The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-20
THE PEOPLES REMEDY

ger that the rank and file of the vo-
tiers will be misled into mistaking the
leaders of the system for the system
itself Throwing Aldrich and Can
non into the junk pile will not undo
what they have done. Other trust
agents will arise in their places and
do the work that they have done just
as long as the voters of the United
States send men to Congress who
can be wheedled, driven or traded in
to line. The voters of Vermont can
fume and froth about Aldrich and
Cannon until doomsday and be the
despised jest of the trusts while they
are doing it. Yet they have a rem
edy that they can apply if they will
though we have no idea that they
will do it.
No less person than the
president of the United States has
called attention to the iniquity of the
wool schedule of the new tariff law
1t is plain matter of figures. easily
understood, that this schedule will
make the cost of wool clothes to
the people of Vermont a quarter OF
a million dollars a year more
than in years past or if they
do not pay the extra cost they will
get that much less in value. In other
words the new law levies a direct tax
on the state of Vermont of not less
than $250,000 year. This was not
done blindly. Senators Dolliyer,
Cummins and others explained the
full effect OF the bill Yet our Yer
mont senators and representatives in
Congress stood with the worsted trust
that forced this thing through.
The sugar schedule is another in
stance 1t has been shown up be-
yond question that the sugar trust in
alliance with the Mormon church of
Utah controls the sugar business of
the United States, not only the cane
but the beet sugar production as
well. The profits are enormous and
the long suffering public pays the
bills When the sugar schedule was
up Senator Bristow of Kansas ana
others made a tremendous night to
get the people out of the grip of the
sugar organization but the trust was
too strong The schedule imposed
means a direct tax on the state of
Vermont of not less than 100000
year. For the whole country it is
over S1OO.OO0OOO a year Our Yer
mont senators and rel resentatives
stood with the gang that imposed the
schedule In return they got a little
measly protection for maple sugar
which it didn't need
The lumber and wood pulp SEIZED
ules are almost as bad Our repres-
entatives in congress cannot be
blamed much but our Vermont sena
tors lined up with Hale and Aldrich
and the big protected interests
interested in the lumber business.
Now these are a few questions that
are before the voters of Vermont
Senator Page and Representatives
Foster and Plumley come up for re-
election next year. Is the state go
ing to send them back without ques-
tion and take it out in jawing about
Aldrich and Cannon? Or will the
state at least ask them their reasons
for helpiig tax the state of Vermont
an additional half million dollars a
year these hard times apparently III
the interests of monopoly and or
ganized greed? 1t may be they have
good reasons. If so they should
bring them out
Our senators and representatives
may know so much more about thesc
things than we do that they can
show that they were absolutely right
If so the voters have the right to in
sist on being shown before they in
dorse them in caucus and at the polls
htAl gCdis we tdl anu uOu Dt
lieve them dishonest but fear that
their sympathies, business affiliations
. and associations may have led
them into the wrong camp.
Our Democratic friends will say
that these things should turn the
rank and file of the people to the
support of Democratic candidates
but in our opinion this would be
worse than jumping out of the fry
ing pan into the fire. The Demo-
cratic party contains many fine men
individually but as party it is an in.
congruous union of impossible theor.
les, warning factions and unmixable
elements. With one wing of the
Democratic party in power our say.
ings banks and other financial insti
tutions would be driven into liquid
alton to bolster up the wild cat
business methods of the south and
west. With another wing Of the
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