The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-10-25
"PoLlTlcs," INDEED

well enough of course, in a news
story concerning the coming annual
of the Vermont Dairy
mems Association in Burlington, says
at is expected that because OF state
politics. which will then be rife,
crowd of 400 will attend" Has 1t
got to that point where politics is
the chief objective in improving the
diaries of Vermont? If so, let us
ask this contemporary, OF any con-
temporary or politician or plain cit.
zen. what politics will be discussed
at this time that will affect the dairy
interests or the dairy owners one
cents worth? Let us so a bit FAR
Their. Let us ask anybody in Yer
mont what principles of government
or proposals for better laws and gov
eminent will be discussed at TINS
time that will affect the interests oil
any citizen in the state? When we
talk about politics in Vermont, we DO
not mean popular movements Tor I'M
proved social order and governmental
regulation. We mean, simply, the
scramble of few men to hold the
titular dignity of the goyernorshlp'
We don't have politics in Vermont.
Every two years we simply get excit,
ed over whether another fellow VIII
get a public Office. What he VIII 90
in 1t when he gets it we reserve LOT
discussion at the post mortem.-St'
Adams Messenger.
The Banner is inclined to think
that the Messenger takes 1t alto
gether too hard, and that on the
whole it will be good thing TO have
notifies talked at the meeting OF state
dairymen.
great many remarks are thrown
out about politics and poliucians
merely with the intent to deceive the
ignorant and unthinking. The TACT
IS that there probably isn't broad
minded patriotic, public spirited ana
progressive citizen in the state OIL
Vermont who hasn't been often spo'
ken of slightingly by men who are III
reality his interiors as pohticlah'
OF course it is true that there are
"no,iticians" who are mercenary, as
honest selfish. venal or disreputaple'
hut there are also politicians or
those accused of being politicians
who are men and patriots in every
sense of the word. We and, IN TINS
case we refer to the whole puohc
should learn to discriminate.
The Banner further thinks Inc
Messenger is wrong in its inference
that the politics discussed at the
dairymen's meeting, will be of no val
no 70 the interests of dairymen. INT
writer as a reporter in years goh'
nv has covered" several sessions o
the Vermont dairymen's meeting "A
each Of them were many men no
dairvmen. but many of them me-
Of broad understanding and exper
ance and. in the main, familiar VII
stote matters. Some Of these ma
have been. and without doubt were
, nresent to promote their own interes
but others, we feel sure, were ne
: and The Banner sincerely beiieVe
that the discussions of men and me-
|. sures which took place were oil a
tral and lasting benefit tothe state
= Vermont.
While Vermont is small state
4 transportation facilities especially D
: tween the east and west sides oil u
state are not very good, and the pc
nile do not come together for discu
sion 100 often, and the presence OF
4 few men Of state acquaintance al
v knowledge of state affairs as who
tends to promote general understan
J. ing of state issues and helps to sol
state problems.
1t Vermont has been making real pl
& gress during recent years, much mo
- real and rapid than some pessimi'
% of which The Messenger is not o
: are willing to admit. The splen'
w advance made by the state IN edu
!. tional matters, in highway impro
= ment, in founding an agricultu
~ training school, in doing away W
10 fee abuses, in improving child ia'
- laws. in better management OF
state institutions, in sanitation
- public health, and in a score or mi
O. of other important particulars,
re been promoted, The Banner re
he sure, by the getting together OF c
= gems at just such meetings as that
.pgS the state dalrymen's ASSOCIATE
,ty That these advances we're distinC
: helped by the presence of public m
politicians or patriots, whatever
are minded to call them, is not,
y our opinion, open to doubt.
II. We may sometimes get unduly
Z cited as to what fellow will hold
- office, but at the same time we
as people growing wiser as to ST
matters and state needs and gre
oti,, hut eureiv this knowledge