The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-08-27

Of good roads, improved tax laws and
reduction in the expenses Of the state
on the value OF the farmers property
would be as certainly beneficial as the
effect Of the sun and rain upon the fer.
tile field.
How II Helps the Business Man and
the Ordinary Taxpayer
A wise and economical administration
Of public affairs helps the business man
first Of all
With taxes equally distributed, money
il more plentiful and trade improves.
1 With good roads All over the state
The farmer trades With his home Iner-
chant rather than with the mail order
house.
When farm values begin to increase,
instead Of steadily falling off, as they
have done in late years, prosperity be.
comes more general and trade better.
When public funds, which have been
wasted and misappropriated for 20 years,
are expended in careful and business
like way, public confidence increases,
and commerce benefits accordingly.
Repeal Vicious Legislation.
When the caucus law, which seeks to
riyet the power Of the machine upon the
voter, is repealed, victory for honest
politics has been won.
When the local option principle is
restored to the present liquor law and
the appointment Of license commission
ers is taken away from the side Judges,
system Of political blackmail and in
tiinidation will be broken up and honest
government viii prosper.
When the auditor Of the state i
compelled to account for every dollar re-
eered and paid out graft will disap-
pear and the states business will be
honestly and carefully administered
Humanity and Business Methods.
When capital punishment is abolished
the inhuman and degrading spectacle of
a woman being done to death by the law
viii be made impossible in our state.
When the fee system is abolished, the
laws win be firmly and temperateIy EN-
forced and the outrageous graft and OPP.
preston of the minor courts viii be
stopped
The whole argument in favor Of good
government lies with the fusion move
ment and not one measure advocated has
been successfully attacked by the Proc
tor Republicans.
vote for fusion is a vote for better
days.
How 1t Helps the wsge-worker.
For the first time. in fifty years, the
wage-workers Of the state have been
recognized in political platform. Fusion
offers the following pledges:
The passage Of law to exempt from
trustee process all wages amounting to
less than $40 per week, and when over
that amount are trusteed, the excess
only to be assigned to the creditor.
A law by which all employees Shall
be legally entitled to receive payment
for their labor in money, and ii the
employer pays in any other form, the
employee to be entitled to sue at any
time within six years for the full
amount Of his wages
Providing proper rules for the con
struction Of all plumbing and steam-
fitting, and for the laying Of pipe AMI
The making Of sewer connections, and
for the appointment Of practical inspec-
tors of the same.
Special Labor Laws.
The use Of the labor of state sopvicts
to provide such articles as the state
needs, and as far as possible, that win
not enter into competition with free Ia
Dor; and the labelling Of all such goods
as made in the penal institutions Of the
state.
The enforcement Of the present laws
governing child labor, with such amend
mcnts as may be found necessary to pro
tect to the fullest degree our growing
children.
The repeal Of sections 5041 and 59i2,
which severely punish workmcn for con
spring, but do not punish employees, or,
ii these arc retained, that they be So
amended as to include employers.
The passage Of an employers liability
act and weekly payment bill.