Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-10-20
PACE SOUNDS A
NOTE: Of WARNING
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most dictate what bills shall and what
shall not pass the upper branch OF our
National Congress.
Lot us hope that any combination be-
tween the South and the West AZ against
the North and East, which mny deem
probable, may never matoriallze. but If
It should and If the proposed amendment
to the constitution is ratified so that the
West may draw upon the cast adlibtum.
Y to pay therefore ! fear we rnay find II
measure of expenditure during the next
few years which win stngger the sturdy
conservation of the Fast Already the
Trans Mississippi States have In CON
temptation plans which will call upon the
federal government for expenditures In
the South and far West Of fully two
billions OF dollars, an amount so great
that Il transcends the conception OF the
ordinary mind-a thousand million dol
lars doubled-and II a direct tax now un-
constitutional except on the basis of
population is made constitutional as pro-
posed. 1t means that the New England
and Middle States Will bear about 80 per
cent. of these burdens which are largely
for the benefit Of the far West
If this income tax is made unconstitu-
tional by ratification Of three fourths Of
| the States, we are quite likely to be asked
to appropriate five hundred million dollars
for the deepening of the channel of the
Mississippi and for the Improvement OF
othcrn western waterways, perhaps an
other five hundred millions for irrisa ton
projects and the reclamation of swamp
lands while national highways. public
buildings and miscellaneous expenses ga
lore in the Trans Mississippi States viii
It is well known fact that New Eng
land has never participated in federal
appropriations TO an extent commensur-
ate with her Industrial strength. The to-
tai amount of money spent by the fed
eral government. from its foundation 70
the present time, upon the rivers and
harbors of the state of Maine, is less
than the estimated annual maintenance
OF the lower Mississippi II deepened to
fourteen feet as now proposed by the
western deep Waterways association.
Names appropriation this year Is 500
so. while oregon which has already par
ticipatcd i'm the expenditure of thirteen
! million dollars on the Columbia river and
its tributaries. was given 3d. t0l. 200 10 be
expended this fiscal year In Vermont's
entire history she has received hut $40
0r more than Wisconsin received for its
waterways this current year New Hamp-
I shire iu is entire history up to 1907 has
+ received less by more than 80 per cent.
. tEau Kentucky received this year.
/ Ma s~aC husctts, with its water horne
/ freight of more than thirty-eight mil
| lion tons. received substantially the
same thls year as Is assigned to the
State IT arkansas.
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/ Vermont's distinguished son. the Hon
| George = Edmunds than whom no man
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