Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1906-08-30

OF the state on the value Of the farmers
property would be as certainly beneh-
cial as the effect OF the sun and rain
upon the fertile field.
How II Helps the Business Man and
the Ordinary Taxpayer.
A wise and economical administra-
ton of public affairs helps the business
man first ofall.
With taxes equally distributed, mon
ey is more plentiful and trade i'm
proves.
With good roads all over the state.
the farmer trades with his home mer-
chant rather than with the mail order
house.
When farm values begin to increase,
instead OF steadily falling of, as they
have done in late years, prosperity be-
comes more general and trade better.
When public funds, which have been
wasted and Incorporated for 20
years. are expended in a careful and
business-like way, public confidence
increases, and commerce benefits ac-
cordingly
Repeal Vicious Legislation.
When the caucus law, which seeks
to rivet the power OF the machine
upon the voter, is repealed, a victory
for honest politics has been won.
When the local option principle is
restored to the present liquor law
and the appointment of license COM
missioners is taken away from the
side judges, system OF political black
mail and intimidation will be broken
up and honest government will pros
per
When the auditor of the state is COM
PEELED to account for every dollar re-
ceiyed 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 abolish
ed the inhumau and degrading specta-
Gle of a woman being done to death
by the law will be made impossible in
our state.
When the fee system is abolished,
the laws will be firmly and temperately
enforced and the outrageous graft aud
oppression of the minor courts will be
stopped.
The whole argument in favor Of
good government lies with the fusion
movement and not one measure adyO-
Gated has been successfully attacked BY
the Proctor Republicans.
A vote for fusion is vote for better
days.
How Il Helps the Wage-Worker.
For the first time in fifty years, the
wage-workers OF the state have been
recognized in a political platform. Flu
sion offers the following pledges -
The passage OF a law to exempt from
trustee process all wages amounting
to less than $40 per week, and when
over that amount are trusteed, the ex-
cess only to be assigned to the credi-
tor
A law by which all employees shall
be legally entitled to receive payment
Tor their labor in money and if the en-
ployer pays in any other form, the em-
ployee to be entitled to sue at any time
within six years for the iull amount Of
his wages.
Providing proper rules for the con-
struction Of all plumbing and steam it,
ting, and for the laying OF pipe and the
making OF sewer connections, and Tor
the appointment Impractical inspectors
OF the same.
Special Labor Laws.
The use Of the labor OF state convicts
to produce such articles as the state
needs. and, as far as possible, that will
not enter into competition with tree
labor and the labelling Of all such
goods as made in the penal insti-
tutions OF the state.
The enforcement Of the present laws
governing child labor, with such
amendments as may be found neces-
sary to protect to the fullest degree our
growing children.
The repeal Of sections j0fl and j0f2
which severely punish workmen for
eouspiring. but DO not punish employ
ers. or, il these are retained, that they
be So amended as 10 include employers
The passage 81 an employers liabli-
itv ACT and a weekly payment BILL