Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-08-31
Hyde Park and Morr.sviIle Fight.


The Morrisville papers issued sup
plements last week arguing for the re-
tention of the county buildings which
were burned in the spring, at Hyde
Park, and committee from Morris
vile also issues matter explaining its
side of the question. A subscription
is now in progress by which it is hoped
to raise $25, 900 to secure the buildings
for that village. The hight will be car
ried into the legislature and more
trouble is promised between the two
villages. Inasmuch as the dispute is of
concern only to the people of Lamoille
county the people of the county should
settle it. The following from an edi-
torial in the st. Adams Messenger will
be view taken by many: 1.-The Mes
senger's suggestion would be that
such question as this, affecting as it
does only the people Of one small part
of the commonwealth, and affecting
them. too. only in their own immediate
local interests. should be let out to a
popular referendum to the people of
the county forthwith, and that the
part or sides in attempting to decide
the merits of the controversy at Mont
pelier. "-Hardwick Gazette.
a Pessimistic Wall.
| The New York Times has an "un-
official report" from sources close to
the supervisors Office in Burlington,
to the effect that Vermont will show
a decided decrease in population as
compared with 1900. The statement
sent in the form of special dispatch
is to the effect that" only two or three
towns in the state have increased in
population. and that startling loss
es have been sustained in the smaller
towns" The belief is expressed that
Vermont will lose one representative
in Congress under the next apportion-
ment. The claim is made that there
has been no industrial expansion. no
increase in population to speak OF
through immigration, and that the
birth rate has not held it's own.
We believe this pessimistic wall il
a canard. Appearances indicate that
all of the cities and towns have in
creased in population, and many i'm
portant business enterprises have beer
: successfully launched and others aug.
mented during the past decade. We
await the official census returns hope
fully in the expectation that Vermont
! will show a substantial ana healthy
] growth, not only in population but ir
i. the extent and variety of it's industrial
} concerns. -Brattleboro Phoenix.
Governor Prouty against Trunk Lines.
: Governor Prouty has little sympathy
t with the trunk-line highway idea
5 his speech at Wilmington is re-
5 ported correctly. He believes tina
/ Vermont can gradually secure gooC
roads if every town will divorce the
I office Of road commissioner from poll
e tics and keep an efficient man when il
e gets one, but he does not favor bond
e ing the state for the purpose of raising
d money for immediate highway usage
n The governors belief that road com
missioners and politics should be KEEP
separate is sound, and if all the town
would retain men in this office thu
S roads of the state would no doub
f show steady Improvement, but can w
afford to depend on a method like thi!
S when adjacent states, particular.
: New Hampshire, are improving thei
e main thoroughfares so rapidly? And
d again, can We expect, even with tn
y best road builder of every town a
n work. uniform system of highway
r without uniform method of construc
:. ton? The Reformer thoroughly be
e lieves in the trunk-line highway ide
!. AS the republican state platform we
d says: Vermont has no more urgen
e material need than the development
e of system of first-class inter-urba
# highways, and the work should pre-
II coed under the authority and directio
It and at the expense of the State. -
n Brattleboro Reformer.