Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-02-15

Maxwell Evars Of Windsor needs advocate loyal
and devoted and enthusiastic champion of Vermont Buring
ton learned this for itself long in the days Immediately pre-
cedng the selection Of location for the State fair The mem
bers of the Vermont Fish and Game League discovered this
when at Bluff Point they joined hands the lake. with
our New York negbors and gained those intimate relations
with Governor Hughes which continued long he remained
executive of the Empire State and which won for him an admir-
alton and esteem that still endure The thinking people of
all Vermont learned this while Mr. Evarts in the Legsa
r and they have continued to be impressed through his spen
did service to the of agriculture connection with the
State fair we'll as to industrial progress the Green Noun
tain State through his example in establishing at Windsor
great manufacturing industry
Mr. Evars has placed the people of Vermont under
further debt of gratitude by the convincing and conclusive
statement he has made in the number of the vermoner just is
sued reply to certain structures and the nhab
tants thereof in the Rosster article distributed by the American
Statistical association
The tributes paid to the and of Vermont from
its early settlement to the present day by Mr. Eva
to be all that would satisfy its most loyal citizens These in
Union settled by chocer immigration than that which
passed up the Connecticut river to the Momtans that
1.-THE quality of the settlers proved genera
ton inheritance valuable strong constitution
individual that 1.-THE number of presentday vemonrs
sessng IN full measure the fine traits much
greater than the number of those who shaped the desns
Mr. Evarts wonders therefore, what is that so disurbs
the critic OF Vermont particularly is clear from aers
own paper that 1.-THE population of Vermont steadily
been selected for this gloomy ieremad?
ne says Ut not plain what Mr. Rossiter take such
gloomy view He concludes that it either be the loss
IN the population Of the small
an agricultural State or the falling off in the lumber industry
One explanation is that Mr. Rosser did
fit Of the when
makes good this lack
Mr. Evarts shows that when there railroads made
niue difference where in Vermont the farm was located long
changed and in order to be railroad the population
underwent reagnment-an entirely natural development.
The loss of population in towns not sign
OF deterioaton therefore, and the change ques
ton is to be noted in all other States
with reference to the position of Vermont agrcul
tural State Mr. Evars that the people Of Vermont
proud OF the fact that the opening of the West which destroyed
the agricultural interests of England fail
destroy
are proud of the fact that he farms of their State january
1910 had and onehalf many horses cattle and
sheep the farms of New Hampshire State of substantially
the same climate and acreage and more than Other New
farm property increased from $1Os $l453992s
thry-four per cent. in years
Mr. Evarts notes the reassurng fact that Venons
features have increased in the last decade faster than her
agricultural interests and this particularly of the last
five He emphasizes the fact that than
scales used in the %dd from
cay successful trre lathe used all the machine shops
IN Europe and the United States invented in Vermont.
The automatic turret lathe also invented in Vermont
AS regards lumber the industry has than kept
though the State has been settled for century and half The
Mr. Evarts finds ground for pride well in
the following facts about Vermont:
That her population has increased in the last ten
years than in any other decade since the Civil
2. That 'there army allies in the Yer
moners other States scattered indeed all the Union but
possessing and undmmed love for the faherland
That her people Of the AngloSaXon stock in
America.
That alone of all New England she has withsood the
Vermont coming forward with strides her old place
of leader among the farming States.
That the inventive faculty which the river
with her first settlers from Connecticut and which cir
compelled to lie dormant being developed with
capital
Mr. Evarts finds addition that the deposits in Vemons
savings institutions have doubled in the last eleven years that
evidence of wealth be found in the fact that Vermont
nearly the top of the list States the number of motor
owned per capita that her granite and marble indus
tries growing day. that she continuing contrib
wise in counsel and extraordinary proportion of the
distinguished of the United States upbudng and
that and of her youth will stay home her indus
trial opportunities increase
glad that Mr. Evars has breahed this spirit mp
lift into words for the advancement of Vermont His wide
experience enables him speak of the world of
affairs we'll of the State he makes his real home
welcome his hearty cooperation the for the develop
of resources the greatest all of which
Vermont's and daughters.