The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-10-04

Montpelier by order of its Common Coun-
Gil. Its population is today 1913, or
six times greater than it was in 1905.
1t contains 1,1S0 houses and ,613 fami-
l-lies. 1t Is further reported that Of this
population 1870 were born in foreign
countries and OF we're born in other
states, Il total Of 2,247, ar 80 per cent.
of the whole. The nationalities repre-
sented by this census are nineteen in
number, classifying as Americans those
who were born subsequent to the Sc
cond generation from the immigrant, of
which the Americans amount to 3,613,
or 80 per cent, the Irish to 1889, or
IS per cent, and the French to 1905, or
IA per cent, in largest number. These
figures disclose the great shit in the
character Of city population now going
on in different parts of Vermont. It
serves to remind us that, in spite of time
and In spite of these changes in the
character OF the population, this has oil
transpired SO leisurely as to have result
ed to date In reasonable assimilation,
although some changes in recent politi-
cal conditions may partly be accounted
for as due to lack Of perfect assimila-
ton. When, too, we think of many viii
lagos and towns which have from ma
tural causes diminished their population.
when we consider how many values have
shrunken, while that of labor IS main
tanned, when we consider that there is
a tendency to live more closely up to
earning capacity than formerly, when we
see that the dairy has supplanted sheep
culture and that the milk pan, ehurn and
cheese press are displaced by the cream
cry, when, too, we note that the spin
ming wheel gives place to the loom, when
we remember that our mineral wealth
has come to save values and increase oilr
population, when we note that the pine
tree and wheat sheaf have practically
disappeared, and when. as Robinson said,
''the quaint individuality Of the earlier
people II fast dissolying into common
place likeness, we may perhaps be in
duced to feel anxious and long again for
the good old times; for the good old
folks in the days Of youth, yes and all
ways for the simple virtues and the
peace of non-competition, perhaps; for
the hard years, the hardships Of life,
the rigours Of work and the small re.
turn for service, no! A Vermonter il
always q Nermonter but that is no rea-
sQH IQf uecFylng the actudi advantages
which we enjoy today and have in pros
peet, largely because of our heritage from
the past. Vermont IS better today than
ever, better travelled, better heated. bet
ter lighted, better fed, better transpor-
ted, better educated, better served with
news, and has a better market in which
70 trade and to which to SELL At points
there are reyerses, due to local causes,
but, as a whole, our people are today
enjoying as large and pleasant pros
perity as in the past. Neither Vermont
nor the country at large is evoluting
backward, but forward, and this / mean
to apply To character, ability and re
Torrance, as wen as to material thiaes.
There is today In the nature Of things
a greater amount Of action and grea
er and more diversified distribution &c
that action, and SO, at the close Of tile
century OF this capital, I, for one, am
now for looking forward 70 the next
hundred years and for assuming its bur.
dens and its opportunities in the spirit
of gratitude to the past and Of hope
for and absolute confidence IN tie future.