St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-08-12
HOWE FOR GOVERNOR
Continued from page one.)
To Increase Prosperity.

things that seem to me desirable:
I'D Agriculture in Vermont
should support fully hundred thou
sand people more than it now sup
ports. The state has the available
farm land in the market at less than
actual value. Provide a system of
rural credit which will enable the
purchase of this land on credit terms
as favorable as is given to settlers
in the West and in Canada. This
can be done in several ways, one
worthy of careful study being that of
extending power to banks to invest a
fraction of their surplus in amorti-
zation farm loans protected by free
dom from taxation on money so
loaned, while the best and surest
method is probably through the
medium of rural credit associations
chartered by the state.
Cd Make credits easier and ex-
tend business by reducing the state
tax on money loaned by savings
banks and savings departments of
national banks at five per cent or
less to borrowers in the state of Yer
mont. 1t is the borrowers of money
who make business, who furnish en-
ployment, enlarge the market and
bring prosperity.
CD Encourage industrial enter
prise and growth by a systematic
study to keep down the burdens of
taxation, both state and local Give
the working men of Vermont protec-
ton against dangerous and unhealth-
full conditions of employment.
(4) Provide a workmen's compen-
sation act for the protection of en-
ployes- To encourage the industrial
growth of Vermont the state should
bear a part of the burden brought
to manufacturers by such compensa-
ton act, as is done in the state of
Oregon. No part of the burden,
however, should be placed on the en-
ployes because they are the ones ex-
posed to injury and loss of earning
power and that is their full share of
the burden. | would, however, en-
courage all those employed in the
dangerous trades to carry insurance
of their own to reinforce the aid they
would receive through a workmen's
compensation act.
To Promote Education.
To promote intelligence and educa-
ton, to benefit future citizenship and
to advance the moral welfare of the
state there are some changes neces-
sary:
Cd The state should profit by the
survey made by the Carnegie founda-
ton and by the findings of the spe-
cial education commission. The ele-
mentary schools should be improved. |
They should not be mere ruts lead
ing toward some college but should
educate with a view to the possibiIi-
ties and future of the individual
pupils. I do not believe in cutting
off the appropriations to the state |
colleges though l would not, perhaps, |
continue the special appropriation |
of 1912. The colleges have done too |
much for the people of Vermont to |
be suddenly crippled. State aid |
should be given intelligently and if |
withdrawn it should be gradually as |
the colleges can become self-support- |
ing. [ believe that a special text |
book on Vermont resources, business, !
development, and agricultural posi- |
biIity should be provided for use in |
every school. l have caused a bill |
for this purpose to be introduced at |
the last two sessions of the Iegisla-
ture but it has each time failed of |
passage.
CD The state should provide a
home for orphan children of the very |
poor and the children whose parents /
crime or misfortune cannot |
or do not properly care for their Off /
spring. 1t is a state disgrace that
this matter has not been taken care I
Of earlier. We spend millions in re-
and caring for the criminal,
the insane, and the mentally and
deficient, but have failed to
realize that by caring for the chill
dren of the unfortunate we can make
useful men and women of many who
may otherwise become a burden to
society.
To promote patriotism the state
government should be SO conducted
that each person within the borders
Of Vermont will have full and fair
to develop the best that
Is in him without oppression or in
Justice.
For Cleaner Politics.