Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-06-29
EDUCATION

Is VI LLG SQUSldKltkd1 anu III
spring support of the cause of free
public education that has ever been
characteristic of Vermonters, we re-
gard with pride the advance made by
the public schools of the state under the
beneficent aid of wise laws recently
enacted by the Republican party in the
legislature. We believe that the
popular education provided by the gov
eminent should always have for it's
chief object the fitting of youth for
the practical duties of their
everyday life, and equipping them
for self-support. To this end we urge
that the state encourage by all gener
Gus means the maintenance of courses
in agriculture, manual training and
domestic science in the public schools.
We also urge that it can afford larger
opportunities for training teachers for
service in the educational institutions
of Vermont.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
We earnestly recommend to the gen
eral assembly such amendment of ex-
listing laws as will not only make the
standard of weights and measures in
use in Vermont uniform with the stan
dard maintained by the national gov
eminent, but that will invoke suffi-
Gent police power to protect the pee
pie Of this state from the frauds and de-
ceits in merchandising and trade
caused by short weights, understood
! packages and measures, and similar
dishonest devices.
CONSERVATION OF NATIONAL
RESOURCES.
We note with satisfaction the in
creased and increasing popular interest
in the vital subject of the conservation
of natural resources under wise Repub-
lican government in the nation and in
our own state.
This is perhaps the gravest and most
threatening problem of our material
life at this time. Vermont should offer
liberal provisions under the tax law
and otherwise as an inducement to
forest planting and forest culture and
at the same time should so regulate
the commercial utilization of forests
as best to protect the public interests
dependent upon them.
We believe that the present policy
here in Vermont should be amplifed to
extend throughout the state opportun-
ties for state forest reserves and the To-
Called object lessons in practical for
estry they that afford, and that
laws should be enacted tend
ing so to husband the natural
waterpower and encourage and safe
guard its development as to promote the
widest possible distribution of the re-
sultant economic benefits among our
own people in preference to an outside
ownership that may simply seek to d.
vert power originating in Vermont
to uses beyond its borders.
THE LIQUOR LAW.
Abating no part of our frequently
expressed belief that the manifold and
,, widespread evil resulting from intern
perance in the use of alcoholic liquors
demand that the tariff in strong drink
shall be restricted by the most salu-
tary laws vigorously administered, we
,, believe the local option principle
: should be retained as the basis and poll
: cy of the law until in the process Of
! time and improvement of all govern
mental institutions some better law
may be devised and substituted.
PUBLIC SERVANTS.
We cordially record our appreciation
! of the faithful and efficient services of
= the senators and representatives of
! Vermont in the Congress of the Unit
= ed States.
! Under the administration of Gov.
E George H. Prouty during the current
l biennial term the dignity of the com
; monwealth has been highly sustained
! upon occasions of important public con.
" sequence, while the everyday material
: and social interests of the people
! under the laws have been faithfully
- ;. and wisely conserved by the chief ex-
l ecutive and his associates in office.
We are proud to record that, with the
: Republican party in power and respon
: sible, the details of the state govern
: ment in all it's departments never were
conducted with more businesslike sys
TEN, fidelity, and dispatch than they
:, are today.
:, CONCLUSION.
y Upon this platform we confidently
. appeal to the approval and endorsement
= of the freemen of Vermont at the polls
- and we commend to the loyal supper
g of Republican voters and all their fel
low citizens that desire the best O.
- good government for the common
II wealth the candidates for state officer
= this day nominated.