Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-04-16
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
The Small End of Reciprocity.

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The Small End of Reciprocity.
It is little wonder that the tariff
bill as introduced last Monday made
a great impression in Ottawa on Tues
day. The Conservatives have an ex-
cellent reason for stating that should
the bill become law Canada will get
reciprocity and give nothing in return.
Record.
The Value of One Vote.
The man who says one vote doesn't
count gets another rebuke in the result
of the ballot on the license question at
the last town meeting in Gardner,
Mass. Judge Braley of the supreme
court has dismissed the petition which
asked that certain ballots wrongly
marked be counted and the town goes
into the no-license column by margin
of one on a total vote of 2253.-Brat-
tleboro RefOrmer.
Alfalfa for Vermont.
Why do not the farmers of Vermont
attack the problem of growing alfalfa?
All reports agree that it is most prof.
liable crop for the farmer, and that it
can be grown in Vermont seems to be
proved by some successful expert
ments. Alfalfa is now being planted
on large scale in Wisconsin, and if it
is hardy enough to pull through Wis
consin winter it surely ought to survive
in the latitude of Vermont
ton News.
Says Locke is Right.
The last issue of the Barton Monitor
contains letter from the representa-.
tive of that town in the legislature,
Mr.. Locke, which is worthy of note
as showing the intent of the legisla-
ture in passing the present tax law.
He says that in all the bills intro
duced and discussed, the words money
loaned' appeared. That in all the dis.
cussions Of all these bills, it was gen.
orally understood that those words
meant. not actually money, but any
form of evidence Of money.
He is strongly against both the rul.
ing of the tax commissioner and the at
torney-general in this matter.
We can fully corroborate all that he
says. We were ION the ground" anc
know that members of the legislature
! in voting for the new tax law bill, sup
posed that they were giving every mar
| who held mortgage upon any proper
ty the right to make the rate 5 pei
cent and come under this act. 1t doe!
not seem probable or possible that. be
cause the attorney general comes from
city wherein there were exemption!
on personal property to the amount o.
nearly four million of dollars, he has hac
his opinion shaded by his environment
M Cui I1o MoccoDooy,
Hits New England Farmer and Manufac
turer Hard.
There is much in the new tariff bill
that is fair and just, but there are 9th
er features that will be of grave men
ace to New England. In fact, southern
Democrats have already Dragged tina
this bill and the Wilson administration
will cripple the industrial supremac,
of New England. The Democratic
party owes it's very existence to tn,
south and southwest, and these sections
are manifestly in the saddle. Presi
dent Wilson. himself a southerner ant
free trader at heart, as shown by hi
writings for the past thirty years has
indicated pretty clearly his trend b,
his refusal to put New England maj
into his cabinet and his tendency t,
select all his appointees from tn.
south or from the immediate vicinity O.
New York city. New England is tn,
part of the country that has the mos
to fear from this new tariff bill. Fo
| fifty years New England has Furnished
pioneers that have opened up the grea
west. For thirty years New England
has financed this great west to de
gree most remarkable. The littl
state of Vermont, with only 800,
people, has over one hundred and fit,
millions of it's savings loaned in tn
west and southwest. Yet, just becaus
New England has been thrifty and in
dustrious and has stood steadfas
against the idols of the south-slavery
states rights and free trade-noy
comes the south in the first moment O
its new supremacy with a measur
planned to take away nearly all pro
lection from New England industries
and to leave the New England farme
at the mercy of every competitor I
was to be expected with the south i
the saddle. and the sou 1h is now tn
mainstay of the Wilson administratio
and he can do nothing without it's cor
sent and approval.-Benningto Ban
ner.
The New Tax Law.
The new tax law, born in the las
hours of Vermont's latest Legislature
has right to be suspected of bein
out on an honest mission and if every
body will help it to be honest it wi
quickly prove its right to live. becaus
of it's friendly interest in and helpful
ness to the progress of Vermont.
Let us argue for a moment that til
! mission of this new agent is to collie,
tax-and only one from each pare
or piece of taxable property in tt
, state. If it does just this it will aut
/. matically abolish offsets and doub
taxation which, as we understand
, were the two features of the old la
that made the people seek is repea
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