Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-08-16

Voter, keep these figures for reference.
Note the leaps and bounds ahead in these
hVe year periods. Surely. truth crushed to
farth snail rise again, even in spite of Mr..
Clements paper, his bureau and his ora
tory.
Standing still, are We. in material pros
perity?
Nermont's prosperity has not been along
the lines of wonderful increase in the
savings Of her thrifty people. The ma
tonal census bureau has compiled and
put out the following bulletin. covering
a period Of five years just ended dune 3O)
Vermont compared with our New Eng
I'hd states in per cent. of increase of
capital invested in manufacturing num-
Der OF wage earners engaged. amount of
wages paid, and in tho value of maniac
tured products produced between the
years of 1900 and 1905, as shown by the re-
cent census of manufactures makes the
following showing:
Per cent. of increase in capital invest
cd: For New England, 27.2; for Vermont,
4GA Vermont led all the others.
Per cent. of increase in number of
wage earners engaged: For New Eng
land, %; for Vermont, 17.5. Vermont led
all the others.
Per cent. of increase in the value of
manufactured product: For New Eng
land, 2l.6; for Vermont. 22.5. Vermont led
oil the others except Maine and Massa-
chusetts.
Truth, though crushed to earth under
MIR. Clements imperial heel, will rise
again. Though crushed by this many
sided fusion candidate for campaign pur-
poses, will surely rise again.
In the ~ year period so lovingly coddled
49, = T. IT, go
see on every hand evidences of progress
and prosperity in our beloved State. Bet
ter homes. better villages. better cities.
better clothed and educated people, better
lights, better water and sewer systems,
better farms and farm machinery, better
butter. cheese and sugar making facili-
ties, better highways. better streets. better
sidewalks, better kept cemeteries and pub
lie parks, better kept churches and pub
lie buildings. beautiful school buildings
and public Libraries springing up on every
hand. Look at the thousands Of summer
camps and commodious summer homes
and cottages that nestle close by pond and
lake and river and on the mountain side.
Take a candid retrospective. Look at
all these things. Look back % years, 10
years. five years. Can you see improve
ments, progress, material gain?
VIII the people fall into line and trail
behind the arch defamer of our good old
State? Join issues with him who says
there has been no progress in Vermont?
Truth though crushed to earth by him
whose only issue Is to berate, belittle and
hesmirch everything in sight and charge
It all up against the Republican party,
shall rise again,
THE ATTITUDE OF LABORERS.
CFrom the Essex County Herald.)
Mr.. Pcrcival ". Clement, the repub-
lican ESQ says his own paper, The Rut-
land Herald), candidate of the demo-
cratic party for governor of Vermont,
poses as a friend OF labor. Why do
not some of the hundreds of men who
were employed by hin when he owned
and managed the Rutland railroad rise
up now and call him their blessed ben
efactor? Did his money ever build
comfortable homes for them at a rea-
sonable rental? Did his money ever
build and equip in modern style a hos
pital where his employees and their
loved ones could be, in time Of accident.
Or sickness, cared for at little or no
expense? Did his money ever build
and furnish completely, n library filled
with books, whose doors were freely
open to his employees, at practically
no cost to themselves? Did he ever
Invest his money at four per cent, in n
paying business, run the business him
self at lowest possible expense and
divide among the laborIrs all profts
nbove the four per cent,
in some years to eight. nine. and ten