The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-05-28
The eovERNoRsHIP
Letter From N. 7. Herriek of North
Dorset on the Subject

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Editor of the Banner:-Two can
didates for governor of Vermont in
Bennington county. Well, does this
throw us into a brown study, or are
we as sure which of all Vermont's
candidates we consider best fitted to
serve his state as before? We should
feel small indeed as a county had we
not many men who could fill the gov
ernors chair acceptably but we do
not expect them all TO jump into this
race, nor do we honor this second
candidate more for further dividing
the vote of his county and this seem
ing lack of good fellowship for a
brother townsman.
Vermont's vital interests are most
ly rural From her physical makeup
they must always remain So and Mr.
Hapgood who has successfully solved
the question of rural needs in his own
affairs and in town affairs has also
been a benefit to his county and must
know in an equal measure with the
other candidates for governor. the
most urgent needs for the majority
Of the people of his state. While Mr.
Hapgood has been using his talents
for the prosperity of his town, the up
lifting Of its people and making it
more inviting to the stranger, has this
second candidate made two blades of
grass grow where only one grew be-
fore, has he earned any bread by the
sweat of his brow, or has he reaped
his harvest from the laws delay?"
In speaking of roads Mr. Hapgood
favors good trunk lines for the trav-
eler and the by-ways for the flesh and
blood journeys of his own states
needs. Our second candidate would
keep Vermont abreast of her sister
states in the way of roads but says
nothing and perhaps knows nothing
of the flesh and blood travel of VeI
mont or the difficulty of controlling
six dancing legs on the journeys We
would have not only our by-ways on
most days but also our highways Sat
urday forenoons when automobiles
with the exceptions made by Mr.. Hap
good are not allowed outside the vii
lagos.
In the Banner and Reformer of May
18th our second candidate among
other things, would raise the stan
dard of our schools. The standard Of
our schools has long since been out
of reach and we would only haYe it
brought back to a practical founda-
ton and left to float. We tried not
TO laugh at his answers to the 9th and
18th questions of the editor. Did he
copy them from Wilson, from Foster,
from the agricultural bulletins, or
where? II seems to us we have read
the same thing in all those. The Yer
mont farmer isn't suffering from lack
of brains; whatever he can sell at a
profit he will find out how to raise
and 1t won't need special train to
puff the information through the state.
What the farmers of Vermont seem
to need is either more nearby consum-
ers or cheaper transportation and
commission. II ought to be as easy
for the legislature TO exempt corpor-
atoms into the state as TO tax them
out of it.
Speaking Of the deforestation of
Vermont we know the water supply
is adequate some years like the fruit
and grain crop and some years II
isn't Are the causes the same. II
seems to us If the dams which former.
" held up our mountain streams In
several places were replaced We
would still have a water supply
When the mills had nothing more 10
saw the dams were allowed to rot
away.
Mr.. Hapgood believes in having a
foundation to build the laws OF Yer.
mont upon and selects the constitu.
ton of the state. Good Everything
unconstitutional has been "stormed
at with shot and shell. volleyed and
Numbered" till the peoples natural
rights and privileges seem to most
Of them like thin air and in the rural
communities there Is only realiza
tion of:
Benefits by subtraction,
Away schools Away
Children follow in wagons
Left you and |.
Benefits not complete,
Away Postoficel Away,
r F.. d. grating holidays,
Left-mail boxes, you and |.
Four candidates for governor Of
Vermont, each successful In his owl
business. In choosing for governor
him who knows the needs OF n rura
people we do not honor the Others
less.
NJ. T. Herrick.
North Dorset, VT, May %. 1910.