Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-02-23
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ing and pays for the same at prices
at which that commodity is generally
sold. He knows that it costs money
to make scales and assumes that it
costs money to make newspapers
also. so he buys what the newspaper
has to sell.
In doing this, he does what other
candidates for office in Vermont have
done before bin and what in Massa-
chusetts and in considerable number
of other states has become an annual
prediction feature, and regarding
which the universal testimony is, that
it is favorable to good government.
The ele ments that are alleging any
form of corruption as feature of his
campaign should look we'll to the ba-
sis of their remarks. Rutland News.
The Boomer-knocker.
We all know him. He poses for a
boomer, booster of the first order,
but his would-be promoting does not
amount to much because he can not
boom without at the same time
knocking. He takes off his coat to
lift at his end of the log with all his
might and works up perspiration just
getting ready, but while his heart
is sincere and his purpose high, his end
of the log does not rise very much be-
cause he spends so much OF his
strength scolding because some other
fellow, who ought to be there. is not
at the logs other end, or because
those who are there, doing their best
are not lifting Quite in the manner he
thinks they should. He knows Ver-
mont is the best state in the union
for young men just now, and there
are plenty of opportunities right at
home, but he can not pour FIVE gills
of glory over those opportunities
without letting loose half-gallon Walls
OF his sleepy fellow citizens who are
not shouting those chances from the
meeting house steeple. There is more
of push-down in his knock than
there is lift-up in his booE. For who
would not rather live in the untoward
environs of Dead Salt Greek, along
with folks that are up and doing 1868
days in the year and 366 days leap
years-than maintain his domicile IN
the garden of Eden, if the gardeners
were all such fools as not to have the
slightest suspicion of their advan-
tages?
5 A sour minded .cynic on folks is not
going to do much. good talking up
soils, scenery, and waterfalls. 1t Is
the enterprise of people that is 1.-The
largest element of value of the region
where they live. Better $500 worth
of business opportunity where men
are progressive and women sprlghtly
| than $4,000 worth of chances for 1.-THE
dollars where wits are dead and
hearts asleep.
The pessimist on Vermont folks is
a fool of the Ananias variety. The
capital of our state is in her men anC
always has been. There is grear
future just ahead for Vermont bust
ness, especially farming. A mar
from one of the richest regions of the
central west after weeks study OF
Addison County farms, has just tolc
US that a dollar in a Vermont farm
today brings more than So in his
country. But that isn't the best thing
about the Vermont of today The
supreme attraction of Vermont is the
good sense and the strong moral vii
tue of observation-disclosures. We are going
forward in education. in business
methods, in scientific agriculture al
very satisfactory rate, and the man
who settles in Vermont today, or in
Addison county at least, makes his
home in an enterprising community,
where his boys and girls will feel the
push of ambition as strongly as In
any region of America.
Let us boom Vermont, Vermont
folks and the present Vermont spirit
as well as Vermont's farms and bust
ness opportunities, and in our boom
ing let US leave out the knocking.
Let each man lift at his end of the
log, and cut out all fault-fDding with