almost every session as one in
stance of this.
When you stand up for your rights and
demand them and threaten the suDrema-
cy Of the Republican party then YOU will
get them But 1t isn't alone the wage
Garner who has right to arraigu and In
dict the Republican party-the ordinary
plain citizen generally has the right He
then went into state expenses and read
from a speech made by p. w. Clement at
Brattlebor0 two years ago In which the
latter declared state expenses had doubled
In Vermont and that the Republicans had
put the proceeds in their pockets. AT
Burlington last evening, Mr.. Clement de-
elared that state expenses had doubled Ia
70 years and farm valuations have depre-
clatad S30.000000 But the Republican
press explains that the common citizens
pays no part Of this tax at all--the corpor-
ations pay 1t. The trouble with that Ii
the corporations pay no other tax In the
state He told how ln looking the matter
up IN one community he found that the
savings banks and trust companies, rail-
roads and other corporations had $1,000
600 worth Of property while the assessed
valuation on which the community collect
ed taxes was $S,000,000, or nearly one
half that pays the local tax and the other
pays to the state. The railroad corpora
tion pays Sc tax where you pay SIS on
real estate, he declared And you are to
blame for 1t, His view is that a railroad
corporation ought to be no better than any
citizen. Tax them all alike. He arraign-
ed this system because II issunjust and It
retards progress. Mr.. Mol0ney in con-
clnding declared it was not the tariff but
the union that made high wages in the
granite industry, that the protective tariff
does nothing for the laboring man.
The Hon. L. w. Reddington Of New
York was the second speaker and be devo-
ted all his time to national issues. Mr..
Reddington declared that up to 1860 there
had been Il Democratic administrations
and four Republican and we then had
prosperity. He asserted that two Demo
cratic administrations since the war had
conducted the affairs OF the government at
much less expense than had recent Repub-
lean administrations. The war budget of
the United States under President Roose-
velt Is larger than that of either Great
Britain, the German Empire or France.
No people were ever taxed to such an un-
just extent as those Of this country. he
declared the high tariff as a robbery and
asserted that all our panics had occurred
under a high tariff. He claimed that
Roosevelt was an unsafe man and thatMr.
Parker was man oflsplendid endowments,
fully to be trusted with the reins Of gov
eminent and urged large Democratic
vote In September for It's moral indIence
IN November