Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-11-02

latin IN Cnelr own state. Ihey lOSt
millions of capital in western invest
ments, instead of putting that money
! into Vermont farms, and industries
backed by men and methods that would |
make it yield large dividends. For
years your state was dominated by a |
railroad ring which Slapped yorr in
dustrial life blood. Even at the pres
ent day, and UP to this very hour,
no governor or legislature in Vermont
has fully grasped conditions, or effect
| ed sufficiently comprehensive policy
and feasible plan for remedying this
state of affairs.
THE FOUNDATION IS ALL RIGHT.
! These truths, of course make you
angry. You resent nv words. Good
| want you to ''get hot under the col
| lar" Some of your shareholders (tax
I payers) are in such a rut, you have
been so self-satisfied during your prog
ress down hill, that you need Al
good hot blister to counterfeit your
| lethargy!
Yet you people Of the corporations,
of Vermont possess brains, capacity
industry, capital The blood of Yer
mont is of the p0rest in the United
! States. Your public institutions are
the outgrowth of three hundred years;
of freedom, citizenship, self-govern-
ment- The Green Mountain state has
| a glorious history but has failed to-
even capitalize thati Much of your
soil, even of some so. called abandoned
FARMS is as fertile today as it was a
century ago. But because either the
people, or the state, or both, have
failed 10 grasp tire changing condi-
tons of the past. ten or twenty
years, you now face the pitifuI rev.
elatIonss of the 1910censuS! Although
you are at the threshold of the best
produce markets i'm the world, your
farms are relatively cheaper than land
in almosS any other part Of America.
WHAT ARE THE CAUSES?
Some people say these distressing
conditions. are due to the Civil war.
Why, gentlemen, we.are about to cele-
brate the fiftieth anniversary of that
war. Yet some of your people talk
and act as though the, war were not
yet overi
Some folk still bemoan "western
competition" blind to the fact that
your land, which sells slowly at $40 ar
acre, Will raise as much grain as land
in Illinois or Iowa. that sells quickly
at $15G TO 5000 an acrel You rail at
the beef trust. But you fail to realize
that you can make meats and all other
animal products at probably less COST
than they can be produced on the conn
: paratlNely high-priced lands Of the
west.
Gentlemen, the trouble is not with
your state, or your soil. or your nat
ural resources
THE trouble is, with your people and
your laws
Vermont is gold mine, capable of
producing vastly greater riches than
: ever before. You have squatted on
, these riches SO, long that you don't
realize they exist Even the inf u
ence of your schools has been to. turn
youth away from the farm and the
- factory. Too many Of your churches
), have become shells Of a feeble sectari
:. anism, instead of vital centers Of the
: Ali-powerful Spirit-that spirit whose
! best expression lies not only in per
~ sonal morality blu. in progressive &C
Invites in all the relations of dali!
life.
,, THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA.
= Today, your people only need to full
" ~ utilize the powers they already pos
. sess, to fully utilize the natural re
sources of Your state, in order to en-
" joy the largest success. happiness
y power and usefulness.
- You have every thing to do with.
:. Now, afl you need to. do is to do Il
!; do it right. and do it nowt
- Cooperation is the key that wi
~ unlock the treasures of Vermont.
~ Each individual. boy or girl, man Q
- woman, must do his and her part, the
~ ~ they must cooperate for the commo
a. welfare.
80 But how cooperate?
u l. Realize that Vermont is pre-em
y nently an agricultural state tbs
.,u it's problems, while fundamental
~ character, are much simpler than
os states more complex in populate
~ industries and situation.
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