St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-07-26
PRESS COMMENT.
DIR. Wiley.

DIR. Wiley.
DIR. Wiley is an awful man; a hind
rance to much profitable manufac-
ture, an obstacle to trade. and real
bugaboo to the hokey-pokey man,
Ter, the brewer, the candy-maker,
the druggist, and the undertaken.
Hobbies for him? Certainly Prob
ably he needs them. But as for dis
missing him from the public service
because of some appearance of vio-
lati0n of a rule about the payment
of expert chemists, that's absurd!
They say he employed, or caused to
be employed, DIR. Rusby of Columbia
College as a drug expert, and con-
trived that he should be paid more
than nine dollars a day which Con-
gress in its sagacity has made ESQ
they say the maximum sum which
can lawfully be paid to an expert. The
Acknowledgement has looked into the
case and has seen his duty, and re-
ports that DR.. Wiley's conduct mer-
its 'condign punishment. Very
well. 'sCondign, we suppose,
means suitable If DR.. Wiley has
broken the law, he might be indicted
IA very popular punishment just
now for awbreakers-and perhaps
jailed a time, but 20 dismiss him
would be absurd He is too useful.
II Harper's Weekly.
Vermont's Progress.
One of the best articles ever pub
lished setting forth the advancement
of Vermont and it's hope for the flu
ture recently appeared in the Boston
Transcript. While it was accepted
by the Boston contemporary as its
own production, a high compliment
by the way of its author, the article
was written by Editor Frank L.
Greene of st Adams.
1t gives briefly but precisely some
Of the reasons why Vermont is pro-
gressing-what it is accomplishing
and what it expects to attain in the
near future. Vermont is very for
tunate in being placed before the
country in such an able and unpre-
JUDGED manner in the columns of
newspaper of the high standing of
the Transcript.
That it has already attracted the
attention of leading newspapers is
comment. The following from the
New York Times is a fair sample,
although the figures it publishes di-
rectly refute its assertion that Yer
mont ought never to have been Civ
en- over to farming. Under the head
of tsVermont's Thrift the Times
says:
Thrifty Vermont, slandered Yer
mont! The Green Mountain State,
which ought never to have been given
over to farming, is remedying this
error. The Hartford Courant finds
hope in the census reports of a slight
decrease in the number and acreage
of Vermont's titled farmlands. It's
rocky and forested hillsides are
to crops of timber, not of
wheat and corn, and summer visitors
are buying up the picturesque Green
sites. Vermont's manu-
features in 1900 amounted to over
$56, 100000 and five years later had
increased to over $63, 100000, as
compared with an annual gross val
ue during 1900 of less than $33, $780,
600 in farm products.
'fYet the farms themselves have in
a decade increased more than one
third in value-from $4,000 to SAL
400 apiece they are titled by
farmers nine-tenthS of whom are
Yankees. Vermont's people salt
away 100000 annually in the
savings banks. They have transform
tens, restored to the forest the up
land farms, established agricultural
built new factories, and are
a chain of forest preserves
the state. II Mortified
News.
The Corporations and Taxes.
The Rutland News is impressed by
the fact that the corporations of YER
Id 60. ,11,1
ing to avoid a direct tax as we'll as a |
deficit in the state treasury, and it
agrees with the Barre Times that, I
These corporations are rather handy |
after ALL
There was a time when some of the
people in certain communities of
Vermont were inclined to kill the
goose that is now laying
the golden egg. We have heard of
in which local taxes
we're manipulated for the purpose of
hitting the wealthy corporation in
their midst, but these communities
speedily awoke to the fact that the
capital thus invested had shaken the
dust of their streets from it's feet I
and sought more appreciative
fields.
In certain quarters disposition
itself for a time to in
crease the state tax on corporations
by leaps and bounds with the idea
that the people would thus be wholly |
relieved from the burden of state
taxation, and that the corporations
could well afford to stand it.
Fortunately more t'safe and sane"
IDEAS have come to prevail regarding |
and particularly for
eign capital invested within the
borders of our commonwealth. Wei
are coming to realize more and |
more that we can not afford to drive
capital away by unjust treatment. /
We have been largely dependent up
On foreign capital for the develop
ment of our natural resources as we
fnrnd tO orr c01r@sxry in Io CT