Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-01-19

estate, and in endless other ways her
wealth relates to property located in
the west. The property is out there.
and If the legal and economic condi-
tions surrounding it are bad your pre-
cious paper will shrink in value. This
means that you must, whether you
wish to or not, teach by precept and
by example the most thorough honesty
and the most profound wisdom in pub
lie matters.
The third characteristic of Vermont
to which feel like calling attention.
is the fact of its extraordinary con-
tribution to the world of men of ex
ceptional power along legal, political,
executive, constructive and industrial
lines. Wherever there are offices to
be held, wherever there are railroads
to be built and operated, wherever
there are insurance companies to be
conducted, wherever there are banks
and trust companies, wherever there
are courts and lawyers, wherever
there are great factories and other
industrial developments. there you
will find Vermonters. They do not
appear much in literature and art.
but in business they are universally
strong. Thus we find in law and pol
Morton, Edmunds, Morrill,, Proctor,
LOOMS, Williams, Grover, Adams.
Phelps, Poland, Dillingham;, Prouty,
Mccullough, Page aud Shaw. In the
navy are men like Dewey and Clark.
On the interstate Commerce Com
mission you have had three commits
sioners-Veazy, Walker and Prouty-
though your railroad mileage is small
and does comparatively little business.
Kansas has ten thousand miles of rail-
road but has never had member OF
the commission. 1t is so throughout
the government service. Vermont
has an inordinate share of place and
power. Then in business The names
of Proctor, Fairbanks, Page, Converse
and Thayer are known all over the
land. Insurance circles are honOred
by the presence of DeBoer of the
National, and Kingsley of the New
York Life, and banking circles by
men like Porter of the Chemical Ma
tional. Your railroad builders nave
included such men as Smith of st.
Adams, Webb of Burlington. Will
lam B. Strong took charge of the
Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe road
when it was a very small property IN
Kansas and extended it eastward to
the Great Lakes, southwark to the
Gulf, westward to the Pacific. Among
his chief helpers were A. A. Robin
son of Windsor, D. B. Robinson of St.
Adams, Henry c. Mutt of Montpelier,
C. c. Wheeler, A. P. Wilder, Louis
Kingman, Charles Dyer, Avery Turn
er and many other Vermonters. In
fact l once counted thirty-six officials
on the Santa Fe road who were born
in Vermont. Here and now we are
all guests of one who may not be
much known in Vermont, but
whose name is most familiar one
wherever great enterprises are known
and great capital is controlled. Illus
trations such as | have given could be
continued without end.
| And so instead of maple sugar
| Morgan horses and Lake Champlain.
let US say natural beauty, conserva
tism and men of power-the power tt
control and direct. 1t is certainly
your duty as the guardians of Yer
mont's welfare to leave nothing un
done to preserve and enhance the nat
ural beauty of the>staLe; to persevert
in safe and sane thinking; and to pro
duce, invite and encourage all those
who possess the greater powers-tht
powers that are truly great because
truly benefcent.