Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1906-08-16

and we were kicked out. | knew a young
lawyer from Orange county, fisherman *.
I Moultonl as well equipped as any lawyer
for be work in hand, and he took hold of
that case with the result that the doors
Were opened so that we could put our
heads inside the auditors Office and ask to
look at our own account books. Look at
the resu.t-S213, 900 year to run this state
IN 1851 1904, twenty years later, 100000;
ana we had the same business, with
hardly any increase in population and no
increase In court expenses. Is there any
business IN that? Yes, they say we have
had the asylum and the Soldiers Home
built. Take go 900 year to run those
and we have $4,000 to account for. We
have had every kind OF a commission
organized. They would appoint a COM
mission to count the stripes on a bees
leg Il an old member Of the ring wanted
something to do to draw salary. That is
where the money has gone. II isn't all
graft, but it is poor management.
"Up to the 10th Of July there was not
one single scratch Of the pen upon the
auditors books regarding the business of
the state prison, asylum,
House Of Correction, Soldiers Home, etc,
involving hundreds of thousands of
dollars. Is that good business ? l think
tirm that lets its bookkeeper 90 away for
year and at the end of the year told him
to write up the books would be in a fine
condition.
"Farm values have decreased in 20 years.
Haven't you got some farms that 1t would
cost more than they ara worth to put up
the buildings II they should burn down
Values have deprecated s20,000,000 in 10
years, and farm acreage from s26 to ~.
Vermont is getting poorer because the
brunt OF taxation comes more heavily on
farmers. They say ID doesn't hurt the
FanOfllp ANY, II al pOrnpg fran pnrp0raf ipng
and savings banks. Yet you pay those
taxes Suppose it doesn't come from you
but is brought in from the fresh air and
laid down, can't that money be invested
instead Of dripping into the pockets of tbs
ring?
sit cost to run the Waterbury asylum in
1904, = II per week per patient; in 1906,
SIP, while in Connecticut the cost was
s325. ] say there is graft Of $4,000 year,
or $50 900 every biennial term ia buying OF
fuel and labor account. We have got in
that institution experts and help for every
five or six patients. Some Of this is &c
counted for by high freight rate on coal,
80 cents ton.
"Double taxation, or taxation Of the
same property twice, the Independent and
Democratic parties say is wrong. They
want the man owning the land to be al
lowed to Offset the mortgage and the man
holding the mortgage to pay the tax.
Mortgage is not property, but evidence of
debt.
aThe machine men know the people OF
the state are being awakened and show
their panic by the stories they put out.
They say am getting up lower freight
rates on a little stretch OF road, which is
absolutely false; that ! am in favor OF
bonding the state for good roads-a thin
/ have never favored. | say let them save
the money We fool away and use it for
good roads.
"The machine is wrong, not the party.
The machine has increased our expenses
from year to year while our property has
been going down. / am leaving the ma
chine, not the party. Let every honest
man who wants honest government JOIN
with u.s. aud when the sun sets on the attn
Of September victory will be ours
Mr. Clement was heard dispassionately
for the most part, though his followers
gave some signs Of enthusiasm, and one or
two in the audience yentured TO inform
/ him that they did not coincide with his
remarks on the decrease Of farm values
and the Waterbury asylum expenditures.
He arrived in his private car, Grand Isle,
I from Barre, with his campaign manager,
/ II. L. Hindley, and young Rutland law
yer, VIM. II. Dunn. During the day Mr..
| Clement and Mr.. Hlndley were enter
! tanned at Stoneleigh by the parents and
/ wife OF the Fusion candidate for state
i treasurer, Sherman II. MOulton. The
4 Grand Isle conveyed the party Saturday to
! Windsor.