Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-09-05
TWO WAYS OF
SEEING IT
Democratic Advertising Agent
Fixes Great Burdens on
Vermont Families.
jim DUMPS" BUT
NEVER SUNNY JIM.
These Burdens Are In Fact
Merely Hot Air, For the Re-
publican Party Has Removed
Them---BOW Vermont Fami-
lies Now Pay Nothing For
State Expenses
State Expenses


The Democratic Advertising Agent is
still in the Jim Dumps" stage and
there is nothing to indicate that he will
ever become a 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 i'll Vermont According to this
agent the various families in the State
paid the small sum Of $3.7612 each for
State expenses in the sunny year OF
1882, while in the dark and gloomy
year Of 1903 each and every family paid
$1O.52 %. 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
DubicanS are concerned there is no de-
sire to mutilate the families Of the
State either physically or statistically
and for the purpose III 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 a vestige remains.
Biennial Families in State Family's
1S71-72 ...66,11O $1,Ot6, S27.S2 Sigh
1882 =. .66,457 464, 1919 600
19O1-O2 :. .6S, 72S 26S,522.49 3.91
10000 ...6S,72S none none
If this is not an example of good gov
eminent in State affairs where can
such an example be found? The Re
publican party from the very beginning
of it's 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 OIL
in all the world there is no better an6
cleaner government than exists and ha:
existed in his own mountain common
wealth.
Why this is so may be attributed t.
several causes, but the chief cause il
that the men who have made our law!
and executed them have been and arr
thoroughly honest and devoted to thu
welfare of the State and people. Tha
is also why the Republican part.
has such hold upon ermont, ana tina
is the only reason.
Boodleism and graft, those twin de
mons of political corruption which q
with the rule of the Democratic part
just as surely as night follows sunse
or the buzZard follows where carriol
abounds, have never brought disgrac
to Vermont, and just SO long as VeI
mOnters remain true to the honest,
which now permeates the political lif
of the State, so long may they be prou,
of their Green Mountain home.
If the Democratic advertising agent
who has been giving the voters of tn
State so excellent an example of wha
Democratic honesty" really is, know
the most patent facts concerning til
! history of government by his party i
other states and cities, he knows tina
the story is one of corruption withou
limit and graft without restriction. /
he is ordinarily intelligent, which ma
be gravely doubted when some of hi
utterances in this campaign are consi(
J cred, he knows just why the yer
great majority of Yermonters are R,
/. publicans. He knows that their go
/. ernors have been honest and abb
: that their legislators have been clea
n and above suspicion, and he also know
:, that as a people Vermonters, admir-
o civic decency, and that the Democrat
record as it has been studied and O
;; served by the people of the State is
:. void of these things that the though
I full voter turns from it as a song biz
o would fee from Shiny serpent.
, brief, Mr.. Democratic Advertiser
?, Agent, the voters of Vermont know |
e experience that the Republican par
in the State is able and honest and tn