Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-07-15

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not all milllonairer, but you are all
IN that condition Of respectable wealth
or respectable poverty that are tho
two best conditions to make n good
people. tApplausc) You preserved
your traditions just ms tho English
did. and accomplished reforms though
you do preserve your traditions. You
elect your judges by the Legislature.
should think way that might be
Imnroyed, and you elect them every
one wear or two wears. forget which.
h,t ,,,batever II IL tho ,onuro ~ Office
ia practically for M. bocouso Won bo
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snort career Knew ana nave 'he no"-
or OF knowing WE'LL lot man vi NY
age, your distinguished senator JUS
tin Morrill,: (applause) that hau
similar benefit In Knowing wen your
distinguished Senator George y. to-
monds C(applause) and also tnat rare
avis, Vermont democrat. that able
jurist, that great diplomat, EDWARD D.
Phelps (Applause.)
Now. have been good deal inter-
osted in irving TO break up in a sense
not exactly in political sense, but
In the sense that you will understand
II that of feeling and sentiment. the
solid South. And when ! have suggest
OIL that the irreverent southern poll
ticinn has suggested that It Is about
time to break up the solid North, and
references are made to the fact that
Vermont Is Just as solid as AlahAma
and Georgia. We'll, what the effect on
Vermont would be II the South were
really TO break up and some Of those
States become republican. perhaps we
cannot say It Is my own theory that
Vermont and many another northern
state has been made solidly republican
hecause there WIS n solid South, and
that one OF tho benefits of breaking up
solid South would be that there would
be no solidity anywhere on sectional
l,nas Rut one thing am bound TO
saw that even III republican nlaJOrIlltN
arc nre,tv certain IN Vermont. there is
concerning about n republican majority
In ver,nont every four years that man
p,ho has been n candidate for the pres
,darcv s+udies with most anxious con-
cern and that Ia whether the maior
,,y y, tho neonle that favor the repub-
,,cor ticket In Vermont at a presidential
election .h,Il amount TO more than 20
d;dote NAV az we'll make no arrange
r,erts or rather ought TO make other
orra,geuents for the next four years.
Ora n, tho things that 7 congratulate
y-ermont IN and the Vermont manage
want &c that Mt their banuuets they
have ladies' present not only to sneak
in NJ tho end and hear the speeches, but
"a nartake OF the fare and the good
fe,,ovsh,n. And without making invid-
ions con,narisons. think this plan is
, great ,nnrovement over the one we
h,d lac, WIGHT Now. nv friends. I am
go,ng ne the Governor did not go back.
N The historical events Of which these
v,r,ous meetinrs have been memoir
Ia, We have discussed at considerable
length the effects Of this memorial upon
our international relations. It cannot
ing memorial that in this regard YOU
cannot match the world over. But what
7 am esneciallv clad TO welcome IS the
intimacy OF relation that such memoir
,o,s MS this are ant to increase between
mi. country and Canada. We have been
going ahead SO RAPIDLY In our own
country and our heads have beer some
what swellod with the idea that we
ell, ali 70
nroeress that there was in the world
We'll. that Is not true. as You will real
lie when YOU think moment And we
have no, been conscious or as fully con-
scious rs we ought to be, that there is
on our north. with a border line between
II and us OF some % coo miles, young
country and a young nation that Is
looking forward rs we'll it may. to a
great national future They have nine
millions Of people. hut the country is
still hardly scratched: it Is still undevel
oped. They have two great strains-the
French and English. They are under a
government abroad to which both
strains acknowledge full loyalty which
has exhibited great wisdom in Its
treatment o. tho Dominion, and IN Civ
ing to the Dominion the practical and al
most complete autonomy The bond
between them and the mother country Is
sweet, but light. and there Is nothing
that prevents the INDUCING on the part
Of each. whether French or English, in
the traditional pride Of the race of each.
Now. they are going on; they are build
Ing railroads; they are exercising great
discretion In the West. and they are tax
Ing from us many Of our best FARMERS