The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-31
TO WAKE UP INTEREST
MIR. Jose of johnson Wants Folks to
Attend a Hearing.

Editor of The Banner On the -
ming orsdanuayy :. -yls; fr tie Hail 1
az RAnfssebtsti3es al Montpelier 4.
will sake place ali event marking the
BEGINNING of the downfall of the poll
iical ring rule of the State educa
tional affairs Of Vermont. On that /
evening will occur the first public /.
hearing before the educational COM I
mittee appointed by His EXceilency (
Allen NJ. Fletcher Governor of Yer
mont That committee IS composed
of the following gentleg.en
Nicholas Murrag ,eutlor, Prest
Columbia Ur-s9eryity, New York
CITY; Jor q II Watson, Montpelier
Vt, dee Supreme Court Of yer
m mt, Theodore n. Vail, Lyndenyilie'
VI. Prest. American Telephone
Telegraph Co.. New York; Horace +.
Graham. Craftsbury, VT. State Audi
tor of Vermont; p w. Clement Rut-
land. Vt: Jas. 3. Estes, Brattleboro,
VI. Alliseon f. futile, Bellows
Fails. Vt: Frank H. Brooks, St
Johnsburv Vt; Eli II. Porter, Will
mington, VT.
1t is very highly necessary to I'm.
| press this committee at the very
! start of the tremendous Importance
and magnitude of the work before 1t.
! Nothing will do so much so quickly
as big attendance from all over the
state upon this and any subsequent
hearings called by this committee.
The Hall of Representatives has
been packed full at public hearings
on the compulsory vaccination bills;
will not the people of this state who
resent being compelled by an absent
political authority to abandon all they
hold dear; compelled to tax them.
selves to pay for Transporting their
children out of their own community
to some distant community to
school; forced to sabmit to the abon-
donment of the district school that
would serve them best; compelled to
adopt the edicts of a political ring
bent on accomplishing its purposes
even at the expense of the state by
driving population from the country
districts and destroying the value of
farm lands; forced to yield up their
will and their purse to an alien union
superintendent at high salary; driven
to accept laws made by a ring pro-
claiming nobody wanted TO work,
except teachers, unless they are paid
the top notch salaries; compelled to
sit calmly by and see the old and
tried common school education torn
up root and branch and the high
flown, new tangled, bone-head rudt
ments substituted in their stead by a
ring intent on supplying supplies
will these people not come to Mont
pelier on the evening of January 9th
and tell this committee what is in
= their minds
/ wish to say right here the peopl,
+ of this state are Northumberland,
in the extreme, in having at the heaC
= OF the Executive Department of Yer
; mont Governor, a man absolutely
!. fearless. a man of indemitable will
r a true champion and defender of III,
. rights of the freemen of this state.
say this because ] know He canno
a do it alone however, because if thi
: commission finds no popular opposi
e ton to the present school admins
4 tration, they must conclude the Gov
: ernor is wrong.
You people owe it to him, you ow,
: 1t to yourself to attend this hearing
t and back him up with your voice an,
your presence and this letter is L
y urge you to let no thing detaln VOL
from doing your duty.
May | suggest that it calls for tn
s kind of courage that seldom comes q
+ a Governor to square himself for
fight with political ring of In
. standing OF that in existence here II
d Montpelier. Let the people of Vel
d mont rejoice in having such chan
T. pion and let them flock to his SUI
port at that very time when the e
. fort of his first move is being watci
e ed by his and your enemies Ever
II community should either instruct Il
q representative to present its case O
. else take up a collection to rails
money enough to send to Montpelie
& on that night some one who will rel
resent its interests.
N Z. p. JOSE
>, Johnson, VI. Dec 2Sth. 1912.