Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-10-29
PROUTY DEFINES
PR|N C|PLEs FOR
WHICH He STANDS
The Classes VS.. the Masses
Theme of Address at The
Strong Theatre Monday
Evening.

large audience of interested people
gathered at the Strong Monday evening to
listen to former Interstate Commerce
Commissioner Charles a, Prouty the
non-partisan candidate for United States
senator, define the principles for which
he stands in his candidacy Judge
Prouty's speech was to the point, with
out bitterness of feeling and savored lit
tie of attack on his opponent Senator
Dillingham;, but he did take occasion
to deny that he had misrepresented the
present senator and dlsclaimed knowledge
of many statements about Senator Dill
bingham, that had been attributed to him
by the opposition. He also explained why
he was a bipartisan candidate. While
the audience was gathering. Shermans
Military band played selections from the
stage.
Judge Prouty was introduced by John
L. Southwick, who said:
We are met tonight to welcome a dis
tinEuished and loyal son of Vermont
AS I see gathered here representatives
of all political parties and shades Of
political belief I am reminded Of that
other period in American history when
| Abraham Lincoln and Garrison and
Phillips and n host of free soil demo-
Gratis and free soil wings and republic
cans struck hands In the cause of human
/ freedom. and when democrats and repub-
leans stood shoulder to shoulder in the
great war for the preservation NJ the
Union.
We, of this state. also have a common
h. a
trious names of great sons of Vermont.
Whether we are republicans or democrats
or progressives We glory in the name of
that eminent constitutional lawyer, who
made the fight against polygamy in Utah,
George f. Edmunds Regardless Of party,
We honor that great Vermont democrat.
who. as American minister to England,
lowered among the worlds Industrious
diplomats, Edward J. Phelps We all
revere the grand man who through the
college land grant has helped poor boys
all over this fair land to secure an edu-
cation, and wherever tho college songs We
love are heard, whether on famed Lake
ChamDlain or where the Cornell boys
sing Far Above Cayuga's Waters" and
wherever Morrill, hall" dots n land
grant college campus there is sung the
fame of Justin s Morrill,.
Tonight we pay tribute to another bis
son of the Green Mountain State who
has shed lustre on the name of Vermont
In new field, hitherto unexplored. who
has known how to strike and has had the
courage to strike; who has dared e
throttle an organized hand Of millonair,
railroad wreckers and say to them "giv,
your victims back their money: whC
stands for humanized industry and so
cial uplift and equal opportunity for as
piring American youth-Charles A
Prouty.
MR.. PROUTY'S ADDRESS.
The speaker in his opening remark
took occasion to thank the Free Pres
for It's work in presenting him to tn
people of the State
The subject Of Judge Prouty's address
was The Glasses VS.. The Masses Fl
spoke of the fact that after the civ,
War this country entered into a perio
OF great development of its mines, it
forests Its water power and other re
sources, and that all any man had [
do was to put In his hand and tax
what ne wanted. About twenty-fv
years ago it appeared that somethin
was wrong The rich were getting rich
er and the poor We're getting poorer an
the first attempts were made at n remed
which has later resolved itself into
contest of tho classes against tn
masses.
Senator Dillingham; has claimed tina
there are no such things as Glasses
and special interests" the speake
said and he went on to illustrate tina
the contrary was true. He cited tn
case Of the railroads and stated tina
the price Of everything We eat and wea
includes a freight rate which demands
tax from producer and consumer 1t
said some times that the people Of tn
country are hostile to railroads, but tn
: is not altogether SO They have smpl
become suspicious of the railroads in Ce
, tain instances of demanding unreasor
able freight rates. That the people al
. not altogether hostile is shown in II
: instance Of the Boston & Maine in Ne
- England, the Interstate commerce con
mission having become convinced NJ
long ago that the road was not recei'
I ing revenue enough and recommends
an increase of sixteen and two-thirC
- per cent. in IT'S rates, fact which Il
neope and the press did not resent.
The public, the speaker said, shou
II stand by the Judgment Of their publ
I service commissions, Personally, he sal
he did not believe there should be
II much difference in the price Of a ra
road ticket and a MILEAGE that specul
n tors could profit thereby. He also sa
Re that he believed one mileage hook shou
r. be good on all the railroads In Ne